Environmental Humanities

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
About Face Essays on Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies of Addiction in Canada Breakwater Books	About Face: Essays on Addictions, Recovery, Therapies, and Controversies seeks to broaden the conversation around addiction in Canada. Featuring essays by a diverse group of writers, About Face …	Douglas Gosse	424	2019	View
Common Threads Weaving Community through Collaborative Eco-Art New Society Publishers	Common Threads is a unique guide to engaging community members in communal handwork for the greater good. Author Sharon Kallis provides a wealth of ideas for: * Working with unwanted natural …	Sharon Kallis	283	2014	View
Fighting For Space How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction Arsenal Pulp Press	North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of …	Travis Lupick	408	2017	View
Heroin An Illustrated History Fernwood Publishing	Heroin is an illustrated history of Canadian heroin regulation over two centuries. Susan Boyd points to our failure to address the overdose death epidemic caused by criminalizing drug users and …	Susan C. Boyd	251	2022	View
i-Minds, 2nd edition How and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it New Society Publishers	The way we use i-technology is affecting our health and happiness. While programs, devices, information, and constant connectivity can offer us ease, liberation, and efficiency, they can also …	Mari K Swingle	528	2019	View
Power Limits and Prospects for Human Survival New Society Publishers	Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and …	Richard Heinberg	416	2021	View
The Biology of Wonder Aliveness, Feeling, and the Metamorphosis of Science New Society Publishers	In The Biology of Wonder author Andreas Weber proposes a new approach to the biological sciences that puts the human back in nature. He argues that feelings and emotions, far from being …	Andreas Weber	336	2016	View
NEW! The Environmentalist’s Dilemma Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis ECW Press	For readers of Ronald Wright, Rebecca Solnit, and Yuval Noah Harari, comes a compelling inquiry into our relationship with humanity’s latest and greatest calamity. In the …	Arno Kopecky	266	2021	View
NEW! We’re all Climate Hypocrites Now How Embracing Our Limitations Can Unlock the Power of a Movement New Society Publishers	Our culture tells us that personal responsibility is central to tackling the climate emergency, yet the choices we make are often governed by the systems in which we live. Whether it’s …	Sami Grover	192	2021	View
From Heroin, Addiction and Harm Reduction From: Heroin View Fernwood Publishing	In this chapter, Boyd introduces the origins and brief history of the drug heroin. Drug prohibition, criminalization, harm reduction, addiction, and the war on drugs are also discussed.	Susan C. Boyd	26	2022	$2.60 Add
From Introduction From: Common Threads View New Society Publishers	By recognizing that human culture is a part of the ecosystem — not separate — and by creatively reimagining what symbiotic relationships of local production and consumption might look …	Sharon Kallis	6	2014	$0.60 Add
From Introduction From: Fighting For Space View Arsenal Pulp Press	In America today, overdose deaths are the highest they have ever been. Heroin has reached the middle class and suburban America. At the same time, public opinion has turned against the war on …	Travis Lupick	18	2017	$0.18 Add
From Introduction From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	My objective? To have us all pondering and examining. To “rise in arms” not against the i-tech industry but to our own blind acceptance or complacency, to our apparent apathy, and the …	Mari K Swingle	1	2019	$0.10 Add
From Introduction From: About Face View Breakwater Books	The Introduction outlines the questions that this anthology seeks to answer: Who suffers from addictions in Canada, How can we better understand addictions, What are the steps forward in the …	Douglas Gosse	4	2019	$0.40 Add
From Introduction Towards a Poetic Ecology From: The Biology of Wonder View New Society Publishers	In the introduction, Weber discusses attempts to separate emotions and nature in the science of biology, and how modern researchers are rejecting this earlier paradigm.	Andreas Weber	14	2016	$1.40 Add
From Introduction From: Power View New Society Publishers	In the introduction, Heinberg suggests that while there is not a single solution to the converging crises of the 21st century, there is a single causative agent. That causative agent is …	Richard Heinberg	13	2021	$1.30 Add