An energy expert shows why hydrogen can fight climate change and become the fuel of the future.

In this timely and important book, a leading legal and political philosopher examines the renewed possibilities for the spread of democratic liberalism now that the Cold War has ended and new orders emerge after the recent revolutions in Eastern Europe. Bruce A. Ackerman argues that the creation of a democratic federal Europe and new constitutions for countries in Eastern Europ...(展开全部)

The near-meltdown of Fukushima, the upheavals in the Middle East, the BP oil rig explosion, and the looming reality of global warming have reminded the president and all U.S. citizens that nothing has more impact on our lives than the supply of and demand for energy. Its procurement dominates our economy and foreign policy more than any other factor. But the energy question is ...(展开全部)

The near meltdown of Fukushima, the upheavals in the Middle East, the BP oil spill, and the looming reality of global warming have reminded the president and all U.S. citizens that nothing has more impact on our lives than the supply and demand for energy. Its procurement dominates our economy and foreign policy more than any other factor. But the "energy question" is more conf...(展开全部)

Every generation has looked towards the heavens and wondered at the beauty of the Moon. Fifty years ago, a few Americans became the first to do the reverse--and shared with Earth-bound audiences the view of their own planet hanging in the sky instead. Recently, the connection has been discovered to be even closer: a fragment of the Earth's surface was found embedded in a rock b...(展开全部)

The Much-Anticipated Follow-Up to “Uncle Bob’s” Highly Praised Clean Code Programmers who endure and succeed amidst swirling uncertainty and nonstop pressure share a common attribute: They care deeply about the practice of creating software. They treat it as a craft. They are professionals. In The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers, legendary software...(展开全部)

The Much-Anticipated Follow-Up to “Uncle Bob’s” Highly Praised Clean Code Programmers who endure and succeed amidst swirling uncertainty and nonstop pressure share a common attribute: They care deeply about the practice of creating software. They treat it as a craft. They are professionals. In The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers, legendary software...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking vision on the future of reading, from an early innovator on Amazon’s Kindle team. • Is digital the death knell for print? • Or will it reinvigorate the written word? • What will happen to bookstores, book browsing, libraries, even autographs? • Will they die out—or evolve into something new? In Burning the Page, digital pioneer Jason Merkoski charts...(展开全部)

Where does philosophy, the oldest academic subject, stand at the beginning of the new millennium? This remarkable volume brings together leading figures from most major branches of the discipline to offer answers. What remains of the 'linguistic turn' in twentieth-century philosophy? How should moral philosophy respond to and incorporate developments in empirical psychology? Wh...(展开全部)