Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania

Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places

✍ Streever, Bill 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Little, Brown and Company 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

**An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture.** Melting glaciers, warming oceans, droughts-it's clear that today's world is getting hotter. But while we know the agony of a sunburn or the comfort of our winter heaters, do we really understand

Heat: Adventures in the World's Fiery Places

✍ Streever, Bill 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Little, Brown and Company 🌐 English ⚖ 474 KB

**An adventurous ride through the most blisteringly hot regions of science, history, and culture.** Melting glaciers, warming oceans, droughts-it's clear that today's world is getting hotter. But while we know the agony of a sunburn or the comfort of our winter heaters, do we really understand

Friends in high places: The wealth effec

Friends in high places: The wealth effects of JFK's assassination on the assets of LBJ's supporters

✍ William O. Brown 📂 Article 📅 1996 🏛 Springer US 🌐 English ⚖ 633 KB

This paper uses anecdotal evidence to identify a group of firms that had significant ties to President Lyndon Johnson and determines the effect of Johnson's unexpected rise to the Presidency on the market value of these firms. The unexpected nature of President Kennedy's death eliminates the confoun

Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places

✍ Blackwell, Andrew 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 Rodale 🌐 English ⚖ 303 KB

For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth—Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It’s rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada’s oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the worl

The World's Most Dangerous Place: Inside

The World's Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia

✍ Fergusson, James 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Da Capo Press 🌐 English ⚖ 5 MB

Although the war in Afghanistan is now in its endgame, the Wests struggle to eliminate the threat from Al Qaeda is far from over. A decade after 9/11, the war on terror has entered a new phase and, it would seem, a new territory. In early 2010, Al Qaeda operatives were reportedly streaming out of ce

The Geography of Bliss- One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

✍ Weiner, Eric 📂 Fiction 🏛 Grand Central Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 229 KB

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, scienc