[PDF] Glut eBook

Author : Alex Wright
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Information organization
ISBN : 9780801475092

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Richly illustrated and exhaustively researched, "Glut" takes readers on an intriguing cross-disciplinary journey through the deep history of human knowledge systems and examines the problem of information overload.

Author : Ian Roberts
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1848138709

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World-wide, over a billion adults are overweight and 300 million are officially 'obese', more than 3,000 people die every day on the world's roads and global warming and war threaten our survival as a species. The Energy Glut tells the story of energy and how our abuse of fossil fuel energy links all of these public issues as manifestations of the same fundamental planetary malaise. This exciting new book argues that the pulse of fossil fuel energy released from the ground after the discovery of oil not only started the process of catastrophic climate change, but also propelled the average human weight distribution upwards. The author presents a frightening vision of humans besieged by a food industry that uses sophisticated marketing techniques to sell mountains of energy-dense food to those who are 'functionally paralysed', with fewer opportunities to move our bodies than ever before. We see why the accumulation of body fat is a political, not a personal, problem. This insightful new work offers and appraises for the reader a set of personal and political de-carbonising strategies, but to 'tread more lightly on our world' we first need to make sense of the systemic processes, and The Energy Glut takes expert first steps in this direction.

Author : Mr.Rabah Arezki
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1475591837

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This paper investigates the emerging global landscape for public-private co-investments in infrastructure. The creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and other so-called “infrastructure investment platforms” are an attempt to tap into the pool of both public and private long-term savings in order to channel the latter into much needed infrastructure projects. This paper puts these new initiatives into perspective by critically reviewing the literature and experience with public private partnerships in infrastructure. It concludes by identifying the main challenges policy makers and other actors will need to confront going forward and to turn infrastructure into an asset class of its own.

Author : Susan Davidson
Publisher : Guggenheim Museum
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN :

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Edited by Susan Davidson. Text by Trisha Brown, Mimi Thompson. Preface by Philip Rylands.