Oil, Globalization, and the War for the Arctic Refuge

Oil, Globalization, and the War for the Arctic RefugeExamines the battle to develop the oil resources of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The global consumption of fossil fuels is dramatically rising, while inversely, the supply is in permanent decline. The "end of oil" threatens the very future of Western civilization. Oil, Globalization, and the War for the Arctic Refuge examines the politics of drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and presents this controversy as a

with contributions from renowned scholars of Arabic applied linguistics

Returning to that question of humanism in the context of the United States' war on terror in the post-9/11 era

increasing crop yields over time

Ibn Battuta was the greatest traveler of the medieval period

critically developed and based upon the work of Nietzsche

food and nutrition security

including decision-making tools

Included is a CD containing Appendices of extensive bibliographic information concerning books and periodicals printed in Egypt during this period

illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives

Examines how political news was concealed

providing an unprecedented transnational perspective to the study of European leisure history

This book offers an option for religious belief not heretofore available to lay people