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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “justyna karakiewicz”
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  • The Making of Hong Kong

    From Vertical to Volumetric

    by Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz, Thomas Kvan ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong’s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism.The authors describe how the high-rise intensity of Hong Kong came about; how the forest of towers are in fact vertical culs de sac; and how the city might become truly ‘volumetric’ with ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Promoting Sustainable Living

    Sustainability as an Object of Desire

    by Justyna Karakiewicz, Audrey Yue, Angela Paladino ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability
    Current images of sustainability are often designed to instil fear and force change, not because we believe in it, but because we fear the consequences of inaction.Moving away from negative portrayals of sustainability, this book identifies the factors that motivate people to aspire towards sustainable living. It introduces the notion of sustainability as an "object of desire" that will allow ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Urban Galapagos

    Transition to Sustainability in Complex Adaptive Systems

    Edited by Thomas Kvan, Justyna Karakiewicz ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book addresses the future of urbanisation on the Galapagos Islands from a systems, governance and design perspective with the competing parameters of liveability, economic and ecological, using the Galapagos as a laboratory for the theoretical and postulative understanding of evolving settlement and habitation.The Galapagos islands are one of the world’s most examined and reported examples of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • The Economics of Enough

    How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

    by Diane Coyle ...
    The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Six Records of a Floating Life

    by Shen Fu ...
    Translated by Leonard Pratt, Chiang Su-hui ...
    Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage to Yün, the beautiful and artistic girl he fell in love with as a child. He also describes ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Power Surge

    Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future

    by Michael Levi ...
    The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans--convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety--are battling over which one should prevail. In The Power Surge, Michael Levi takes readers inside these revolutions. He shows how oil and gas production, after decades in decline, are being propelled upward by new ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Cowherd in Paradise

    From China to Canada

    by May Q. Wong ...
    In 2006, the Prime Minister apologized to the Chinese people for the legislated discrimination created by Canada’s head tax laws in the first half of the twentieth century, acknowledging the far-reaching and long-term consequences it has had on their families. A Cowherd in Paradise is the story of one such family.The book chronicles the remarkable lives of Wong Guey Dang (1902–1983) and Jiang Tew ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom

    America and China, 1776 to the Present

    by John Pomfret ...
    The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: A Captivating Chronicle of the Complex Relationship Between the United States and ChinaFrom clipper ships swapping American ginseng for Chinese tea to warships facing off in the South China Sea, from Yankee missionaries bringing Christianity and education to Chinese laborers building the American West, the United States and China have long been ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Pricing the Planet's Future

    The Economics of Discounting in an Uncertain World

    by Christian Gollier ...
    Our path of economic development has generated a growing list of environmental problems including the disposal of nuclear waste, exhaustion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and polluted land, air, and water. All these environmental problems raise the crucial challenge of determining what we should and should not do for future generations. It is also central to other ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • As China Goes, So Goes the World

    How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything

    by Karl Gerth ...
    In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth shows that as the Chinese consumer goes, so goes the world. While Americans and Europeans have become increasingly worried about China's competition for manufacturing jobs and energy resources, they have overlooked an even bigger story: China's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rethinking Private Authority

    Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance

    by Jessica F. Green ...
    Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. Jessica Green identifies two distinct forms of private authority--one in which states delegate authority to private actors, and another in which entrepreneurial actors generate their own rules ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Stumbling Giant

    The Threats to China's Future

    by Timothy Beardson ...
    "A thoughtful reconsideration of China's actual place in the new world order, based on reality rather than fanciful speculation." —Kirkus ReviewsCan anything prevent China surpassing the United States and becoming the world's top superpower? While predictions that China's rise to global supremacy is a near-certainty have resulted in this belief becoming almost conventional wisdom, this book boldly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus