The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Mark J. Plotkin
The Amazon is a land of superlatives. The complex ecosystem covers an area about the size of the continental U.S. The Amazon River discharges 57 million gallons of water per second--in two ...
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Antarctica: What Everyone Needs to Know®
David Day
Part of the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, David Day's book on Antarctica examines the most forbidding and formidably inaccessible continent on Earth. Antarctica was first discovered ...
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Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Peter W. Singer and Allan Friedman
Dependence on computers has had a transformative effect on human society. Cybernetics is now woven into the core functions of virtually every basic institution, including our oldest ones. ...
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Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know®
José Goldemberg
Without a doubt, the topic of energy--from coal, oil, and nuclear to geothermal, solar and wind--is one of the most pressing across the globe. It is of paramount importance to policy ...
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Hydrofracking: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Alex Prud'homme
Constantly in the news and the subject of much public debate, fracking, as it is known for short, is one of the most promising yet controversial methods of extracting natural gas and oil. ...
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The Internet of Things: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Scott J. Shackelford
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the notion that nearly everything we use, from gym shorts to streetlights, will soon be connected to the Internet; the Internet of Everything (IoE) ...
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Overfishing: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Ray Hilborn and Ulrike Hilborn
Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the sustainability of world fish production, and the impacts of fishing on ...
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Radicalization to Terrorism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Sophia Moskalenko and Clark McCauley
Terrorism and radicalization came to the forefront of news and politics in the US after the unforgettable attacks of September 11th, 2001. When George W. Bush famously asked "Why do they ...
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