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Climate of hope : how cities, businesses, and citizens can save the planet
\"In 2006, the documentary An Inconvenient Truth set off a heated political debate when it threatened that inaction on climate change would lead to a dark and frightening future by 2016. Well, that ten-year window has closed--and we have neither resolved the threats to our climate, nor gone past the point of no return. To Mayor Bloomberg and Carl Pope, it's clear that to treat climate change as either a lost cause or a non-issue is the wrong approach\"-- Provided by publihser.
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Saving an additional 100 million lives
10 years ago, we suggested a way to prevent 100 million deaths from tobacco.1 That initiative, grounded on the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, led to the creation of the MPOWER technical package, which in the past decade has newly protected about 3·5 billion people with effective tobacco control strategies, reduced tobacco use prevalence substantially, and prevented 30 million deaths.2,3 As that work continues, today, along with global partners, we are launching a new cardiovascular health initiative-Resolve-to prevent an additional 100 million deaths globally.
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The art of being unreasonable : lessons in unconventional thinking
Eli Broad?s embrace of \"unreasonable thinking\" has helped him build two Fortune 500 companies, amass personal billions, and use his wealth to create a new approach to philanthropy. He has helped to fund scientific research institutes, K-12 education reform, and some of the world?s greatest contemporary art museums. By contrast, \"reasonable\" people come up with all the reasons something new and different can?t be done, because, after all, no one else has done it that way. This book shares the \"unreasonable\" principles-from negotiating to risk-taking, from investing to hiring-that have made Eli Broad such a success.
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Understanding death, extending life
According to WHO, nearly two-thirds of all deaths--38 million each year--go unreported.1 Millions more deaths lack a documented cause.
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A place of remembrance : official book of the national September 11 Memorial
\"The official book created by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, this keepsake volume honors those lost?and celebrates the spirit of hope as it tells the story of rescue, recovery, and the building of the memorial plaza (opened on September 11, 2011), and the museum (opened on May 21, 2014)\" -- From Amazon.com.
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How to prevent 100 million deaths from tobacco
Furthermore, no quantifiable international target for tobacco control exists, and government resources and bilateral or private-sector funding are limited. Here, we propose a global target, outline a technical package, and describe a new grant programme to expand implementation of effective tobacco control.
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Reducing Gun Violence in America
Amid a growing consensus that the staggering toll of gun violence in the United States is an urgent public health issue, the Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health has convened experts on gun policy and violence from the United States and selected other countries to summarize relevant research and its implications for policymakers and concerned citizens. Legal scholars weigh in on the constitutionality of recommended policies, and researchers present new data on public support for a wide array of policies designed to reduce gun violence. Collected for the first time in one volume, this reliable, empirical research and legal analysis will inform the policy debate by helping lawmakers and opinion leaders identify the policy changes that are most likely to reduce gun violence in the United States.
Researchers draw on new and existing studies on U.S. gun policies to demonstrate both the weaknesses of current federal gun policies and the efficacy of various state laws designed to reduce firearm availability to high-risk groups. By analyzing scientific and legal data, the contributors provide evidence in support of enhanced regulation and oversight of licensed gun dealers, background checks for private sales, and purchaser licensing. Lessons from bans of assault weapons and of large-capacity magazines for guns are considered, as is the promise of “smart guns,” which could be fired only by authorized users. Compelling case studies from Australia, Scotland, and Brazil demonstrate effective policy responses to gun violence that have led to significant reductions in gun-related deaths. The book concludes with data on public support for strengthening gun laws and Second Amendment considerations.
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The Art of Being Unreasonable
Unorthodox success principles from a billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist
Eli Broad's embrace of \"unreasonable thinking\" has helped him build two Fortune 500 companies, amass personal billions, and use his wealth to create a new approach to philanthropy. He has helped to fund scientific research institutes, K-12 education reform, and some of the world's greatest contemporary art museums. By contrast, \"reasonable\" people come up with all the reasons something new and different can't be done, because, after all, no one else has done it that way. This book shares the \"unreasonable\" principles—from negotiating to risk-taking, from investing to hiring—that have made Eli Broad such a success.
* Broad helped to create the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and The Broad, a new museum being built in downtown Los Angeles
* His investing approach to philanthropy has led to the creation of scientific and medical research centers in the fields of genomic medicine and stem cell research
* At his alma mater, Michigan State University, he endowed a full-time M.B.A. program, and he and his wife have funded a new contemporary art museum on campus to serve the broader region
* Eli Broad is the founder of two Fortune 500 companies: KB Home and SunAmerica
If you're stuck doing what reasonable people do—and not getting anywhere—let Eli Broad show you how to be unreasonable, and see how far your next endeavor can go.
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New Public Health Strategies for a New Era
An effective public health strategy must, therefore, alter that calculus by changing how we live. second, this country faces challenges in the possibility of health related disasters, as AIDS, West Nile virus, SARS, and now avian flu are all reminders of pandemic disease in a globalized world. The work of the law has been constantly demonstrated in such successes as mandatory vaccination, requiring automobile seatbelts, reducing drunk-driving, improving workplace safety, providing access to family planning services, and the fluoridation of water.\\n Because whatever part of the country that individuals live in, pork barrel politics jeopardizes the safety of all hometowns, of all home states, and of the entire nation. Because challenges of today, those of chronic diseases and by natural and manmade disasters, can be conquered in the same way as our predecessors defeated cholera, diphtheria, typhoid, and polio: through the efforts of an informed democracy not afraid to face the facts and make decisions that address public health, not politics, first and by fairly and vigorously using the instruments of the law to protect the lives of every member of society.
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Economic risks of climate change
Climate change threatens the economy of the United States in myriad ways, including increased flooding and storm damage, altered crop yields, lost labor productivity, higher crime, reshaped public-health patterns, and strained energy systems, among many other effects. Combining the latest climate models, state-of-the-art econometric research on human responses to climate, and cutting-edge private-sector risk-assessment tools,Economic Risks of Climate Change: An American Prospectuscrafts a game-changing profile of the economic risks of climate change in the United States.
This prospectus is based on a critically acclaimed independent assessment of the economic risks posed by climate change commissioned by the Risky Business Project. With new contributions from Karen Fisher-Vanden, Michael Greenstone, Geoffrey Heal, Michael Oppenheimer, and Nicholas Stern and Bob Ward, as well as a foreword from Risky Business cochairs Michael Bloomberg, Henry Paulson, and Thomas Steyer, the book speaks to scientists, researchers, scholars, activists, and policy makers. It depicts the distribution of escalating climate-change risk across the country and assesses its effects on aspects of the economy as varied as hurricane damages and violent crime. Beautifully illustrated and accessibly written, this book is an essential tool for helping businesses and governments prepare for the future.
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