wyszukanych pozycji: 14
Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong
ISBN: 9781610395472 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize, re-localize, ban the use of modern energy sources, and forswear prosperity. But in this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists, Robert Bryce shows how innovation and the inexorable human desire to make things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is providing consumers with Cheaper and more abundant energy, Faster computing, Lighter vehicles, and myriad other goods. That same desire is fostering...
In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse cours...
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82,35 zł |
A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
ISBN: 9781541736054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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86,11 zł |
Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence
ISBN: 9781586486907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Everybody is talking about "energy independence." But is it really achievable-or even desirable? In this controversial, meticulously researched book, Robert Bryce exposes the false promises and political posturing behind the rhetoric. Gusher of Lies explains why the idea of energy independence appeals to voters while also showing that renewable sources like wind and solar cannot meet America's growing energy demand. Along the way, Bryce exposes the ethanol scam as one of the longest-running robberies ever perpetrated on American taxpayers. In a new foreword to this edition, he shows...
Everybody is talking about "energy independence." But is it really achievable-or even desirable? In this controversial, meticulously researched book, ...
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158,01 zł |
A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
ISBN: 9781541757141 / Miękka / 2020 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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75,98 zł |
Power Hungry: The Myths of Green Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future
ISBN: 9781586489533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The promise of "green jobs" and a "clean energy future" has roused the masses. But as Robert Bryce makes clear in this provocative book, that vision needs a major re-vision. We cannot--and will not--quit using carbon-based fuels at any time in the near future for a simple reason: they provide the horsepower that we crave. The hard reality is that oil, coal, and natural gas are here to stay.
Fueling our society requires that we make good decisions and smart investments based on facts. In Power Hungry, Bryce crushes a phalanx of energy myths, showing why renewables are not green,... The promise of "green jobs" and a "clean energy future" has roused the masses. But as Robert Bryce makes clear in this provocative book, that vision n...
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95,36 zł |
Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron
ISBN: 9781586482015 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. After the shocking collapse of Enron in fall, 2001 came an equally shocking series of disclosures about how America's seventh-largest company had destroyed itself. There were unethical deals, offshore accounts, and accounting irregularities. There were Wall Street analysts who seemed to have been asleep on the job. There were the lies top executives told so that they could line their own pockets while workers and shareholders lost billions. But after all these disclosures, the question remains: Why? Why did a thriving, innovative company with rock-solid cash flow and reliable earnings...
After the shocking collapse of Enron in fall, 2001 came an equally shocking series of disclosures about how America's seventh-largest company had dest...
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136,54 zł |
Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong
ISBN: 9781610395250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse course: to de-industrialize, re-localize, ban the use of modern energy sources, and forswear prosperity. But in this provocative and optimistic rebuke to the catastrophists, Robert Bryce argues that innovation and the inexorable human desire to make things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper are the real keys to a greener, richer planet. Bryce examines how innovators have developed Smaller Faster solutions to our problems for centuries--from...
In the face of today's environmental and economic challenges, doomsayers preach that the only way to stave off disaster is for humans to reverse cours...
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158,01 zł |
Canada and the Cost of World War II: The International Operations of Canada's Department of Finance, 1939-1947
ISBN: 9780773529380 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Canada's most famous contributions to the Allied victory in World War II include Dieppe, the campaign in Italy, the bombing missions over Germany, and D-Day. Much less known are Canada's financial contributions to the war effort. In this sequel to his groundbreaking "Maturing in Hard Times", legendary public servant Robert B. Bryce offers a first-hand account of the wartime activities of the Department of Finance during his formative years as its deputy minister from 1939-47. Bryce chronicles in splendid detail how the tiny and overburdened department in Ottawa worked behind the scenes to...
Canada's most famous contributions to the Allied victory in World War II include Dieppe, the campaign in Italy, the bombing missions over Germany, and...
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534,26 zł |
Maturing in Hard Times: Canada's Department of Finance through the Great Depression: Volume 13
ISBN: 9780773505551 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. From the management of Canada's fledgling economy to the complex economic structures created to deal with the Great Depression, Robert Bryce's history of the Canadian Department of Finance traces the growth of one of the federal government's most important and complex departments.
From the management of Canada's fledgling economy to the complex economic structures created to deal with the Great Depression, Robert Bryce's history...
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534,26 zł |
Adventures of a Mystic Warrior
ISBN: 9780996754927 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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108,19 zł |
Adventures of a Mystic Warrior
ISBN: 9780996754903 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,51 zł |
Adventures of a Mystic Warrior: The Coloring Book
ISBN: 9780996754941 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,52 zł |
My Attainment of the Pole
ISBN: 9780815411376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 670 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The subzero temperatures were only one of the dangers explorer Frederick Cook (1865-1940) faced in his attempts to reach the North Pole. During his extraordinary and harrowing journey, he fought off arctic wolves and polar bears, lived through ice storms, almost starved on several occasions, and faced long and lonely hours of isolation. His book relates how he learned from Eskimos how to survive in the Arctic, hunting musk ox to survive, harpooning walruses, and traveling by dog sled. After his journey, he defended himself against the charges of fellow explorer Robert Peary, who claimed that...
The subzero temperatures were only one of the dangers explorer Frederick Cook (1865-1940) faced in his attempts to reach the North Pole. During his ex...
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129,87 zł |
The Proceedings of the 3rd International Humanities Conference: All & Everything 1998
ISBN: 9781905578160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Proceedings of the 3rd International Humanities Conference, All & Everything 1998. Text of Papers and Seminars on Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way presented at the Conference - Papers on - The Trans-Caucasion Kurd; The Nature and Sources of Conviction; The Kundabuffer: The Kundalini Alchemy and Creation of the Soul; Time in the Cosmology of Mr. Gurdjieff; Mysterious Coincidences: Gurdjieff, the Enneagram and Tradition; Gurdjieff in Practice: The Liebovian Method; Joy Without a Cause: Work on the Emotional Centre in Daily Life; The Evolution of Evolution; Approaching the Neologisms of the...
The Proceedings of the 3rd International Humanities Conference, All & Everything 1998. Text of Papers and Seminars on Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way pre...
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136,55 zł |