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This digital document is an article from California Planning & Development Report, published by California Planning & Development Report on August 1, 2003. The length of the article is 761 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Regulations ensure nighttime skies remain dark.(trends)
Author: Stephen Svete
Publication: California Planning & Development Report (Newsletter)
Date: August 1, 2003
Publisher: California Planning & Development Report
Volume: 18Issue: 8Page: 14(1)

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This digital document is an article from Science World, published by Thomson Gale on April 2, 2007. The length of the article is 1029 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Star search (Part 1).(CHART-READING SKILLS)(quiz about stars)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Science World (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 2, 2007
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Volume: 63Issue: 12Page: NA

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This digital document is an article from Parks & Recreation, published by National Recreation and Park Association on October 1, 2008. The length of the article is 2218 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A new breed of limelight: sports field lighting goes green; the city of Naples, Fla., will save an estimated $1.14 million in energy and routine maintenance costs with its new energy-efficient lighting.
Author: Jeff Rogers
Publication: Parks & Recreation (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2008
Publisher: National Recreation and Park Association
Volume: 43Issue: 10Page: 54(8)

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Six little-known essays by the blind French author and Resistance leader Jacques Lusseyran, gathered together for the first time in English.Four of the six essays are based on Lusseyran’s experiences both during and after university life as a professor of literatureand philosophy in Europe and in the United States. ... Read more

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Astounding author
The author became blind as a young boy but went on to be a brilliant student, a leader in the French resistance to the Nazis, was one of the very few to survive a concentration camp only to die in a post war auto accident.
Author repeats himself but the book should read by the blind or anyone who is interested in how some blind people see far more than we who have eyes !

Read "Jeremy" and "Poetry in Buchenwald"
Like Ryan, I too read "Jeremy" over and over again. It is perfect and the most amazing piece of writing I've read outside of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. That's high praise, but try it!I sent "Jeremy" to many people, along with "Poetry in Buchenwald," also in this book.You can read my "Light Dream" I had in April of 1980 by googling "Ruth Schumeister" or by reading it in the Amazon.com reviews of "Embraced by the Light."So when I read Lusseyran, I KNOW he knows what he's talking about.My life was incredibly enriched by both his books - I can't tell you how much!

He's uncovered a layer of life that must always have been there -- but that few find -- his whole life a "being in/going toward" that 7th Heaven St. Paul talks about seeing and being in when The Light knocked him off his horse and then gave him a little 'talky-poo'!No disrespect intended!:-)

I look forward to meeting Jacques Lusseyran some day, if life is as they say it is!Read his amazing stories!

The only author that comes near Lusseyran for me, outside the Bible, is Varlam Shalamov ("Graphite" and "Kolyma Tales") with his short stories of the Gulag.Shalamov is a poet, and his prose is amazing (translated by John Glad).I spoke to a Russian Jew in Framingham, MA at the pool, and we discovered a mutual love for Shalamov.He said he floated on air for three days when he discovered him, reading, reading, reading!He was able to rib me about the fact that he got to read him in the original Russian! How I envied him!

The ending (especially) of "Peace Like a River" by Leif Enger -- the Heaven sequence -- is wonderful writing too.May I also suggest (corny as the front cover is) "Embraced by the Light" by Betty Eadie (her two subsequent books are excellent, too) and Betty Malz's "My Glimpse of Eternity" (wonderful!) and even what's his name's "Saved by the Light"? All these last three "Light/Eternity" books contain life reviews that are great - not to mention what they "saw"!

Ah, but return to Lusseyran -- he towers, he towers! And he indeed "saw" -- and it was in THIS life!!!

Against the Pollution of the I
A wonderful collection of six essays by Jacques Lusseyran, the brilliant, fluent, compelling author who was blinded from a childhood accident. After reading the essay entitled "Jeremy," I read it again and again. It's a masterpiece, giving lucid insights into the essence that unites us all. I am ever so grateful for becoming acquainted with this remarkable man through his writings.

Fascinating look at the benefits of blindness
Jacques Lusseyran, who was blinded at age 7, speaks in this fascinating book about how blind people can "see" by using their other senses and tuning into spiritual realities.He also talks about the gifts that accompany his blindness.This is an amazing exposition of phenomena not usually discussed (or perhaps even acknowledged) by blind people. It is certainly a message of optimism for them.But it is also inspiring for sighted people who realize how much they may be missing by relying so heavily on the sense of sight.Extremely interesting and insightful.
The book would be best read after And There was Light, Lusseyran's autobiography, which describes his adjustment to blindness, his involvement in the French resistance during World War II, and his survival in a German concentration camp. ... Read more

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Springer/Praxis have a successful mini program of books on various aspects of light scattering, and now have a journal "Light Scattering Review" under consideration proposed by Alex Kokhanovsky. The atmospheric air contains not only gases but also various types of airborne particles (known as aerosols) ranging from dust grains to microbes. These small particles influence atmospheric visibility, the thermodynamics of the atmosphere, and they are also of great importance in any consideration of climate change problems. Aerosols may also be responsible for the loss of harvest, health problems among humans and ecological disasters. Therefore, it is of great importance to study aerosol properties on a global scale. Such studies ultimately should be based on global observations using instruments positioned on the space platforms. ... Read more

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Representatives of 111 nations gathered in Stockholm in May 2001 to sign a legally binding convention to eliminate or reduce emissions of pesticides, insecticides, and other industrial combustion by-products. Long-range transport by air and water carries many of these pollutants to the circumpolar north, where they threaten the health and cultural survival of Inuit and other northern Indigenous peoples. Northern Lights Against POPs tells the many-faceted scientific, policy, legal, and advocacy story that led to the Stockholm convention. Unique in its perspective, scope, and breadth, it reveals the key links among environmental and health science, international politics, advocacy, law, and global negotiations. Never before have public health concerns articulated by northern Indigenous peoples in Canada and throughout the circumpolar Arctic had such a direct impact on global policy-making. Authors show how research on POPs (persistent organic pollutants) in the Arctic from the mid-1980s influenced international negotiations and analyze the potential for the convention to be effective.Contributors include elected representatives, researchers, civil servants, Indigenous people who participated in the negotiations, and scientists who provided the compelling Arctic data that prompted the United Nations Environment Programme to sponsor negotiations. Contributors include David Anderson (Minister of the Environment, Canada); Nigel Bankes (University of Calgary); John Buccini (Consultant, former chair of the Global POPs Negotiations); Sheila Watt-Cloutier (Inuit Circumpolar Conference-Canada); Barry Commoner, Paul Woods Bartlett, Holger Eisl, Kimberly Couchot (Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Queens College, City University of New York); Eric Dewailly (Laval University); David Downie (Director of Educational Partnerships, Columbia Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York); Terry Fenge (Inuit Circumpolar Conference-Canada); Henry Huntington (Consultant, Anchorage) and Michelle Sparck (Circumpolar Conservation Union, Washington, D.C.); Harriet Kuhnlein, Laurie Chan (Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment, McGill University), and Olivier Receveur (formerly Centre for Indigenous Peoples' Nutrition and Environment, McGill University); Lars-Otto Reiersen (Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme Secretariat,Oslo); Henrik Selin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); David Stone, Russell Shearer (Northern Contaminants Program, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Canada); Klaus Topfer (Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme). ... Read more

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Learned so much
I bought this because I very much liked a new book my one of the authors. I was blown away by the information in this book.I know so much more about the dangers posed by toxic chemicals. The book has definitely altered my thinking and actions. I am also amazed by the political struggle of the Inuit to get attention paid to the unique pollution problems that they face -problems they did not cause.

Excellent Book
Very informative review of a critical global environmental issue.Very accessible for the non-expert but also lots of detail for those with greater knowledge.The fantastic pictures, graphs and charts really put things in perspective and make details easy to understand -- as does the great chronology and glossary.The book has a fantastic set of contributors including leading scientists, policy-makers, environmental advocates, indigenous representatives, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Porgramme and the Minister of the Environment in Canada. ... Read more

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Sheds light on a strategy to reduce emissions from passenger cars and trucks. ... Read more

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"The Hot Topic" is a collaborative work by one of the most respected scientists and one of the most dynamic writers in the field of climate change. Sir David King, world-renowned scientist and the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser, is widely credited with persuading Tony Blair to act on climate change and with getting key international figures around the negotiating table, and has a significant media profile. On publication of "The Hot Topic" his previous obligation not to comment publicly about New Labour's attitude to the ever-growing problem of global warming will be lifted and he will finally be able to speak out. Gabrielle Walker is a respected author, journalist and radio presenter, and a regular contributor to New Scientist, whose 8-part series "Planet Earth Under Threat" was a major success last year for BBC Radio 4. Last year awareness about global warming reached a tipping point."The Hot Topic" goes beyond a statement of the problem to address in detail what can be done to answer the challenge on a personal, social, national and international level.A clear, short and engaging book that approaches the whole issue - the present problem and the future solutions - in a straightforward way, it is bound to receive massive attention from industry, the media and government alike. While there have been many other books about the problem of climate change, none has addressed what we can and should do about it so clearly and persuasively. ... Read more

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Start small and don't become "greener than thou"
Everything you need to know about the challenges of climate change without the spin.

There is a veritable overload of information on the topic of global warming that makes it difficult to get to grips with what to do and how to deal with it on a personal level.

This highly informative book sets out to inform the reader of the issues, how to prepare for the inevitable changes and then follows up with solutions in these areas: technological, political, personal and local.

The subject is a serious one but as Walker writes - don't despair, although it's a hard one it's not intractable. She suggests that we look inside our circle of influence, start small and soon your circle will expand... but at no point become "greener than thou".

It's a jungle of a topic but this book makes the big issues that bit clearer. ... Read more