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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy

11 reviews
Michael T. Klare

Metropolitan Books, 2008

Charting the challenges ahead
The charts alone tell the story of what lies ahead. The most striking figure for me is that the US, the world's sole superpower for the last 2 decades, holds 3.3% of the world's natural gas reserves yet produces and uses 18.5% of the world total - not sustainable long term strategy for a country that refuses to invest meaningfully or intelligently in efficiency or alternative sources of energy. ...

The Shrinking of Treehorn

10 reviews
Florence Parry Heide

Holiday House, 1971

Clever, engaging text and Edward Gorey!
The big point here is about adult distractability. Treehorn is shrinking and his parents and teachers are mostly concerned with what this might mean to them, after they are forced to notice his condition. The subtlety of this may not register with little kids but they'll love the fun idea of a kid shrinking and having to cope and the drawings by Gorey are funny and wonderful. (If you are ...

The Responsibility Virus: How Control Freaks, Shrinking Violets-and The Rest Of Us-can Harness The Power Of ...

4 reviews
Roger Martin

Basic Books, 2003

How to transform a bureaucracy into a healthy organization
Roger Martin has lain down business organizations in the therapist chair, but you won't notice it because the author avoids skillfully the psychological labels currently in vogue. If you often wonder about why you end up working more than others, why some people don't understand what you clearly state or why everybody sees what is wrong in the company and they don't do anything to fix it, this ...

Hiring Great People

4 reviews
Kevin Klinvex, Matthew S. O'Connell, ...

McGraw-Hill, 1998

Refreshingly Thorough!
Not another book on hiring! Enough! Can any more be said that hasn't been said already? Can the same information be presented any better than it has before? I'll admit that I opened this book, part of McGraw-Hill's Briefcase series, with a bias to dismiss the publication as just another also-ran. Surprise! Hiring Great People caught my attention right away and held it for most of the book. ...

The Incredible Shrinking Man

2 reviews
Richard Matheson

Tor Books, 2008

Great Writer, Great Deal!
Matheson is one of my favorite writers; many of his stories have been made into horror films, Star Trek scripts and episodes of the Twilight Zone. I was interesting to read the book after watching most of these same stories, rewritten, as film scripts. The Incredible Shrinking Man delves deeper into the Scott character, his family life, how an average man would react to suddenly facing a ...

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat

5 reviews
Lynne Jonell

Square Fish, 2008

Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
A diabolical nanny, a clever thoughtful little girl and a talking rat face off in this deliciously witty and intelligent story. Emmy is an exceedingly well-behaved girl who enjoyed life with her parents and had many friends before an inheritance from a great uncle brings an end to cozy family interactions and Emmy and her parents move to her Great-Uncle's mansion. Now Emmy attends a new school, ...

The Incredible Shrinking Adventure (Little Einsteins)
Marcy Kelman

Disney Press, 2008

The Little Einsteins team has found a Big and Small machine with the powerto make anything grow or shrink. But there's a problem-the machine breaks andshrinks the Little Einsteins and Rocket! The team has a mission-they needto find a missing piece of the machine to make themselves grow big again.Young readers will have fun lifting the flaps to help the Little Einsteinson their quest.

Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition?

30 reviews
Robert M. Price

Prometheus Books, 2003

A Brilliant & Scholarly Exposé On the Origins & Authenticity of the Gospels
The 2003 book "The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition?" by Robert M. Price is a brilliant & scholarly exposé on the origins of the Christian new testament gospels. While many gospel believers view the gospels as having been written by eyewitnesses (Jewish) to events that allegedly occurred during the first century CE in Roman-occupied Palestine, it is far more ...

The Incredible Shrinking Critic: 75 Pounds and Counting: My Excellent Adventure in Weight Loss

22 reviews
Jami Bernard

Avery, 2006

Losing Weight Requires Head Work and Body Work
The thing about this book is that Jami, who lost 75 pounds, lets you see inside her head while she was taking the weight off. Let's face it, those of us who've tried to take this weight off before know all we need to know about weight loss: eat less, move more, stay focused. But Jami lets you inside her head, she shares the frustrations, the joys, the buried issues, the past hurts, the broken ...

Stink (Book #1): The Incredible Shrinking Kid (Stink)

11 reviews
Megan Mcdonald

Candlewick, 2006

Stink-Great for Joduy Moody fans!
I am a big fan of the Jody Moody series, so I was thrilled when I heard they were coming out with a series about Joudy's little brother Stink! This book is well written and easy for young and old readers to understand. It is a very funny and enjoyable book! I totally recommend it to anyone who likes comedy.

You Can't Get There from Here: A Year on the Fringes of a Shrinking World

5 reviews
Gayle Forman

Rodale Books, 2006

Better Gayle than I
Gayle Forman and I occupy the far ends of the Bell Curve of travelers. She goes to Paris and never visits the Louvre; I often head to that glorious depository of art as soon as I've unpacked. But when it comes to travel books, I don't want to read about visits to the Louvre, I want an author who ventures to places I'm NEVER going to go (high on that list: Kazakhastan)and then tells me of ...

Shrinking Violet

4 reviews
Cari Best

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2001

Violet Saves the Day.....
For as long as Violet could remember, she didn't like to be watched. "I am allergic to attention." Being watched made her cheeks blush rhubarb red and when everyone stared, she itched and scratched and twirled her hair. Class bully, Irwin, made things even worse. He said she had fat knees, hairy arms and smelled liked deadly sewer gas and everyone stared. "I wish I could just shrink away," ...

Shrinking Sam

Barefoot Books, 2007

What if your pencil was the size of a crocodile, or just one pea filled your whole tummy? And what if NO ONE would listen to you? Well, that's what happens to Sam. What will stop him from disappearing altogether?

Talking to Fireflies, Shrinking the Moon: Nature Activities for All Ages

5 reviews
Edward Duensing

Fulcrum Publishing, 1997

Take it from a nature teacher!
I teach nature to boys in a summer camp and have used this book more than any other in my reference library...the pages are almost worn out! It's perfect in the language it uses and the activities are always fun. I have never recommended a book before, but couldn't pass up the opportunity to share this amazing book with other educators.

Atlas of Shrinking Cities

1 review
Elke Beyer, Anke Hagemann, ...

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2006

extraordinary
I have not looked through the book completely, or deeply, but I can very assuredly say the atlas is extremely well considered and innovatively presented. Expect your expectations to be exceeded!

Shrinking Cities: Volume 2
Will Alsop, Jorg Dettmar, ...

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2006

Shrinking cities have pushed urban design and classical city planning to their limits. The new challenges they pose require new approaches, joining the "hard" tools of construction with the "soft" tools of political, social, cultural and communications interventions. Shrinking Cities: Volume 2: Interventions provides an international overview of experimental concepts for taking action in shrinking cities, cataloguing tools from the fields of ...

Extra Stuff for Shrinky Dinks

Klutz, 2008

Once you start making Shrinky Dinks, you never want to stop. With these five sheets of ready-to-decorate plastic, you can draw designs, cut them out, pop them in the oven and presto your art shrinks into mini-masterpieces. Its everything you need to keep shrinking, and shrinking, and shrinking

The Incredible Shrinking Man

32 reviews
Richard Matheson

Tor Books, 2001

True Science Fiction Classic
For those newly interested in Richard Matheson because of the new I am Legend movie, you will not be dissapointed with this book. One of his great novels along with I am Legend, Hell House, and A Stir of Echoes are all must reads.

The Art of Shrinking Heads: The New Servitude of the Liberated in the Era of Total Capitalism
Dany-Robert Dufour

Polity, 2008

After the hell of the Nazis and the terror of Communism, it is possible that a new catastrophe has appeared on the horizon: this time it is neoliberalism that wants to create its own 'new man'. For two centuries, Kant's critical subject and Freud's neurotic subject provided us with philosophical templates for modernity, but today modern capitalism is systematically destroying these two subjects and replacing them ...

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