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What Difference Does It Make?
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What Difference Does It Make?

From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now

This chapter describes the efforts of cyclists in Amsterdam to resist the encroachment of cars and keep that city bike-centric. He uses their efforts as a model for how change has to take place … 19 $1.90 Add
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What Do We Need to Do?
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What Do We Need to Do?

From: Runaway Climate

What Do We Need to Do? Personal actions, public health, role of government, fossil fuel subsidies, zero carbon commitments, carbon pricing 17 $1.70 Add
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What Happiness Policy Is and Why It Matters

What Happiness Policy Is and Why It Matters

From: The Happiness Policy Handbook

Happiness Policy Makes Economic Sense – Easterlin Paradox – Income Inequality – Mental Health Care – Purchasing Habits ; ; 10 $1.00 Add
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What is Education?

What is Education?

From: Weapons of Mass Instruction

According to Kant, four questions live at the heart of all educational quests: What can I know? What may I hope? What ought I to do? What is man? School policy in America is made by people who … 12 $1.20 Add
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What is Good Communication

What is Good Communication

From: Cracking the Boy Code

• Social communication is the greatest communication challenge for boys • Vocabulary, phrasing, and tone set the stage for great conversations. • Get inside a boy’s mental … 14 $1.40 Add
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What is Similar Now and What Is Different?
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What is Similar Now and What Is Different?

From: Runaway Climate

What Is Similar Now and What is Different? Ice, humans, ocean carbon sink, methane clathrates, forests, wetlands 12 $1.20 Add
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What is Still Worth Doing?
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What is Still Worth Doing?

From: I Want a Better Catastrophe

In this chapter, Boyd explores if we have personal obligations to make environmentally considerate choices during the late stages of the climate crisis. Boyd discusses which individual … 74 $7.40 Add
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What is the Work that Reconnects?

What is the Work that Reconnects?

From: Coming Back to Life

As we stand now at the brink of destroying our planet as a home for conscious life, contemporary science and ancient spiritual traditions bring us insights into the basic miracle of our … ; 11 $1.10 Add
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What Now?

What Now?

From: A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

The final chapter suggests potential courses of action on both individual and governmental levels. 21 $2.10 Add
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What Peace <i>Is</i>

What Peace Is

From: Are We Done Fighting?

This final chapter arrives at defining peace, revealing it as a continual and dynamic process rather than a static state. The chapter shifts focus to the concept of peacebuilding to reflect this. 6 $0.60 Add
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What Peace is <i> Not</i>

What Peace is Not

From: Are We Done Fighting?

This chapter shows the reader that on our journey to understand peace and help it spread, we need to understand more about ourselves and what motivates us to do the things we do. In order to … 11 $1.10 Add
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What Then Must We Do?

What Then Must We Do?

From: The Memory We Could Be

Many of us stumble at the very first question: what can I do? But our failure to find a straightforward answer lies partly in our misdirected question: there isn’t much that individuals … 13 $1.30 Add
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What's He Thinking?

What’s He Thinking?

From: Cracking the Boy Code

• Before asking a question, think about how you would feel if your son posed the same question, in the same tone. • Boredom is the enemy of a positive connection. Be honest and … 13 $1.30 Add
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What's Natural?

What’s Natural?

From: Are We Done Fighting?

This chapter examines the question of how humans naturally relate to violence, considering archeological, anthropological, biological and psychological evidence. The author asserts that the … 9 $0.90 Add
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When Hate Rises

When Hate Rises

From: Are We Done Fighting?

This chapter considers situations where hate emerges, and uses research to examine and clarify common understandings about why hate has emerged. He provides tips on how to respond to and confront … 16 $1.60 Add
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When Things Bite Back: Some Unintended Consequences of Modern Technology

When Things Bite Back: Some Unintended Consequences of Modern Technology

From: Techno-Fix

When Things Bite Back explores, in depth, some of the many unintended environmental and social consequences of modern technologies, ranging from environmental pollution, global warming, species … ; 38 $3.80 Add