Energy Engineers, Technology Managers, and political leaders all need a solid, holistic understanding of where the world finds its energy--the limits of that energy--and what we will need to do in the future if we are to have a cleaner and environmentally sustainable world, all without sacrificing our modern technological-based civilization. This book will shed some much needed light on that conundrum. It * Uses the tools of Systems Analysis to plan for the eventual transition to Sustainable Energy * Explains how to Optimize Energy Sources and allocation using MERIT: Multi-layered Energy Resource and Infrastructure Tools * Covers Energy Planning for both Developed and Underdeveloped nations, using LEAP, the Long-Range Energy Alternatives Planning Tool As a companion to the authors' first book, The Path to Sustainable Energy, this book will provide the quantitative tools to assess energy demand and supply scenarios in an integrated, 'systems analysis' approach. Using quantitative models, metrics, and narrative case stories, the book will be the first to address energy planning from the perspective of the new field of 'Earth Systems Engineering and Management (ESEM).' This new ESEM discipline is based on the integration of earth sciences with human economics and development needs. The book will take a particularly close look at the underdeveloped world that currently lacks access to modern energy, and which is crippled by its dependence on dirty, inefficient biomass fuels to meet bare subsistence needs. That focus will benefit from the work being done now with projects in Africa through the AHEAD Energy Corporation, a non-profit founded by the authors.

One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America and across the US border. More than a quarter of a million Central Americans make this increasingly dangerous journey each year, and each year as many as 20,000 of them are
kidnapped.

Martínez writes in powerful, unforgettable prose about clinging to the tops of freight trains; finding respite, work and hardship in shelters and brothels; and riding shotgun with the
border patrol. Illustrated with stunning full-color photographs, The Beast is the first book to shed light on the harsh new reality of the migrant trail in the age of the narcotraficantes.

One day a couple of years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote, dusty border towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. Over half of them were never heard from again. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar at the time of the abduction, and his story of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he tells after spending two years traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America to the US border. More than a quarter of a million Central Americans alone make this increasingly dangerous journey each year, and last year 18,000 of them were kidnapped.

Martínez writes in beautiful, lyrical prose about clinging to the tops of freight trains; finding respite, work and hardship in shelters and brothels; and riding shotgun with the border patrol. Here is the first book to illuminate this harsh mass migration in the age of the narcotraficantes.

Esteban Tellier č un incorreggibile sfaccendato che dedica la sua vita a una metodica ricerca di sé, in quanto ente ontologicamente nullafacente. Poche certezze lo circondano: i ricordi di due genitori affatto particolari; la stupefacente letterarietŕ del suo amico Merda; la presenza assillante della ex moglie, di cui č ancora innamorato. Sarŕ proprio lei a sconvolgere la sua routine quando chiamerŕ per informarlo di avergli trovato un impiego. Esteban si butta con scarso entusiasmo in questa nuova avventura, ma, giorno dopo giorno, quando scoprirŕ che il suo ruolo da manager consiste nel non fare assolutamente nulla, comincerŕ a sentirsi, finalmente, un uomo soddisfatto. Il nuovo lavoro perň lo mette anche in contatto con una squadra di dipendenti davvero improbabile: il misero Micenas, l'androgina Kaltenbrunner e l'illuminato Ahrimán, che giocherŕ un ruolo fondamentale nel suo percorso di catarsi, da inutile disoccupato a intraprendente avventuriero.

As the rest of the United States watched, voters in California banned public services for undocumented immigrants, repealed public affirmative action programs, and outlawed bilingual education, among other measures. Why did a state with a liberal political culture, an increasingly diverse populace, and a well-organized civil rights leadership roll back civil rights and antidiscrimination gains? This book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the past fifty years. Daniel Martinez HoSang finds that, contrary to popular perception, this phenomenon does not represent a new wave of 'color-blind' policies, nor is it a triumph of racial conservatism. Instead, HoSang uncovers surprising connections between the right and the left that reveal how racial inequality has endured.

'Racial Propositions brilliantly documents the history of race in California's post-World War II ballot initiatives. If California is a harbinger for the rest of the country, then HoSang's tour de force is required reading for anyone interested in how the United States will negotiate diversity in the twenty-first century.'---Tomas R. Jimenez, author of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity

'With narrative fluency and deftness, constructed on a bedrock of prodigious archival research, HoSang's book provides a sorely needed genealogy of the `color-blind consensus' that has come to define race and recode racism within U.S. politics, law, and public policy. This will be a book that lasts.'---Nikhil Pal Singh, author of Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy

Blüdhaven č il mondo di Dick Grayson, l'eroe conosciuto in precedenza come Robin, che ora combatte il crimine sotto la maschera di Nightwing. Se esiste qualcuno capace di mettere le cose a posto in una cittŕ cosě difficile, quell'uomo č l'eroe che prima vigilava su Gotham al fianco del Cavaliere Oscuro.