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From Martha Washington to Laura Bush, the wife of each U.S.
president has found her place in history, often setting trends and
doing important work for the nation.
This reference work traces the lineage of all presidents, wives,
arranged alphabetically from Abigail Adams to Jane Wyman. Genealogy
reveals that some of the women are connected to one another through
common ancestry, sometimes even through royal blood, for example,
the bloodlines of Laura Bush and Abigail Adams join at King Henry
II and can then be traced to King Pepin the Short, born in 714.
Several others can be traced back to King John, William the
Conqueror, Charlemagne, and Lady Godiva.
Clearly organized and easy to use, the work includes not only
ancestors but offspring, listing children and grandchildren for
each woman. Dates of birth, death, and marriage of ancestors,
children and grandchildren are included where known.
Climate Change and the Private Sector explores the challenges of
transforming our energy infrastructure to become carbon neutral and
adapting to climate change in the twenty-first century. It examines
the critical role that the private sector must play in these
challenges. To transform the global energy complex to be carbon
neutral within a time frame designed to prevent irreparable damage
to the environment presents unprecedented challenges. The private
sector must deploy financial, material, and engineering resources
on a scale never before undertaken - with government providing
leadership, removing barriers and supporting industry efforts
through policies that mobilize markets to achieve environmental
objectives. A key element of supporting private sector initiative
to address climate change is policies that help form and sustain
markets that supply, finance and generate demand for the
technologies necessary to transform our energy infrastructure. The
characteristics and examples of these policies are explored in
detail. Companies that respond to these challenges both by
mitigating greenhouse gases and adapting to climate change will
enhance their own competitiveness and contribute to society in the
process. Companies that embrace the challenge to decarbonize their
manufacturing operations, whether in response to regulation (or the
threat of regulation) or market opportunities, invariably discover
ways to improve their operations in the process that could
potentially enhance their ability to produce better products, more
efficiently. The book explores examples of companies that have
redesigned their products and manufacturing processes, and in doing
so transformed themselves and reshaped their industries. As in the
case of companies mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, companies
that lead their industries in adapting their own operations to a
changing physical environment are more likely to ensure their
resilience in a changing business environment. This book provides
business, policy and academic audiences with an in-depth
exploration of the subject, and a practical guide to action.
Climate Change and the Private Sector explores the challenges of
transforming our energy infrastructure to become carbon neutral and
adapting to climate change in the twenty-first century. It examines
the critical role that the private sector must play in these
challenges. To transform the global energy complex to be carbon
neutral within a time frame designed to prevent irreparable damage
to the environment presents unprecedented challenges. The private
sector must deploy financial, material, and engineering resources
on a scale never before undertaken - with government providing
leadership, removing barriers and supporting industry efforts
through policies that mobilize markets to achieve environmental
objectives. A key element of supporting private sector initiative
to address climate change is policies that help form and sustain
markets that supply, finance and generate demand for the
technologies necessary to transform our energy infrastructure. The
characteristics and examples of these policies are explored in
detail. Companies that respond to these challenges both by
mitigating greenhouse gases and adapting to climate change will
enhance their own competitiveness and contribute to society in the
process. Companies that embrace the challenge to decarbonize their
manufacturing operations, whether in response to regulation (or the
threat of regulation) or market opportunities, invariably discover
ways to improve their operations in the process that could
potentially enhance their ability to produce better products, more
efficiently. The book explores examples of companies that have
redesigned their products and manufacturing processes, and in doing
so transformed themselves and reshaped their industries. As in the
case of companies mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, companies
that lead their industries in adapting their own operations to a
changing physical environment are more likely to ensure their
resilience in a changing business environment. This book provides
business, policy and academic audiences with an in-depth
exploration of the subject, and a practical guide to action.
When a SpyCo secret agent, code-named Willy, is mysteriously killed
on a deserted road during the late hours of the night, things begin
falling apart for SpyCo's chief executive, Mr. J. Carlton Moore. A
briefcase containing highly classified information, which was
assigned to Willy's care, disappears in the confusion and leaves
the future of the United States' war on terror in doubt. With the
terrorist group Scorpion being suspected of possessing the missing
briefcase and vital information somehow leaking from the most
secure SpyCo meetings, Moore calls on crack covert operative James
Reagan Burke. Burke's job? Recover the briefcase and unearth the
mole. Not an easy task to begin with, but when Burke's first full
day on the job is begun with two assassination attempts in close
succession, he begins to suspect that perhaps it is going to be
even more difficult than he had anticipated. Thrown together into
an unlikely team comprised of a former flame and a Grecian
body-builder, and seeing shadowy pursuers at every turn, Burke must
decide whom he can trust.
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