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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Palisades, New
York, U.S.A., November 30-December 4, 1982
How to renew American leadership in a turbulent, polarized, and
postdominant world "A worthy contribution to the public debate on
America's role in the world and a tonic for our times."-John Kerry,
Former U.S. Secretary of State "Imbrie mounts a well-informed
examination of the country's ills and offers a discerning
perspective on its future paths . . . A thoughtful consideration of
myriad challenges facing the U.S." -Kirkus Reviews Is America fated
to decline as a great power? Can it recover? With absorbing insight
and fresh perspective, foreign policy expert Andrew Imbrie provides
a road map for bolstering American leadership in an era of
turbulence abroad and deepening polarization at home. This is a
book about choices: the tough policy trade-offs that political
leaders need to make to reinvigorate American money, might, and
clout. In the conventional telling, the United States is either
destined for continued dominance or doomed to irreversible decline.
Imbrie argues instead that the United States must adapt to changing
global dynamics and compete more wisely. Drawing on the author's
own experience as an adviser to Secretary of State John Kerry, as
well as on interviews and comparative studies of the rise and fall
of nations, this book offers a sharp look at American statecraft
and the United States' place in the world today.
This book tells the exciting story of the ice ages--what they were
like, why they occurred, and when the next one is due. The solution
to the ice age mystery originated when the National Science
Foundation organized the CLIMAP project to study changes in the
earth's climate over the past 700,000 years. One of the goals was
to produce a map of the earth during the last ice age. Scientists
examined cores of sediment from the Indian Ocean bed and deciphered
a continuous history for the past 500,000 years. Their work
ultimately confirmed the theory that the earth's irregular orbital
motions account for the bizarre climatic changes which bring on ice
ages.
This is a tale of scientific discovery and the colorful people
who participated: Louis Agassiz, the young Swiss naturalist whose
geological studies first convinced scientists that the earth has
recently passed through an ice age; the Reverend William Buckland,
an eccentric but respected Oxford professor who fought so hard
against the ice-age theory before accepting it; James Croll, a
Scots mechanic who educated himself as a scientist and first
formulated the astronomic theory of ice ages; Milutin Milankovitch,
the Serbian mathematician who gave the astronomic theory its firm
quantitative foundation; and the many other astronomers,
geochemists, geologists, paleontologists, and geophysicists who
have been engaged for nearly a century and a half in the pressing
search for a solution to the ice-age mystery.
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Professor, Vice Chancellor, Dean, Vice President, Athletic Director, Advisor, Trustee, University of California, 1957-2002 - Oral History Transcript / 200 (Hardcover)
Germaine LaBerge, Earl Frank Ive Cheit, Andrew Imbrie
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