Technology & Engineering

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Flawed Peace and the Treaty of 1749 From: We Were Not the Savages, Third Edition View Fernwood Publishing		Daniel Paul	19	2006	$1.33 Add
From Forward and Preface From: Dry Run View New Society Publishers	For this book, I’ve chosen to focus on my first love in the professional world, water, a subject to which I devoted a considerable part of my early professional career. With the arrival of …	Jerry Yudelson	7	2010	$0.70 Add
From Graywater From: Dry Run View New Society Publishers	Unlike rainwater, which is highly variable both year to year and seasonally, graywater tends to be reliably present in most commercial environments, so why use potable water for flushing toilets, …	Jerry Yudelson	11	2010	$1.10 Add
From Green Water From: Dry Run View New Society Publishers	In this chapter, you’ll learn about opportunities for conserving the use of potable water in landscape, ways to integrate stormwater management with landscaping and systems for reusing …	Jerry Yudelson	12	2010	$1.20 Add
From NEW! Guelph and Wellington County’s Urban-Rural Smart City Project Our Food Future From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs View James Lorimer and Company	Chapter 8 explores Guelph’s smart cities project, which seeks to use technology to bridge the urban rural divide and develop a sustainable network of food production and consumption	Ellie Ruggles	12	2020	$1.20 Add
From Happiness From: Techno-Fix View New Society Publishers	Happiness provides extensive evidence that material affluence, consumerism and economic growth brought about by advances in science and technology have failed to improve psychological well-being …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	37	2011	$3.70 Add
From Important Evidence is Revealed From: Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure View Formac Publishing	1909-1943, Captain Harry Bowdoin of New York and the Old Gold Salvage and Wrecking Company and the important evidence that they found, edwin Hamilton,		21	2013	$2.10 Add
From In Search of Solutions I: Counter-Technologies and Social Fixes From: Techno-Fix View New Society Publishers	In Search of Solutions I: Counter-Technologies and Social Fixes discusses the limitations of technologies that attempt to counter the negative effects of previous technologies and also shows why …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	24	2011	$2.40 Add
From In Search of Solutions II: Efficiency Improvements From: Techno-Fix View New Society Publishers	In Search of Solutions II: Efficiency Improvements analyzes a wide range of historical data to demonstrate that most efficiency improvements have not been able to halt or reverse the growth in …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	31	2011	$3.10 Add
From Index From: Fastest in the World View Formac Publishing	Index	John Boileau	2	2004	$0.20 Add
From NEW! Indigenous Exclusion and Access to the Internet The Case of Nunavut From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs View James Lorimer and Company	Chapter 9 explores how digital technology is also a tool for social well being, giving people access to health, education, cultural expression and political participation. It explores this …	Alexandra Flynn	18	2020	$1.80 Add
From NEW! Innisfil and Uber A Rural Municipality’s Misadventures in Smart Public Transit From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs View James Lorimer and Company	Chapter 10 explores smart city projects that make use of ridesharing and their pitfalls.	Ellie Ruggles	11	2020	$1.10 Add
From Acknowledgements From: Fastest in the World View Formac Publishing	Acknowledgements	John Boileau	1	2004	$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 Smart Cities in Canada From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs View James Lorimer and Company	The introduction provides a general definition of what constitutes a “Smart City” as well as exploring what prompted the authors of this title to write about smart cities in Canada.	Alexandra Flynn; Mariana Valverde	14	2020	$1.40 Add
From Introduction The slow bleed From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? View Between The Lines	The introduction of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? begins with a survey of positive and progressive images of public transit throughout the history of science fiction, most recently in the …	James Wilt	16	2020	$1.60 Add