Like The Omnivore's Dilemma, this inventory of how we consume stuff is a wake-up call—shocking but inspiring, facing facts and finding solutions Taking readers on a journey through everything around us and how we use it, this book uncovers the true origin and cost of stuff, and, while the inventory will shock, it is the first step toward overcoming waste. Environmental issues can feel overwhelming—there seem to be endless issues to be educated about, including climate change, biofuels, nuclear power, landfills, recycling, and non-renewables, but, in fact, it all comes down to one thing—stuff. How people use the earth's resources—whether a slice of bread or a cargo ship, a cotton shirt or a nuclear reactor—affects the environment. Over-consumption is not your fault, but it is not something you can ignore either. Hill shows how politicians, business people, and we, as consumers and citizens, together can create a new, and better, material world.

The Secret Life of Stuff: A Manual for a New Material World

Business & Money

Hill, Julie

Economics

RANDOM HOUSE UK

This is a two-layered story. On one level it is an extraordinary story of British scientific achievement. It is also Julie's and her family's story of immense personal courage and humour culminating in medical history. After a car crash in April 1990, Julie Hill broke her back, paralysing her from the waist down. She volunteered to become the world's first paraplegic to have a revolutionary electronic device implanted into her spine and attached to the nerves in her leg muscles. Thirty years of pioneering research by an eccentric professor at Cambridge and his team of bio-medical engineers, nursing staff and electronics experts have resulted in Julie being able to stand, step and even go cycling with her children. Having overcome pain, frustration and emotional anguish to make medical history, Julie Hill recounts the tale of how she stood on her own two feet once more, and fulfilled her simple dream of once again creating footprints in the snow.

Footprints in the Snow : How Science Helped Turn Tragedy to Triumph

Biographies & Memoirs

Macmillan

This Second Edition provides the tools to manage the back-of-the-house business function of every kitchen with maximum efficiency and profitability. Easy-to-understand material covers basic math skills, applications, and costing, including topics on inventory, yield percentage, and statistics.

Culinary Math

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Blocker, Linda

Cooking Methods

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

The Bliss Book is an inspirational guide for brides, stylists, and women of all ages. If you're looking for a style for your formal event or your wedding, this is your source. If you're a stylist, this is the perfect "look book" for inspiration as well as a guide for your clients. Each page is simple; the styles are thoughtful, up-to-date, and focus only on the hair and make-up. Each style is classic and offers a wide range of looks for your next event. The Bliss Book is printed as a soft cover book and with over 150 pages and 80 hairstyles to choose from. Bliss is the new age of "look books," and we proudly present it to you. *The Bliss Book pictures within the book will not contain logos as seen on the example pictures listed.

The Bliss Book

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Butler, Hannah

Beauty, Grooming, & Style

Imagin Three Llc

Julie Hills 2nd Edition Fully Revised and updated The Natural Way Sheepdog training using the Dogs own Language

The Natural Way

Julie Hill

"A promise to Keep: From Athens to Afghanistan" is a memoir of discovery. It is the story of a remarkable marriage, a rich and enduring partnership that spanned many decades and many countries where the Hills witnessed some of the most significant transformations of our time. It is the story of a woman who comes into her own as she faces the challenges of expatriate life, and a man who saw the best of the world and yet sought to make it even better.

A Promise to Keep: From Athens to Afghanistan

Hill, Arthur

Xlibris, Corp.

A collection of fun and challenging Sudoku puzzles.

Zen Sudoku: Easy to Moderate Sudoku Puzzles To Relax and Center.

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Product Description An engaging and richly appreciative account of life in Afghanistan in Pre-Taliban times.Another Afghanistan: A Pre-Taliban Memoir is set in the mid-1970s, when Julie Hill was posted with her husband, a United Nations Development Program Representative in Kabul, in between the fall of the old monarchy and the takeover of the country by the Taliban in the 1990s. The book fills a void in what most people know about that country, which has been largely defined by the excesses of the Taliban and the politics of the US and the old Soviet Union. While the Taliban do not enter the picture until 20 years after her departure, in the popular mind, they create a clear demarcation line between the old and new Afghanistan. Besides, given the country's millennial history, a 20-year interlude is of little consequence. For the ordinary reader, only the Taliban has coherence as a concept, so she has used them in her title.In any case, Afghanistan remains very much in the news, albeit perhaps for all the wrong reasons, and the author would like to balance the network news with a more personal and engaging chronicle of that country and its people.Afghanistan half a century ago was at peace with itself, with its neighbors, and even with its warlords. The politics of the region was stable, education was encouraged, women were being liberated slowly, and the country was moving in the direction of becoming a modern secular state. The book offers a view of Afghanistan and of its people―including the foreign community―on an intimate level, afforded by the fact that she was involved both in the diplomatic wife's organization and in conversations with ordinary citizens in the country' s remote corners. Representing the UN at the Diplomatic Wife's Organization, she witnessed firsthand the tension between East and West during the peak of the Cold War, albeit in a more informal but no less interesting arena. As an Alexandrian Greek she was neutral in the balance that pitted diplomatic wives from the West against those from the Soviet or Eastern bloc and the non-aligned nations. Significant, memorable, and often humorous exchanges occurred at the diplomatic events she attended.Speaking Dari with women cloistered in their homes in the countryside, the author gained insights into their country and its culture. She was exhilarated and yet also perplexed to meet such a generous, gracious, and handsome people, and yet to find some of them―too many of them―caught up in violence of both a very public and very personal kind. Afghanistan emerges in her book as a country both stunningly beautiful and bewildering, immensely rich in archaeological remains. The book tries to awaken a lost interest in remnants of civilizations and in the country's fabulous bazaars and creates a vivid tableau of traveling adventures based on first-hand observations. Given her origins, the author has always been fascinated by the exploits of Alexander the Great and the vibrant cities the Greeks left behind, which included Ai Khanum in Afghanistan. She was privileged, as it was a rarity for a foreigner to gain a permit, to visit the legendary city on the border of the Amu-Darya River. Completely destroyed few years later by the Taliban, the area has reverted to a field of opium poppies. The book takes the reader into places where life bustles with bargaining and gossip in bazaars and teahouses, into places where there was no road at all, traveling without a map or land mark in sight. She encounters nomads on their annual pilgrimage to higher mountains and grapples with the dilemma of their way of a life, and their cultural extinction with the emergence of the Taliban and the widening impact of globalization. About the Author An Alexandrian Greek who now resides in Rancho Sta. Fe, California, Julie Hill has traveled and lived all over the world as the wife of an international diplomat and on her own as an indefatigable adventurer even in her senior years. Th

Another Afghanistan: A Pre-Taliban Memoir

Memoirs

BookBaby

US Government Step by Step: How the United States Government Really Works (Step By Step Subject Guides)

Politics & Social Sciences

CHASE, BENJAMIN

Politics & Government

Independently published

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