Tabla de Contenidos: “…Viewing the Entire Spectrum of Environmental Impact -- Defining degenerative lifecycles -- Defining sustainable lifecycles -- Defining regenerative lifecycles -- Understanding the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Butterfly Diagram -- Examining the circular economy's structure: The bones of the operation -- Renewables flow management: Harnessing biological cycles -- Stock management: Optimizing technical cycles -- Promoting environmental restoration: Investing now to obtain even more later -- Chapter 11 Analyzing Material Lifecycle Processes -- Looking at Material Processes -- Fostering transparency -- Instituting chemical management -- Rewarding innovation -- The Lifecycle Principles: Identifying Where Change Can Happen -- Preserving natural capital -- Enhancing the usefulness of products, components, and raw materials -- Developing effective systems that minimize negative externalities -- Looking at Opportunities for Optimization -- Refusing the new: Reusing the old -- Employing the remaining factor: Remanufacturing -- Biochemical extraction for the win -- Chapter 12 Improving the Material Lifecycle -- Improving How Material Lifecycles Function -- Looking at Materials in a New Way -- Getting to know your lifecycle -- Refuse before you reduce, reuse, and recycle -- Examining Operations in a New Way -- Looking at human capital -- You can be everywhere -- Connecting Sourcing, Suppliers, and Customers -- Chapter 13 It All Comes Down to Selecting the Right Materials -- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Exploring Materials -- Oil or Plastics - They're Really Much the Same Thing -- What's Harder than Rock? …”

“…La relación entre el tamaño de A. psittacus y la riqueza de poliquetos está determinada por la ecuación potencial (Y = cXz) que empíricamente describe la conocida relación especies-área en el modelo de equilibrio de MacArthur & Wilson (1963), por lo que los cirripedios se comportarían como islas para los poliquetos asociados. …”
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“…He published biographies of American and English figures of political, cultural and military significance, including Shaw, Lawrence of Arabia, Whistler, Beardsley, Queen Victoria (which reached #1 on The Times of London bestseller list), Prince Albert, King Edward VII, Disraeli, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshall and FDR; he wrote histories covering aspects of the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Korean War, and he wrote a series of books about wartime Christmases, including Washington getting home for Christmas in 1783, Sherman reaching Savannah for Christmas in 1864, the Christmas Truce of 1914, Christmas at the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, and a military escape from Korea at Christmas in 1950.…”

“…A lovely book with humor and perspective” -- John Novembre, Associate Professor of Human Genetics, University of Chicago and MacArthur Fellow “Fun, entertaining, witty and darn useful. …”

“…He is also the Network Coordinator of the GovLab-chaired MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance. …”

“…Pour les soldats américains blancs comme noirs, la Grande Guerre est d'abord un formidable apprentissage des savoirs militaires et une expérience de la guerre marquante pour la génération des Patton, Marshall ou MacArthur. Former et transporter, endivisionner et engager au feu des centaines de milliers d'hommes constitue un épisode central de l'expérience militaire des États-Unis dans une coalition alliée. …”