Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses
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"There's no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil." -- Bill Gates In this book,...
Digital Defense: A Cybersecurity Primer: 2015
Joseph N. Pelton and Indu B. Singh
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Drs. Pelton and Singh warn of the increasing risks of cybercrime and lay out a series of commonsense...
Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema
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From early twentieth-century stag films to 1960s sexploitation pictures to the boom in 1970s "porno...
Engineering Ethics, International and Environmental Stability
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Ensuring that their work has a positive influence on society is a responsibility and a privilege for...
Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff
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The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright...
Globalization and Welfare Restructuring in China: The Authoritarianism That Listens
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In the past few decades, the change in China's welfare system has been characterised by a balanced...
Advertising: What Everyone Needs to Know
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3000. That's the number of marketing messages the average American confronts on a daily basis from...
Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science
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Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the...
Approaches to Economic Geography: Towards a Geographical Political Economy
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The last four decades have seen major changes in the global economy, with the collapse of communism...
Arguments for Welfare: The Welfare State and Social Policy
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This book makes the case for the welfare state. Nearly every government in the developed world...