A Question Of Balance

Author : Prince Philip (consort of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Question of Balance written by Prince Philip (consort of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Nordhaus
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300209398
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Question of Balance written by William Nordhaus and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How economic analysis can help us design economic policies to address the looming challenges of global warming As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken center stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William Nordhaus observes, the issues involved in understanding global warming and slowing its harmful effects are complex and cross disciplinary boundaries. For example, ecologists see global warming as a threat to ecosystems, utilities as a debit to their balance sheets, and farmers as a hazard to their livelihoods. In this important work, William Nordhaus integrates the entire spectrum of economic and scientific research to weigh the costs of reducing emissions against the benefits of reducing the long-run damages from global warming. The book offers one of the most extensive analyses of the economic and environmental dynamics of greenhouse-gas emissions and climate change and provides the tools to evaluate alternative approaches to slowing global warming. The author emphasizes the need to establish effective mechanisms, such as carbon taxes, to harness markets and harmonize the efforts of different countries. This book not only will shape discussion of one the world's most pressing problems but will provide the rationales and methods for achieving widespread agreement on our next best move in alleviating global warming.

Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815705239
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Question of Balance written by Thomas Mann and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a more active and aggressive Congress has often sharply disagreed with the president over the ends and means of American foreign policy. The normal tensions that arise in the U.S. system of separate institutions sharing power have been exacerbated by the contemporary pattern of split-party control of the two branches. The ensuing conflict in areas ranging from Central America to China has stimulated a spirited debate about the constitutional authority and institutional competence of the president and Congress to make foreign policy. In this volume, noted authors, led by Thomas Mann, examine executive-legislative relations in five major policy areas: war powers, intelligence, arms control, diplomacy, and trade. They offer a fresh analysis of the sources and consequences of conflict between the President and Congress as well as constructive suggestions for strengthening each branch's comparative advantages.

Author : Michael Creswell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674022973
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Question of Balance written by Michael Creswell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging standard interpretations of American dominance and French weakness in postwar Western Europe, Michael Creswell argues that France played a key role in shaping the cold war order. In the decade after the war, the U.S. government's primary objective was to rearm the Federal Republic of Germany within the framework of a European defense force--the European Defense Community. American and French officials differed, however, over the composition of the EDC and the rules governing its organization and use. Although U.S. pressure played a part, more decisive factors--in both internal French politics and international French concerns--ultimately led France to sanction the plan to rearm West Germany. Creswell sketches the successful French challenge to the United States, tracing the genuine, sometimes heated, debate between the two nations that ultimately resulted in security arrangements preferred by the French but acceptable to the Americans. Impressively researched and vigorously argued, A Question of Balance advances significantly our understanding of power politics and the rise of the cold war system in Western Europe.

Author : Igor Cetojevic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789963965144
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Health; It's a Question of Balance written by Igor Cetojevic and published by . This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Health aims to help you better understand yourself in an amusing and easy-to-understand way. Learn what the major organs do, how the magnetic energy of the earth affects us, the importance of identifying and eliminating the causes of a disease or imbalance rather than simply eliminating the symptoms and many more insights to improve and maintain your health and wellbeing.

Author : Matthew Kelly
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101544287
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Off Balance written by Matthew Kelly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prescriptive follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Dream Manager. One of the major issues in our lives today is work-life balance. Everyone wants it; no one has it. But Matthew Kelly believes that work- life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction. Kelly lays out the system he uses with his clients, his team, and himself to find deep, long-term satisfaction both personally and professionally. He introduces us to the three philosophies of our age that are dragging us down. He shows us how to cultivate the energy that will give us enough battery power for everything we need and want to do. And finally, in five clear steps, he shows us how to use his Personal & Professional Satisfaction System to establish and honor our biggest priorities, even if we spend a lot more time on some of the lesser ones.

Author : Taylor Aitken Greer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520920139
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Question of Balance written by Taylor Aitken Greer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of this century's most influential musical intellects takes center stage in Taylor Greer's meticulously wrought study of Charles Seeger (1886-1979). Seeger left an indelible mark in the fields of musicology, music criticism, ethnomusicology, and avant-garde musical composition, but until now there has been no extended appreciation and critique of Seeger's work as a whole, nor has an accessible guide to his texts been available. Exploring the entire corpus of Charles Seeger's writing, A Question of Balance highlights the work of those persons who most influenced him, especially Henri Bergson, Bertrand Russell, and Ralph Perry. Invited to inaugurate the music department at the University of California's Berkeley campus in 1912, Seeger became keenly aware of his deficiencies in general education and put himself on a rigorous regimen of intellectual development that included studying history, anthropology, political theory, and philosophy. For the remainder of his life his ideas about music heavily influenced the development of ethnomusicology and systematic musicology. Charles Seeger is perhaps best known as the father of the folk singers Pete, Mike, and Peggy Seeger and as the husband of the innovative American composer Ruth Crawford. This book makes clear that Seeger was an extremely important thinker and educator in his own right. Seeger's intellectual curiosity was as eclectic as it was enthusiastic, and Greer skillfully weaves together the connections Seeger made between music, the humanities, and the sciences. The result is a luminous tapestry depicting Seeger's ideal schemes of musicology. At the same time it reflects the turbulence and vitality in American musical life during the early decades of the century.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309068258
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Question of Balance written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-01-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New legal approaches, such as the European Union's 1996 Directive on the Legal Protection of Databases, and other legal initiatives now being considered in the United States at the federal and state level, are threatening to compromise public access to scientific and technical data available through computerized databases. Lawmakers are struggling to strike an appropriate balance between the rights of database rights holders, who are concerned about possible commercial misappropriation of their products, and public-interest users of the data such as researchers, educators, and libraries. A Question of Balance examines this balancing act. The committee concludes that because database rights holders already enjoy significant legal, technical, and market-based protections, the need for statutory protection has not been sufficiently substantiated. Nevertheless, although the committee opposes the creation of any strong new protective measures, it recognizes that some additional limits against wholesale misappropriation of databases may be necessary. In particular, a new, properly scoped and focused U.S. statute might provide a reasonable alternative to the European Union's highly protectionistic database directive. Such legislation could then serve as a legal model for an international treaty in this area. The book recommends a number of guiding principles for such possible legislation, as well as related policy actions for the administration.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Question of Balance written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Suzan Harden
Publisher : Angry Sheep Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1938745280
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Question of Balance written by Suzan Harden and published by Angry Sheep Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: