Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

Enough:
True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

by John C. Bogle
For a critical element of American society, including many of its wealthiest and most powerful, there seems to be no limit today on what "enough" entails.

The excesses are most starkly visible in the continuing crisis in banking and investment, and even in the two enormous government-sponsored (but publicly owned) mortgage lenders, to say nothing of the billion-dollar-plus annual paychecks that top hedge-fund managers draw down and the excessive compensation paid to CEOs, regardless ofย  performance.

Throughout his legendary career, John Bogleโ€”founder of the Vanguard mutual fund group, and creator of the first index mutual fundโ€”has helped investors build wealth the right way and led a tireless campaign to restore common sense to the investment world. Along the way, heโ€�s seen how destructive an obsession with financial success can be. Now, with Enough, he puts this dilemma in perspective.

Bogle offers his unparalleled insights on money, on the value...

Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

Blue Covenant:
The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

by Maude Barlow
"You will not turn on the tap in the same way after reading this book."
--Robert Redford ...

The One Minute Manager Balances Work and Life

The One Minute Manager Balances Work and Life

by Ken Blanchard
This is the story of a One Minute Manager who was so successful in every way that he forgot one important thing: He forgot to stay physically fit. He was so much in demand that he ate on the run, didn't take time to exercise, and all the while saw his weight balloon and his breath grow shorter. He soon discovered success in business was endangering his health. His life was out of balance.For all those busy, achieving people with overcrowded schedules, here is a useful blueprint that shows how to manage stress and make a lifetime commitment to fitness and well-being. By following four important strategies for balancing a complicated life, everyone can get their bodies back into shape and their lives into proper perspective. The One Minute Manager Balances Work and Life offers a way to achieve not only a new, healthier style of living but increased productivity as well. For the millions of readers of Ken Blanchard's bestselling books--including Raving Fans and Gung Ho!<...

Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It

Unquenchable:
America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It

by Robert Glennon
In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals. Meanwhile, the town of Orme, Tennessee, must truck in water from Alabama because it has literally run out.ย Robert Glennon captures the irony and tragedy of America s water crisis in a book that is both frightening and wickedly comical. From manufactured snow for tourists in Atlanta to trillions of gallons of water flushed down the toilet each year, Unquenchable reveals the heady extravagances and everyday inefficiencies that are sucking the nation dry.ย The looming catastrophe remains hidden as government diverts supplies from one area to another to keep water flowing from the tap. But sooner rather than later, the shell game has to end. And when it does, shortages will threaten not only the environment, but every aspect of American life: we face shuttered power plants and jobless workers, decimated fi sheries and contamin...

The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

The Power of Full Engagement:
Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

by Jim Loehr

The number of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. This fundamental insight has the power to revolutionize the way you live....

When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century

When the Rivers Run Dry:
Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century

by Fred Pearce
In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramifications for us all.

โ€�A strongโ€”and scaryโ€”case that a worldwide water shortage is the most fearful looming environmental crisis. With a drumbeat of facts both horrific (thousands of wells in India and Bangladesh are poisoned by fluoride and arsenic) and fascinating (it takes 20 tons of water to make one pound of coffee), the former New Scientist news editor documents a โ€�kind of cataclysmโ€� already affecting many of the worldโ€�s great rivers.โ€� โ€”Publishers Weekly, starred review

โ€�Oil we can replace. Water we canโ€�tโ€”which is why this book is both so ominous and so important.โ€� โ€”Bill McKibben, ...

Time Management from the Inside Out, second edition: The Foolproof System for Taking Control of Your Schedule--and Your Life

Time Management from the Inside Out, second edition:
The Foolproof System for Taking Control of Your Schedule--and Your Life

by Julie Morgenstern
A thoroughly updated and expanded edition of the definitive guide to managing and freeing up time

Applying the groundbreaking from-the-inside-out approach that made Organizing from the Inside Out a New York Times bestseller, Julie Morgenstern set a new standard for the time- management category. Her system has helped countless readers uncover their psychological stumbling blocks and strengths, and develop a time-management system that suits their individual needs.

By applying her proven three-step program-Analyze, Strategize, Attack-and following her effective guidelines, readers will find more time for work, family, self-improvement, or whatever is most important to them. Time management is a learnable skill, and in this completely revised edition, Morgenstern provides the ultimate tools to combine, delegate, and eliminate unnecessary tasks; put technology to work; and stop procrastinating once and for all.

This revised edition delivers
...

Design and Operation of Activated Sludge Processes Using Respirometry

Design and Operation of Activated Sludge Processes Using Respirometry

by Alan Rozich
This book provides a thorough overview of respirometry and its scientific and engineering basis. The book describes the fundamentals of biological waste treatment, development of predictive models for system design and operation, and how respirometry fits in with these operations. It also presents case studies, which give you concrete examples of the application of respirometry.This book will help activated sludge process control designers, operators, and managers of biological wastewater treatment facilitieslearn how to improve methods for the analysis of biological wastewater systems, enhance design and treatability projects, optimize and troubleshoot plant operations, and accurately predict the impact of new loads or streams on biological wastewater facilities.

Organizing from the Inside Out, second edition: The Foolproof System For Organizing Your Home, Your Office and Your Life

Organizing from the Inside Out, second edition:
The Foolproof System For Organizing Your Home, Your Office and Your Life

by Julie Morgenstern
A completely revised and expanded edition of the New York Times bestselling guide to putting things in order

Getting organized is a skill that anyone can learn, and there's no better teacher than America's organizing queen, Julie Morgenstern, as hundreds of thousands of readers have learned. Drawing on her years of experience as a professional organizer, Morgenstern outlines a simple organizing plan that starts with understanding your individual goals, natural habits, and psychological needs, so that you can work with your priorities and personality rather than against them. The basic steps-Analyze, Strategize, Attack-can be applied to any space or situation.

In this thoroughly revised edition, Morgenstern has incorporated new information in response to feedback from her clients and audiences. These changes include
- new chapters on living or working with someone who is disorganized
- new chapters on organizing photographs, handbags, briefcases, a...

Water and Wastewater Calculations Manual, 2nd Ed.

Water and Wastewater Calculations Manual, 2nd Ed.

by Shun Lin
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The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

The Power of Full Engagement:
Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal

by Jim Loehr

The number of hours in a day is fixed, but the quantity and quality of energy available to us is not. This fundamental insight has the power to revolutionize the way you live....

Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse

Wastewater Engineering:
Treatment and Reuse

by George Tchobanoglous
Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Reuse, 4/e is a thorough update of McGraw-Hill's authoritative book on wastewater treatment. No environmental engineering professional or civil or and environmental engineering major should be without a copy of this book- tt describes the technological and regulatory changes that have occurred over the last ten years in this discipline, including: improved techniques for the characterization of wastewaters; improved fundamental understanding of many of the existing unit operations and processes used for wastewater treatment, especially those processes used for the biological removal of nutrients; greater implementation of several newer treatment technologies (e.g., UV disinfection, membrane filtration, and heat drying); greater concern for the long term health and environmental impacts of wastewater constituents; greater emphasis on advanced wastewater treatment and risk assessment for water reuse applications; changes in regulations and...

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

Getting Things Done:
The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen
In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced to tens of thousands of people across the country. Allen's premise is simple: our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective productivity and unleash our creative potential. In Getting Things Done Allen shows how to:

โ�ฌ Apply the "do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it" rule to get your in-box to empty
โ�ฌ Reassess goals and stay focused in changing situations
โ�ฌ Plan projects as well as get them unstuck
โ�ฌ Overcome feelings of confusion, anxiety, and being overwhelmed
โ�ฌ Feel fine about what you're not doing

From core principles to proven tricks, Getting Things Done can transform the way you work, showing...

Water Supply and Pollution Control (7th Edition)

Water Supply and Pollution Control
(7th Edition)

by Warren Viessman Jr.
For upper-division undergraduate or beginning graduate courses in civil and environmental engineering. This bestselling text has been revised and modernized to meet the needs of today's environmental engineering students who will be engaged in the design and management of water and wastewater systems. It emphasizes the application of the scientific method to problems associated with the development, movement, and treatment of water and wastewater. Recognizing that all waters are potential sources of supply, the authors present treatment processes in the context of what they can do, rather than dividing them along clean water or waste water lines. An abundance of examples and homework problems amplify the concepts presented.

Indispensable By Monday: Learn the Profit-Producing Behaviors that will Help Your Company and Yourself

Indispensable By Monday:
Learn the Profit-Producing Behaviors that will Help Your Company and Yourself

by Larry Myler
Separates fact from fiction for what makes an employee indispensable ...

The Renewable Energy Handbook, Revised Edition: The Updated Comprehensive Guide to Renewable Energy and Independent Living

The Renewable Energy Handbook, Revised Edition:
The Updated Comprehensive Guide to Renewable Energy and Independent Living

by William H. Kemp
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Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

Who Moved My Cheese?:
An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

by Spencer Johnson
From one of the world's most recognized experts on management comes a charming parable filled with insights designed to help readers manage change quickly and prevail in changing times.