Dr. Peter H. Gleick is a leading scientist dedicated to exploring the complex intersections of environmental sustainability, economic development, and global security, with a particular emphasis on the planet's vital freshwater resources. His work highlights the critical challenges posed by water scarcity, climate change's impact on water, and the fundamental human right to safe and accessible water and sanitation. Gleick's research and advocacy aim to illuminate these issues for a global audience, drawing attention to the billions affected by inadequate water resources.
Shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years - and why we are poorer for it. This work exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from fear-mongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities.
Peter Cooley Carnegie-Mellon University Press 02/27/2021 80Binding Paperback 0.27lbs 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.30d 9780887486661About the AuthorPeter Cooley is professor emeritus at Tulane University and a former poet laureate of Louisiana. He is Poetry Editor of Christianity and Literature .
Opened in 1913, Grand Central Terminal is a world-famous landmark building with a magnificent 48-foot-high, 1,500-ton statuary group on top of the main facade. Designed by sculptor Jules-Felix Coutan, a 13-foot-wide Tiffany clock serves as the centerpiece. The figure above the clock is Mercury, with Hercules to the left and Minerva to the right. In the late 1990s, a historic restoration was performed on the terminal after which two cast-iron eagle statues were placed over entrances at Lexington Avenue and Forty-Second Street/Vanderbilt Avenue. These eagles were from the 1898 Grand Central Station building that was demolished in 1910 to make room for the construction of the new Grand Central Terminal structure. Penn Station, which opened in 1910, covered two full city blocks and had statuary groups, designed by sculptor Adolph Weinman, on all four sides of the building. After Penn Station was demolished in the mid-1960s, the statuary was dispersed throughout various locations, mainly in the Northeast.
Provides an examination of the key issues surrounding freshwater resources and their use. This book identifies and explains the significant trends worldwide, and offers data available on a variety of water-related topics. It contains a chronology of global conflicts associated with water as well as an assessment of water conferences.
The graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers.
Water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years. That's a big story, and water is big business. Gleick exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from fear mongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities.
From National Book Award-nominated writer Andrea Lee comes Red Island House, a travel epic that opens a window on the mysterious African island of Madagascar, and on the dangers of life and love in paradise, as seen through the eyes of a Black American heroine. "People do mysterious things when they think they have found paradise," reflects Shay, the heroine of Red Island House. When Shay, an intrepid Black American professor, marries Senna, a brash Italian businessman, she doesn't imagine that her life's greatest adventure will carry her far beyond their home in Milan: to an idyllic stretch of beach in Madagascar where Senna builds a flamboyant vacation villa. Before she knows it, she becomes the reluctant mistress of a sprawling household, caught between her privileged American upbringing and her connection to the continent of her ancestors. So begins Shay's journey into the heart of a remote African country. Can she keep her identity and her marriage intact amid the wild beauty and the lingering colonial sins of this mysterious world that both captivates and destroys foreigners? A mesmerizing, powerful tale of travel and self-discovery that evokes Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Red Island House showcases an extraordinary literary voice and gorgeously depicts a lush and unknown world.
The meditations set down in this short volume stem from countless recitations by Peter C. Morrison over the course of approximately sixty years. He believes that the Holy Spirit has been abundantly active during the recitations. The Spirit has also never failed to guide and inspire him as soon as he sits down to print the reflections contained in this book. Meditations on the Holy Rosary draws from his life experiences, his knowledge of the Bible, and from the classes in Theology and homilies from inspired preachers.
The eighth collection of poems from British poet Alan Morrison. These poems are passports to a twisted conservative notion of salvation through benefit & welfare sanction; a series of verse-missives from the frontline of the war against the poor and its spirit-stripping weapons of food banks, poor doors, and homeless spikes.
A poet wrestles with faith and loss post-pandemic. In these poems, Peter Cooley encounters both the political realities of loss through the pandemic in New Orleans and personal loss through the deaths of family members and friends. Death is a constant in this book of elegies, but the redemptive power of representation is persistent as this poet of faith memorializes imagined and lived experiences.