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  • Audiolibro

    Brief History of the Xiongnu, A: The Steppe Empire That Built the Great Wall's Need

    de Gareth Nolan ...
    Narrado por Gareth Nolan ...

    Completo

    1 horas 53 minutos

    Experience an epic clash of civilizations as a fierce nomadic empire reshapes ancient military history from the saddle. Perfect for an immersive commute, this dramatic journey sweeps across the harsh grasslands of Inner Asia to reveal the forgotten steppe warriors who brought early dynasties to their knees.Instead of standing behind defensive bricks, you will ride alongside the masterful archers ... Leer más

    $173 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Piketty Phenomenon

    New Zealand Perspectives

    Series series BWB Texts
    Piketty’s book is a bombshell, promising a Kuhnian scientific revolution. Geoff BertramPiketty erects a floodlight that illuminates the shadows ignored by economists for too long. Hautahi KingiFew books have had the global impact of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century. An overnight bestseller, Piketty’s assessment that inherited wealth will always grow faster, on average, than ... Leer más

    $51 MXN

  • The Carbon Challenge

    New Zealand's Emissions Trading Scheme

    New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme favour big farming and industrial emitters over households and small businesses, argue academics Geoff Bertram and Simon Terry.In a plain language guide that demystifies the complex world of emissions trading, they contend that New Zealand has a wealth of options for cutting emissions more equitably but courageous political leadership is needed. ... Leer más

    $150 MXN

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  • Red Alert

    How China's Growing Prosperity Threatens the American Way of Life

    de Stephen Leeb ...
    "I would caution readers to dismiss Stephen Leeb's warnings only at their peril." -- Thomas Kaplan, chairman, Tigris Financial GroupThe American Dream is close to being replaced by a living nightmare:Key commodities that are essential to our daily lives and that are widely believed to be abundant are running critically short. Even worse, the Chinese are doing what they can to monopolize the world ... Leer más

    $183 MXN

  • Global Carbon Pricing

    The Path to Climate Cooperation

    Why the traditional “pledge and review” climate agreements have failed, and how carbon pricing, based on trust and reciprocity, could succeed.After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a “pledge and review” approach: countries pledge (almost anything), subject to (unenforced) review. This approach ignores everything we know about human cooperation. In this book, ... Leer más

    $436 MXN

  • Climate Change Justice

    Climate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should--indeed, must--directly address both issues together. But, in fact, this would be a serious mistake, one that, by dooming effective international limits on greenhouse gases, would actually make the world's poor and developing nations far worse off. This is the provocative ... Leer más

    $373 MXN

  • Blackout

    Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis

    Coal fuels about 50 percent of US electricity production and provides a quarter of the country's total energy. China and India's ferocious economic growth is based almost entirely on coal-generated electricity.Coal currently looks like a solution to many of our fast-growing energy problems. However, while coal advocates are urging full steam ahead, increasing reliance on the dirtiest of all fossil ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Generating Electricity in a Carbon-Constrained World

    Edición de Fereidoon Sioshansi ...
    The electric power sector is what keeps modern economies going, and historically, fossil fuels provided the bulk of the energy need to generate electricity, with coal a dominant player in many parts of the world. Now with growing concerns about global climate change, this historical dependence on fossil-fuels, especially those rich in carbon, are being questioned. Examining the implications of the ... Leer más

    $1,734 MXN

  • The Case for a Carbon Tax

    Getting Past Our Hang-ups to Effective Climate Policy

    There's a simple, straightforward way to cut carbon emissions and prevent the most disastrous effects of climate change-and we're rejecting it because of irrational political fears. That's the central argument of The Case for a Carbon Tax, a clear-eyed, sophisticated analysis of climate change policy.Shi-Ling Hsu examines the four major approaches to curbing CO2: cap-and-trade; command and control ... Leer más

    Antes $1,058 MXN Ahora $548 MXN

  • Climate Change and the World Bank Group: Phase I I - The Challenge of Low-Carbon Development

    de World Bank ...
    This study from the Independent Evaluation Group draws lessons for development and climate change mitigation from the World Bank Group's far-reaching portfolio of projects in energy forestry transport coal power and technology transfer. Reviewing what has worked what hasn?t and why the evaluation?s key findings include:Energy efficiency can offer countries direct economic returns that dwarf those ... Leer más

    $150 MXN

  • Greening the Global Economy

    de Robert Pollin ...
    Series series Boston Review Originals
    A program for building a global clean energy economy while expanding job opportunities and economic well-being.In order to control climate change, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that greenhouse gas emissions will need to fall by about forty percent by 2030.Achieving the target goals will be highly challenging. Yet in Greening the Global Economy, economist Robert Pollin ... Leer más

    $298 MXN

  • Let Them Eat Carbon

    The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies, and How Governments and Big Business Profit From Them

    Climate change is big business. Much of the money so-called green policies cost us goes straight into the pockets of a bewildering range of special interests. Around the world companies are making billions out of the schemes governments have put in place saying they will curb global warming and protect us from the threat of climate change. There is little evidence that those policies are an ... Leer más

    $143 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus