Environmental Humanities
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From  Power in the PleistoceneOn Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes - And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs From: Power |
This chapter describes prehistoric forms of human power, including stone tools, fire, animal skins, and language. | Richard Heinberg | 43 | 2021 | $4.30 Add |
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From  Technological Integration Versus Technological InterferenceFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
At the onset of the i-tech phenomenon, most of us first noted surface changes. For example, what we perceived as an emergent shallowness of information, a subtle lack of depth and length of … | Mari K Swingle | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From  The Machine That Can DieFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
In this chapter, the author explores "holistic biology," which considers both bodily and inner experiences as biological phenomena. | Andreas Weber | 34 | 2016 | $3.40 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 impacts … | Susan C. Boyd | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 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  A Chance EncounterFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter retraces the early years of activists Liz Evans and Mark Townsend. Also the inception of The Portland Hotel at Downtown Eastside in Vancouver, which later evolved into PHS Community … | Travis Lupick | 22 | 2017 | $0.44 Add |
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From  NEW! Enough Already |
This chapter explores the disconnect between the reality of the environmental crisis, and the rhetoric of events such as Earth Day, which typically focuses on individual actions rather than … | Sami Grover | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From Heroin Criminalization: The 1920s and 30sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter discusses the criminalization of heroin in the 1920s and 1930s. Emily Murphy’s role in creating a racialized and sexualized construction of drug use is examined, as well as the … | Susan C. Boyd | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Placemaking for CommunityFrom: Common Threads |
A “working landscape” in the city can be planned for use by the people who live there. Newly articulated land use options coupled with accessing the green waste from both invasive … | Sharon Kallis | 32 | 2014 | $3.20 Add |
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From Power in the HoloceneThe Rise of Social Inequality From: Power |
In this chapter, Heinberg explores physical as well as social power, as well as the ways in which humans have obtained power over each other, including warfare, predation, the wealth pump, state … | Richard Heinberg | 67 | 2021 | $6.70 Add |
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From  ReawakeningFrom: Changing Tides |
In this chapter Frid explores how members of the Wuikinuxv village on Oweekeno Lake are reclaiming their agency by reconnecting to their cultural memory and long history from before colonization. … | Alejandro Frid | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
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From The Physics of CreationFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
In this chapter, Weber examines how complex natural patterns reveal the interrelated nature of life and the anorganic environment. | Andreas Weber | 18 | 2016 | $1.80 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 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 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 A Moment in TimeFrom: 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 … | Ann Dwyer Galway | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |
