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Through the blistering heat rising off the desert highway, Mark
Axton deftly maneuvers a sports car at high speed. A test-driver
for a major automobile magazine, the handsome, charismatic Axton
lives a life of adventure that other men can only dream of. Yet as
Axton and his assistant conduct their test-drive on this particular
day, they are about to experience a chance encounter with a former
racecar driver and his gruff mechanic that could change Axton's
life, and the lives of every human being on the planet, forever. In
"Mech-Row" we meet a cast of characters thrown together by the
unbelievable invention of the first truly nonpolluting
high-performance automobile. As Axton and his new partners attempt
to build and test a working prototype, their lives become
interwoven in the pursuit of a revolutionary wonder vehicle that
could actually become the solution to the world's pollution crisis.
"Mech-Row" takes us on a journey at a hundred miles per hour as
Axton races to bring the amazing discovery to the world's
attention. A fast-paced thriller, "Mech-Row" is a standout in a new
type of fiction set against the backdrop of the modern-day plight
of planet Earth.
The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called
smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US. The promise
is focussed on global talent and knowledge economies and not on
learning and innovation. But to really achieve smart cities - that
is to create the conditions of continuous learning and innovation -
this book argues that there is a need to understand what is below
the surface and to examine the mechanisms which affect the way
cities learn and then connect together. This book draws on
quantitative and qualitative data with concrete case studies to
show how networks already operating in cities are used to foster
and strengthen connections in order to achieve breakthroughs in
learning and innovation. Going beyond smart cities means
understanding how cities construct, convert and manipulate
relationships that grow in urban environments. Cities discussed in
this book - Amman, Barcelona, Bilbao, Charlotte,Curitiba, Juarez,
Portland, Seattle and Turin - illuminate a blind spot in the
literature. Each of these cities has achieved important
transformations, and learning has played a key role, one that has
been largely ignored in academic circles and practice concerning
competitiveness and innovation.
The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics presents up-to-date
theoretical analyses of various problems associated with the moral
standing of future people and animals in current decision-making.
Future people pose an especially hard problem for our current
decision-making, since their number and their identities are not
fixed but depend on the choices the present generation makes. Do we
make the world better by creating more people with good lives? What
do we owe future generations in terms of justice? How should
burdens and benefits be shared across generations so that justice
prevails? These questions are philosophically difficult and
important, but also directly relevant to many practical decisions
and policies. Climate change policy provides an example, as the
increasing global temperature will kill some people and prevent
many others from ever existing. Many other policies also influence
the size and make-up of future populations both directly and
indirectly, for example those concerning family planning, child
support, and prioritization in health-care. If we are to adequately
assess these policies, we must be able to determine the value of
differently sized populations. The essays in this handbook shed
light on the value of population change and the nature of our
obligations to future generations. It brings together world-leading
philosophers to introduce readers to some of the paradoxes of
population ethics, challenge some fundamental assumptions that may
be taken for granted in the debate about the value of population
change, and apply these problems and assumptions to real-world
decisions.
Derek Parfit, who died in 2017, is widely believed to have been the
most significant moral philosopher in well over a century. The
twenty-one new essays in this book have all been inspired by his
work. They address issues with which he was concerned in his
writing, particularly in his seminal contribution to moral
philosophy, Reasons and Persons (OUP, 1984). Rather than simply
commenting on his work, these essays attempt to make further
progress with issues, both moral and prudential, that Parfit
believed matter to our lives: issues concerned with how we ought to
live, and what we have most reason to do. Topics covered in the
book include the nature of personal identity, the basis of
self-interested concern about the future, the rationality of our
attitudes toward time, what it is for a life to go well or badly,
how to evaluate moral theories, the nature of reasons for action,
the aggregation of value, how benefits and harms should be
distributed among people, and what degree of sacrifice morality
requires us to make for the sake of others. These include some of
the most important questions of normative ethical theory, as well
as fundamental questions about the metaphysics of personhood and
personal identity, and the ways in which the answers to these
questions bear on what it is rational and moral for us to do.
Trusted, expert advice on the initial steps in setting up a sound,
well-organized business. That's where WHAT'S YOUR BRIGHT IDEA?
comes in. Both authors have considerable experience of new business
ventures. They offer an honest, waffle-free assessment of what's
required to set up a business, and give you plenty of sound advice
along the way. Going into business involves a lot of hard work, but
it should also be fun. WHAT'S YOUR BRIGHT IDEA? will help stimulate
the vital sense of adventure required to make a success of possibly
the most significant journey of your life.
The thrilling adventure of modern man has only begun, it's written
in the stars at light speed. The dawning of an inspiring new
chapter in the history of mankind emerges in the ongoing
adventurous exploits of Mankind. "EARTH-ZONE PLAYGROUND ODYSSEY,"
The story of everyone, all of us. Episode MECH-ROW reveals the
wonders of the human spirit and the richness of life. There are
many thousands upon millions of stories to be told, some inspiring
and some heart-breaking tragic. History is studded with spectacular
successes and dismal failure, some never told, many others totally
forgotten. And there's one prominent and interesting story that
craves to be told: Episode MECH-ROW. Through the blistering heat
rising off the open Arizona desert highway, Mark Axton, a n
energetic, charismatic test driver for a Major Automotive concern,
deftly maneuvers a speeding high-tech sports car at felonious high
speed in this new type of technology thriller that embarks on an
amazing odyssey set against the backdrop of the modern-day plight
of our planetary home. A trailblazing adventure of fiery action,
intrigue and romance rises to influence the lives of every human
being on this planet. It's about the intimate lives of a
brilliantly crafted cast of characters, each driven to bring
essential change to the world through environmental justice. In the
spirit of conscientious conviction, Jett Morrow, former race car
driver, master mechanic, inventor turned "Planet Fixer
Futurepreneur." It's about Mark Axton, a young, energetic test car
driver and reporter for a major automotive magazine. Seeking truth,
Axton discovers Jett Morrow's amazing, ingenious secret and races
to report the Epic news to the world's attention as a wave of new
hope emerges to salvage the future through ground-breaking American
action, but, challenging forces roadblock the passage to success as
the dark, forbidding shadow of predatory corruption collide head-on
with--- the new age "Champions of the Great Right Hope." MECH-ROW
is a breakthrough technology thriller that finds America in a
stalled, critical race with time to change its destructive ways, or
face the ruinous inevitable.
An environmental children's book about the challenges climate
change poses to polar bears.
What Goes Around is the conclusion of a story that started in
another book entitled All's Fair. This part of the tale takes the
reader from the southern coast of North Carolina to the swamps of
Louisiana and back again. The novel completes the story of Ben
Coulter, a thirty-something college professor and his friend Curt
Donovan and their battle to first rescue and then protect Allison
Merryweather, the young woman in Ben's life. She's been involved
first in a con game, then kidnapped by pirates and very nearly
killed. Once the rescue is accomplished, it seems as though things
might return to normal. But then people involved in Allison's trip
through this dangerous time start dying mysteriously. First Taylor
Duckworth, the ruthless con man dies in a fire. Then Ben's best
friend Curt is shot down while flying from his gulf coast airport
across southern Louisiana. It's time to reconsider their own safety
as Ben and Allison combine forces again with one of Ben's Marine
Corp friends and put an end to the fear.
The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called
smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US. The promise
is focussed on global talent and knowledge economies and not on
learning and innovation. But to really achieve smart cities -- that
is to create the conditions of continuous learning and innovation
-- this book argues that there is a need to understand what is
below the surface and to examine the mechanisms which affect the
way cities learn and then connect together. This book draws on
quantitative and qualitative data with concrete case studies to
show how networks already operating in cities are used to foster
and strengthen connections in order to achieve breakthroughs in
learning and innovation. Going beyond smart cities means
understanding how cities construct, convert and manipulate
relationships that grow in urban environments. Cities discussed in
this book--Amman, Barcelona, Bilbao, Charlotte, Curitiba, Juarez,
Portland, Seattle and Turin--illuminate a blind spot in the
literature. Each of these cities has achieved important
transformations, and learning has played a key role, one that has
been largely ignored in academic circles and practice concerning
competitiveness and innovation
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