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Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, ...
Brian CzechBrian Czech argues that, while economic growth was a good thing for much of American history, somewhere along the way it turned bad, depleting resources, polluting the environment, and threatening posterity.
Life, Money and Illusion: Living on Earth as if we want to stay
Mike NickersonDr. Brian Czech, Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train Brian Czech, a wildlife biologist working in the US, also serves as an adjunct professor at Virginia Tech. After years of documenting environmental degradation and thinking about the social ...
Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the ...
Brian CzechBrian Czech comes to the rescue with an honest look at what the global economy is really doing to the earth as he challenges the cherished goal of economic growth. Many who write on big economic ideas lack a deep knowledge of the ...
The Bohemian Body: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture
Alfred ThomasBy re-examining the work of key Czech male and female writers and poets from the National Revival to the Velvet Revolution, Alfred Thomas exposes the tendency of Czech literary criticism to separate the political and the personal in modern ...
Prague Linguistic Circle Papers:
PreviewAmbiguities. Libuše. Dušková. Prague. 1. The present article is concerned with syntactic ambiguities in English, considered from the viewpoint of Czech. Contrastive treatment of this point appears to promise a worthwhile line of approach insofar as sentences that are ambiguous in English often lack an ambiguous Czech equivalent: the two structures that can be assigned to the English sentence are formally distinguished in Czech so that no ambiguity is involved. On the other hand, ...
Janáček Beyond the Borders
Derek KatzThis contextual study of Janácek's operas reveals the composer's creative responses to a wide range of Czech and non-Czech traditions.
Protection of the Three Poles
PreviewFalk Huettmann. Brian Czech President Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, Arlington, VA (CASSE www.steadystate.org) e-mail: ...
Anne's Bohemia: Czech Literature and Society, 1310-1420
Alfred ThomasTen chapters examine aspects of medieval Czech literature, with particular emphasis on women readers and subjects and the influence of the church.
The Czech Renascence of the Nineteenth Century
More editionsThis volume, written to honour the seventieth birthday of the eminent Czech historian Otakar Odložík, contains essays by outstanding scholars from Canada, Czechoslovakia, Britain, and the United States which examine significant episodes ...
The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History
Derek Sayer"This is a beautifully written cultural history of the Czech people. There is no comparable work available in English, and certainly not one of such sensitivity and breadth."--Andrew Lass, Mount Holyoke College
Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the ...
Brian CzechSchneider, AnneL.and HelenM. Ingram, PolicyDesign forDemocracy, University Pressof Kansas, 1997. Schor, Juliet, “Sustainable Consumption and Worktime Education,” Journal of Industrial Ecology, 9, no. 1, (2005): 37–50. Schumacher ...
The Endangered Species Act: History, Conservation Biology, ...
Brian CzechSince the 1970s, the Endangered Species Act (ESA), by virtue of its regulatory impact, has been a frequent subject of policy analysis.
Czech Republic
Heather DocalavichThe Czech Republic / by Heather Docalavich and Shaina C. Indovino. p. cm. — ( The European Union : political, social, and economic cooperation) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9781422222379 (hardcover) — ISBN ...
Grammar & Corpora 2009:
PreviewDušková, Libuše (2004): Syntactic constancy of the subject complement 1: A comparison between Czech and English. In: Linguistica Pragensia XIV, 2: 57-71. Dušková, Libuše (2005): Syntactic constancy of the subject complement 2: A comparison between English and Czech. In: Linguistica Pragensia XV, 1: 1-17. Dušková, Libuše et al. (2006 [1988]): Mluvnice současné angličtiny na pozadí češtiny. [The Grammar of Contemporary English against the Background of Czech]. Pra- ha: ...
Czech It Out: Czech American Biography Sourcebook
Miloslav Rechcigl, Jr.LC KOHEL Descendants of Joannes Kohel and Related Families: Auclair, Ferguson, Grube, Hörz and Panzer. By Michael E. Kohel. Franklin, NC: Genealogy Pub. Service, 2006. 369p. KOHN Illustrated Family Tree of the Kohn, Barnett and ...
Peak Oil, Economic Growth, and Wildlife Conservation
PreviewAt the beginning of the new millennium, Brian Czech and several other members of The Wildlife Society (TWS) were lobbying this professional organization to adopt a position statement on economic growth, highlighting the fundamental ...
FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMICS – Volume II:
PreviewBrian Czech Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, 5101 South 11th Street., Arlington, Virginia 22204, USA Keywords: allocation of resources, distribution of wealth, ecological economics, ecological footprint, economic ...
The American West at Risk: Science, Myths, and Politics of ...
Howard G. WilshireThis report assessed the sources of peril for 2,490 species of plants and animals, 700 of which are not (yet) listed as threatened or endangered; Brian Czech and coworkers assessed the interactions of various activities causing species habitat ...
A Diet of Austerity: Class, Food and Climate Change
Elaine Graham-LeighFor a relatively concise explanation of the theory, see Brian Czech and Herman E Daly, 'In My Opinion: The Steady State Economy – What It Is, What It Entails and Connotes', Wildlife Society Bulletin 32(2) (2004), pp.598-605. Herman E Daly ...
A Blessed Shore: England and Bohemia from Chaucer to Shakespeare
Alfred Thomas"Although Thomas gives original readings of famous English texts by Chaucer and Shakespeare, this is also a book about Czech writers and travelers; one Czech expatriate, Anne of Bohemia, became Queen of England.
Physical Activity in Science and Practice:
Flemr, Libor... Faculty of Sports Studies, Masaryk University (Czech Republic) Jim Parry, University of Leeds (Great Britain) Jan Pirk, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (Czech Republic) Pavel Slepička, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport ...
The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate ...
James Howard KunstlerPositive feedback means that a given activity in a system is reinforced by the activity itself— nicely illustrated in Brian Czech's metaphorical book title, Shoveling Coal on a Runaway Train.2 The most obvious self- reinforcing positive feedback ...
Nonaqueous Electrolytes Handbook
G.J. JanzZ. Hladky and J. Vrestal, Coll. Czech. Chem. Comm., 34, 1098 (1969). Z. Hladky and J. Vrestal, Coll. Czech. Chem. Comm., 34, 984 (1969). S. P. Agarwal and M. I. Blake, J. Pharm. Sci., 54, 1668 (1966). R. Schaal and M. Teze, Bull. Soc. Chim.
The Words and Music of Brian Wilson
Christian Matijas-Mecca... Doin' Somethin': Uncovering Brian Wilson's Lost Bedroom Tapes,” Brian Chidester's addresses a purported collection of unreleased, incomplete, or unfinished songs Wilson recorded in the 1970s. Brian's reticence to produce a substantial ...
Vintage Keating:
Brian CarrollBrian Carroll. First published in Australia in 2010 by Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd PO Box 6125, Dural Delivery Centre ... Title: ISBN: Notes: Subjects: Dewey Number: Carroll, Brian, 1930- Vintage Keating : his wit and wisdom / Brian Carroll .
Strangled
Brian McGroryIn all of his Jack Flynn thrillers, "Brian McGrory knows how to tell a great story"! { Richmond Times-Dispatch, VA) Praise for bestselling author Brian McGrory and STRANGLED "Brian McGrory delivers suspense, action, and brains from the first ...
Spectacular Homes of Michigan: An Exclusive Showcase of ...
Brian G. CarabetAn Exclusive Showcase of Michigan's Finest Designers Brian G. Carabet, John A. Shand ... Brian. G. Carabet. Brian is co-founder and owner of Panache Partners. With more than 20 years of experience in the publishing industry, he has ...
Erinnerung und Gesellschaft
PreviewEtude sociologique, Paris, Alcan, 1899. [Brian, 2001] Eric Brian, Staatsvermessungen. Condorcet, Laplace, Turgot und das Denken der Verwaltung. Wien, Springer Verlag, 2001. [Brian, Jaisson, 2005a] Eric Brian et Marie Jaisson, « Itineraire ...
My War with Brian
Ted RallAn autobiographical graphic novel recounts Rall's experiences in school where he was the victim of a bully named Brian, and how the only way Rall could defend himself from Brian's torture was through violence
HB: Aspects of Havergal Brian
More editionsMyer Fredman/Robert Simpson: Preparing Brian's scores for performance1 At the time of my first involvement in the preparation of some of Havergal Brian's symphonies for performance I had very little previous knowledge (in real musical ...
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