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The authors explain the science behind global warming, outline the political reasons that governments have not acted to reverse climate change, and argue that both environmental and economic factors must be considered to create a solution that puts public good before corporate profit.
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A short book on a hot topic that everyday just keeps getting hotter!.......2007-04-22
For individuals wanting to learn more about the extremely important and dire problem of global warming but intimidated by books with lots of difficult scientific language, this short, comprehensible book is the perfect introduction for the lay person. Not only does it detail the frightening consequences of climate chaos like hurricanes, drought, and outbreaks of diseases like malaria, it more importantly outlines individual and institutional strategies for stabilizing the planet's temperature. And it does so in a global justice context. If you care about polar bears, coral reefs, poor folks in Bangledesh, Central America, and the Gulf Coast, then read this book. If you care about your future, the future of your children, and the future of this planet, then read this book (and then ride your bike, plant a tree, join a collective household, go solar, and eat organic, locally grown slow cuisine).
Great Book...........2005-04-29
...but for those who already know some of the details on global warming and the Kyoto Protocol. I picked up this book for a term paper, hoping this would have all the information I needed. I was thoroughly confused with all the specific terms that were used but not explained. After I read through other resources which started from the beginning, I was able to enjoy this book more.
It's really a great book to read, and I enjoyed it.
Compelling and feasible argument for climate justice.......2002-12-12
Much of the debate about climate change (global warming) has focused on short-term details about the structure of any international treaty and the near-term rate of change in emissions. Athanasiou and Baer perform a great service by bringing the larger questions of the long-term severity of the climate problem and the potential massively unequal consequences of climate change for people of different wealth levels.
Grounding their argument in the well-accepted science of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the authors describe in clear language the imperative to dramatically reduce global greenhouse gas emissions over the next 50 years. Importantly, they endorse the current ideas about international emissions trading as a low-cost way to achieve these cuts, but they then lay out an ethically grounded argument for ensuring that this trading is structured in a fair and equitable way--both for people in poorer countries and for people in future generations. Moreover, they are careful to defend the political viability of their proposed solutions.
Written in direct and comprehensible language, Dead Heat is a forceful call for more serious action to address the social and environmental consequences of climate change and climate change policy.
Another great book from AK Press.......2002-08-17
This book explains both the science of global warming and the political reasons why governments have not acted to reverse it.
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"A smart, lively read." The Detroit News
A Michael Spraggue Mystery. It's murder at the Boston Marathon! Senator Donagher has been receiving death threats. But it's election year, and the Senator wants to rustle up votes by running in the Boston Marathon. As a favor to an old friend, Pete, Michael puts aside his acting career to help protect the Senator. But how to protect a man in the middle of the Boston Marathon? Is there more -- or less -- to the Senator than meets the eye? And will Michael become a target himself in the process?
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- Anticlimactic Ending
- A worthy sophomore effort.
- Down Under skullduggery!
- A compelling thriller with some twists
- powerful sweltering tale of murder and survival
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Dead Heat
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A survivor of a plane crash in Australia's wild outback fights for her life in this new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Blood Junction.Georgia Parish never regretted leaving northern Queensland, Australia, to pursue her career. But after surviving a plane crash she finds herself back there, struggling to comprehend a sinister fact--the plane she was on was sabotaged. Was it someone hoping to kill the man who never arrived to take the flight? Or did it have something to do with the two other strange passengers? Georgia's search for the truth plunges her into a harsh and unforgiving landscape, across oceans and into crocodile-infested swamps. There, unable to trust anyone, she discovers more than just her own life is at stake.
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Anticlimactic Ending.......2006-01-18
Following her grandfather's funeral, Georgia Parish just wanted to get back to Sydney, Australia, and her life. Fate had other plans. When a crash landing kills a fellow passenger, Georgia finds herself caught up in a deadly mystery. The trail takes her through Australia's extreme climates, Asian gangs, and old acquaintances.
"Dead Heat" is a mystery full of action and suspense, all well written. The characters are engaging, especially Georgia, who is completely human. The plot is well paced, the setting is incredibly lush, and the bad guys are truly evil.
One drawback to this novel is the presence of two climaxes. The first climax seems to provide the answers, and the reader feels all there is left is to wrap up loose ends in the wind down to the last page; yet, there is one more climax before the end. This is a risky technique, and some stories pull it off well. In this case, however, this final action scene is anticlimactic. It is overshadowed by the scene of triumph, much like the ending to the movie "AI."
"Dead Heat" gets three books for the anticlimactic ending to an otherwise outstanding book.
-C.W.
A worthy sophomore effort........2004-07-15
As Dead Heat opens, Georgia Parish has just struck and killed a cassowary, one of the rarest birds in the Australian Wet Tropics, while speeding towards an airport in a borrowed four wheel drive Suzuki. After assessing the damage, the regretful Georgia reflects on the fact that her mother would consider the accident a bad omen. That's exactly what it turns out to be, as, mere hours later, Georgia finds herself embroiled in a high stakes business transaction involving Chinese gangs, corrupt police, and a wonder drug that fights off even the most virulent infection. Because of her involvement, she is threatened, tortured, and subjected to hardships which would push the average person to the brink of madness.
Carver follows her award-winning debut with a riveting sophomore effort, doing for the Australian outback what Nevada Barr has done for America's national parks. Once again chronicling the adventures of a resourceful female (the book even features journalist India Kane, star of Carver's debut novel Blood Junction, in a supporting role), Carver delivers a fast paced, tightly written thriller, bursting at the seams with action and surprises. In the hands of a lesser writer, Dead Heat could have easily degenerated into "The Perils of Georgia". Carver artfully avoids this trap, however, by imbuing her protagonist with an air of believability that grounds the sometimes over the top action sequences in reality, even when Georgia is forced to deal with, in rapid succession, plane crashes, vicious gunmen, officious immigration officials, death traps, and, this being Australia, crocodile infested swamps.
Down Under skullduggery!.......2004-05-27
DEAD HEAT is a rip-snortin' adventure in a wildly beautiful part of the world, the tropical rainforest coast of Australia, where killer crocs roam, deadly diseases dwell, the long arm of Communism reaches out, & a large cast of inter-connected characters fight for freedom & profit. Georgia is a gutsy heroine who takes wild chances & her promises seriously. She isn't above lying when she's cornered or running away if it means she'll live another day...until the Red Bamboo Gang gets hold of her. & that pisses her off.
Rebeccasreads recommends DEAD HEAT as an exciting, sweaty, hell-raising rampage of secrets & stories, computer programs to die for & life-saving medical research, illegal refugees & culture clashes, with death & redemption, payback & honor, all churning into one hurricane of a read!
A compelling thriller with some twists.......2004-04-12
DEAD HEAT by Caroline Carver (Orion, 17.99)
Georgia Parish, a bookseller, is in Nugarra, Far Northern Queensland to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She is to travel home by a small plane. However, the plane crashes but Georgia survives. Suzie, a fellow passenger gives Georgia a bag containing a computer disc and as her dying wish, asks her to give it to Suzie's brother. Georgia also meets Lee on the flight, a mysterious man who saves her life yet remains enigmatic. As it becomes known that Georgia has the disc, she is placed in increasing danger including having her life threatened by a Chinese gang desperate to get their hands on Suzie's brother. Georgia must get to the bottom of the mystery to save not only her own life but that of her mother's.
Caroline Carver has written a compelling thriller that never lets up on the suspense and even manages to throw a few curves to the reader just as the story begins to wind down. Length is a bit of a problem as the story goes on a bit too long. Yet, competently created characters, a fast paced plot and excellent sense of locale raise the book above the merely ordinary.
powerful sweltering tale of murder and survival.......2004-03-22
Georgia Parrish returns home to Nulgarra in Far Northern Queensland, Australia to attend a funeral. Knowing that the townsfolk detest her and struggling with keeping calm against the constant verbal assault of her temporary bunkmate, Georgia decides now that the funeral is over to leave where she is not welcome. She heads to the small airport hoping to gain a seat on a flight out though she knows that is doubtful. She picks up two stranded people also heading to the airport. Luck is with her as someone fails to show up for the flight.
Luck deserts Georgia as the plane crashes killing two people. Georgia learns that the plane was sabotaged and the no show was found dead on a nearby beach. Not trusting local law enforcement to seek the truth, Georgia investigates only to find Chinese thugs believe she was partners with the dead passengers, who include a research scientist on the brink of an antibody breakthrough potentially rivaling that of penicillin. Her deadly foes abduct Georgia's mother because they demand to know what she knows or else.
DEAD HEAT lives up to its title as fans will feel the torrid tropical climate of Northern Queensland especially when the corpse count rises and the crocodiles dominate the local quagmire population. The picturesque background is so compelling at times the view overwhelms a strong thriller starring a terrific protagonist. Though the villains seem more out of a 1930s Fu Manchu tale, readers will appreciate this powerful sweltering tale of murder and survival in the remote Australian swamps.
Harriet Klausner
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- Dead Heat
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- It's alright
- I don't get why everyone wants Cindy back!!!
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ASIN: 0061065641 |
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Melanie Graham is thrilled. She loves exercise riding, and she's good at it, too! Her aunt Ashleigh says Melanie would make a great Jockey-she's really thriving at Whitebrook.
But Melanie's not alone. Her friend Kevin McLean also wants to exercise-ride, and soon Melanie and Kevin are galloping together on the Whitebrook track. Racing for fun turns serious as Melanie becomes more and more competitive, testing their friendship to the limit. Kevin thinks Melanie is pushing herself too hard. Will she slow down before it's too late?
Whether jumping a cross-country course, galloping a powerful racehorse, or just riding on the trails, only one thing matters to Christina and her friends: the special bond between horse and rider. If you love horses, then you'll love reading all the books in the Thoroughbred series.
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Dead Heat.......2005-08-23
In Dead Heat, Melanie Graham has found something she really loves, racing. Since Ashleigh Griffen has started helping Melanie excerise Whitebrooks thoroughbreds, nothing can be better. First Melanie started out riding Heart Of Stone, one of Whitebrooks horses, melanie found another horse she wants to ride, Prides Perfection. A foal out of the horse of the year, Wonders Pride. Pride was a champion in his days and now he has passed some of his speed talent of to his offsprings. Perfection is one of the best yearlings that year and Melanie wants to be the first to ride him. Melanie has been working harder than ever to become a great excerise rider and be able to have the chance to ride Perfection. Melanie and her cousin Christina Reesse starts getting up early in the morning to workout and jog around. But Melanies good friend, Kevin McLean, the head trainers son is acting weird. Soon he starts telling Melanie all she cares about is becoming the best rider and dont have time for eachother. Soon melanie belives that Kevin is made at her; and Melanie soon discovers that he is. Will Melanie take it easy and slow down on her riding before she loses Kevin? Find out in Dead Heat. and please go to [...]to help save the Thoroughbred series.
I LOVE THIS BOOK!.......2003-05-18
This is one of the best TB books ever! It is so cool the way Melanie is traing to be a jockey. I would love to be a jockey, too...HORSE LOVERS READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!
It's alright.......2002-08-14
I like how the series is slowly coming back to racing. That's cool, but the only thing is, why on earth are Kevin and Melanie wearing silks on the cover? and why does Melanie look like a boy? I can't tell her and Kevin apart. Don't get me wrong, It' a cool story but there's just ome flaws, that's not the writer fault. Any ways I like Melanie, to bad Pirate's blind, he'd be an awesome race horse, in the future he and Melanie could have raced together while Christina had tar or what ever. I recommend it.
I don't get why everyone wants Cindy back!!!.......2001-11-18
Okay, I read this book around 2 years ago and I thought it was really good, it had lots of suspense. Why does everyone keep complaining that the series has no racing in it, Melanie wants to be a jockey, she exercise rides. That is what the whole book is about and don't write a review before you read it because then everyone says it (...) so much and YOU HAVN'T EVEN READ IT. Plus I don't understand why everyone wants Cindy back, she was such a snob and always complaining (somewhat like yourselves) about her life, she should be grateful for all she has. And what makes it SO hard to believe that Sammy's in to eventing. She can't be a jockey and can't make much of a living as an exercise rider so what do you expect her to do... NOT RIDE! And I don't think she'd want to be just a trainer because she wouldn't ride, where as she can event and run a business with Tor. But anyway Dead Heat was really good despite what some people say because they're still dweling on the past.
Dead Heat.......2001-09-02
One word: Disgusting. I refuse to put anything else in. Also, why is Melanie and Kevin wearing SILKS when they are not jockeys?
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Dead Heat (Vicap No. 9)
Michael Newton
Manufacturer: Dell
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Release Date: 1992-07-04 |
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Three beautiful ex-FBI agents, Aimee, Daphne, and Raine, have founded a security firm--and their latest job uncovers a fatal plot against America's top CEOs.
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deep psychological suspense thriller .......2006-03-08
Of the three former FBI Agents who formed Partners in Crime, Daphne Donovan is the most reluctant as she holds herself culpable for what happened in New York on 9/11. Still urged by her partners Rainey Roby (see DANGEROUS CURVES) and Aimee Devlin (see I SPY) and her "brother" Brooks Madison she reluctantly takes on investigation jobs. Her current assignment is to investigate Nicole Solem, the fiancée of Naples, Florida banker Keith Melman who was burned once by a cheating spouse.
However, Daphne is not the only one observing Nicole. Former chemist Jenna Marisol blames Nicole's father for the deaths of her spouse, two children, and her mother though she dispatched the latter. When Nathan was CEO of Geon, he persuaded his employers including Jenna's husband to invest while he divested himself of his holdings; when the stock collapsed, Jenna's world went with it. Now she plans to use her new cigarette smoking pal Nicole as the means to enact revenge. Only Daphne and her partner Sam Bryson stand in the way of Jenna's success that will leave many CEOs and Nicole dead.
Readers will commiserate with the heroine's struggle to move on with her life as she blames herself for 9/11 and wonder if she will be able to stop a mass murder from occurring even with Sam encouraging her through his love for her . At the same time, Jenna has found death as the only means to move on with her life. Thus fans receive a deep psychological suspense thriller starring two women, hosting demons from their respective pasts, seeking personal "redemption"; one as a killer, the other as a protector. Jacey Ford is at her best with this action-packed thriller that countdowns to a final confrontation.
Harriet Klausner
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Great action packed comic. Bart is just a standard kid until he turns into IMPULSE! Bart has to save the earth for a new sinister bad guy on a daily basis. He has new people come into his life each day. He has a lot of astonishing powers. This is a guaranteed to leave you wanting more.
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- Graphic SF Reader
- A really good Part I of a two part story
- A less than successful trip into the speed force
- Wonderful
- stay away from this one!!!!!
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The Flash: Dead Heat
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Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03
Max Mercury is the zen master of speed. Savitar is the opposite, an evil zen master of speed. He has many fast allies he has gifted with speed powers, due to his high level of control over the Speed Force.
Wally must recruit allies of this own, as many of the Flash family as possible, in order to oppose this madman. Speedsters abound in this Flash-fest.
A really good Part I of a two part story.......2006-01-03
When all of the speedsters except The Flash suddenly lose their superhuman speed, they begin looking for an explanation. Well, the explanation is heading their way, in the shape of a new super-villain, Savitar. Savitar literally worships the Speed Force, and does not want anyone else tapping its power. Wally West is in the hot seat, and he is going to have to use all of his intellect and talent if he is going to save himself and the other speedsters.
I must say that I am of two minds about this book. It has an exciting storyline, and keeps you on the edge of your seat, right up to the end. On the downside, however, the story leaps back and forth between the work of Oscar Jimenez and Humberto Ramos, and Ramos's anime style is not fitting to the story. Also, the simple fact that it does leap between two styles gives the story a discordant feel to it. The final insult is that this book ends in a cliff-hanger, and you must move on to The Flash: Race Against Time to see what happens next. (And believe me, you really need to do that!)
But, that said, this is a great Flash story, one that I am really glad that I read. So, I guess I would sum up by saying that this is a really good Part I of a two part story, one that any Flash fan will be glad to read.
A less than successful trip into the speed force.......2004-01-21
A new villain appears, Savitar, who is obsessed with reaching the essence of all DC's speedsters' powers, the Speed Force. Max Mercury and the rest of the DC speed crew (Johnny and Jamie Quick, Impulse, Jay Garrick) help the Flash stop him. Collected from crossovers in Flash and Impulse comics, the art is a distraction. Jumping from Jimenenz (very angular with no real feel of motion) to Ramos (anime styling and definitely not appropriate for this storyline serious nature) is disconcerting and definitely does not improve what is already a weak story. Basically, these stories are an attempt to solidify the importance and attraction of the Speed Force, but serve instead as another opportunity to remove another Golden Age character from the DC landscape. This character's death is like many in the DC universe the past few years, occurring mainly for shock value. If you decide to kill off a hero, (albeit in this case, a minor one) at least let them go out in a blaze of glory, not a whimper. DEAD HEAT is far from the high standard Waid has set on his Flash run; it is needed by completists only.
Wonderful.......2001-07-09
Well this story took place in The Flash issues 108 to 111 and Impulse issues 10 and 11 and have been collected here. The story is about Savitar who is in his own mind the God of speed, and when he finds out others are using the speed from the speed force and so he cuts them off...All but wally west The Flash and thats when all hell breaks loose. This story has it all, lots of speedsters like the first flash and others and you have "Speed Ninjas" who work with Savitar so all in all you get a good story with lots of the "Flash family" in it. Also you have the death of a few speedsters as well so if your a flash fan you will not want to miss the story about that.
My one problem with the book is that it has a cliffhanger ending! trades should never leave the ending open like that because you buy a trade for the complete story not cliffhangers. but DC comics have published the second book "Race againist time" so you might want ot pick it up at the same time if you want the whole story.
stay away from this one!!!!!.......2001-05-29
what a terible waste of money!the story was bad,the plot stunk, the art was worse yet.a total waste of the flash's cariture.lets have him run around through half of the book racing his foe,how stupid.i don't recomend this one to anyone and i'm a flash fan.
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Dead Heat is a story of obsessions--of people driven to pursue their dreams and their desires at whatever cost. The haunted young woman who shows up one day outside the horse trainer, Jake Fontana's tack room at the Santa Anita racetrack is not merely looking for work, but has an agenda: she wants to become a great race rider.
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Really Sad That This Is His Last Book.......2005-09-19
This is Murray's last book, having passed away earlier this year. If you are a racing fan or otherwise interested in the world of the racetrack and the crazy people who inhabit it, buy this book. It's funny, touching, and all too familiar for those who love the horses. And then buy all of Murray's racing mysteries. This final book is a great read and I hated to see it end. Murray captured what makes a day at the races so special to many of us. One of these days I'll finally get out to Del Mar and hoist a beer and a few losing tickets in Murray's memory. Until then I'm stuck with the great books he wrote. If you love racing, you'll love this book.
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This time around Shell Scott gives up chasing downtown lowlifes for the uptown high-end kind. A mysterious and industrious industrialist trusts Scott with finding a stock swapper that seems to know too much. And too much is just the beginning. From big-time boardrooms to bawdy motel rooms our man Scott isn't about to sell these crooks short. Tempers flare and plots boil over but in this contest between Shell Scott and some bad guy big wigs, busty femme fatales and flying bullets, between life and death, the end could come right down to a Dead Heat.
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