Slow Decline

Author : Andrew Potter
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781771963954

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On Decline by Andrew Potter Pdf

A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist attacks in Brussels and Nice, the Brexit vote—and the election of Donald Trump. The end-of-year wraps declared 2016 “the worst … ever.” Four even more troubling years later, the question of our apocalypse had devolved into a tired social media cliché. But when COVID-19 hit, journalist and professor of public policy Andrew Potter started to wonder: what if The End isn’t one big event, but a long series of smaller ones? In On Decline, Potter surveys the current problems and likely future of Western civilization (spoiler: it’s not great). Economic stagnation and the slowing of scientific innovation. Falling birth rates and environmental degradation. The devastating effects of cultural nostalgia and the havoc wreaked by social media on public discourse. Most acutely, the various failures of Western governments in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. If the legacy of the Enlightenment and its virtues—reason, logic, science, evidence—has run its course, how and why has it happened? And where do we go from here?

Author : Andrew Lang Golub,Bruce D. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cocaine abuse
ISBN : IND:30000050044225

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Crack's Decline by Andrew Lang Golub,Bruce D. Johnson Pdf

Author : H. M. Fillit,Howard Fillit,R. N. Butler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521026709

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Cognitive Decline by H. M. Fillit,Howard Fillit,R. N. Butler Pdf

Cognitive Decline - Strategies for Prevention examines the problems associated with our understanding of the ageing brain, whether or not such decline is inevitable and if there are practical steps which can be taken to prevent or minimise cognitive decline in late life. Preventive medical strategies have primarily targeted the top three causes of death in the developed world: heart disease, cancer and stroke. Less attention to date has been paid to cognitive decline and dementia, possible because the generally held view has been that little of nothing could be done to help them. Our knowledge has grown rapidly and it is becoming clear that preventative strategies are now viable. Cognitive Decline - Strategies for Prevention brings together a group of leading researchers to assess and make practical recommendations about the strategies currently available. The chapters assess how 'normal' cognitive ageing should be defined and what the genetic, medical, psychological and environmental factors are which can adversely affect optimal cognitive function in late life. It then examines how 'healthy living' strategies can be employed throughout life to prevent cognitive decline in later years and what are the research strategies which promise new approaches to prevention in the future.

Author : Mary E. Daly
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0299212904

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The Slow Failure by Mary E. Daly Pdf

Focusing on both Irish government and society, Daly places Ireland's population history in the mainstream history of independent Ireland. Her book is essential reading for understanding modern Irish history."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Gilbert Lafreniere,Gilbert F. LaFreniere
Publisher : Academica Press,LLC
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781933146515

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The Decline of Nature by Gilbert Lafreniere,Gilbert F. LaFreniere Pdf

An environmental history of ideas embedded in a compact account of Western civilization's ecological impact upon the planet, particularly in Europe and its colonies.

Author : Brian Wampler,Benjamin Goldfrank
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030900588

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The Rise, Spread, and Decline of Brazil’s Participatory Budgeting by Brian Wampler,Benjamin Goldfrank Pdf

This book examines the rise, spread and decline of participatory budgeting in Brazil. In the last decade of the twentieth century Brazil became a model of participatory democracy for activists, practitioners, and scholars. However, some thirty years later participatory budgeting is in steep decline, and on the verge of disappearing from Brazil. Drawing from institutional, political choice, civil society, and public administration literature, this book generates theory that accounts for the rise and fall of an innovative democratic institution. It examines what the arc of the creation, spread, and decline of participatory budgeting tells us about the long-term viability and potential democratic impact of this innovative democratic institution as it spreads globally. Will the same inverted trajectory plague other countries in the future, or will they be able to sustain participatory budgeting for greater periods of time?

Author : Antti Sihvonen,Juha-Antti Lamberg,Henrikki Tikkanen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000530278

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Managing Decline by Antti Sihvonen,Juha-Antti Lamberg,Henrikki Tikkanen Pdf

A growing body of literature in the area of business administration has focused on the phenomenon of decline. These studies span multiple levels of analysis and draws on a range of disciplines, including strategic management, economics, and economic geography. Managing Decline: A Research Overview provides a summary of this research by focusing on three key levels of analysis: industries, clusters, and organizations. The targeted reviews in this book map each individual level of analysis separately and the discussion section outlines overarching themes regarding decline and its management. The three levels are analyzed by identifying different forms, causes, processes, and management options regarding decline. This is accompanied by the identification of key academic discourses that have been used to analyze decline. The discussion section highlights broader themes regarding the nature and management of decline that span across the different levels of analysis. This book provides an easy-to-access summary on the nature and management of decline for academic scholars and business practitioners, and is essential reading for getting an overview of this broad field of research.

Author : Dean Brooks
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781039151895

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The Decline Effect by Dean Brooks Pdf

A crisis is coming for everyone who uses math and science. For decades now, the classical model of probability (the indifference principle and the Gaussian distribution) has been breaking down and revealing its limitations in fields from economics to epidemiology. Now a new approach has revealed the underlying non-classical principle behind all these 'anomalous' laws: — Pareto’s law of elite incomes — Zipf’s law of word frequencies — Lotka’s law of scientific publications — Kleiber’s law of metabolic rates — the Clausewitz-Dupuy law of combat friction — Moore’s law of computing costs — the Wright-Henderson cost law — Weibull’s law of electronics failures — the Flynn Effect in IQ scores — Benford’s law of digit frequencies — Farr’s law of epidemics — Hubbell’s neutral theory of biodiversity — Rogers’ law of innovation classes — Wilson’s law of island biogeography — Smeed’s law of traffic fatalities The general law behind all these particular laws (and countless others) is the "decline effect". As a system ages or grows in size, the rules of probability subtly change. Entropy increases, rare items become rarer, and average performance measures decline. The human meaning of a decline may be positive (decreasing costs, falling epidemic mortality) or negative (lower customer loyalty, decreasing efficiency), but the mathematical pattern is always the same. The implications are enormous, as these examples show: All epidemic diseases decline in infectiousness and in lethality. HIV-AIDS went from a highly infectious, 95-percent fatal disease, to a survivable condition with a latency of decades. COVID-19 went from a death rate of 7 percent in early 2020, to under 2 percent in 2022. Hereditary dynasties around the world declined smoothly in lifespan, from hundreds of years to tens of years. When democracies replaced monarchies, the decline (in spans of party control) continued.

Author : Louis Grow Huntley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Petroleum
ISBN : UOM:39015077560707

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Possible Causes of the Decline of Oil Wells and Suggested Methods of Prolonging Yield by Louis Grow Huntley Pdf

Author : Maurice Halperin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520021827

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The Rise and Decline of Fidel Castro by Maurice Halperin Pdf

Author : Arthur J. Knodel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400869848

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The Decline of Fertility in Germany, 1871-1939 by Arthur J. Knodel Pdf

This is the second in a series of monographs on the historic decline of European fertility to be issued by the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. It is a detailed statistical description and analysis of the transition from high to low birth rates which took place in Germany between Unification and the beginning of World War II. It assembles an exceptionally comprehensive amount of evidence that will be of great importance to social historians as well as sociologists and demographers. John E. Knodel relies on modern yet simple methods of measuring the main demographic trends in Germany and uses straightforward methods to test the plausibility of the many hypotheses that have been advanced to explain the great falls in fertility that occurred throughout the western world in the late nineteenth century. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Carlo Morelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317322993

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The Decline of Jute by Carlo Morelli Pdf

By looking at the decline of the jute industry, this study assesses the successes and failures of Britain’s managed economy. It also addresses broader arguments about the political economy of twentieth-century Britain.

Author : Carl Hugh Beal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Oil fields
ISBN : HARVARD:32044082144270

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The Decline and Ultimate Production of Oil Wells, with Notes on the Valuation of Oil Properties by Carl Hugh Beal Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Research
ISBN : NWU:35558003228448

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Problems of Drug Dependence, 1994 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Dale
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771135542

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Shift Change by Stephen Dale Pdf

Hamilton’s industrial age is over. In the steel capital of Canada, there are no more skies lit red by foundries at sunset, no more traffic jams at shift change. Instead, an urban renaissance is taking shape. But who wins and who loses in the city’s not-too-distant future? Is it possible to lift a downtrodden, post-industrial city out of poverty in a way that benefits people across the social spectrum, not just a wealthy elite? In Shift Change, author Stephen Dale sets up “the Hammer” as a battlefield, a laboratory, a chessboard. As investors cash in on a real estate gold rush and the all-too-familiar wheels of gentrification begin to turn, there’s still a rare opportunity for both old-guard and newcomer Hamiltonians to come together and write a different story—one in which Steeltown becomes an economically diverse and inclusive urban centre for all. What plays out in these pages and at this very moment is a real-time case study that will capture the attention and the imagination of anyone interested in equitable redevelopment, housing activism, and social justice in the North American city.