Environmental Studies

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Petro-Chemical Legacies and Tar Sands Frontiers: Chemical Valley versus Environmental Justice

Petro-Chemical Legacies and Tar Sands Frontiers: Chemical Valley versus Environmental Justice

Part II: Communities and Resistance

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 13 Toban Black critically examines the conference titled “Bitumen—Adding Value: Canada’s National Opportunity” in May of 2013, discussing potential tar sands … 12 $1.20 Add
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Physician Addiction in Canada

Physician Addiction in Canada

Stakeholders, Services and Determinants

From: 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. 7 $0.70 Add
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Picture Credits

Picture Credits

From: The Culture of Nature

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Pigeon Politics
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Pigeon Politics

From: Being and Swine

In this chapter, philosopher Fahim Amir discusses the complex relationship between human society and pigeons. The chapter includes a brief overview of the history of pigeons in urban spaces and … ; ; 19 $1.90 Add
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Pipelines and Resistance across Turtle Island

Pipelines and Resistance across Turtle Island

Part III: Future Prospects

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

Chapter 23 examines resistance to pipelines across Turtle island (Canada), discussing Indigenous resistance and the anti-pipeline movement, decolonization, the resurgence of Indigenous … 14 $1.40 Add
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Pixie Dust and Everlasting Play

Pixie Dust and Everlasting Play

From: About Face

On Alcohol and 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 … 4 $0.40 Add
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Placemaking for Community

Placemaking for Community

From: 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 … 32 $3.20 Add
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Plastic: So Great, So Awful - Some New Directions

Plastic: So Great, So Awful – Some New Directions

From: The New Carbon Architecture

In this chapter the authors explore some of contradictions in plastic, and explain and evaluate the potential paths and barriers to how plastic might actually redeem itself and prove that it has … ; ; 16 $1.60 Add
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Political Institutions

Political Institutions

From: Thirty Years of Failure

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Porcelain Legs

From: The Whole Animal

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Portents and prophecies
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Portents and prophecies

From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma

In a central paradox, the one we’re running out of time to resolve, the consequences of burning fossil fuels are poised to demolish two centuries of benefit. So how do we make the fight … 13 $1.30 Add
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Postscript

Postscript

From: Overrun

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Power

Power

Limits and Prospects for Human Survival

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 … 416 View
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Power and Sustainability

Power and Sustainability

From: Consuming Sustainability

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Power in Nature

Power in Nature

From Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception

From: Power

In this chapter, the author takes a look at some of the powers that arose in living things long before humans emerged. 46 $4.60 Add