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'VITAL SIGNS does for the environment what stock market indicators do for the City. But it says more about the future of our world than the FTSE ever can ' BBC Wildlife Magazine 'VITAL SIGNS is a sharply focused snapshot of the world Ideal for dipping into it makes fascinating reading ' New Agriculturalist 'The scope of the book is vast ... the presentation is clean and seamless ' Humanitarian Affairs Review 'An enlightening insight into the relationship between the environment and human activity ' Green Futures VITAL SIGNS 20052006 provides up-to-the-minute information on global warming, population growth, military spending, HIV/AIDS, economic equity, the trade in drugs and a whole range of other environmental, developmental, social, political and economic issues. By distilling 25 'vital signs' of our times from thousands of governmental, industrial and scientific sources, this book allows reader s to track key indicators that show our progress in issues that too often escape the attention of the news media, world leader s and economic experts . Each theme is presented in both text and two colour graphics, providing a thorough, well-documented and very accessible over view.
Selected, peer reviewed papers from the EnviBUILD 2013, Buildings and Environment, October 17, 2013, Bratislava, Slovakia
125 drawings exhibited by the Dusseldorf Museum in 1988. The collection and accompanying narrative essays tell the story of Julo Levin, artist and teacher, and the survival of the drawings. Finely reproduced color and bandw photos of Levin's work, that of his circle of friends, and, of course, that of the children. A translation from the German (1988, Dusseldorf: Claassen). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR