Philosophy
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From  On Nature’s Limits and the Human ConditionFive Axioms of Sustainability From: Peak Everything |
My aim in this chapter is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published definitions, and then to offer a set of five axioms (self-evident truths) … | Richard Heinberg | 14 | 2010 | $1.40 Add |
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From  PinkwashingFrom: Not Just a Pretty Face |
A closer look at pink-ribbon products and what the leading cosmetics companies don’t tell you about breast cancer prevention. | Stacy Malkan | 15 | 2007 | $1.50 Add |
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From  SabotageFrom: Languages of the Unheard |
Sabotage has been practised for thousands of years, wherever people have found themselves forced, by the explicit threat of violence or the looming prospect of hunger, to toil on behalf of the … | Stephen D'Arcy | 19 | 2013 | $1.90 Add |
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From  That’s What She SaidOn the Future of Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
In this chapter the author points out that we don’t know what we’ve got until it’s gone and we don’t even know when it will go. The question "Why is it that nostalgia … | David Berry | 25 | 2020 | $2.50 Add |
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From  The Camino de Santiago |
Inspired by the pilgrimage to St. James’ tomb which draws young and old from around the world each year to walk across Spain, I decided to help kids toward lives as producers rather than … | John Taylor Gatto | 8 | 2010 | $0.80 Add |
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From  The Ideology of the CanoeThe Myth of Wilderness From: National Dreams |
The canoe is omnipresent in Canadian history and folklore. Canadians feel that the canoe is a fundamental icon of our nationality, representing as it does our links to our history, to our land, … | Daniel Frances | 50 | 1997 | $2.50 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  Theorizing Our Dominated LivesThree Generations of Critical Theorists From: Restless Ideas |
The Critical Vision of the Frankfurt School … 181 The First Generation … 182 Herbert Marcuse … 187 The Second Generation … 194 Jürgen Habermas … 195 The Third … | Tony Simmons | 51 | 2020 | $5.10 Add |
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From  NEW! What is Still Worth Doing? |
In this chapter, Boyd explores if we have personal obligations to make environmentally considerate choices during the late stages of the climate crisis. Boyd discusses which individual … | Andrew Boyd | 74 | 2023 | $7.40 Add |
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From  A Failure to CommunicateMatters of Concern with Bruno Latour |
Latour told me we should put aside matters of fact and focus instead upon matters of concern, a conclusion he arrived at after having studied everything from environmental crises to atmospheres … | James Hoggan | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
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From  A Lifelong LoyaltyFrom: On Love and Tyranny |
This chapter describes Arendt’s activities in France before the outbreak of war with Germany. In France, she lived an active social and political life before the German invasion. | Ann Heberlein | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Accepting What IsFrom: Intrinsic Hope |
Accepting the reality of the global eco-social crisis nurtures intrinsic hope because it gives us the possibility of doing something about it. By saying yes to our situation — even a … | Kate Davies | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Artists, Writers, Creative Thinkers, DreamersFrom: In Praise of Retreat |
This chapter discusses the value of solitude a source for artistic inspiration. The author discusses artists and writers who valued solitude and how it impacted their work. | Kirsteen MacLeod | 32 | 2021 | $3.20 Add |
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From Because We’re Worth It Too!From: Not Just a Pretty Face |
Teens and activists take on state legislators, Governor Schwarzenegger and largest worldwide supplier of nail products. | Stacy Malkan | 14 | 2007 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Black Hole SunFrom: Being and Swine |
In the final chapter, philosopher Fahim Amir discusses how we live in a black hole of overconsumption and by changing our perspective on the animal world, we can escape from that black hole. | Corvin Russell; Fahim Amir; Geoffrey C. Howes | 24 | 2020 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Chapter 7Witch Hunting, Globalization, and Feminist Solidarity in Africa Today |
The readings in Part Two of this title explore the ways in witch the attitudes that spawned the witch-hunt have survived into the modern world. This chapter consists of a case study of modern … | Silvia Federici | 27 | 2018 | $2.70 Add |
