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Intro -- Contents -- Preface: What Have I Gotten Myself Into? -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Build a Biosphere: What Were We Thinking? -- 2. Meet the Biospherians -- 3. A Technosphere that Protects and Serves Life -- 4. "Every Breath You Take, Every Step You Make" -- 5. Carbon Dioxide: Atmospheric Management of a Small World -- 6. Farming as If There Were a Tomorrow -- 7. Déjà Vu: The Water Recycles -- 8. Wilderness Biomes -- 9. Building a Rainforest -- Color Gallery -- 10. What's a World Without an Ocean? -- 11. They're Mangroves, Not Mangoes! -- 12. Down from the Trees: Sweet Home, Our Savanna -- 13. The Desert Goes Its Own Way -- 14. Oxygen: The Missing Element -- 15. Humans: The Most Unstable Element -- 16. Connected! The Biospherian Experience -- 17. Re-entry -- 18. The Afterglow -- Conclusion: A Time to Tear Down, A Time to Rebuild -- Notes -- Index

Wars are destructive events, but they also spur the development of new technologies. From the firearms of the American Revolution to the drones of the modern War on Terror, technology has played important roles in armed conflicts. War Technology looks at major advances and how they affected the battlefield. Learn how these technologies changed the way soldiers fight

"A political and intellectual history of natural resource conservation from the 1980s into the twenty-first century--a period of intense political turmoil, shifting priorities among policymakers, and changing ideas conservation. An account of new ideas and policies regarding human relationships to plants, and animals in modern environmentalism"--

Neighborly love -- Made to flourish -- Human fruitfulness and material wealth -- The fruitfulness of faithfulness -- Loving the neighborhood -- Economic wisdom -- Wisdom and the modern economy -- Wise generosity -- The poor among us -- Economic injustice -- Rebuilding the ruins -- Getting to work -- The hope of the world

This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories. Yet their work evinces an affinity of style and philosophical viewpoint that derives from a shared attitude toward suffering. What Mary McCarthy called a "cold eye" was not merely a personal aversion to displays of emotion: it was an unsentimental mode of attention that dictated both ethical positions and aesthetic approaches. Tough Enough traces the careers of these women and their challenges to the pre-eminence of empathy as the ethical posture from which to examine pain. Their writing and art reveal an adamant belief that the hurts of the world must be treated concretely, directly, and realistically, without recourse to either melodrama or callousness. As Deborah Nelson shows, this stance offers an important counter-tradition to the familiar postwar poles of emotional expressivity on the one hand and cool irony on the other. Ultimately, in its insistence on facing reality without consolation or compensation, this austere "school of the unsentimental" offers new ways to approach suffering in both its spectacular forms and all of its ordinariness.

Cover -- Title Page -- Foreword -- KINGDOM, STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN AFRICA -- POLITICAL COLLISIONS -- Groups advocating restoration -- Lobbying led to kingship -- Defensive advocacy following the coronation -- CONCEPTUAL COLLISIONS -- Is the BKG a government? -- Is the BKG a civil society organization? -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Back Cover.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Method -- Chapter 1. Social Coherence -- Chapter 2. The Skeptics' Objections -- Part II: Principles -- Chapter 3. Avoiding Harm to Others -- Chapter 4. Fairness to Others -- Chapter 5. Freedom of Association -- Chapter 6. Government Nonendorsement -- Part III: Applications -- Chapter 7. Public Accommodations -- Chapter 8. Employment Discrimination -- Chapter 9. Public Officials -- Chapter 10. Government Subsidy and Support -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index

"Before the house had Tip O'Neill, there was John McCormack. How did this man, with an eighth grade education and a false family history, become Speaker of the House of Representatives, and later next in line to be President of the United States? In this exhaustive political biography, Garrison Nelson lays out every detail of the life and work of an incredibly forceful and important American politician. The book details the roles McCormack played in the creation of Social Security and the passage of Lend-Lease, Medicare and Medicaid as well as the secret funding of the atomic bomb. The book ties together relationships, showing how this suave and secretive politician contributed to the selection of his "poker pal" Harry Truman as vice president in 1944 and in 1960, as JFK's named "floor manager," helped orchestrate Lyndon Johnson acceptance of JFK's vice presidential invitation. This groundbreaking research examines the machinations of congress, and also takes a close look at a critical time in US history, as American erupted with conflicts over civil rights and the Vietnam War. The lessons learned in McCormack's life in office still resonate with today's political leadership, and have an impact on the legacy of the JFK Presidency, the role of congress, the shape of the Democratic party, and a powerful generation of politicians"--