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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Minimizing Farming’s Water Needs From: Back to the Well View Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, de Villiers looks at the vast amount of water used by the agricultural sector and ways to reduce that total, either by changing how we grow crops or by changing which crops we grow.	Marq de Villiers	16	2018	$1.60 Add
From More People Using Ever More Water From: Back to the Well View Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, de Villiers looks at the impact of population growth on water availability, and tries to answer the question of whether there will be enough clean, safe water for a more populous …	Marq de Villiers	9	2018	$0.90 Add
From Of Games and Gaming From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	I am going to go a bit deeper exploring the specifics of the supposed benefits of gaming as they relate to learning. Within this I’m going to put a microscope over some of the gaming …	Mari K Swingle	17	2019	$1.70 Add
From Of Systems and Process From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	We want to teach children not only how to use technologies, but how to choose technologies, and how to make them. We also want to teach them the caveats including biological hijacking and …	Mari K Swingle	24	2019	$2.40 Add
From On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts Tools with a Life of Their Own From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	In assessing and understanding technology and its effects on people and nature, it is at least as important to pay attention to the energy that drives our tools as to the tools themselves and the …	Richard Heinberg	17	2010	$1.70 Add
From Our Future Our Selves From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	I want to close this book by coming full circle back to what I feel are our most urgent issues: First and foremost are our collective children; the next generations and how we individually and …	Mari K Swingle	14	2019	$1.40 Add
From Parents and Pedagogy Helicopters and Expert Advice From: Degrees of Failure View Between The Lines	Twentieth-century child-rearing practices in North America have been heavily manipulated by the state and the private sector toward a domestication that suits institutional life. The tense …	Randle W. Nelsen	19	2017	$1.90 Add
From NEW! Planning Smart Cities The Dream of the Smart City From: Dream States View Coach House Books	The Dream of the Smart City: Part 3 explores planning smart cities. Topics discussed include transportation, census data, what is meant by urban ‘blight’, public and city …	John Lorinc	15	2022	$1.50 Add
From Privatization and Its Discontents From: Back to the Well View Goose Lane Editions	In this Chapter, de Villiers discusses the thorny issue of water privatization and commodification. He explores the difference between privatization of ownership and use and the ways in which …	Marq de Villiers	45	2018	$4.50 Add
From Profit Motive: The Main Driver of Technological Development From: Techno-Fix View New Society Publishers	Profit Motive: The Main Driver of Technological Development demonstrates that profit maximization does not necessarily lead to the development of technologies and products best suited to meet the …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	20	2011	$2.00 Add
From NEW! Provincial and Territorial Laws Respond Part Two — Provincial Legislation: Assisted Human Reproduction and the Changing Definitions of Family From: Fertility View Irwin Law Inc.	In Provincial and Territorial Laws Respond McTeer examines the responses from across Canada about the use of IVF technology in human reproduction. The chapter explores issues relating to a …	Maureen McTeer	10	2022	$1.00 Add
From NEW! Public Policy and Legal Challenges Ahead Part Four — Looking to the Future From: Fertility View Irwin Law Inc.	In Public Policy and Legal Challenges Ahead McTeer examines the current federal legislation that governs assisted human reproduction (AHR) and how many types of embryo research will inevitably …	Maureen McTeer	12	2022	$1.20 Add
From Reframing the Debate From: Back to the Well View Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, de Villiers begins approaching solutions for water crises by asking us to reframe the issue, by thinking and acting on a local level.	Marq de Villiers	6	2018	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Research and the Human Embryo Part Three — Research on Human Embryos From: Fertility View Irwin Law Inc.	In Research and the Human Embryo McTeer examines some of the myriad of related issues raised by research on human embryos, and the medical-scientific research presented to Canadians — …	Maureen McTeer	7	2022	$0.70 Add
From Rivers and Lakes in Trouble From: Back to the Well View Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, de Villiers explores how surface water – lakes and rivers – are some of the most vulnerable to contamination and destruction as a result of human action.	Marq de Villiers	27	2018	$2.70 Add
From Scarcity, Yes; Conflicts, Maybe From: Back to the Well View Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, de Villiers asks whether water shortages lead to war, under what circumstances these conflicts occur, and where in the world they are most likely to spark.	Marq de Villiers	35	2018	$3.50 Add