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This book guides college and high school students exploring peacebuilding careers, featuring 30 stories from young professionals. It emphasizes that any career can be a peacebuilding career with creativity and passion, offering strategies for advancing in the field.

The case of the European Union''s (EU) Clean Sky initiative and its sustainable and green engine programme focuses on a sector where the implications of climate change are likely to be keenly felt in the coming decades, namely air transport. It is a sector where to date there have been few green or eco innovations. The case focuses on a current EU-funded initiative designed to limit the impact of air transport on climate change. The initiative aims to foster innovation through the introduction of open rotor technology to power the next generation of short-/medium-haul airliners. This technology could potentially cut carbon dioxide emissions from commercial aircraft by 100 million tonnes per year. However, it may also prove to be a disruptive technology rendering existing aircraft and possibly some of the firms that produce them, obsolete. As well as introducing some of the features of disruptive technologies, the case highlights both the drivers for and barriers to the successful adoption of green innovations. Another important aspect of the case is that it also highlights the value of appropriate business strategies, such as the use of technology demonstrator programmes, in supporting and facilitating the adoption and diffusion of green innovations.

This bestseller is newly revised with updated statistics, new activities and completely new material on food security, energy and health. By shrinking the planet down to a village of just 100 people, children will discover how to grow up global and establish their own place in the world village.

Comparing the world population to a village of 100 persons, the author reveals such facts as the languages of the village, how much each earns, if the person is literate, has a television and has enough to eat.

Takes a look at the lives of children around the world through the lens of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and through stories of statistics.

Learn about what types of people live in the United States.

Reliability, Maintainability and Risk has been updated to ensure that it remains the leading reliability textbook and cementing the book''s reputation for staying one step ahead of the competition. This 6th edition incorporates brand new material on the accuracy of reliability prediction and common cause failure based on the author''s PhD research work. David J. Smith approaches these subjects from an entirely original and unique viewpoint, emphasising that the need to demonstrate that safety-related systems have been assessed against target integrity levels is now commonplace in most industries, and the material contained in this book will address these growing needs. Reliability, Maintainability and Risk has now been established for over 20 years. It deals with all aspects of reliability, maintainability and safety-related failures in a simple and straightforward style, explaining technical terms and jargon and handling the imitations of reliability parameters. It pre-supposes no prior knowledge of the subject - the author deals with numerical data making realistic predictions using the minimum of mathematics. David J. Smith has written seven successful works on reliability, quality, maintainability, software and statistics and is past Chairman of the Safety and Reliability Society. He has been directly concerned with this branch of engineering in the telecommunications, electronics and oil and gas industries for over 25 years. He is well known for his many courses and workshops on reliability engineering and software quality and is in a unique position to provide much-needed information on a burgeoning subject area.Readers will be getting brand new and original information that they cannot get from any other title on the subject of Reliability, Maintainability and Risk.Author is well known and has an excellent track record in this area. He is regarded as highly "readable" and his writing concise and straightforward.

Focuses on the outward flexure or bulging of windows during wind gusts of hurricanes. Factors causing the bulging; Relationship of flexure to stress forces; Analysis of the pressure difference acting upon the windowpane; How far the window flexes before breaking.--(Abstract).

A new book dealing with the fundamentals of legal writing and research. Each chapter focuses only on the essential skills needed for success in the paralegal field. Topics include primary law, secondary sources, computers and other technology, citation, legal analysis and more. The text first describes the tools needed to conduct legal research, then shows how they''re applied. Review charts, concrete examples, paralegal practice situations, tips from practicing paralegals, and chapter review questions and problems are included.ALSO AVAILABLE INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDERInstructor''s Manual, ISBN: 0-8273-6356-7Computerized Test Bank (1996), ISBN: 0-8273-7979-X

"We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange, indeed, if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State, for these lesser sacrifices, in order to prevent our being swamped by incompetence. It is better for all the world, if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent their propagation by medical means in the first place. Three generations of imbeciles are enough". This opinion upheld the involuntary sterilization law in the State of Virginia, and was written and delivered by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. In reality, the Virginia statute was one among many. Since 1907, twenty-nine states passed laws mandating sterilization, racial registration, and restricting miscegenation. Some were still on the books as recently as a decade ago. In this extraordinary book, J. David Smith chronicles the events leading to the enactment of this body of laws, as well as their execution over the years. It is a chilling account of myriad personal tragedies. The issue of eugenics as potential genocide is even today not dead. Proposals for compulsory sterilization through the use of Norplant is evidence of that. This is an important book, and should be on top of the reading list for every person concerned with civil liberties and the Bill of Rights.