Environmental Humanities

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Enough Already
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Enough Already

From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now

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 … 11 $1.10 Add
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Enough of the Party Drugs

Enough of the Party Drugs

From: About Face

On Narcotics. 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 … 4 $0.40 Add
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Epilogue: So What to Do?

Epilogue: So What to Do?

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

I believe we owe it to ourselves to keep one face, one mind, firmly fixed on the past while the other mind bravely looks forward, embracing change. 5 $0.50 Add
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Epilogue

Epilogue

From: Finding Our Niche

In the Epilogue of Finding Our Niche, Loring grapples with his own feelings of alienation and disorientation to place. 2 $0.20 Add
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Ethics

Ethics

The Values of the Flesh

From: The Biology of Wonder

This chapter describes the author’s experiences experimenting on living animals, which he terms "crushing the irresistable magic of life." 26 $2.60 Add
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Every little thing
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Every little thing

From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma

Because of the magnitude of the climate crisis, change will only occur when hundreds of millions of people change their consumption habits, requiring governments pass the right laws. That’s … 11 $1.10 Add
Fighting For Space

Fighting For Space

How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction

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 … 408 View
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Focus, Goddammit
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Focus, Goddammit

From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now

In this chapter, Grover focuses on blame, how powerful institutions can shift blame away from themselves and onto the less culpable, and how our attention is a limited resource. 15 $1.50 Add
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Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements

Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements

From: Wigmore on Nicotine and its Drug Delivery Systems

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From Digital Natives to i-Kids

From Digital Natives to i-Kids

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

In this chapter, I am going to speak of a critical dynamic that i-media has with play, learning, and creativity. This is a dynamic that concerns mostly digital natives, and the now very young: … 12 $1.20 Add
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From Housing to Harm Reduction

From Housing to Harm Reduction

From: Fighting For Space

This chapter highlights the synergy between VANDU and PHS as they grappled to establish basic facilities for the homeless population in Vancouver. Caught in the sparring between the health board … 26 $0.52 Add
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From i-Kids to i-Brains

From i-Kids to i-Brains

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

In this chapter, I would like to speak to my greater concern. Not changes in temporary brain state(s), or vulnerabilities that leave us all somewhat liable, not even the differences in … 17 $1.70 Add
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From Vital Addiction to Fatal Distraction

From Vital Addiction to Fatal Distraction

From: About Face

The readings in the second section of the book discuss other forms of addictions that are not narcotics based. These include sex, video games, gambling and social media. The readings in this … 20 $2.00 Add
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Governance and Safety: Electromagnetic Explorations

Governance and Safety: Electromagnetic Explorations

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

Electromagnetic concerns receive little attention because indeed they are hard to present in lay terms. Here is my attempt. 13 $1.30 Add
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Governance Part One: Self-Governance and the Rise of the Attention Economy

Governance Part One: Self-Governance and the Rise of the Attention Economy

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

The biggest commodity of the digital age is not our money but our data. This is true, but the not-so-secret reason our data is so valuable is that it offers access to our attention. Attention is … 9 $0.90 Add
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Governance Part Two: Crossing the Floor and the Perils of Protection

Governance Part Two: Crossing the Floor and the Perils of Protection

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

It is more than likely that the majority of the brilliant minds of Silicon Valley, were completely unaware that their work would be, could be, weaponized. Many of these people including those who … 15 $1.50 Add