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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
i-Minds, 2nd edition How 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
From i-Tech and Healthcare: To Care or i-Care From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View	It is time to have closer look at i-tech in caretaking, healthcare, and perhaps in caring in its larger sense too. Let’s start with healthcare.	Mari K Swingle	4	2019	$0.40 Add
From i-Trust and i-Privacy: Social, Economic, and Political Manipulation From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View	A huge issue that permeates all angles of the i-tech industry is that of trust. Both primary branches — the entertainment branch (e.g., the gaming industry), the social communication branch …	Mari K Swingle	26	2019	$2.60 Add
I Want a Better Catastrophe Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor	An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers WITH GLOBAL WARMING projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown …	Andrew Boyd	422	2023	View
From NEW! Identifying Racism Where Fiction Becomes Reality From: Let's Talk Race View	This chapter focuses on the concept of race, on several types of racism and racial thinking prevalent in our society, and on how race can be better understood if we think about its cultural context.	Fern L. Johnson; Marlene G. Fine	22	2021	$2.20 Add
From NEW! If What, Now What? From: What's Up With White Women View	Grow Awareness and Knowledge Using Awareness and Knowledge to Inform Skills Interrupt Oppression Connect with People of Color Final Thoughts (For Now)	Ilsa Govan; Tilman Smith	17	2021	$1.70 Add
I’m Right and You’re an Idiot The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up	The most pressing environmental problem we face today is not climate change. It is pollution in the public square, where a smog of adversarial rhetoric, propaganda and polarization stifles …	James Hoggan	275	2016	View
From Imagine From: A Finer Future View	This chapter outlines the HANDY study, which identifies the factors that precipitate societal collapse, and asks whether we are headed for such a collapse. This chapter also imagines a …	Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis	22	2018	$2.20 Add
From Imagine Change: Issues-Oriented Theatre From: Catch the Fire View	Readings in section 3 of this titles provide examples of guided activities to engage with participants of all ages. This reading explores ways in which performance can be used to allow …	Charlie Murphy; Peggy Taylor	7	2014	$0.70 Add
From NEW! Immersion From: What's Up With White Women View	Normalizing Whiteness Gender Role Limitations The Carrot and the Stick Advancing White Male Agendas Competing for Male Attention The Ideal Object Nice White Ladies Hurting People of Color Final …	Ilsa Govan; Tilman Smith	25	2021	$2.50 Add
From Implementation And Training From: Freedom To Learn View	Establishing universal success in education cannot be attained by pressuring teachers to succeed. Too often the methods provided by administrators are the same ineffective methods they used when …	Art Willans; Cari Williams	22	2018	$2.20 Add
From Impossible News From: I Want a Better Catastrophe View	In this chapter, Boyd breaks down the severity of the climate crisis and details the disastrous future that a failure to stop the rise in global temperature makes inevitable. Boyd explains why it …	Andrew Boyd	47	2023	$4.70 Add
From In Search of Solutions I: Counter-Technologies and Social Fixes From: Techno-Fix View	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	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
In The Business of Change How Social Entrepreneurs are Disrupting Business as Usual	Our communities are facing the fallout from the demise of vital industry, bankrupt economies, bad policy or policing, and political mismanagement. People are looking for answers, and the …	Elisa Birnbaum	195	2018	View
From Incident at Highland High From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View	Last January, a sixteen-year-old German girl — shy and well-behaved — was arrested in her home in Nuremberg, Germany, by fifteen armed policemen. Her crime was homeschooling. Reading …	John Taylor Gatto	16	2010	$1.60 Add