50 Facts That Should Change the World 2. 0
Author: Jessica Williams
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2011-05
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1459621603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Revised, updated, and every bit as vital as the first edition!...
Author: Jessica Williams
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2011-05
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1459621603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Revised, updated, and every bit as vital as the first edition!...
Author: Jessica Williams
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781567319842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jessica Williams (journalist.)
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains fifty miscellaneous facts about social, political, economic, and environmental issues around the world.
Author: Jessica Williams
Publisher: Icon Books Company
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 2004, Jessica Williams' book has been reprinted numerous times and translated into 14 foreign languages.It's now time for an update. This substantially revised edition includes new facts, updated data throughout and a brand new, lengthy introduction.
Author: Jessica Williams
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Published: 2007-08-02
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1848312652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this new edition of her bestseller, Jessica Williams tests the temperature of our world and diagnoses a malaise with some shocking symptoms. Get the facts but also the human side of the story on the world?s hunger, poverty, material and emotional deprivation; its human rights abuses and unimaginable wealth; the unstoppable rise of consumerism, mental illness, the drugs trade, corruption, gun culture, the abuse of our environment and more. The prognosis might look bleak, yet there is hope, Williams argues, and it's down to us to act now to change things.
Author: Stephen Fender
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
Published: 2008-09-01
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1934708224
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Are Americans being told the full story about what’s going on in the United States today? In this book, you’ll learn hard facts that will open your eyes and minds to a very different reality than the official versions. Following the popular 50 Facts That Should Change The World, this new book puts our nation under the microscope, telling us that: The United States of America is a country with fifty capital cities, few of which anyone can name/ a nation with 65 million gun owners and 35,000 gun deaths each year/ a place where there’s one car for every adult/ and where twice as many people claim to go to church as actually do.One town in Kentucky elected a black Labrador as its mayor.The United States produces a quarter of global CO2 emissions, and has a population rising twice as fast as that of the European Union.German could have been the national language.Republican states are the most generous givers to charity.The United States boasts the largest welfare state in the world—our military. Stephen Fender presents a vibrant, proud, and yet critical portrait of the world’s most powerful but least understood nation.
Author: Bill Laws
Publisher: Firefly Books
Published: 2015-08-18
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781770855885
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fascinating stories of the plants that changed civilizations.
Author: Stephen Fender
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781282744073
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Tim Harford
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2017-07-06
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1408709139
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Why was the horse collar as important for human progress as the steam engine? How did the humble spreadsheet turn the world of finance upside-down? The world economy defies comprehension. A continuously-changing system of immense complexity, it offers over ten billion distinct products and services, doubles in size every fifteen years, and links almost every one of the planet's seven billion people. It delivers astonishing luxury to hundreds of millions. It also leaves hundreds of millions behind, puts tremendous strains on the ecosystem, and has an alarming habit of stalling. Nobody is in charge of it. Indeed, no individual understands more than a fraction of what's going on. How can we make sense of this bewildering system on which our lives depend? From the tally-stick to Bitcoin, the canal lock to the jumbo jet, each invention in Tim Harford's fascinating new book has its own curious, surprising and memorable story, a vignette against a grand backdrop. Step by step, readers will start to understand where we are, how we got here, and where we might be going next. Hidden connections will be laid bare: how the barcode undermined family corner shops; why the gramophone widened inequality; how barbed wire shaped America. We'll meet the characters who developed some of these inventions, profited from them, or were ruined by them. We'll trace the economic principles that help to explain their transformative effects. And we'll ask what lessons we can learn to make wise use of future inventions, in a world where the pace of innovation will only accelerate.