Carti 2025

Tracy Packiam Alloway

Training Your Brain for Dummies

Editura: For Dummies

Anul aparitiei: 2011

Mastering the latest fitness craze-keeping your brain healthy at any age Judging from the worldwide popularity of the brain game, Nintendo DS, and such mind-bending puzzles as SuDoku and KenKen(R), keeping one's mind as limber as an Olympic athlete is an international obsession. With forecasters predicting over a million people with dementia by 2025, today's young and senior population have a vested interest in keeping their grey matter in the pink for as long as possible. Training Your Brain For Dummies is an indispensable guide to every aspect of brain fitness-and keeping your mind as sharp, agile, and creative for as long as you can. Whether you want to hone your memory, manage stress and anxiety, or simply eat brain healthy food, this guide will help you build brain health into your everyday life. Includes verbal, numerical and memory games, brain games to play on the move, tips on the best day-to-day habits, and long-term mental fitness techniques Offers ten key brain training basics, tips on brain training through one's lifetime, and improving long- and short-term memory Includes advice on improving creativity, developing a positive mindset, and reaping the rewards of peace ...

T. Coraghessan Boyle

A Friend of the Earth

Editura: Penguin Books

Anul aparitiei: 2001

One of LitHub's "365 Books to Start Your Climate Change Library" "Fiction about ecological disaster tends to be written in a tragic key. Boyle, by contrast, favors the darkly comic." -Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction Originally published in 2000, T. C. Boyle's prescient novel about global warming and ecological collapse It is the year 2025. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed and most mammals--not to mention fish, birds, and frogs--are extinct. Tyrone Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in southern California, managing a pop star's private menagerie that "only a mother could love"--scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs, and three down-at-the-mouth lions. It wasn't always like this for Ty. Once he was a passionate environmentalist, so committed to saving the earth that he became an eco-terrorist and, ultimately, a convicted felon. as a member of the radical group Earth Forever!, he unwittingly endangered both his daughter Sierra and his wife Andrea. Now, just when he's trying to survive in a world torn by obdurate storms and winnowing drought, Andrea comes back into his life. T. C. Boyle's eighth novel blends idealism and satire in a story that ...

Jack A. Goldstone (Editor)

Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics

Editura: OXFORD UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2011

The field of political demography - the politics of population change - is dramatically underrepresented in political science. At a time when demographic changes - aging in the rich world, youth bulges in the developing world, ethnic and religious shifts, migration, and urbanization - are waxing as never before, this neglect is especially glaring and starkly contrasts with the enormous interest coming from policymakers and the media. "Ten years ago, [demography] was hardly on the radar screen," remarks Richard Jackson and Neil Howe of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, two contributors to this volume. "Today," they continue, "it dominates almost any discussion of America's long-term fiscal, economic, or foreign-policy direction." Demography is the most predictable of the social sciences: children born in the last five years will be the new workers, voters, soldiers, and potential insurgents of 2025 and the political elites of the 2050s. Whether in the West or the developing world, political scientists urgently need to understand the tectonics of demography in order to grasp the full context of today's political developments. This book begins to fill the gap from a ...

Jack A. Goldstone (Editor)

Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics

Editura: OXFORD UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2011

The field of political demography - the politics of population change - is dramatically underrepresented in political science. At a time when demographic changes - aging in the rich world, youth bulges in the developing world, ethnic and religious shifts, migration, and urbanization - are waxing as never before, this neglect is especially glaring and starkly contrasts with the enormous interest coming from policymakers and the media. "Ten years ago, [demography] was hardly on the radar screen," remarks Richard Jackson and Neil Howe of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, two contributors to this volume. "Today," they continue, "it dominates almost any discussion of America's long-term fiscal, economic, or foreign-policy direction." Demography is the most predictable of the social sciences: children born in the last five years will be the new workers, voters, soldiers, and potential insurgents of 2025 and the political elites of the 2050s. Whether in the West or the developing world, political scientists urgently need to understand the tectonics of demography in order to grasp the full context of today's political developments. This book begins to fill the gap from a ...

Shabbir Cheema (Author)

Urban Management: Policies and Innovations in Developing Countries

Editura: GREENWOOD PUB GROUP INC

Anul aparitiei: 1993

The relentless growth of cities is inevitable--and irreversible. Developing countries' share of the world's urban population will rise to 71% by the year 2000 and 80% by 2025. By the end of the 1990s, it is estimated that 18 cities in developing countries will have a population of 10 million or more. Although those cities are centers of production, employment, and innovation, rapid urbanization has had many negative consequences: an alarming increase in the incidence of urban poverty, the concentration of modern productive activities in major metropolitan areas, inadequate access to housing and basic urban services, and the degradation of the urban environment. Urban Management reviews the state of the art in innovative urban management, discusses the latest findings on key issues of urban management, and identifies policy-relevant research needs and priorities. Chapters are contributed by urban specialists from Asia, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, and North America, who identify urbanization processes and strategies, provide comparative analyses of urban management issues throughout the world, and present original country case studies. Recommended for urban development ...

James D. Traver (Author)

The Demography of Africa

Editura: PRAEGER FREDERICK A

Anul aparitiei: 1996

Written lucidly and simply to serve as an introduction to the study of the African continent from a human population perspective, this book demonstrates important factors in the ebb and flow of group size and structure using the example of the fastest growing region in the world. From a total original population of less than a quarter million in prehistoric times to the present count of 642 million people in 1990, Africa is now demonstrating an annual growth rate of 3.0%, the highest on the planet. While the rest of the world's population is expected to increase by 60%, Africa's is expected to increase by 100%, doubling by the year 2025 to a projected total of 1.6 billion people. The major factor creating the high growth rate is the drop in death rates while the fertility rates remain high. Stress on the population has been related to urbanization which has increased since African countries attained independence in the 1960s. Employment opportunities in cities are inadequate and slum conditions have appeared around most major cities. Since agriculture remains the major industry and occupation, rural development policies are seen to hold the most promise for stemming urban migration ...

Alfredo Ardila (Author)

Neuropsychological Evaluation of the Spanish Speaker

Editura: SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH

Anul aparitiei: 1994

This book is the culmination of a research program conducted in Colombia during the past several years. The fundamental aim of the program was to develop neuropsychological tests for Spanish speakers, especially elderly individuals and those with limited edu- cational attainment. The lack of norms for these populations repre- sents a significant practical problem not only in developing countries but also in more developed countries. For example, norms are usually obtained with middle-class Anglo-Saxon English-speaking popula- tions, often university students, and such norms do not usually include individuals older than 65 years. Furthermore, very few neuro- psychological tests have been developed for Spanish speakers; fre- quently, tests are translated into Spanish (often poor translations at that), but the norms used are still those obtained from English- speaking populations. This volume summarizes the normative results of this research program. We anticipate that these tests and norms will be particularly useful in the neuropsychological evaluation of Spanish speakers, especially those with limited educational attainment, and the elderly. The United States represents the fifth ...

Johan M. Havenaar (Author)

Toxic Turmoil: Psychological and Societal Consequences of Ecological Disasters

Editura: SPRINGER VERLAG GMBH

Anul aparitiei: 2002

When an accident involves many people and when its consequences are many and serious, we speak of a disaster. Disasters have the same causal fac- tors as accidents: they differ from accidents by the gravity of consequences, not by causes. The action of a single individual may result in thousands of deaths and huge financial losses. The metal fatigue of a screw may, by a chain of events, cause an explosion killing hundreds or lead to a break in a dam and a devastating flood. The fact that minor and unpredictable acts can lead to disasters is im- portant because it allows us to predict that the years to come will bring with them more disasters with ever more severe consequences. The density ofhu- man populations is growing. By the year 2025 some four fifths of the world's population will be living in urban settings. An explosion or a gas leak in a densely populated area will cause incomparably more damage than a simi- lar event in a rural area. Modern technology is immensely powerful (and its power is continuing to grow) and can be used in a disastrous manner. Ag- gression is just as possible now as it was in the past, but the tools of aggression are vastly more dangerous than ever ...

Walter C., Jr. Clemens (Author)

America and the World, 1898-2025: Achievements, Failures, Alternative Futures

Editura: PALGRAVE

Anul aparitiei: 2000

This book surveys US achievements and failures in the world across the 20th century. The analysis builds upon surveys of experts at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and several universities conducted over the last 25 years. The reasons for success and failure are subject to hot dispute. Walter Clemens argues that the individual traits of US leaders account for far more variation in outcomes than the domestic or international contexts. He concludes that the policy outcomes of the past century confirm the assumptions of mutual gain theory, complexity theory, and liberal peace theory. Clemens then uses his analysis to sketch alternative futures that could face planners in the early 21st century.

Erwin K. Thomas (Editor)

Mass Media in 2025: Industries, Organizations, People, and Nations

Editura: PRAEGER FREDERICK A

Anul aparitiei: 2001

The future of mass media may appear unpredictable and too complex to fathom, but Mass Media in 2025 takes a scholarly, theoretical approach to identifying trends and explaining their possibilities. Noted contributors approach a variety of media with a solid grounding in the history of each, and an eye for which may be vulnerable and which may thrive in the new technological age. Trends such as interactivity and niche building will affect everything from the newspaper to public relations, and this collection of essays provides a fascinating guide to where the next decades may take us. Regardless of the visual, aural, or printed form, Mass Media in 2025 illustrates the degree to which older media will have to incorporate the level of interaction and specialization offered by newer media if they are to survive. These effects can already be seen in the proliferation of television channels, in the ironic bent of advertising, in the rise of infotainment in news organizations. This book shows not only how all of this has come to be, but also, more importantly, where it will go.

Eric C. Anderson (Author)

China Restored: The Middle Kingdom Looks to 2020 and Beyond

Editura: PRAEGER FREDERICK A

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Contrary to lurid forecasts in the West that China is on track to wrest global hegemony from the United States by 2025, China is in fact positioning itself to resume its historic role as the "Middle Kingdom"--a senior mentor with benign aspirations for guiding Asia into the mid-21st century. In China Restored: The Middle Kingdom Looks to 2020 and Beyond, Eric C. Anderson challenges the widespread perception of China as a rising giant whose authoritarian program to supplant the United States as global hegemony poses a grave international threat. He weighs in against doomsday prophets such as Martin Jacques, who predicts that China's economy and diplomatic influence will equal those of the United States by 2025 and will eclipse them by a factor of two by 2050. Anderson, a player in Washington's China policy debates who enjoys deep access to Chinese intelligence sources, counters with a careful argument that Beijing's overriding aim is in fact to foster a stable global environment conducive to its economic development and regional hegemony based on legitimate political authority rather than coercion. Anderson points to three principal factors that will drive Chinese behavior over the ...

Rick Moody (Author)

The Four Fingers of Death

Editura: BACK BAY BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2011

Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose rare collection of baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror film, The Crawling Hand . Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching at last its doomed manned mission to Mars. Three space pods with nine Americans on board travel three months, expecting to spend three years as the planet's first colonists. When a secret mission to retrieve a flesh-eating bacterium for use in bio-warfare is uncovered, mayhem ensues. Only a lonely human arm (missing its middle finger) returns to earth, crash-landing in the Arizona desert. The arm may hold the secret to reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine. It's crawl through the heartbroken wasteland of civilization is recorded in this stunningly inventive, sometimes hilarious, monumental novel.

Rowley Y. Chris (Author)

The Changing Face of Korean Management

Editura: ROUTLEDGE CHAPMAN HALL

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Part of the successful Routledge 'Working in Asia' series, The Changing Face of Korean Management focuses on a country that is predicted by some experts to become the world's third richest by 2025. South Korea, with its thriving telecommunications and automotive industries, and increasing trade links with China, survived the 1997 Asian Economic Crisis better than most. This important textbook explores the key areas of management in this pivotal country in the region, including: Human Resource Management Marketing Operations Finance Strategy Overseas affiliates Small firms and entrepreneurship Women Including case studies and interviews with front-line Korean managers to enable a real 'voice' to emerge, and written by native academics, this is a complete analysis of the current state of management structures in South Korea. It is important reading for all students of business and management interested in Asia.

MaryJanice Davidson (Author)

Undead and Underwater

Editura: BERKLEY PUB GROUP

Anul aparitiei: 2013

New York Times bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson "continues to put her own unique spin on paranormal romance" (Fallen Angel Reviews), and in this all-new anthology, she's three times as outrageous as ever before... Super, Girl! Meet Hailey Derry, human resources representative and round-the-clock superhero. Born with the ability to convert anything she eats into crime-fighting energy, Hailey is now faced with her toughest challenge: the sexy new hire who has a mad crush on her. But how does Hailey break the news that she's more of a Wonder Woman than he can imagine? She'd better think of something fast, because letting this guy go would be a crime. Undead and Underwater Betsy, queen of the undead, and Fred, the dour could've-been-a-princess mermaid, reluctantly team up to help a mutual friend in trouble. After all, a friend in need is a friend who, well, can really test your patience--because Betsy and Fred aren't exactly BFFs. What they do have in common is the source of the problem: a man. And what's more troubling than love? IncomerAs leader of the Pack, it's Lara Wyndham's job to usher her breed to safety after the cataclysmic Kardashian Riots of 2025--and fend off the ...

Paul Johnson (Editor)

Labour Markets in an Ageing Europe

Editura: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2008

The EC population grew by 17% during 1960-90 but will fall by 2% by 2025. The dramatic growth in the number of Europe's pensioners and the rapid aging of its working population may call for active policies to improve the quantity or quality of the labor force. In this volume, demographers and labor economists investigate these options by comparing recent demographic and labor market developments in Western and Eastern Europe with those in the United States and Japan.

Paul Johnson (Editor)

Labour Markets in an Ageing Europe

Editura: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 1993

The EC population grew by 17% during 1960-90 but will fall by 2% by 2025. The dramatic growth in the number of Europe's pensioners and the rapid aging of its working population may call for active policies to improve the quantity or quality of the labor force. In this volume, demographers and labor economists investigate these options by comparing recent demographic and labor market developments in Western and Eastern Europe with those in the United States and Japan.

Nicholas Polunin (Editor)

Aquatic Ecosystems: Trends and Global Prospects

Editura: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Concern about future supplies of fresh water to society, to meet the full range of human needs, now comes very high on the priority list of global societal issues. An overarching issue, which this book addresses, is whether global climate change is a dominant driver of change in the structure and function of all natural water-based ecosystems, or whether direct human population growth and accelerated consumption are playing an equal or greater role. This book divides the whole aquatic realm into 21 ecosystems, from those on land (both saline and fresh water) to those of the open and deep oceans. It draws on the understanding of leading ecologists to summarize the state and likely condition by the year 2025 of each of the ecosystems. Written for academic researchers and environmental professionals, the aim is to put the climate change debate into a broader context as a basis for conservation science and planning.

Arndt Schorr (Author)

To the Devil His Due

Editura: AL LAVALLIS ENTERPRISES LLC

Anul aparitiei: 2010

The year is 2025. Heaven and Hell duke it out for the very soul of planet Earth, Yes folks, it's Harry Potter for grown-ups! Angels and Demons in human form and going to war. The devil has drug lords, terrorists, world leaders and even a couple of U.S. Senators on his side. All four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have also been deployed, and there's a plot to destroy America with six nukes smuggled from Iran. But the Angel Gabriel has a mavericky F.B.I. agent on his team (young and attractive) who hooks-up with a strong-willed Arab woman to foil the dastardly plan. Of course they fall in love and have great sex. All the human characters are unaware of the spiritual battle raging all around them - or the divine help they're getting from above. Schorr's book is a great read: A tongue-in-cheek indictment of how life is actually lived - compared to the spiritual values and beliefs so many claim to have. Maybe the Final Days are really here. Maybe this world's guardian angels won't let it happen.

J. A. Bowman (Author)

Veil of Darkness

Editura: IUNIVERSE INC

Anul aparitiei: 2003

New York City in the year 2025. The aftermath of a nuclear accident. The economy is suffering. Kate Alexander and her friends are struggling in the workforce to fulfill their American Dream. This means working two, sometimes three, jobs. But working this many hours seems to have its downside. People are starting to act viciously towards each other. Bodies are beginning to disappear. There is increasing use of a certain drug, Amphetadrine, which all of a sudden is causing its users to exhibit eerie side effects. Is the American Dream worth it?

Geoffrey Whitehead (Author)

Tending the Flame of Democracy: A Personal View by International Communications Expert

Editura: IUNIVERSE INC

Anul aparitiei: 2004

Geoffrey Whitehead believes that the West has been selling itself shor, t in terms of world opinion, because of market failures in the communications industry over recent decades. He argues that more must be done to nurture democracy at home if the case for democracy is to be advocated successfully as a workable model to others. This book therefore looks ahead to the needs of people as citizens, not just as consumers, between now and 2025, and says that national governments need to re-visit their policies urgently in the wake of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the US. Geoffrey Whitehead has worked internationally in communications, both as a print, radio and television journalist, including time as Reuters Whitehall Correspondent and as the BBC's Deputy Political Editor at Westminster, England, before becoming chief executive of Radio New Zealand and then of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). He gained a Diploma in International Affairs at London University, and has now applied his research for a Master of International Relations degree at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand to his practical experience in the communications industry in three ...