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Climate adaptation is often framed as a challenge of the future. In Who Gets to Adapt? Environmental Elites, Blue-Collar Communities, and the Climate Divide, Robert W. Collin demonstrates that its outcomes are rooted in history.This book offers a rigorous historical analysis of how protection, risk, and inequality have been structured over time in the United States. Drawing on environmental law, land-use planning, and public policy, Collin traces how decades of decisions-r...

Climate Change in the Classroom: Preparing the Next Generation for a Warming WorldClimate change is not a future problem—it is the defining reality students are already living through. Yet many classrooms still prepare them for a world that no longer exists.In Climate Change in the Classroom, Robert W. Collin draws on decades of work in environmental law, urban planning, and environmental justice to show how today’s climate risks are rooted in history—from land use and indu...

Captain Jason Ayers and his crew deal with aliens, politicians, colonists, and pirates. Their adventures include action stories, mysteries, and dramas. These short stories have appeared in Tales Of The Talisman, Golden Visions, and The Fifth Di…, among others.This collection contains all the “Frigate Victory” science fiction short stories. The stories are in chronological order. Also included is the concluding short novel Bear at the Door...

John Pare is a convicted thief serving time in prison somewhere in the Cassini Empire. His hope is to serve out his sentence then get back to his profession. Then a jailed rebel comes to him with an offer: lead a heist on another planet that will hurt the Empire.It all seems solid to Pare. It’s one high-paying job, and either he can retire or he’ll get a new boss. Will it be as solid as he thinks? What will he do if something goes wrong?

**Who Gets to Adapt?The Environmental Elite and the Climate Divide**Climate change is no longer a distant threat—it is a sorting mechanism. Centuries of rigid social institutions have prevented environmental elite decisionmakers and organizations from incorporating blue collar communities in the rapidly evolving growth of climate adaptation. It is not that these groups don't want to, but the social structures do not allow for the recognition of need fo...

They gained their maturity in an age of monumental and unprecedented change – from horse-and-buggy, Model TFord, and crank telephone, to moonwalks, space shuttles, and the Internet. They are better educated, more affluent, more vigorous, and longer-lived than any generation before them, yet obstinately cling to a forthright simplicity no generation is likely to regain. They are proudly “old fashioned” in their outlook, hardworking, and frugal in their ways. They are the last enthusiastic p...

Pierre Eggar is an insurance investigator for Alliance Insurance, which operates within Independent Worlds Alliance. He’s looking into a claim over the death of one Al Lund. But something about Lund’s death doesn’t quite make sense.Lund was a common mechanic living a quiet life. Yet he was murdered by a professional killer. Eggar suspects that Lund might have once been a criminal. He has to travel all over the Alliance and dig up the past to sort out why Lund met a violent end.

Now in an completely revised, updated, and enlarged Second Edition, Small Antennas in Portable Devices reviews recent significant theoretical and practical developments in the electrically small antenna area. Examining antenna designs that work as well as those that have limitations, this new edition provides practicing engineers and upper level and graduate students with new information on: work on improving bandwidth using spherical helix dipoles; work on electromagnetically cou...

This fascinating reference offers a unique take on recycling and trash, tracing the role of waste in public health, climate change, and sustainability around the world.As the popularity of sustainability grows and climate change becomes an accepted reality, experts point to trash and waste as the link between environmental and public health. This detailed reference—one of the most comprehensive resources available on the subject—examines garbage disposal on a globa...

Welcome to the Tokyo American Club, playground of the city's elite, where, In the middle of the annual dinner, club manager Pete Peterson's head has been found bobbing In the swimming pool. A headless torso is alongside it: the trouble is, the body doesn't match the head. Captain Tim Kawamura of the Azabu Police Department must cut through a tangle of bizarre blood ties and business connections between a swelling list of suspects as he pieces together the puzzle as well as the missing body...

This collection contains 19 short science fiction stories. Some are action stories and some are dramas. Some offer hope while in others the characters struggle with optimism. All the short stories in this collection have been previously published.

Luva is the adopted daughter of Oria and her partner Culca. Luva’s sister is a magus, but Luva is only blessed with intelligence.The ruler of Luthgenicca wants someone to travel across the Great Warm Sea south to the domain of Meuretha. Trade is increasing between the domains, and so is the prospect of a pact between them. Information is required before discussions of a pact can begin.Luva ends up going south. What will she learn about Meuretha, and about cooperation, while...