Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
US 93 Hoover Dam Bypass Project (NV,AZ)
Author: Us 93 Hoover Dam Bypass Project Record of Decision
Author: United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781723535789
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
US 93 Hoover Dam Bypass Project Record Of Decision
Hoover Powerplant Modification Project
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Lower Colorado RegionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric power-plants
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
China's Belt and Road
Author: Jennifer HillmanPublisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press
ISBN: 9780876098004
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
China's massive, globe-spanning Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) seeks to build everything from railways, ports, and power plants to telecommunications infrastructure and fiber-optic cables. Chinese President Xi Jinping's signature foreign policy endeavor, BRI has the potential to meet developing countries' needs and spur economic growth, but its implementation creates risks that outweigh its benefits. Unless the United States offers an effective alternative, China could reorient global trade networks, set technical standards that would disadvantage non-Chinese companies, lock countries into carbon-intensive power generation, increase its political influence over countries, and acquire power projection capabilities for its military. The COVID-19 pandemic has made a U.S. response more urgent as the global economic contraction has accelerated the reckoning with BRI-related debt. China's Belt and Road: Implications for the United States proposes that the United States respond to BRI by putting forward an affirmative agenda of its own, drawing on its strengths and coordinating with allies and partners to promote sustainable, secure, and green development.
The Conservation Biology of Tortoises
Author: IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist GroupPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 2880329868
Category : Nature conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Women and Human Development
Author: Martha C. NussbaumPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113945935X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
In this major book Martha Nussbaum, one of the most innovative and influential philosophical voices of our time, proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international, argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and dramatically moves beyond the abstractions of economists and philosophers to embed thought about justice in the concrete reality of the struggles of poor women. Nussbaum argues that international political and economic thought must be sensitive to gender difference as a problem of justice, and that feminist thought must begin to focus on the problems of women in the third world. Taking as her point of departure the predicament of poor women in India, she shows how philosophy should undergird basic constitutional principles that should be respected and implemented by all governments, and used as a comparative measure of quality of life across nations.
Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy
Author: Todd S. SechserPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110710694X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy? This book argues that they are useful for deterrence but not for offensive purposes.
Globalization and Its Discontents
Author: Joseph E. StiglitzPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393071073
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics. When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the last decade, including stints as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and chief economist at the World Bank. Particularly concerned with the plight of the developing nations, he became increasingly disillusioned as he saw the International Monetary Fund and other major institutions put the interests of Wall Street and the financial community ahead of the poorer nations. Those seeking to understand why globalization has engendered the hostility of protesters in Seattle and Genoa will find the reasons here. While this book includes no simple formula on how to make globalization work, Stiglitz provides a reform agenda that will provoke debate for years to come. Rarely do we get such an insider's analysis of the major institutions of globalization as in this penetrating book. With a new foreword for this paperback edition.
Advanced Engineering Mathematics
Author: Dennis ZillPublisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 0763779660
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 1005
Book Description
Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "a chapter on engineering statistics and probability / by N. Bali, M. Goyal, and C. Watkins."--CD-ROM label.
The United Nations, Peace and Security
Author: Ramesh ThakurPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139456946
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Preventing humanitarian atrocities is becoming as important for the United Nations as dealing with inter-state war. In this book, Ramesh Thakur examines the transformation in UN operations, analysing its changing role and structure. He asks why, when and how force may be used and argues that the growing gulf between legality and legitimacy is evidence of an eroded sense of international community. He considers the tension between the US, with its capacity to use force and project power, and the UN, as the centre of the international law enforcement system. He asserts the central importance of the rule of law and of a rules-based order focused on the UN as the foundation of a civilised system of international relations. This book will be of interest to students of the UN and international organisations in politics, law and international relations departments, as well as policymakers in the UN and other NGOs.
