Amenity Value of the Global Climate

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This book develops and applies a far-reaching account of the economic value of climate, derived from its 'amenity value', or, the benefits which a particular climate provides to the people of that region or country. As climate change moves higher on the economic and policy agendas, reliable measures of the benefits and costs of specific climates, and of changes to them, become ever more critical.
Detailed studies of a range of countries, including Britain, the US, India and Russia, show that the mobility of the population is crucial. When individuals are able to move, the amenity value of the climate is reflected in land prices and wage rates. Without mobility, amenity values emerge in patterns of purchasing, either to compensate for the disadvantages of the climate or to make best use of it. Indices are generated for the cost of living as a function of climate variables, and optimal climates are identified to determine who wins and who loses from climate change.
Among other applications, the book also demonstrates how the value of climate for agriculture can be derived from agricultural land prices and how much of the value of climate change can be calculated from its consequences for tourism.
This volume is a significant contribution to environmental economics. Its practical and policy implications offer a basis for valuing the consequences of climate change.

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The Amenity Value of the Global Climate
David Maddison
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MU4ON2

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Tangled Routes follows a corporate tomato from a Mexican field through the United States to a Canadian table, examining in its wake the dynamic relationship between production and consumption, work and technology, health and environment, bio-diversity and cultural diversity. Three case studies--a Mexican agribusiness, a Canadian supermarket, and a U.S.-owned fast-food restaurant--offer a view of globalization from above (corporate profiles), globalization from below (stories of women who plant, pick, pack, scan, slice, and sell tomatoes), and the other globalization (acts of resistance and alternatives to the corporate model).

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Tangled Routes.......2007-06-27

Deborah Barndt offers the best analysis I have read of the philosophical foundations that allowed North Americans to lose our connections with food. She explores how our approach to food represents a larger worldview that believes it is possible to reduce everything down to logical and quantifiable formulas. It also sees nature (and natural food and natural processes) as somewhat dangerous both physically and culturally, so that we feel a need to tame nature and make it work in our favor. She also then ties this analysis to the lives of real people, so that we can see how such an approach actually plays out in our society.
Although the text is dense at times, this is worth the time and thought it might take. EXCELLENT!

Assembling the world tomato industry: trialling truth trails. Tangled routes. Women, work, and globalization on the tomato trail [A book review from: Journal of Rural Studies]

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Assembling the world tomato industry: trialling truth trails. Tangled routes. Women, work, and globalization on the tomato trail [A book review from: Journal of Rural Studies]
R. Le Heron
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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ASIN: B000RR0SWQ

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Rural Studies, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail

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Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail
Barndt Deborah
Manufacturer: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0742555569

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Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, Tangled Routes offers a vivid interdisciplinary examination of the global food system through the journey of a corporate tomato. Through case studies in the three NAFTA countries-Mexico, the United States, and Canada-Deborah Barndt examines the dynamic relationship between production and consumption, work and technology, biodiversity and cultural diversity, and health and environment. The vivid stories of women workers along the tomato trail humanize her analysis of globalization, taking into account the intersections of gender, race, class, family status, and north-south relations.

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Most of us missed its first words and baby steps, meeting the Internet only during its long and cranky adolescence. Journalist Wendy M. Grossman explores its transition to mature technology in From Anarchy to Power: The Net Comes of Age, an overview of the political and corporate wrangling that accompanies its explosive growth. Writing with that odd mixture of cynical realism and earnest optimism that characterizes many of the better observers of technoculture, she makes a strong case for letting the Net grow up on its own terms. Equally wary of plays for control from both governmental and corporate entities, she asks readers to think critically and exercise their rights as citizens and consumers to ensure that it stays relatively free and worthwhile for all. Looking at examples of recent phenomena such as the Open Source revolution, the browser wars, and Matt Drudge's contributions to journalism, Grossman finds the risk of power consolidation nearly everywhere. She has a shameless pro-nerd bias (seen in her choice of quotes and shout-outs), though she does rub shoulders with plenty of suits as well. From Anarchy to Power, not quite strident enough to be a manifesto, still passes on a sense of urgency to its readers that can't--and oughtn't--be ignored. --Rob Lightner

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"Both newbies (newcomers to the Internet) and Netizens (old-timers) will find challenges and rewards in this witty, knowledgeable, and timely report from the electronic front."
—Publishers Weekly

"Vividly describes the virtual realm as a place of interconnecting communities every bitas complicated, exciting, and dangerous as any city."
—Booklist

"A pleasant antidote to the breathless rhetoric one finds in many books and magazines devoted to computer culture."
—Technology Review

"Grossman brings a wealth of professional and personal experience to the material-and a clarity of style and analysis that is a welcome relief from both the hyperbolic prose of many Net boosters and the overwrought jeremiads of cyberphobes."
—Reason

"There is a lot to like about this survey, especially the diligent research and reading the author has invested in it. The endnotes are vast and informative...From Anarchy to Power gathers strengh as it goes along."
—The Christian Century

"An informative exploration into many of the issues and problems that plague the Net today... From Anarchy to Power is a must read."
— ComputerUser.comcompanion website: http://www.nyupress.org/fap

Yesterday's battles over internet turf were fought on the net itself: today's battles are fought in government committees, in Congress, on the stock exchange, and in the marketplace. What was once an experimental ground for electronic commerce is now the hottest part of our economic infrastructure.

In From Anarchy to Power, Wendy Grossman explores the new dispensation on the net and tackles the questions that trouble every online user: How vulnerable are the internet and world wide web to malicious cyber hackers? What are the limits of privacy online? How real is internet addiction and to what extent is the news media responsible for this phenomenon? Are women and minorities at a disadvantage in cyberspace? How is the increasing power of big business changing internet culture?

We learn about the political economy of the internet including issues of copyright law, corporate control and cryptography legislation. Throughout the book the emphasis is on the international dimensions of the net, focusing on privacy and censorship in the United States, Europe and Canada and the hitherto ignored contributions of other countries in the development of the net. Entertaining and informative From Anarchy to Power is required reading for anyone who wants to know where the new digital economy is heading.

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Revitalizing Rural America: What Can the Federal Governmente Do to Promote Small Business Growth and Development in Rural Communities? Hearing Before the Committee on Small
Paul David Wellstone
Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Plastic Comb

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ASIN: 0756732174

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Intentionally brief, this book concentrates on the preparation, practice, and presentation of speeches without getting bogged down by theoretical discussions. The focus on purpose and audience response, which incorporates consideration of cultural diversity, helps readers identify ways to make their speeches more effective. Highly popular, this book is the best of the short books available on the subject. For anyone interested in public speaking.

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Good Basic Speech Text.......2007-09-01

This text is a good one for basic speech students. It amplifies the rhetorical canons and is straight-forward and clear.

Worked for me!.......2006-02-26

I used this book in class and I was totally satisfied with how well I did. I think it covered the material in a really understandable way. If your class is using this book - be happy!

ehh.......2005-09-26

I never received the book! i had to buy it in the expensive bookstore in my school.

For any type of public speaking.......2004-01-03

I agree with the book description above that this is the best of the short books available on the subject.

It's very thorough for a book this size, and would be good for anyone doing any kind of public speaking, whether in church, in business, in college organizations, before the press, in politics and government, or even in high school debate teams or speech classes.

There are chapters on Audience Analysis; Supporting Your Ideas; Stage Fright; Impromptu Speeches; Nonverbal Communication; Persuasion; Deductive and Inductive Reasoning, and even one on The Job Interview! There is a lot here in one neat little package!

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AMEN - Speaking in Church with Purpose & Peace
Celeste Elain Witt
Manufacturer: Perihelion Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000M812UC

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I Must Be About My Father's Business, Vol. 1
James Twentier
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1412049725
Release Date: 2006-07-06

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God created man for two purposes: Relationship and Dominion. Relationship involves God and man sharing a mutual commitment of love, communication, and trust. Dominion involves God sharing His authority and power with man.

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Speaking With a Purpose
Arthur Koch
Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OICXEE

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Speaking With a Purpose
Doyle Koch
Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OP2R2K

S.W.A.P., speaking with a purpose: Activities to develop competence in oral communication

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S.W.A.P., speaking with a purpose: Activities to develop competence in oral communication
Margaret Zeff
Manufacturer: Creative Teaching Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Public Speaking | Words & Language | Reference | Subjects | Books
ASIN: B0006WSRQQ

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Speaking with a Purpose
Doyle
Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OOM0XW

Speaking with a Purpose - Concepts and Applications in a Diverse World

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Speaking with a Purpose - Concepts and Applications in a Diverse World
Koch
Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OP5SQ2

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SPEAKING WITH A PURPOSE.

Manufacturer: P/B
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HJXK3S

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The "Instructor's Manual" contains six primary instructional concepts and several other techniques and exercises that will facilitate the implementation of the 10 Career & Character Education Essentials featured in the student book. While the six primary concepts have been around for sometime, they were recently endorsed by the Learning Focused Model as exemplary instructional practices.

Becoming the Best Me: 10 Career and Character Essentials

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Truly what "life-long learning" is all about!
Excellent Resource!

Becoming the Best Me: 10 Career and Character Essentials
Robert Orndorff
Manufacturer: Jist Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Becoming the Best Me Instructor's Manual: 10 Career and Character Education Essentials

ASIN: 1558641483

Book Description

Engaging new book helps develop character education and life skills as related to careers, i.e. what character traits are companies looking for. It is based on research by eight large companies and includes information from their recruiters. Incorporates key character education traits such as respect, responsibility, honesty, hard working, teamwork, citizenship, and communication.

Key Features

* Helps readers develop good character traits and life skills
* Fun and engaging writing style
* Real-world focus based on research from eight top companies
* Includes quotes and advice from key recruiters
* Employer checklists (which character traits companies look for in employees)
* Incorporates key character education such as respect, responsibility, honesty, hard-working, teamwork, citizenship, and communication

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Truly what "life-long learning" is all about!.......2005-03-04

Finally a real connection between skills that can be taught in schools and what employers are seeking in successful employees! Becoming the Best Me provides the cure for student reponses of "When will I ever need to know this?" A student-friendly book that helps students recognize practical skills and personal qualities that promote success in the classroom, in the workplace, and in life. Distributed to our 9th grade students, a great resource to increase awareness of "what really counts!"

Excellent Resource!.......2004-10-13

The author does a great job of describing the skills that students need to be successful in school and in life. The tone of the book is genuine and not preachy and the students that I work with really enjoy the book. The author also describes "soft skills" in a manner that is meaningful and understandable to students.

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How smart people can protect themselves from trouble-in advance. Now, after 9/11, there's new respect for the basic kinds of insurance that can protect people from risks. This book gives advice on the unthinkable: • how businesses and families can prepare for for acts of war and government-declared disasters • how these events can impact personal legal matters and daily lives • how smart management of personal finances and personal behavior can lower exposure and minimize losses

What can we do in these difficult times? We can take control of our own lives with precautionary behaviors.

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Defending oneself against a variety of all manner of threats.......2003-06-12

Protect Yourself is a definitive and thoroughly "user friendly" instructional guide to successfully defending oneself against a variety of all manner of threats arising in a post-September 11th world. From keeping careful track of one's diet; to making plans against man-made or natural catastrophes; to guidelines for buying property insurance; to ways of coping with troublesome friends or family members, Protect Yourself shares a wealth of common sense "tips, tricks and techniques" for keeping ourselves and our families safe and sound. Protect Yourselves is very highly recommended reading for individuals and family providers everywhere.

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