A comprehensive account of the economics of the nuclear industry examines the motives and activities of the corporate and government leaders who control those economics and the history of the industry itself

Argues that Reagan's blunders and shirking of responsiblity on the part of the news media has seriously impaired the nation's ability to recognize and react to presidential faults

An analysis of the Beatles's music and collective creative talents is based on an exclusive study of unreleased tapes from London's Abbey Road studios and offers insight into their evolving style and the dynamics between the band members. Reprint.

As the 20th century draws to a close, many observers - scientists, business leaders, government officials - see the handwriting on the global wall warning of impending ecological collapse. This work looks at what humans are actually doing to the environment and where such behaviour will lead.

Offers insight into how the United States appears to the citizens of fifteen other nations, including business leaders and Islamic fundamentalists, citing the paradoxes of American society and why it is often found threatening. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: For an increasing number of people, global warming is not an academic and scientific debate, but a matter of survival. As the planet warms at a rate of four degrees Fahrenheit per century, violent storms are increasing in frequency, icebergs are melting, sea level is rising, species are losing their habitats, and temperature records are being broken...read more

Based on his travels to nineteen countries, discussions with the natives of each country, and interviews with Vaclav Havel, Al Gore, and Jacques Cousteau, the author documents the predicted fate of the human species

Product Description: "Hot bravely takes aim at perhaps the greatest climate threat of all: apathy." — Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation"Hertsgaard’s answers . . . are lucid, realistic, and offer reason for hope." — Christian Science MonitorFor twenty years, Mark Hertsgaard has investigated global warming as a journalist, but the full truth did not hit home until he became a father and, soon thereafter, learned that climate change was bound to worsen for decades to come...read more