Author: Lester Russell Brown Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393318937 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 206
Book Description
The global trends documented in Vital Sings 1999--from a decline in nuclear power generating capacity to the proliferation of genetically modified crops--will play a large part in determining the quality of our lives and our children's lives in the next decade.
Author: Lester R. Brown Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134192940 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 198
Book Description
This annual volume shows key trends that should be integrated into the planning of our global future. It enables readers to track key indicators that show social, economic and environmental progress, or the lack of it, into 45 vital signs of our time. Each trend is presented as an overview using both text and graphics.
Author: Janet N. Abramovitz Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393321760 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 196
Book Description
Discusses trends in food and agriculture, energy, the atmosphere, the economy, transportation, health and society, the military, and the environment.
Author: Lester R. Brown Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134202741 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 193
Book Description
This ninth annual edition of Vital Signs takes the world's pulse by compiling a wide-ranging collection of trends that identify both problems and progress in the quest for a sustainable society. It highlights both alarming situations and encouraging developments. Part One is a comprehensive presentation of the key indicators in areas such as food, agriculture, energy, atmosphere, economics, transport and the military. Part Two provides in-depth special feature articles on: environmental features, such as transgenic crops and paper recycling; economic features, such as environmental taxes and corporate mergers; and social features, such as tuberculosis, prisons and women in politics.
Author: Worldwatch Institute Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134205546 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 193
Book Description
This annual volume from the Worldwatch Institute gives prominence to key trends that too often escape the attention of the news media, world leaders and economic experts. By distilling 45 vital signs of our times from thousands of government, industrial and scientific sources, the volume allows readers to track key indicators that show social, economic and environmental progress, or the lack or it. Each trend is presented in both text and graphics.
Author: Gregg Levoy Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101608897 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 512
Book Description
Rediscover—or discover for the first time—the things that make you passionate in life Vital Signs is about what inspires passion and what defeats it. How we lose it and how we get it back. And ultimately it’s about the endless yet endlessly fruitful tug-of-war between freedom and domestication, the wild in us and the tame, our natural selves and our conditioned selves. Each chapter in Vital Signs will contain a core sample, an intimate biography of one of the strategies we employ to gain or regain our passion. The book also affirms the importance of courageous inquiry into dispassion—where we’re numb, depressed, stuck, bored—so the reader can recognize and change these tendencies in themselves.
Author: Janet N. Abramovitz Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393323153 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 222
Book Description
Focuses on the social, economic, and environmental trends that determine the health of people and the planet. Covers mainly the 1990s.
Author: Joyce Smith Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1444341871 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 201
Book Description
Accurate clinical observations are the key to good patient care and fundamental to nursing practice. Vital Signs for Nurses will support anyone in care delivery to enhance their skills, reflect upon their own practice and assist in their continuing professional development. This practical introductory text explores how to make assessments of heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, pain and nutrition. It also looks at issues of infection control, record-keeping and legal and ethical considerations. With case studies and examples throughout, this text will be invaluable to all healthcare assistants, student nurses, Trainee Assistant Practitioners and students on foundation degrees.
Author: Robin Cook Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101203501 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 353
Book Description
The bestselling “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times) tells a harrowing tale of the lengths one doctor will go to in order to conceive—and the conspiracy that may be at the root of her struggles. Dr. Marissa Blumenthal’s dream of becoming pregnant has turned into an obsession. A successful pediatrician, she will try any scientific method available to conceive—until the horrible secrets of an urban clinic erupt in a nightmare of staggering proportions. As more women reveal their similar struggles and as suspicious deaths begin to look like murder, it’s up to Marissa to uncover the truth behind her plight, no matter how dangerous a mission that might be. “Controversial... believable and chilling.”—Houston Chronicle
Author: Lester Russell Brown
Author: Lester R. Brown
Author: Janet N. Abramovitz
Author: Lester R. Brown
Author: Worldwatch Institute
Author: Gregg Levoy
Author: Janet N. Abramovitz
Author: Joyce Smith
Author: Robin Cook
Author: Lester Russell Brown