Al Gore, Academy Award winning filmmaker, author of New York Times bestseller An Inconvenient Truth, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and former Vice President of the US, leads the charge against climate change, the world's greatest threat, in an incendiary new foreword to this timeless classic that launched his environmental career. If you want to know Gore, you need this book

Comprised of John Gibbons's non-technical writings from the last three decades, THIS GIFTED AGE shows readers both the limiting and the liberating influences of government on technological research and development. In many of the articles, essays, and interviews collected here, Gibbons addresses the broad issue of the government's role in supporting, advocating, and directing technological advancement. Other selections focus on specific areas where science and government join forces in the service of society. Together, these writings provide a behind-the-scenes look at national science and technology initiatives since 1972, and chart the changing public and political attitudes that shaped those initiatives.

With over half a million copies of Earth in the Balance sold, this timely re-issue benefits from a major new Foreword. It is a powerful and passionate analysis of the most crucial and far reaching issues confronting humanity. 'When I wrote this book, terms like global warming and greenhouse gases seemed exotic, unfamiliar, and unimportant to the lives of ordinary Americans. That has changed dramatically - except for those who still want to pretend that no one cares. There is a powerful awareness of the danger, and a widespread determination that we must not and will not leave our grandchildren a ravaged planet ringed with a thickening layer of carbon dioxide concentrations. So we have to strengthen, not weaken, environmental protection across the board, from global warming to stabilizing world population. This was my conclusion when this book was first published: We can believe in that future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the Environment Decade is within our reach; the earth is in the balance.' AL GORE, December 1999 From the Foreword

"An Inconvenient Truth"--Gore's groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling "Earth in the Balance"--is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia presentations on global warming that Gore created and delivers to groups around the world. With this book, Gore, who is one of our environmental heroes--and a leading expert--brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness--and with humor, too--that the fact of global warming is not in question and that its consequences for the world we live in will be disastrous if left unchecked. This riveting new book--written in an accessible, entertaining style--will open the eyes of even the most skeptical.

In 'The Future', former US Vice President Al Gore, explores the political, social and economic forces that are shaping what America and the world will become in ensuing decades. From demographics to democracy, Gore explores what he calls the 'Drivers of Global Change', framing the international conversation about the future in fresh and provocative ways. With this new work, Gore hopes to help start a conversation about the large-scale drivers of change that are defining and shaping our future - from the rapid development and integration of radically new technologies to the planet-changing impact of the climate crisis, to poverty, globalization, and the democratisation of knowledge accompanying the emergence of a ubiquitous internet linking ever more intelligent devices.

Now with a New Preface and Conclusion: 'Post-Truth: On Donald Trump and the 2016 Election' The United States of America is in the midst of a deepening crisis for their democracy. After the strangest election cycle in modern American history it is important that the grave threats to the American way of life that were glaringly revealed in this campaign are addressed. In The Assault on Reason, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Vice President Al Gore examines how faith in the power of reason - the idea that citizens can govern themselves through rational debate - is in peril. Democracy depends on a well-informed citizenry and a two-way conversation about ideas, but the public sphere has been degraded by fake news and the politics of fear, partisanship and blind faith. Now updated to investigate the rise of Trump and post-truth politics, The Assault on Reason is a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking, crucial if the vitality of democracy is to be rebuilt and good decisions made once more.

The National Performance Review is about change---historic change---in the way the government works. As the title makes clear, the National Performance Review is about moving from red tape to results to create a government that works better and costs less. This third report of the National Performance Review describes the impact of reinvention on the American people and their government and presents more than 300 new recommendations. The National Performance Review focused primarily on how government should work, not on what it should do. On September 7, 1995, Vice President Al Gore and the National Performance Review released their third report, two years after the first report, From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less. This edition reproduces the third report in its entirety.

Kentucky State Treasurer Jonathan Miller shows the ten nonpartisan values--ranging from Opportunity to Security--that all Americans share, and uses Old Testament stories to highlight them. As an elected official in a "red" and largely Christian state, he has come to understand that although faith is often the source of divisiveness, the language of faith can bring Americans together. Inspiring stories from the Hebrew Bible illustrate Miller's plan to form a compassionate community. He shows that these lessons have the power to strengthen our country for future generations.

Academics, community activists, and politicians have rediscovered regionalism, insisting that regions are critical functional units in a world-wide economy and, just as important, critical functional units in individual American lives. More and more of us travel across city, county, even state borders every morning on our way to work. Our television, radio, and print media rely on a regional marketplace. Our businesses, large and small, depend on suppliers, workers, and customers who rarely reside in a single jurisdiction. The parks, riverfronts, stadiums, and museums we visit draw from, and provide an identity to, an area much larger than a single city. The fumes, gases, chemicals, and run-off that pollute our air and water have no regard for municipal boundaries.

This book lays out a variety of opinions on regionalism, its history and its future. While the essays do not comprise a debate, pro and con, about regionalism, they do provide a wide array of perspectives, based on the authors' diverse backgrounds and experience. Some contributors have made close academic studies of how regional action occurs, in various states like Minnesota, California, and Oregon; others give an historical account of a particular region like that surrounding New York City; and yet others point out aspects of regionalism--race, especially-- that should not be ignored.

Why did past efforts at regional collaboration fall apart? What did regionalist efforts of decades ago leave undone, and what new goals should regionalists set? Without an understanding of these questions, policymakers and advocates may find themselves "reinventing the region." This book provides an important understanding of how regionalism has played out in the past, how policies shape places, and the possibilities and limits of regional action.

Bruce J. Katz, director of the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, was formerly chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

All 125 episodes of Matt Groening's futuristic animated comedy. The show follows 20th-century slacker Philip J. Fry (voice of Billy West) in his adventures as a 31st-century interstellar delivery boy along with cyclopean Captain Leela (Katey Sagal) and Bender the boozy robot (John DiMaggio). Season 1 episodes are: 'Space Pilot 3000', 'The Series Has Landed', 'I, Roommate', 'Love's Labours Lost in Space', 'Fear of a Bot Planet', 'A Fishful of Dollars', 'My Three Suns', 'A Big Piece of Garbage', 'Hell Is Other Robots', 'A Flight to Remember', 'Mars University', 'When Aliens Attack' and 'Fry and the Slurm Factory'. Season 2 episodes are: 'I Second That Emotion', 'Brannigan, Begin Again', 'A Head in the Polls', 'Xmas Story', 'Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?', 'The Lesser of Two Evils', 'Put Your Head On My Shoulders', 'Raging Bender', 'A Bicyclops Built for Two', 'A Clone of My Own', 'How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back', 'The Deep South', 'Bender Gets Made', 'Mother's Day', 'The Problem With Popplers', 'Anthology of Interest I', 'War Is the H-Word', 'The Honking' and 'The Cryonic Woman'. Season 3 episodes are: 'Amazon Women in the Mood', 'Parasites Lost', 'A Tale of Two Santas', 'The Luck of the Fryrish', 'The Bird-Bot of Ice-Catraz', 'Bendless Love', 'The Day the Earth Stood Stupid', 'That's Lobstertainment!', 'The Cyber House Rules', 'Where the Buggalo Roam', 'Insane in the Mainframe', 'The Route of All Evil', 'Bendin' in the Wind', 'Time Keeps On Slipping', 'I Dated a Robot', 'A Leela of Her Own', 'A Pharoah to Remember', 'Anthology of Interest II', 'Roswell That Ends Well', 'Godfellas', 'Futurestock' and 'The 30 Percent Iron Chef'. Season 4 episodes are: 'Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch', 'Leela's Homeworld', 'Love and Rocket', 'Less Than Hero', 'A Taste of Freedom', 'Bender Should Not Be Allowed On TV', 'Jurassic Bark', 'Crimes of the Hot', 'Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles', 'The Why of Fry', 'Where No Fan Has Gone Before', 'The Sting', 'Bend Her', 'Obsoletely Fabulous', 'The Farnsworth Parabox', 'Three Hundred Big Boys', 'Spanish Fry' and 'The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings'. Season 5 episodes are: 'Rebirth', 'In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela', 'Attack of the Killer App', 'Proposition Infinity', 'The Duh-Vinci Code', 'Lethal Inspection', 'The Late Philip J. Fry', 'That Darn Katz!', 'A Clockwork Origin', 'The Prisoner of Benda', 'Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences', 'The Mutants Are Revolting' and 'The Futurama Holiday Spectacular'. Season 6 episodes are: 'The Silence of the Clamps', 'Mobius Dick', 'Law and Oracle', 'Benderama', 'The Tip of the Zoidberg', 'Ghost in the Machines', 'Neutopia', 'Yo Leela Leela', 'Fry Am the Egg Man', 'All the Presidents' Heads', 'Cold Warriors', 'Overclockwise' and 'Reincarnation'. Season 7 episodes are: 'The Bots and the Bees', 'A Farewell to Arms', 'Decision 3012', 'The Thief of Baghead', 'Zapp Dingbat', 'The Butterjunk Effect', 'The Six Million Dollar Mon', 'Fun On a Bun', 'Free Will Hunting', 'Near-Death Wish', '31st Century Fox', 'Viva Mars Vegas' and 'Naturama'. Season 8 episodes are: 'Forty Percent Leadbelly', '2-D Blacktop', 'T.: The Terrestrial', 'Fry and Leela's Big Fling', 'The Inhuman Torch', 'Saturday Morning Fun Pit', 'Calculon 2.0', 'Assie Come Home', 'Leela and the Genestalk', 'Game of Tones', 'Murder of the Planet Express', 'Stench and Stenchibility' and 'Meanwhile'.