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From  On Nature’s Limits and the Human ConditionFive Axioms of Sustainability From: Peak Everything |
My aim in this chapter is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published definitions, and then to offer a set of five axioms (self-evident truths) … | Richard Heinberg | 14 | 2010 | $1.40 Add |
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From On Nature’s Limits and the Human ConditionParrots and Peoples From: Peak Everything |
People who live a civilized life are like birds in a cage. As long as we stay within well-defined social bounds (and assuming we are lucky enough to have been born in a wealthy parasitic society, … | Richard Heinberg | 17 | 2010 | $1.70 Add |
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From On Nature’s Limits and the Human ConditionPopulation, Resources, and Human Idealism From: Peak Everything |
No steady rate of growth in population or resource consumption is sustainable. During the course of the lecture, he asks, “Well, what can we do about this? What makes the population problem … | Richard Heinberg | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add |
 On Nostalgia |
On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially … | 161 | View | ||
 NEW! On OpiumPain, Pleasure, and Other Matters of Substance |
A groundbreaking meditation on pain, painkillers, and dependence from a prescription opioid user. Her writing has been described as "measured," "sensuous," and … | 364 | View | ||
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From  On Role-Plays, Games, and SimulationsFrom: Roles of Resistance |
This section outlines the pedagogy behind the different role-play activities featured throughout the book, and includes a table of quantifiable outcomes for each game, role-plays, and simulations. | John-Henry Harter; Mark Leier | 3 | 2024 | $0.30 Add |
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From  On Second Thoughts |
An elderly student of language testing recalls some of the events in his career, attempting to relate them to current issues, and touching on such topics as overall language proficiency, the … | Bernard Spolsky | 10 | 2007 | $1.00 Add |
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From  On Strike for Justice New York, 1958From: Holocaust to Resistance |
Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis … | Suzanne Berliner Weiss | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From On Technology, Agriculture, and the ArtsTools with a Life of Their Own From: Peak Everything |
In assessing and understanding technology and its effects on people and nature, it is at least as important to pay attention to the energy that drives our tools as to the tools themselves and the … | Richard Heinberg | 17 | 2010 | $1.70 Add |
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From On Technology, Agriculture, and the ArtsFifty Million Farmers From: Peak Everything |
There are reasons to think that our current anomalous abundance of inexpensive food may be only temporary; if so, present and future generations may become acquainted with that old, formerly … | Richard Heinberg | 20 | 2010 | $2.00 Add |
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From On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts(post-) Hydrocarbon Aesthetics From: Peak Everything |
Will industrial production survive in the post-hydrocarbon era? The answer will of course depend on how much energy humans will have at their disposal. The total amount, as well as the per capita … | Richard Heinberg | 16 | 2010 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! On the Back of the Turtle: Ancient Life and Death in the CityAGREEMENTS, NAMING, AND PLACES From: Indigenous Toronto |
On Indigenous history and archeology in Toronto. | Louis Lesage; Ron Williamson | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  On the Body, Gender, and Performance |
In this chapter, feminist scholar Silvia Federici discusses the concept of gender as performace. She discusses the ways in which gender is an expression of internal and external forces. | Silvia Federici | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add |
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From  On the Campaign TrailFrom: Gay Marriage |
examines the debates about same-sex marriage as they were tied to the 2004 election campaign of Paul Martin and Stephen Harper | Benjamin Waterhouse; Louisa Blair; Robert Chodos; Sylvain Larocque | 21 | 2006 | $2.10 Add |
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From  On the Frontiers of CapitalNuclear Plants and Other Environmental Architectures From: The Culture of Nature |
The author explores the impact of the atomic age on the environment and landscape. The chapter includes 17 photos and images. | Alexander Wilson | 39 | 2019 | $3.90 Add |
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From  On the (Information) Highway: So Is This a Journey or What?From: Cyberidentities |
As we go from the bound and bounded book to the technologies that give us hypertext, we move from containment to expansion. The debate about what we call postmodernism focuses on that alteration. … | Robert Kroetsch | 8 | 1999 | $1.12 Add |
