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Counting Carbon: What We Know and How We Know It

Counting Carbon: What We Know and How We Know It

From: The New Carbon Architecture

This chapter draws upon the results of Life Cycle Assessment studies to summarize what we know about whole building embodied carbon, and to highlight best opportunities for innovation and … ; ; 15 $1.50 Add
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Critical Science and Social Responsibility

Critical Science and Social Responsibility

From: Techno-Fix

Critical Science and Social Responsibility outlines ways to increase the awareness of scientists and engineers regarding their social responsibilities as well as ways to transform current science … ; 31 $3.10 Add
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Crowding out

Crowding out

Congestion and safety

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

The fifth chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? evaluates the three revolutions using the criteria of congestion and safety. The author demonstrates that cars of any kind will not solve … 21 $2.10 Add
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Cruise Checks
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Cruise Checks

From: This Is Your Captain Speaking

Chapter 5 focuses on the checks during the actual flight and the process of flying. Topics discussed include facts of air flight, routes, air pressure, weather, routing, polar flights, … 52 $5.20 Add
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Cunard & Company

Cunard & Company

From: Samuel Cunard

1804-1812. Looks at Samuel Cunard as an entrepreneur. Also examines the war of 1812 and the city of Halifax during this time 10 $1.00 Add
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Data minecraft

Data minecraft

Surveillance and policing

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

Chapter seven of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? considers surveillance and policing of digital data associated with the new transportation revolution technologies. The author finds the new … 17 $1.70 Add
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Disaster & Dominance

Disaster & Dominance

From: Samuel Cunard

1854-1868. Disaster strikes the Collins Line in the form of ship sinking, Samuel Cunard capitalizes on this disaster also examines the successes of other shipping lines and how they prospered … 14 $1.40 Add
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Dispossession and the Imposition of Povety

Dispossession and the Imposition of Povety

From: We Were Not the Savages, Third Edition

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

Public Transit in the Age of Google, Uber, and Elon Musk

Public transportation is in crisis. Through an assessment of the history of automobility in North America, the “three revolutions” in automotive transportation, as well as the current … 306 View
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Dreams of Buried Treasure

Dreams of Buried Treasure

From: Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure

1795 – 1805. Tracing the history of the theory that treasure is buried on Oak Island; includes Daniel McGinnis discovering the Money Pit, traces different discoveries on the island, … 20 $2.00 Add
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Driving into the World, from Oil Crisis to Today

Driving into the World, from Oil Crisis to Today

From: Car Nation

1973 – 2005. Looks at the oil shock of 1973, looks at the car industries involvement in nationalism, continentialism, and globalization, the development of fuel economy & emissions … 17 $1.70 Add
Dry Run

Dry Run

Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis

In the Age of Scarcity now upon us, fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for … 312 View
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“A Boat Which Is Not a Boat”

“A Boat Which Is Not a Boat”

From: Fastest in the World

1908-1918. Outlines the development of Baldwin and Bell’s HD series from 1 to 4 and their quest for hydrofoil self-propulsion. 12 $1.20 Add
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European Greed and the Mi'kmaq Resolve to Fight

European Greed and the Mi’kmaq Resolve to Fight

From: We Were Not the Savages, Third Edition

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Fashion and Design in the Age of Digital Surveillance
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Fashion and Design in the Age of Digital Surveillance

From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs

Chapter 12 explores the ways in which the public resists the implementation of smart city technologies 13 $1.30 Add
Fastest in the World

Fastest in the World

The Saga of Canada's Revolutionary Hydrofoils

Like the builders of the Avro Arrow, the pioneers of hydrofoils are celebrated in this book for their world-class accomplishments. When Alexander Graham Bell was experimenting with flying … 98 View