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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Back to the Well Rethinking the Future of Water Goose Lane Editions	Droughts. Floods. Contamination. Climate change. The perils to the global fresh-water supply have never been so clear or so numerous, as the crisis in Cape Town’s water supply in early 2018 …	Marq de Villiers	378	2018	View
NEW! Childhood Unplugged Practical Advice to Get Kids Off Screens and Find Balance New Society Publishers	Ditch the devices and bring back the magic of being a kid Screens are everywhere. Children spend an average of 7.5 hours on digital devices every day with profoundly negative consequences. While …	Katherine Johnson Martinko	178	2023	View
NEW! Dream States Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias Coach House Books	Is the ‘smart city’ the utopia we’ve been waiting for? The promise of the so-called smart city has been at the forefront of urban planning and development since the early 2010s, …	John Lorinc	290	2022	View
NEW! Fertility 40 Years of Change Irwin Law Inc.	In Fertility: 40 Years of Change, lawyer and author Maureen McTeer explores key medical, research, and legal developments in assisted human reproduction since the birth of the first IVF baby in …	Maureen McTeer	276	2022	View
i-Minds, 2nd edition How and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it New Society Publishers	The way we use i-technology is affecting our health and happiness. While programs, devices, information, and constant connectivity can offer us ease, liberation, and efficiency, they can also …	Mari K Swingle	528	2019	View
Techno-Fix Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment New Society Publishers	Nanotechnology! Genetic engineering! Miracle Drugs! We are promised that new technological developments will magically save us from the dire consequences of the 300-year fossil-fueled binge known …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	464	2011	View
From Introduction From: Techno-Fix View New Society Publishers	Techno-Fix questions a primary paradigm of our age: that advanced technology alone will extricate us from an ever-increasing load of social, environmental and economic ills. Techno-Fix shows why …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	6	2011	$0.60 Add
From Introduction From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	My objective? To have us all pondering and examining. To “rise in arms” not against the i-tech industry but to our own blind acceptance or complacency, to our apparent apathy, and the …	Mari K Swingle	1	2019	$0.10 Add
From Introduction A Few Assertions From: Back to the Well View Goose Lane Editions	de Villiers begins the books with 4 assertions about our water future: 1. We aren’t doomed (yet). 2. There is not a global-scale water crisis. Rather, there are thousands of regional water …	Marq de Villiers	4	2018	$0.40 Add
From NEW! Introduction From: Dream States View Coach House Books	The introduction looks towards the future of the post-pandemic city.	John Lorinc	13	2022	$1.30 Add
From NEW! Introduction From: Childhood Unplugged View New Society Publishers	In the introduction to her book, Katherine Johnson Martinko describes her technology-free upbringing in Muskoka, Ontario. Martinko explains why she has chosen to provide her children with a …	Katherine Johnson Martinko	13	2023	$1.30 Add
From NEW! Introduction & Prologue The Story Begins From: Fertility View Irwin Law Inc.	In the Introduction & Prologue author Maureen McTeer explains how the premise of the book is about the origins, current status, and future direction of assisted human reproduction. She ties …	Maureen McTeer	6	2022	$0.60 Add
From NEW! In vitro Fertilization Part One — IVF: The Beginning of a Modern Human Reproduction Revolution From: Fertility View Irwin Law Inc.	In In vitro Fertilization McTeer explains and examines the creation and first use of in vitro fertilization or IVF in humans. The chapter explains what in vitro entails, its original uses for …	Maureen McTeer	11	2022	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Connections The Technology of Cities From: Dream States View Coach House Books	The Technology of Cities: Part 1 explores how urban development intersects and is shaped by the larger political, social, and technological advancements happening around it. Topics discussed …	John Lorinc	9	2022	$0.90 Add
From The Dismal Arithmetic of Water From: Back to the Well View Collection: Water and Climate Change: Impacts on Canada and the World Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, de Villiers outlines the anatomy of a water crisis, using the city of Sao Paulo Brazil as an example. He shows how limits in supply and distribution, in concert with growing …	Marq de Villiers	12	2018	$1.20 Add
From The Inherent Unavoidability and Unpredictability of Unintended Consequences From: Techno-Fix View New Society Publishers	The Inherent Unavoidability and Unpredictability of Unintended Consequences postulates that there are always positive and negative effects of any technology. It is impossible for humans to …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	15	2011	$1.50 Add