Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Laying the foundations for modern capitalism in France, 1500-1800 -- From merchant capitalism to finance capitalism -- Continuity and change in merchant capitalism, 1800-1840s -- The revolution in banking and transportation, 1850s-1870s -- The new world of financial and commercial capitalism, 1870s-1900s -- The flowering of industrial capitalism -- Textile capitalism -- The capitalism of coal -- The capitalism of iron and steel -- Hardware, machinery, and construction -- The capitalism of chemicals -- The capitalism of glass, paper, and print -- Industrial capitalism and consumer goods -- The new world of industrial capitalism -- The second Industrial Revolution and the beginnings of managerial capitalism, 1880s-1930s -- Big steel -- The electrical industry -- The automobile and its allies -- Chemicals and materials -- The new world of managerial capitalism.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Birth: the industrial revolution and classical political economy, 1750-1850 -- Maturation; global capitalism and neoclassical economics, 1950-1914 -- Death throes: chaos, war, depression, war again; economics in disarray, 1914-1945 -- Resurrection: global economy II an its crisis; hopeful stirrings in economics, 1945-75 -- New world order: globalization and financialization; and decadent economics, 1975-2000 -- The unfolding crisis of the twenty-first century.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Title; Copyright; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Animals; Minding Animals (2011); Animal Pain: What It Is and Why It Matters (2011); Environment; The Future of Environmental Ethics (2010); Climate Change, Human Rights, and the Trillionth Ton of Carbon (2010); Ethics, Environment, and Nanotechnology (2009); Biotechnologies; Nanotechnologies: Science and Society (2007); Ethical Issues in Constructing and Using Biobanks (2008); Synthetic Life: A New Industrial Revolution (2012); Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Britain and the Visual Arts -- Justifying the Museum -- Struggling for a Voice : the Learned Society and Artists' Society in the Provincial City -- Unpromising Soil : The Cities of the Industrial Revolution and the Earliest Civic Art Galleries -- The Universal Exhibition -- For Instructions and Recreation -- Art on Show -- 8. …”

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Table of Contents: “…Family, household, and the industrial revolution.--Greven, P. J., jr. Family structure in seventeenth-century Andover, Mass.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Culture and Economy -- Part One : Managing Supply -- "The Snow of Southern Summers" : King Cotton and Its Markets in the Age of Industrial Revolution -- Nature and Know-How : Organization and Technology in the Postbellum Era -- Acts of God and Government : The Search for Political Solutions -- Part Two : Approaching the Market -- Synthetic Shock : Competition's Alarm -- Creating Cotton Incorporated -- Part Three : Managing the Market -- Creating Consumption -- Managing the Mill -- The Necessary Illusion of Control -- Competitive Markets in a Global Economy -- Afterword : Trends and Cycles.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: I.Prehistoric Voiceprints -- 1.Echoes in the Dark -- 2.The Beat of Drums -- 3.The Singing Wilderness -- 4.A Ritual Soundscape -- 5.The Rise of the Shamans -- II.The Age of Oratory -- 6.Epic Tales -- 7.Persuasion -- 8.Babble: The Noisy, Everyday World of Ancient Rome -- 9.The Roaring Crowd -- 10.The Ecstatic Underground -- III.Sounds of the Spirit and of Satan -- 11.The Bells -- 12.Tuning the Body -- 13.Heavenly Sounds -- 14.Carnival -- 15.Restraint -- IV.Power and Revolt -- 16.Colonists -- 17.Shutting In -- 18.Master and Servant -- 19.Slavery and Rebellion -- 20.Revolution and War -- V.The Rise of the Machines -- 21.The Conquering Engines: Industrial Revolution -- 22.The Beat of a Heart, the Tramp of a Fly -- 23.The New Art of Listening -- 24.Life in the City -- 25.Capturing Sound -- VI.The Amplified Age -- 26.Shell Shock -- 27.Radio Everywhere! …”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Conceiving of alternative energy -- Human society's need for energy -- The industrial revolution and humans' high-energy existence -- Against the American grain : paths taken, paths declined -- The 1970s initiate an energy transition -- Assessing renewable and alternative energy technologies -- Redefining alternatives -- Appendix 1: Summaries of U.S. legislation provisions related to alternative energy -- Appendix 2: President Jimmy Carter's speech concerning energy, April 18, 1977 -- Appendix 3: President Jimmy Carter : the "crisis of confidence" speech, July 15, 1979 -- Appendix 4: Former Vice President Al Gore at New York University, July 17, 2008.…”

Table of Contents: “…Biodiversity: Expanding Madagascar's national parks and protected areas -- Pollution: Settling the dust along the international boder - Sidebar: GIS tracks contamination from the World Trade Center collapse -- Coastal zone management: Conserving California's underwater forests -- Wetlands: Drawing the line between wet and dry along Lake Ontario - Sidebar: GIS helps preserve Japan's Kushiro Wetland -- Resource management : Reviving Nebraska's historic Platte River -- Brownfields: Reclaiming land at England's epicenter of the Industrial Revolution -- Change detection: Monitoring habitat in California's Central Valley -- Urban forest management: Seeing the trees for the city in New York -- Wildlife management: Saving birds of prey in Northern California -- Military use and mitigation: Charting unexploded ordnance in West Virginia's wilderness - Sidebar: DUSTRAN predicts dust dispersion from military training exercises-- Petroleum: Cooperating in the Gulf Coast to plan for oil spills - Sidebar: NOAA goes fishing and G-WIS meets ELMR-- Public policy and regulation: Influencing environmental decisions in Maine.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : geographical and historical background -- The world economy at the turn of the first millennium -- World trade 1000-1500 : the economic consequences of Genghis Khan -- World Trade 1500-1650 : old world trade and new world silver -- World trade 1650-1780 : the age of mercantilism -- Trade and the industrial revolution -- World trade 1780-1914 : the great specialization -- World trade 1914-39 : deglobalization -- Reglobalization : the late twentieth century in historical perspective -- Globalization at the dawn of the twenty-first century.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Language, truth and music -- The nature of the two worlds -- The primacy of the right hemisphere -- The triumph of the left hemisphere -- PART TWO: How the brain has shaped our world -- Imitation and the evolution of culture -- The ancient world -- The renaissance and the reformation -- The enlightenment -- Romanticism and the industrial revolution -- The modern and post-modern worlds -- Conclusion: The Master betrayed -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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