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  • Brave New Home

    Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing

    de Diana Lind ...
    This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare explores how new trends in housing can help us live better.Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. More people are living alone, marrying later in life, and having smaller families. At the same ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • State of the World 2014

    Governing for Sustainability

    Series series State of the World
    Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other ... Leer más

    $26.69 USD

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    Brave New Home

    Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing

    de Diana Lind ...
    Narrado por Janina Edwards ...

    Completo

    6 hora 45 minutos

    This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare explores how new trends in housing can help us live better.Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. More people are living alone, marrying later in life, and having smaller families. At the same ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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    Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

    de David Epstein ...
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    10 hora 46 minutos

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    $20.00 USD

  • The Bad Science and Bad Policy of Obama?s Global Warming Agenda

    Series series Encounter Broadsides
    As the U.N. moves closer to a new global warming treaty, it is time to examine the calls for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The health and welfare of humanity has benefited from access to fossil fuels, and any drastic move to limit that access must have extraordinary evidence to support it.While alternative energy technologies will increasingly be relied upon in the face of dwindling ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Retreat from a Rising Sea

    Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change

    This sobering examination of climate-change and the disastrous effects of rising sea levels explains what must be done to avoid the worst outcomes.By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level rise, major storms will inundate areas farther inland and will lay waste to ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Lifeboat Cities

    Making a New World

    Hopeful and provocative, this account considers the principle social and ecological threats facing Australia and outlines the ways in which these crises need to be confronted and addressed. Taking a radical approach to climate change prevention, this bold manifesto claims that Australia's current focus on over-consumption and "greener lifestyles" are ineffective. Rather, this opinionated record ... Leer más

    $23.95 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Political Economy of Global Warming

    The Terminal Crisis

    de Del Weston ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the existing dominant global economic structure of capitalism as well as the fact that global warming is too ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Triumph of the Expert

    Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism

    Series series Series in Ecology and History
    The most striking feature of British colonialism in the twentieth century was the confidence it expressed in the use of science and expertise, especially when joined with the new bureaucratic capacities of the state, to develop natural and human resources of the empire.Triumph of the Expert is a history of British colonial doctrine and its contribution to the emergence of rural development and ... Leer más

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  • Water and Climate Change in Africa

    Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi

    Edición de Patricia E. Perkins ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change. While the details vary from country to country, the impacts will be especially grave for marginalized people, whose access to food, potable water, and safe shelter may be threatened due to fluctuations in rainfall and temperature, and to extreme weather events. Because ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Development Policy as a Way to Manage Climate Change Risks

    Edición de Bert Metz, M Kok J T ...
    The integration of development and climate objectives is increasingly recognized as significant in research and policy making. In practice, some development aims, such as poverty alleviation, enhancing energy security and access or improving health, also have potential climate benefits. The challenge is to find a broadly applicable range of effective policies and actions that realize development ... Leer más

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  • Re-Place

    Irish Theatre Environments

    Series Libro 84 - Reimagining Ireland
    What role does nature play in the cultural world of the theatre? Is the auditorium not a natural environment, and how can theatre and nature aesthetics co-exist in the productive expression of performance? Re-Place: Irish Theatre Environments proposes a new way of thinking about Irish theatre: one that challenges established boundaries between nature and culture and argues for theatre performances ... Leer más

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