We've eaten Alar with our apples and PCBs with our fish, drunk arsenic with our water, breathed asbestos in our schools. Someone sounded the alarm, someone else said we were safe, and both had science on their side. Whom are we to trust? How are we to know? Amid this chaos of questions and conflicting information, Aaron Wildavsky arrives with just what the beleaguered citizen needs: a clear, fair, and factual look at how the rival claims of environmentalists and industrialists work, what they mean, and where to start sorting them out. Working with his students at a risk analysis center, Wildavsky examined all the evidence behind the charges and countercharges in several controversial cases involving environmental health and public safety. Here he lays out these cases in terms an average citizen can understand, weighs the merits of the claims of various parties, and offers reasoned judgments on the government's response. From Love Canal to Times Beach, from DDT to Agent Orange, acid rain, and global warming, from saccharin to asbestos, nuclear waste, and radon, Wildavsky shows how we can achieve an informed understanding of the contentious environmental issues that confront us daily. The book supports the conclusion Wildavsky reached himself, both as a citizen committed to the welfare of the earth and its inhabitants, and as a social scientist concerned with how public policy is made: though it is bad to be harmed, it is worse to be harmed in the name of health.

In diesem Buch wird eine klare Analyse der BREXIT-Widerspruche von Premierministerin Theresa Mays Global Britain-Politik und der Rolle der Finanzmarkte - bei Bankenaufsicht in einem Umfeld mit drohendem ITALEXIT und transatlantischen Trump-Handelskonflikten - durchgefuhrt. Es beantwortet ganz aktuell die wichtigsten Fragen zum BREXIT: Wie ist das historische BREXIT-Referendum in Grossbritannien abgelaufen, welches sind die Hintergrunde des anstehenden EU-Austritts und welche Folgen fur Deutschland, Europa und die Weltwirtschaft sind absehbar? Die BREXIT-Entscheidung ist fur Europa ein Jahrhundertereignis, das die EU schwacht und die Machtgewichte global verschiebt. Die EU hat an Anziehungskraft verloren, sie ist nicht im Einklang mit dem 21. Jahrhundert, das asiatisch, digital und innovationsstark ist. Es zeigt sich, dass indirekt ein Weg von der Bankenkrise zur Anti-Immigrationswelle und zum EU-Austritt fuhrte. Zudem war das Referendumsergebnis stark verzerrt von einer grob fehlerhaften Infobroschure der Cameron-Regierung, die den zu erwartenden Einkommensverlust als Effekt eines EU-Austritts verschwieg - mit dieser Information hatte sich eine klare Pro-EU-Mehrheit ergeben. Ein zweites Referendum? EU-Reformen? Noetig ist eine Neo-EU, die besser konstruiert ist. Die 2., erweiterte Auflage mit dem aktuellen Stand der Diskussion zum BREXIT.

Kommunale Nagelstudios, schwerfallige Bedenkentrager, Steuerverschwendung, Beamtenmentalitat, Versorgungsstation fur ausgediente Politiker - viele falsche Bilder und Vorstellungen zur kommunalen Wirtschaft sind fest im oeffentlichen Bewusstsein verankert. Immer wieder werden die gleichen Stigmatisierungen kolportiert, mit denen der Kommunalwirtschaft fragwurdige Zuschreibungen angeheftet werden. Das Sachbuch klart gut verstandlich und nachvollziehbar uber weit verbreitete Irrtumer auf. Manche dieser falschen Annahmen halt sich deshalb so zah, weil sie auch in der politischen und publizistischen Zunft schlichtweg ungepruft von einem zum anderen ubernommen werden. Dieses unbedarfte "Beharrungsvermoegen" popularer Irrtumer ist nicht zu unterschatzen. Die Autoren beleuchten anhand vieler aktueller Beispiele aus der kommunalen Praxis den Hintergrund und Wahrheitsgehalt dieser popularen Missverstandnisse.

The ultimate how-to book for all generations
Rural homesteaders and urban apartment dwellers alike will find a mother lode of practical information packed into this hefty handbook. A selective compendium of public-domain documents, it provides in one single volume a wealth of knowledge and useful instruction on just about every imaginable aspect of self-sufficiency, from building a living structure and growing food to raising children and using tools of all kinds.
Hundreds of pamphlets, documents, and articles are reproduced here in facsimile, making this a true cornucopia of practical advice. Readers will learn how to:
Build a greenhouse
Administer first aid
Stock a shelter in case of nuclear attack
Build a stone wall
Survive in the wilderness, at sea, and in the city
Plant, prune, and propagate trees and shrubs
Buy farmland
Prevent wood decay
Grow plants indoors and out
Read architect's drawings
Care for household pets
Keep bees
Prevent and remove mildew
Repair clothing
Hunt, trap, and fish
Repair a screen or leaking faucet
Weave
Replace a broken window
Butcher and store big-game kill
Use a mortising machine
Apply plaster and set tile
Relieve allergy symptoms
Build a wood-frame, brick, or log house
Control insects
Manage a toddler
Stay safe during storms and floods
Can and freeze fruits and vegetables
Treat various forms of athritis
Make bread
Take your own blood pressure
Cut metal and stone
and much, much more
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"A subject guide to over 26,500 federal, state, and local government agencies and offices, national, regional, and grassroots associations and organizations, information centers, clearinghouses, publications, Internet resources, multimedia resources, media contacts, corporate contacts and related consumer resources in the fields of general consumerism, automotive matters, credit and personal finance, education, employment, environmental concerns, food and drugs, government performance, health care and promotion, insurance, legal affairs, manufactured goods and product safety, mass communications, real estate and construction, retail and commercial concerns, transportation and travel, utilities."

Several years ago, author Naton Leslie decided to opt out of America's dizzying array of retail goods and buy used necessities whenever possible. What he discovered in his meanderings was a characteristically American secondhand culture, replete with a cast of fascinating characters, goods, and venues ranging from the sublime to the bizarre. In the humorous and eminently readable manner of Tony Horwitz and Jonathan Raban, That Might Be Useful recounts his varied journey from well-heeled auction houses dealing exclusively with the estates of the famous, where he finds a desiccated mummy's hand under glass, to
suburban tag sales, antiques stores, and a rural auction house where the motormouthing auctioneer relies heavily on humor and brevity to move objects he is at a loss for words to describe.
While retailers have moved out of downtowns and into malls, and then out into big-box stores, secondhand commerce has remained in communities, and off the radar screens of giant corporations. Sales tax records from antiques stores, auctions, and eBay might give some measure of the billions of dollars engaged in this commerce of broken farm tractors, American primitive art, and nineteenthcentury French bronzes. But the many transactions made under the table through yard sales, flea markets, and other less visible settings are unquantifiable.
It is a facet of American culture that pays scant attention to new retail advertising,
that mocks mainstream megacapitalism by thriving on the American tradition of reuse rooted in practicality, frugality, and ingenuity. That Might Be Useful will appeal to antiques collectors, junk pickers, tool collectors, lovers of PBS's "Antiques Roadshow, andall who like entertaining stories about people passionate for the buying and selling of items from our distant and recent past.