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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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i-Minds, 2nd editionHow 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 |
I’m Right and You’re an IdiotThe 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 |
In The Business of ChangeHow 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 |
IndigenomicsTaking a Seat at the Economic Table |
It is time. It is time to increase the visibility, role, and responsibility of the emerging modern Indigenous economy and the people involved. This is the foundation for economic reconciliation. … | Carol Anne Hilton | 274 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Inside OutThe Equity Leader’s Guide to Undoing Institutional Racism |
Providing a roadmap to workplace and organizational change, Inside Out is packed with practical tools for working collectively towards racial justice and dismantling institutional racism. This … | Caprice D. Hollins | 282 | 2022 | View |
Intrinsic HopeLiving Courageously In Troubled Times |
Climate disruption. Growing social inequality. Pollution. We are living in an era of unprecedented crises, resulting in widespread feelings of fear, despair, and grief. Now, more than ever, … | Kate Davies | 203 | 2018 | View |
NEW! Let’s Talk RaceA Guide for White People |
Let’s Talk Race confronts why white people struggle to talk about race, why we need to own this problem, and how we can learn to do the work ourselves and stop expecting Black people to do … | Fern L. Johnson; Marlene G. Fine | 192 | 2021 | View |
NEW! Making Shift HappenDesigning for Successful Environmental Behavior Change |
The changemaker’s guide to catalyzing environmental behaviour change for a healthy future. To tackle our urgent environmental problems and achieve positive, durable change, we must design … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 546 | 2022 | View |
Mediator’s HandbookRevised & Expanded fourth edition |
The popular Mediator’s Handbook presents a time-tested, adaptable model for helping people work through conflict. Extensively revised to incorporate recent practice and thinking, the … | Caroline C. Packard; Eileen Stief; Jennifer E. Beer | 210 | 2012 | View |
Nature-Based TherapyA Practitioner's Guide to Working Outdoors with Children, Youth, and Families |
The number of children, youth, and families seeking help for a wide range of mental health concerns is growing at an alarming rate, and many struggle to thrive despite well-intentioned … | David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper | 304 | 2019 | View |
Not Just a Pretty FaceThe Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry |
Lead in lipstick? 1,4 dioxane in baby soap? Coal tar in shampoo? How is this possible? Simple. The $35 billion cosmetics industry is so powerful that they’ve kept themselves unregulated for … | Stacy Malkan | 193 | 2007 | View |
Peak EverythingWaking Up to the Century of Declines |
A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book describes how to make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of … | Richard Heinberg | 240 | 2010 | View |
PowerLimits and Prospects for Human Survival |
Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and … | Richard Heinberg | 416 | 2021 | View |
Reclaiming the Commons for the Common GoodA Memoir & Manifesto |
Commoning was a way of life for most of our ancestors. In Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good, author Heather Menzies journeys to her roots in the Scottish Highlands, where her family … | Heather Menzies | 240 | 2014 | View |
NEW! RenewalHow Nature Awakens Our Creativity Compassion and Joy |
Why spend countless hours indoors in front of screens when being in nature feels so good? In learning why and how to nurture our emotional connection with nature, we can also regenerate the … | Andres R. Edwards | 210 | 2020 | View |
Resilience ImperativeCooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy |
We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place compelled by the intertwining forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 400 | 2012 | View |