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Polar Shift
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Polar ShiftPolar Shift

This is Cussler's and Kemprecos' sixth novel starring Kurt Austin and his NUMA Files National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) Files Special Assignments Team. This one concerns a polar shift, a phenomenon that can trigger huge eruptions, earthquakes, and climate changes. Sixty years ago, a Hungarian scientist discovered how to artificially set off such a shift, and now an antiglobalization group plans to strike the world's industrialized countries. The water in the world's oceans and lakes will be jerked in a different direction, pounding the coastline, causing massive floods.
 
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Tags: shift, world, Files, industrialized, countries, Polar, Shift
The Price of Everything: Solving the Mystery of Why We Pay What We Do
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The price of everything solving the mystery of why we pay what we do (audiobook)The price of everything solving the mystery of why we pay what we do (audiobook)

Many of the prices we pay seem to make little sense. We shell out $2.29 for a coffee at Starbucks when a nearly identical brew can be had at the corner deli for less than a dollar. We may be less willing to give blood for $25 than to donate it for free. Americans hire the cheap labor of illegal immigrants to fix the roof or mow the lawn and vote for politicians who promise to spend billions to keep them out of the country. And citizens of the industrialized West pay hundreds of dollars a year in taxes or cash for someone to cart away trash that would be a valuable commodity in poorer parts of the world.....

 
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Tags: prices, value, Price, price, behind, hundreds, dollars, taxes, someone, industrialized
Language and Space: Theories and Methods: An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation, Volume 1
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Language and Space: Theories and Methods: An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation, Volume 1Language and Space: Theories and Methods: An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation, Volume 1

The dimensions of time and space fundamentally cause and shape the variability of all human language. To reduce investigation of this insight to manageable proportions, researchers have traditionally concentrated on the 'deepest' dialects. But it is increasingly apparent that, although most people still speak with a distinct regional coloring, the new mobility of speakers in recently industrialized and postindustrial societies and the efflorescence of communication technologies cannot be ignored.
 
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Tags: postindustrial, societies, efflorescence, communication, industrialized, Linguistic, Variation, Language, Handbook, Volume