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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 Back to the WellRethinking the Future of Water |
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! Dream StatesSmart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias |
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! Fertility40 Years of Change |
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 editionHow and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it |
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-FixWhy Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment |
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 |
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From IntroductionFrom: Techno-Fix |
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 |
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From IntroductionFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
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 |
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From IntroductionA Few Assertions From: Back to the Well |
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 |
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From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Dream States |
The introduction looks towards the future of the post-pandemic city. | John Lorinc | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Introduction & PrologueThe Story Begins From: Fertility |
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 |
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From NEW! In vitro FertilizationPart One — IVF: The Beginning of a Modern Human Reproduction Revolution From: Fertility |
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 |
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From NEW! ConnectionsThe Technology of Cities From: Dream States |
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 |
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From The Dismal Arithmetic of WaterFrom: Back to the Well |
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 |
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From The Inherent Unavoidability and Unpredictability of Unintended ConsequencesFrom: Techno-Fix |
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 |
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From The ShiftFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Every era has an innovation that changes the face of society: the way we think, the way we act and interact as individuals, as a community, and as a culture. As the innovation is introduced, it … | Mari K Swingle | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Canada’s New Carscape:Town and Country Remade From: Car Nation |
1912-1930. Analyzes the spread of the car in popularity and the freedom it represented to Canadians as you could now travel across the country, the changes to cities because of the car, road … | Dimitry Anastakis | 17 | 2008 | $1.70 Add |
