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  • Practicing Sustainability

    Edited by Guru Madhavan, Barbara Oakley, David Green, David Koon, Penny Low ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Sustainability applies to everybody. But everybody applies it differently, by defining and shaping it differently—much as water is edged and shaped by its container. It is conceived in absolute terms but underpinned by a great diversity of relatively “green”—and sometimes contradictory—practices that can each make society only more or less sustainable. In Practicing Sustainability, chefs, poets, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Fast Food/Slow Food

    The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System

    by Cathy Banwell, Theodore C. Bestor, Michael L. Burton, Jane Dixon, James A. Egan, Sarah Hinde, Valerie Imbruce, Dolores Koenig, Sarah Lyon, Ty Matejowsky, Heather McIntyre, Sidney Mintz, Karen L. Nero, Heather Paxson, Jeffery Pilcher, Lois Stanford, Penny Van Esterik, Gavin Whitelaw ...
    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. This new book will appeal to professionals in economic and environmental ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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  • The Fall and Rise of Nuclear Power in Britain

    A history

    by Simon Taylor ...
    The story of the rise, fall and second ascendancy of nuclear power in the United Kingdom.Britain was a pioneer in civil nuclear power and there were once high hopes in the 1950s that this could be a source of cheap electricity and a valuable export opportunity. In The Fall and Rise of Nuclear Power in Britain, Simon Taylor examines why these hopes were never realised, and how we have come to see a ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • When Trucks Stop Running

    Energy and the Future of Transportation

    by A.J. Friedemann ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    In lively and engaging language, this book describes our dependence on freight transport and its vulnerability to diminishing supplies and high prices of oil. Ships, trucks, and trains are the backbone of civilization, hauling the goods that fulfill our every need and desire. Their powerful, highly-efficient diesel combustion engines are exquisitely fine-tuned to burn petroleum-based diesel fuel. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Assumptions Economists Make

    by Jonathan Schlefer ...
    Economists make confident assertions in op-ed columns and on cable news—so why are their explanations at odds with equally confident assertions from other economists? And why are all economic predictions so rarely borne out? Harnessing his frustration with this contradiction, Schlefer set out to investigate how economists arrive at their opinions. ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Surviving the 21st Century

    Humanity's Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them

    by Julian Cribb ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us? Besides describing these challenges from the latest scientific perspectives, it also outlines and integrates the solutions, both at global and individual level and concludes optimistically. This book brings together in one easy-to ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Complex Systems and Social Practices in Energy Transitions

    Framing Energy Sustainability in the Time of Renewables

    Edited by Nicola Labanca ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the fundamental issues concerning policies for sustainable transition to renewable energies from the perspectives of sociologists, physicists, engineers, economists, anthropologists, biologists, ecologists and policy analysts. Adopting a combined approach, these are analysed taking both complex systems and social practice theories into ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Technologies for Sustainable Development

    A Way to Reduce Poverty?

    Edited by Jean-Claude Bolay, Silvia Hostettler, Eileen Hazboun ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Whilst scientific research can be crucial in guiding innovation and development throughout the world, it can be too detached from real world applications, particularly in developing and emerging countries. Technologies for Sustainable Development brings together the best 20 papers from the 2012 Conference of the EPFL-UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development with the aim to explore and discuss ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Jews, Confucians, and Protestants

    Cultural Capital and the End of Multiculturalism

    by Lawrence E. Harrison ...
    Multiculturalism—the belief that no culture is better or worse than any other; it is merely different—has come to dominate Western intellectual thought and to serve as a guide to domestic and foreign policy and development aid. But what if multiculturalism itself is flawed? What if some cultures are more prone to progress than others and more successful at creating the cultural capital that ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Monetary Policy and the Oil Market

    Edited by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Naoyuki Yoshino ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    While oil price fluctuations in the past can be explained by pure supply factors, this book argues that it is monetary policy that plays a significant role in setting global oil prices. It is a key factor often neglected in much of the earlier literature on the determinants of asset prices, including oil prices. However, this book presents a framework for modeling oil prices while incorporating ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Governing Sustainable Energies in China

    by Geoffrey Chun-fung Chen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines sustainable energy development in China, a non-liberal state, as a counterexample to conventional wisdom that effective policy outcomes are premised on the basis of decentralized governance. The use of sustainable energies as part of the solution for stabilising global warming has been promoted in industrialised countries for the past three decades. In the last ten years, China ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Plastic Money

    Constructing Markets for Credit Cards in Eight Postcommunist Countries

    by Alya Guseva, Akos Rona-Tas ...
    In the United States, we now take our ability to pay with plastic for granted. In other parts of the world, however, the establishment of a "credit-card economy" has not been easy. In countries without a history of economic stability, how can banks decide who should be given a credit card? How do markets convince people to use cards, make their transactions visible to authorities, assume the ... Read more

    $45.09 USD