Environmental Humanities
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From ![]() The Principle of BeautyFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
In this chapter, the author provides a critique of the Darwinian notion of "nature as a survival machine." | Andreas Weber | 32 | 2016 | $3.20 Add |
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From ![]() The PullFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
The process of the medium, of i-tech itself, is what is attractive; it draws us in. And this draw, or pull effect, is what has the potential to alter behavior. For example, the central concept in … | Mari K Swingle | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Question in the Eyes of the WolfFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
In this chapter, the author describes his journey to study the Ethiopian wolf; this story is the basis for Weber’s meditation on the connections between living beings. | Andreas Weber | 21 | 2016 | $2.10 Add |
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From ![]() The Racialized Other and the Opium Act: The Early 1900sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter examines socially constructed definitions of “good” vs “bad” drugs and narcotic prohibition in Canada. The unequal enforcement of drug laws and how this … | Susan C. Boyd | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() The ShiftFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Every era has an innovation that changes the face of society: the way we think, the way we act and interact as individuals, as a community, and as a culture. As the innovation is introduced, it … | Mari K Swingle | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() The Silvery SeaFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
In this chapter, Weber explores metaphorphosis, and the idea that juvenile forms of animals may actually belong to different species than adults. | Andreas Weber | 17 | 2016 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() The Story of AlphaFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
In this chapter, I will discuss my discovery of the signature for modern excess: a form of brain deregulation purely associated with excessive use of i-media. | Mari K Swingle | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The suspension of disbelief |
This chapter examines the phenomena of news presented as two opposing sides and the role of unregulated social media and fake news. It suggests that conspriacy theories and denial of climate … | Arno Kopecky | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From ![]() The Tipping pointFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
There are other alterations in behavior that don’t quite qualify as illness, but ones we should also be watching: Of note are increases in self-orientation and self-concern. From … | Mari K Swingle | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The unbearable whiteness of being (an environmentalist) |
Aknowledging his perspective as a white, heterosexual man, the author examines social crises being amplified by a colonialism and systemic racism, and their intersection with the climate crisis, … | Arno Kopecky | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() The Vancouver AgreementFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter highlights the formation Vancouver Caucus, comprising of Mayor Philip Owen, Jenny Kwan and Dr Hedy Fry, and the subsequent signing of the Vancouver Agreement. The agreement about a … | Travis Lupick | 27 | 2017 | $0.54 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Velocity of Perception |
Through the intersectionality of multiple crises such as the near-civil war following the 2007 Kenya election, the Covid-19 pandemic, global economic collaspe, the Black Lives Matter movement, … | Arno Kopecky | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Weekend AlcoholicFrom: About Face |
On Alcohol. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … | Gareth Mitton | 6 | 2019 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() Toledo, OhioFrom: Fighting For Space |
The city of Toledo, Ohio, wakes up to a growing ‘public health crisis’. In 2014, over a thousand people died of heroin-related overdoses in the state of Ohio. A disproportionate … | Travis Lupick | 20 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() TransformationFrom: Changing Tides |
In the Conclusion Frid argues that we are on a knife edge and the time to act is now. Frid stresses how our actions in the next few decades of the 21st Century, will impact our world for the next … | Alejandro Frid | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() Treating Addiction as a Problem of MeaningFrom: About Face |
The readings in the fourth section of the book covers the contemporary discourse surrounding addiction in Canada, and outlines a variety of possible paths forward for combatting addiction. | Geoff Thompson | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |










