Energy comes in many shapes and forms, from wind, solar power, geothermal, and biomass to coal, natural gas, and petroleum. The energy we consume is constantly changing, but the use of these resources-whether renewable or nonrenewable-has long-term impacts on our planet. While there has been this recent shift to renewable energy within the United States, the worldwide demand for all energy types continues to increase at a rapid rate. In fact, it has increased by 84% over the past twenty years. Despite their dwindling supply, these resources are still heavily relied on today. Coal still accounts for 30% of the electricity generated by the United States, even though natural gas is now the primary energy used to produce electricity. Likewise, only 7% of electricity usage worldwide is linked to solar and wind energy. In The Changing Energy Mix, Paul F. Meier compares twelve renewable and nonrenewable energy types using twelve common technical criteria. These criteria span projected reserves, cost to the consumer and supplier, energy balances, environmental issues, land area required, and lasting impacts. While explaining the pros and cons of these resources, Meier takes readers through the history of energy in the United States and world. He provides insight into energy sources, such as wind-powered and solar-powered electricity (which did not exist until the mid and late 80s, respectively), and he explains the constantly evolving world of energy. Breaking down the potential promises and struggles of transitioning to a more renewable energy-based economy, Meier explains the positive and negative implications of these various sources of energy. The resulting book equips readers with a unique understanding of the history, availability, technology, implementation cost, and concerns of renewable and nonrenewable energy.

The Changing Energy Mix: A Systematic Comparison of Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy

Business & Money

Meier, Paul

Economics

Oxford University Press

William Morris, the Marxist Dreamer

Humanities Press

For young readers who might have a mischievous dog of their own, this story follows a little girl and the cocker spaniel who disrupts her day at every turn. From making cookies to planting flowers, each attempt at fun goes awry when the dog tries to get involved. But as every dog lover knows, even the messiest of four-legged friends is a good, good dog, as the girl remembers when bedtime arrives. This book is dedicated to two cocker spaniels and their lifetimes of bringing joy to their owners.

Bad Bad Dog

Children's Books

Animals

Paul F. Meier

Love Is a Choice Workbook provides a ten-stage plan to help you find healing from the pain that created your codependency and then guides you through the plan using interactive questions, self-tests, exercises, and journaling. This workbook helps you to step back and examine your life and then effectively deal with your codependency at your own pace. It can be used independently, or with Love Is a Choice, to help you break the cycle of codependency and be free to make new choices-free to choose love.

Love Is a Choice Workbook

Hemfelt, Robert

Minirth, Frank

Newman, Deborah

Newman, Brian

Parenting & Relationships

HarperChristian Resources

Compulsive overeating is a complex and pervasive problem. A one-dimensional approach to weight loss has rarely worked because different people are overweight for different reasons, and most people have several factors feeding their obesity problems. Love Hunger Weight-Loss Workbook's multifaceted approach will help you develop lifelong lifestyle changes through:
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<li>Weekly eating, exercise, and lifestyle plans</li>
<li>An easy-to-use menu exchange program for each week</li>
<li>A daily food, exercise, and behavior diary</li>
<li>A specially designed personal weight-loss chart</li>
<li>Daily meditations based on the Twelve Steps</li>
<li>A guided self-examination of your love hunger through self-tests, journaling, interactive questions, and exercises.</li>
</ul>

Love Hunger Weight-Loss Workbook

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hawkins, Don

Sneed, Sharon

Diets & Weight Loss

Based on the premise that overeating is linked to emotional and spiritual deprivations, Love Hunger begins with a relationship inventory that will help you understand how disappointments with your family, spouse, or self can result in obesity. It then provides a comprehensive program that helps identify whether or not you are using food as a substitute for love, career fulfillment, or friendship and shows you how to break that addiction. Once you begin dealing with the psychological basis for your eating problems, you'll be ready to lose weight healthfully, with a dietitian-designed food plan, that includes daily menus and recipes, as well as strategies for relapses, maintenance, motivation, and more. This is a complete plan for body, mind, and soul.

Love Hunger

These bestselling doctors walk you through their ten proven stages to recovery from codependency that results from external circustances. Humans are susceptible to codependency because of our sinful tendency to use defense mechanisms to fool ourselves. In codependent relationships, deceitful games are played, and important Christian principles are often taken out of context and abused. God wants us to have healthy relationships with a balance between being dependent and independent. The doctors describe how the most effective means of overcoming codependent relationships is to establish or deepen a relationship with Christ Himself. They describe the causes of codependency, pointing out the factors that perpetuate it, and lead readers through their ten stages of recovery.

Love Is a Choice: The Definitive Book on Letting Go of Unhealthy Relationships

Self-Help

Relationships

Thomas Nelson

Seventeen million people in the United States suffer from clinical depression, and more than fifty million people find themselves in prolonged emotional lows. Now, for every sufferer, there is hope. Not only are effective counseling methods available to treat depression, but also researchers have made great strides in understanding the chemical makeup of the brain. Mood Swings helps readers understand the causes of "bipolar-related disorders"-and find effective ways to treat the problem, recover the joy they've lost, and return to a far more normal, balanced perspective on life. The doctors discuss the extremes and the in-betweens of depression, and show how the highs and lows of uncontrollable mood swings trap the sufferer in a cycle of dysfunction.Mood Swings offers hope to everyone who suffers depression and helps those who love them understand and treat this troubling problem.

Mood Swings Understand Your Emotional Highs And Lows

ARTERBURN, STEPHEN

Mental Health

The bestselling authors of "Beyond the Millennium" and "The Fourth Millennium" bring readers a new prophetic thriller based on the idea that there is a secret code in the Bible that pinpoints crucial dates and events.

The Secret Code

Literature & Fiction

Wise, Robert

United States

When you think you've been given nothing but raw deals in your life, remember that you can choose to be happy. That's not just a pat theory but a truth that you really can discover and use for your life. Dr. Paul and Jan Meier work with thousands of teens struggling with the same dilemmas ... feelings of stress, worried that there's no future, tempted to check out on reality. They will show you how to deal with issues such as: anger, grief, goal-setting, the opposite sex, siblings, self-image ... to name a few.

Happiness Is A Choice For Teens

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