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Rethinking Readiness
Renewable Energy
A Brief Guide to Twenty-First-Century Megadisasters
A Primer for the TwentyFirst Century Bruce Usher
Jeff Schlegelmilch
Foreword by Irwin Redlener
Rethinking Readiness offers an expert introduction to human-made threats and vulnerabilities, with a focus on opportunities to reimagine how we approach disaster preparedness. Jeff Schlegelmilch identifies and explores the most critical threats facing the world today, detailing the dangers of pandemics, climate change, infrastructure collapse, cyberattacks, and nuclear conflict. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19041-1 $60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19040-4 2020 200 pages
This book is a primer for readers of all levels on the coming energy transition and its global consequences. Bruce Usher provides a concise yet comprehensive explanation for the growth in wind and solar energy; the trajectory of the transition from fossil fuels to renewables; and the implications for industries, countries, and the climate. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-18785-5 $65.00 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-18784-8 2019 224 pages 34 illus.
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Reductionism in Art and Brain Science
Bad Advice
Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
Bridging the Two Cultures Eric R. Kandel
Paul A. Offit, M.D.
The Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel shows how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. He illustrates how reductionism—the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller components—has been used by scientists and artists alike to pursue their respective truths. $22.95 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-17963-8 $29.95 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-17962-1
In Bad Advice, Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don’ts of battling misinformation. For the past twenty years, Offit has been on the front lines in the fight for sound science and public heath, stepping into the media spotlight as few scientists have done. Bad Advice discusses science and its adversaries: not just the manias stoked by slick charlatans and their miracle cures but also corrosive, dangerous ideologies such as Holocaust and climate-change denial.
2016 240 pages 105 illus.
$16.95 / £12.99 paper 978-0-231-18699-5
$24.95 / £20.00 cloth 978-0-231-18698-8 2018 272 pages
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