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Book Review: Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything
2014-11-26 23:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: "There is a huge mismatch between the magnitude of the challenge and the response we heard here today," Graca Machel, Nelson Mandela's widow, told a summit to discuss climate change in New York this year. "The scale is much more than we have achieved." This mismatch, which grows ever more disproportionate year after year, raises questions both about our future and about our character. What explains our collective failure on climate change? Why is it that instead of dealing with the problem, all...
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Book review - The SALVO Process
2014-11-07 00:00:00| Oil IT Journal - www.oilit.com
John Woodhouse's guide, 'Strategic assets, lifecycle value optimization' relates how the EU Macro project gave birth to a software toolset and methodology for managing oil and gas mega projects.
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Book review: 'The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food' by Ted Genoways
2014-10-27 10:05:53| Food - Topix.net
When the recession took hold six years ago and consumers stopped eating high on the hog, the giant meatpacker Hormel Foods began ratcheting up production to meet a surge in demand for Spam, its low-cost pro-cessed pork product in the familiar blue tins. Taking a leaf from Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," the century-old expose of the meatpacking industry, author Ted Genoways details the impact of the production speedup on workers at the company's Midwest plants, the damage to water and soil, and the immigration-related conflicts that have arisen in towns where the industry holds sway.
Book Review: The Little Book Of Venture Capital Investing
2014-10-26 14:49:58| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Like most books in "The Little Book" series, The Little Book of Venture Capital Investing: Empowering Economic Growth and Investment Portfolios packs extensive information and stories, with lucid exposition, into a modest number of pages. Louis C. Gerken, founder of alternative asset manager Gerken Capital Associates, recounts the venture capital industry's evolution and describes its internal processes, from initial screening to due diligence to the signing of agreements.
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Review: Book looks at costs of pork production
2014-10-20 04:18:40| Food - Topix.net
When the recession took hold six years ago and consumers stopped eating high on the hog, the giant meatpacker Hormel Foods began ratcheting up production to meet a surge in demand for Spam, its low-cost processed pork product in the familiar blue tins. , the century-old expose of the meatpacking industry, author Ted Genoways details the impact of the production speedup on workers at the company's Midwest plants, the damage to water and soil, and the immigration-related conflicts that have arisen in towns where the industry holds sway.
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