In this remarkable book, a renowned environmental leader warns that despite all the international negotiations of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earth's climate and environment are not succeeding. He explains why this is so and presents eight specific steps that governments and citizens can take to achieve a sustainable future

This book helps to understand the problem and produce an effective solution. Problems come in allshapes and sizes, yet most have common characteristics that can be adressed with the techniques found in this book

In this book, the world's leading RFP consultant offers realistic, specific, start-to-finish guidance for every professional called upon to write RFPs. Bud Porter-Roth covers every step of the RFP process, offering specific language examples that demonstrate both best practices and worst practices to avoid. He shows how to ensure that RFPs contain information that is sufficiently accurate and detailed

In Researching Entrepreneurship one of the most highly recognized entreprenurship scholars shares in a personal and readable way his rich experience and ideas on how entrepreneurship can or should be researched

The book highlights many examples of how the new economic geography is reshaping development objectives: from initiatives to foster growth via enhanced agglomeration and improved local connectivity to the world economy, to special decentralization programs that channel resources to lagging regions

An excellent examination of the global remittances policy agenda, Remittances: Development Impact and Future Prospects is a timely and exciting resource for academics, development institutions, central banks, and all policy makers in developed and developing countries. Hernando de SotoPresident, Institute for Liberty and Democracy Re-mit-tance n. 1. The sending of money to someone at a distance. 2. The sum of money sent. New research shows the astonishing scope of remittances, with formally documented flows now estimated at $90 billion for 2003. Globally, remittances now constitute the largest source of financial flows to developing countries after Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and indeed in many countries they now exceed FDI flows

Results of past investments in agricultural water managment have been mixed

Poverty among the Roma minority is one of the most challenging development issues facing the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The situation of the Roma (or gypsies) in Central and Eastern Europe is one of the most challenging issues to emerge during the transition from socialism

Rabbit at Rest focusing on the years 1988-1989. It finds Harry nearly forty years after his glory days as a high school basketball star in a mid-sized Pennsylvania city. Harry and his wife of 33 years, Janice, have retired to sunny Florida during the cold months, where Harry is depressed, bored, and dangerously overweight

On Decenber,1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to white man on a segregated bus and sparked the Montgomery, Alabama, Bus Boycott. It is real story of Rosa Parks.