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Nuclear Energy - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Charles D. (President Ferguson - Häftad

Nuclear Energy - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Charles D. (President Ferguson - Häftad

In this accessible overview, Charles D. Ferguson provides an authoritative account of the key facts about nuclear energy. What is the origin of nuclear energy? What countries use commercial nuclear power, and how much electricity do they obtain from it? How can future nuclear power plants be made safer? What can countries do to protect their nuclear facilities from military attacks? How hazardous is radioactive waste? Is nuclear energy a renewable energy source?Ferguson addresses these questions..

SEK 197.00
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The White Working Class - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Justin (Assistant Professor of Public Policy Gest - Häftad

The White Working Class - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Justin (Assistant Professor of Public Policy Gest - Häftad

Who are white working class people? What do they believe? What has driven them to break so sharply with the world's trajectory toward a more borderless, interconnected meritocracy? The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know¿ presents the context for understanding the political ideologies, actions, and behavior of this complicated constituency. Providing an accessible introduction to the white working class, this book argues that they must beunderstood if the world is to address and respond..

SEK 150.00
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Highly Irregular - Bok av Arika (Linguist and author of In the Land of Invented Languages Okrent - Häftad

Highly Irregular - Bok av Arika (Linguist and author of In the Land of Invented Languages Okrent - Häftad

Highly Irregular is an illustrated history of English as told through all the things that are weird about it. Why are there so many silent letters? Why do we have irregular verbs? What is the deal with the word 'colonel'? The weirdness of English can be blamed on specific influences that shaped it, and in this book Arika Okrent investigates the many puzzles of our language to show how English came to be the way it is today.

SEK 160.00
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Questions of Taste - The Philosophy of Wine - Bok av Barry C (Professor of Philosophy Smith - Häftad

Questions of Taste - The Philosophy of Wine - Bok av Barry C (Professor of Philosophy Smith - Häftad

Is the taste of a wine in our minds or in the glass? Can knowledge make a difference to the pleasure a wine gives us? Do the elaborate descriptions of wines in terms of fruits or spices, their \suppleness\ or \brawniness,\ really mean anything? Questions of Taste is the first book to examine the philosophical issues surrounding our experience and enjoyment of wine. Featuring lucid essays from philosophers, a linguist, a biochemist, a wine producer and a winecritic, these leading thinkers use..

SEK 200.00
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Going to Extremes - How Like Minds Unite and Divide - Bok av Cass R. (Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Sunstein - Häftad

Going to Extremes - How Like Minds Unite and Divide - Bok av Cass R. (Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Sunstein - Häftad

Why do people become extremists? What makes people become so dismissive of opposing views? Why is political and cultural polarization so pervasive in America?In Going to Extremes, renowned legal scholar and best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein offers startling insights into why and when people gravitate toward extremism. Sunstein marshals a wealth of evidence that shows that when like-minded people gather in groups, they tend to become more extreme in their views than they were before. Thus when..

SEK 190.00
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Universal Basic Income - Bok av Matt Zwolinski - Häftad

Universal Basic Income - Bok av Matt Zwolinski - Häftad

Universal Basic Income is one of the most talked-about ideas of the 21st century. The motivating idea is simple: give people cash and let them do whatever they want with it. But below the surface of this simplicity lurk a number of challenging questions. How much would a UBI cost? Who would be eligible to receive it? Would it discourage work? Would it contribute to inflation? This book provides an objective, expert guide to these and many other questions about the UBI.

SEK 171.00
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Gender - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Laura (Psychiatrist Erickson-Schroth - Häftad

Gender - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Laura (Psychiatrist Erickson-Schroth - Häftad

Gender: What Everyone Needs to Know is an introduction to the topic of gender that explores numerous debates and controversies (i.e., what is the influence of biology on gender, how does the media impact gender and gender roles, and do transgender people reinforce gender stereotypes or help to free us from them?). In an easy-to-read format that includes questions and short responses, the book guides the reader through basic definitions; the history of gender as a concept; the role of biology, psychology,..

SEK 171.00
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