wyszukanych pozycji: 27
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The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism
ISBN: 9780195313093 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the city of San Francisco desperately needed reliable supplies of water and electricity. Its mayor, James Phelan, pressed for the damming of the Tuolumne River in the newly created Yosemite National Park, setting off a firestorm of protest. For the first time in American history, a significant national opposition arose to defend and preserve nature, led by John Muir and the Sierra Club, who sought to protect what they believed was the right of all Americans to experience natural beauty, particularly the magnificent mountains of the...
In the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the city of San Francisco desperately needed reliable supplies of water and electricity. Its ...
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176,31 |
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Windfall: Wind Energy in America Today
ISBN: 9780806141923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Not long ago, energy experts dismissed wind power as unreliable and capricious. Not anymore. The industry has arrived, and the spinning blades of this new kid on the electric power block offer hope for a partial solution to our energy problems by converting nature s energy into electricity without exposing our planet and its inhabitants to the dangers of heat, pollution, toxicity, or depletion of irreplaceable natural resources. "Windfall" tells the story of this extraordinary transformation and examines the arguments both for and against wind generation. In "Windfall," Robert W. Righter... Not long ago, energy experts dismissed wind power as unreliable and capricious. Not anymore. The industry has arrived, and the spinning blades of t... |
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83,55 |
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Win Your Audience With Bombproof Humor: The definitive guide for speakers & presenters
ISBN: 9781482335309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is not intended to turn you into a stand-up comedian. Instead, it is a comprehensive guide to winning your audience with bombproof humor. In this book, based on over 30 years of the author's acclaimed humor workshops, keynote speeches, writing, coaching, research, and special-occasion assignments, you will learn fifteen ways humor can improve your presentations or speeches, dozens of types of humor and when to use them, five key steps to using bombproof humor, excellent sources for finding humorous material, proven methods of personalizing stock humor and making it sound genuine and...
This book is not intended to turn you into a stand-up comedian. Instead, it is a comprehensive guide to winning your audience with bombproof humor. In...
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60,65 |
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Wind Energy in America: A History
ISBN: 9780806140001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This compelling saga recounts the human effort to capture the power of the wind for electricity--from the first European windmills, to nineteenth-century experiments in rural electrification, to the immense wind farms in California and the plains states that feed the power grid today. Environmental historian Robert W. Righter describes eccentric inventors and technical innovations, analyzes the politics of the power industry, past and present, and demonstrates that individuals and small businesses have made the greatest contributions to wind-energy development. Righter includes contemporary...
This compelling saga recounts the human effort to capture the power of the wind for electricity--from the first European windmills, to nineteenth-cent...
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113,05 |
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How To Win Your Audience With Bombproof Humor
ISBN: 9781453778913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is not intended to turn you into a stand-up comedian. Instead, it is a comprehensive guide to winning your audience with bombproof humor. In this book, based on over 25 years of the author's acclaimed humor workshops, keynote speeches, writing, coaching, research, and special-occasion assignments, you will learn fifteen ways humor can improve your presentations or speeches, dozens of types of humor and when to use them, five key steps to using bomb-proof humor, excellent sources for finding humorous material, proven methods of personalizing stock humor and making it sound genuine...
This book is not intended to turn you into a stand-up comedian. Instead, it is a comprehensive guide to winning your audience with bombproof humor. In...
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60,65 |
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The Best of Righter's Top Ten
ISBN: 9781453889688 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book represents the best of the last 20 years of Righter's Top Ten humor columns. This handy reference guide provides over 1,500 themed one-liners for winning your audience with snappy humor. Properly selected, these funny lines will help you become a more entertaining communicator by helping you drop funny observations and self-deprecating humor into any presentation. There is comedy for everyone in these pages, masters of ceremonies, topic masters, roasters and roast masters, evaluators, and many others. There are dozens of columns in this book which provide "savers," or comebacks that...
This book represents the best of the last 20 years of Righter's Top Ten humor columns. This handy reference guide provides over 1,500 themed one-liner...
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44,47 |
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Protecting Heritage in the Caribbean
ISBN: 9780817356675 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from specific artifacts, ancient rock art, and features of the built environment and modified landscapes. As a region of multiple independent nations and colonial territories, the Caribbean shares a common heritage at some levels, yet at the same time there are vast historical and cultural differences. Likewise, approaches to Caribbean heritage preservation are similarly diverse in range and scope.This volume addresses the problem of how Caribbean...
Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from s...
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cena:
113,05 |