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Flawed Peace and the Treaty of 1749

Flawed Peace and the Treaty of 1749

From: We Were Not the Savages, Third Edition

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Forward and Preface

Forward and Preface

From: Dry Run

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 … 7 $0.70 Add
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Graywater

Graywater

From: Dry Run

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, … 11 $1.10 Add
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Green Water

Green Water

From: Dry Run

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 … 12 $1.20 Add
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Guelph and Wellington County’s Urban-Rural Smart City Project
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Guelph and Wellington County’s Urban-Rural Smart City Project

Our Food Future

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

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 12 $1.20 Add
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Happiness

Happiness

From: Techno-Fix

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 … ; 37 $3.70 Add
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Important Evidence is Revealed

Important Evidence is Revealed

From: Oak Island and Its Lost Treasure

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 $2.10 Add
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In Search of Solutions I: Counter-Technologies and Social Fixes

In Search of Solutions I: Counter-Technologies and Social Fixes

From: Techno-Fix

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 … ; 24 $2.40 Add
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In Search of Solutions II: Efficiency Improvements

In Search of Solutions II: Efficiency Improvements

From: Techno-Fix

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 … ; 31 $3.10 Add
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Index

Index

From: Fastest in the World

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Indigenous Exclusion and Access to the Internet
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Indigenous Exclusion and Access to the Internet

The Case of Nunavut

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

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 … 18 $1.80 Add
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Innisfil and Uber
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Innisfil and Uber

A Rural Municipality’s Misadventures in Smart Public Transit

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

Chapter 10 explores smart city projects that make use of ridesharing and their pitfalls. 11 $1.10 Add
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Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

From: Fastest in the World

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Introduction

Introduction

A 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 … 4 $0.40 Add
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Introduction
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Introduction

Smart Cities in Canada

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

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. ; 14 $1.40 Add
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Introduction

Introduction

The slow bleed

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

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 … 16 $1.60 Add