Humanity has a problem: human-caused global warming. In The Poverty of Green Philosophy, two progressive intellectuals with a profound knowledge of science, technology, and capitalism give us a fresh and iconoclastic take on the energy dilemma confronting our species.Many leading climate scientists like James Hansen, aware of the limitations of solar and wind, have concluded that nuclear power is the best—possibly the only—hope for solving the climate change proble...

Amazon's Best Biographies and Memoirs of the Year ListA moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls "the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected" of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks."A beautifully written once-in-a-lifetime book, about love, about life, soul, and the wonderful loving genius Oliver Sacks, and New York, and laughter and all of creation."--Anne Lamott

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Zillennial Finance Expert Mrs. Dow Jones comes a groundbreaking, judgment-free personal finance guidebook about how to grow wealth on your own terms.You’re not bad with money. It’s just no one ever taught you how to win a game rigged against you.Recessions. Crushing student debt. Inflation that won’t quit. A housing market that feels like a joke. If you’re a Gen Z or millennial, it feels like the financial deck has ...

Discover BIM: A better way to build better buildingsBuilding Information Modeling (BIM) offers a novel approach to design, construction, and facility management in which a digital representation of the building product and process is used to facilitate the exchange and interoperability of information in digital format. BIM is beginning to change the way buildings look, the way they function, and the ways in which they are designed and built.The BIM ...

Understand the latest advances in BIM with this fully updated guideBuilding Information Modeling (BIM) has become an increasingly central component of architecture and the building trades. Modern BIM software has moved beyond the simple 2D and 3D modeling tools of the past to incorporate simulation, analysis, project management, and more. BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Designers, Engineers, Contractors, and Facility Managers

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Zillennial Finance Expert Mrs. Dow Jones comes a groundbreaking, judgment-free personal finance guidebook about how to grow wealth on your own terms.You’re not bad with money. It’s just no one ever taught you how to win a game rigged against you.Recessions. Crushing student debt. Inflation that won’t quit. A housing market that feels like a joke. If you’re a Gen Z or millennial, it feels like the financial deck has ...

Das Vermächtnis eines großartigen Autors und Menschenkenners.Oliver Sacks hat mit seinen neurologischen Fallgeschichten Millionen Leser weltweit erreicht und ihr Denken verändert: Was auf den ersten Blick als krank oder abweichend erscheint, ermöglicht oft besondere Fähigkeiten der Wahrnehmung und des Fühlens. Und das sogenannte Normale ist meist fragwürdiger, als wir es gern wahrhaben wollen.Am 30. August 2015 starb Oliver Sacks in New York. In seinen letzten Lebensmonaten h...

Following her first groundbreaking work, The Godfathers of Sex Abuse, Book I: Jeffrey Epstein, Professor Deana Pollard Sacks now takes on two other monstrous sex abusers: Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby. Sacks not only presents their dark stories of fraud, manipulation, and coercion, but she broadens the perspective to reveal the other types of abuse commonly aimed at women, simply because of their gender.But she doesn’t stop there. Professor Sacks presents fresh ideas as ...

Ninety-five propositions for creating more relevant, more caring schoolsThere is a growing desire to reexamine education and learning. Educators use the phrase "school 2.0" to think about what schools will look like in the future. Moving beyond a basic examination of using technology for classroom instruction, Building School 2.0: How to Create the Schools We Need is a larger discussion of how education, learning, and our physical school spaces can—and sho...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Jewish Festival of Lights started with a great darkness. Beginning with the death of Alexander the Great, the people of Judea suffered insults and persecution under the reign of Antiochus IV. From this oppression, the miracle of Chanukah resulted. Benjamin Sacks told this religious-historical tale in 1913 to deepen our understanding of Chanukah.

Building Lean, Building BIM is the essential guide for any construction company that wants to implement Lean Construction and Building Information Modelling (BIM) to gain a strategic edge over their competition.The first of its kind, the book outlines the principles of Lean, the functionality of BIM, and the interactions between the two, illustrating them through the story of how Tidhar Construction has implemented Lean Construction and BIM in a concerted effort over four ...

We can’t turn back the clock, but wouldn’t it be magic if we could? Curl up with this book, a cup of steaming hot coffee or a favorite cup of tea, and a plate of homemade cookies, then venture through Bill Holley’s straightforward narratives and homespun memories of everyday life in the rural South during the 1940s. It’s been sixty years or more since many of these stories took place, but the special friendships and priceless moments of a childhood filled with an imagination running wild, ...