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  • Bicycle/Race

    Transportation, Culture, & Resistance

    by Adonia E. Lugo, PhD ...
    Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of borderlands and intersections, a cautionary tale about the dangers of putting infrastructure before culture, and a coming-of-age story about power and identity. The colonial history of Southern California is interwoven through Adonia Lugo's story of growing up ... Read more

    $13.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Bicycle/Race

    Transportation, Culture, & Resistance

    by Adonia E. Lugo PhD ...
    Narrated by Melissa Medina ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 6 min

    Bicycle/Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles—and the United States—from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of borderlands and intersections, a cautionary tale about the dangers of putting infrastructure before culture, and a coming-of-age story about power and identity. The colonial history of southern California is interwoven through Adonia Lugo's story of growing up ... Read more

    $30.23 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World, The

    The True Story of America's First Black World Champion

    by Major Taylor ...
    Born in 1878, bicycle racer Marshall "Major" Taylor became the first Black sports star to become a global celebrity when he won the world cycling championship in 1899. Throughout his bike-racing career, he won awards and set records on and off the track. But in his native United States, he faced racist discrimination and violence at every turn, causing him to spend most of his time in Europe where ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anthropology of Los Angeles

    Place and Agency in an Urban Setting

    by Jenny Banh, Maryann Aguirre, Beth F. Baker, Nathalie Boucher, Charles Joseph, Melissa King, Andrea Lepage, Adonia E. Lugo, Allison Mattheis0, Yolanda T. Moses1, ChorSwang Ngin2, Jocelyn A. Pacleb3, Kyeyoung Park4, George Villanueva5, Natale A. Zappia6, James Diego Vigil7 ...
    The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that connect daily actors within cultural systems to global social formations. This diverse collection is recommended for scholars of anthropology, ... Read more

    $54.69 CAD

  • Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation

    Biking for all?

    Edited by Aaron Golub, Melody Hoffmann, Adonia Lugo, Gerardo Sandoval ...
    Series series Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series
    As bicycle commuting grows in the United States, the profile of the white, middle-class cyclist has emerged. This stereotype evolves just as investments in cycling play an increasingly important role in neighborhood transformations. However, despite stereotypes, the cycling public is actually quite diverse, with the greatest share falling into the lowest income categories.Bicycle Justice and Urban ... Read more

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    At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times)This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time.It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • Slaying the Sky Dragon - Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory

    by Dr Tim Ball Dr Claes Johnson Dr Martin Hertzberg Joseph A. Olson Alan Siddons Dr Oliver K. Manuel Dr Charles Anderson Hans Schreuder John O'Sullivan ...
    Even before publication Slaying the Sky Dragon was destined to be the benchmark for future generations of climate researchers. This is the world's first and only full volume refutation of the greenhouse gas theory of man-made global warming. Nine leading international experts methodically expose how willful fakery and outright incompetence were hidden within the politicized realm of government ... Read more

    $13.67 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blue Covenant

    The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

    by Maude Barlow ...
    An Inconvenient Truth of water.“Imagine a world in twenty years, in which no substantive progress has been made to provide basic wastewater service in the Third World, or to force industry and industrial agriculture production to stop polluting water systems, or to curb the mass movement of water by pipeline, tanker and other diversion, which will have created huge new swaths of desert." ... Read more

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  • Terra Nova

    The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs

    by Eric W. Sanderson ...
    A look at what the American lifestyle has done to the environment—and how to move toward a better future.In the last century, three powerful forces—oil, cars, and suburbs—buoyed the American dream. Yet now, the quality of life in the United States is declining due to these same three forces. Our dependence on oil is a root cause of wars, recessions, and natural disasters. Cars consume an outsize ... Read more

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  • Staying Alive

    Women, Ecology, and Development

    by Vandana Shiva ...
    Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that “maldevelopment”—the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems that sets in motion a ... Read more

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  • Being Ecological

    by Timothy Morton ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    'To read Being Ecological is to be caught up in a brilliant display of intellectual pyrotechnics' P.D.Smith, GuardianWhy is everything we think we know about ecology wrong?Is there really any difference between 'humans' and 'nature'?Does this mean we even have a future?Don't care about ecology? This book is for you. Timothy Morton, who has been called 'Our most popular guide ... ... Read more

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  • Fraud and Carbon Markets

    The Carbon Connection

    by Marius-Christian Frunza ...
    Series series Environmental Market Insights
    The VAT Carousel Fraud has seriously undermined the financial integrity of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). This timely book is the first to give an overview of fraud in the carbon market. Written by a former broker, it presents unique material on the carbon fraud mechanics and analyses the missing trader fraud (VAT fraud) on European carbon allowances markets with a focus on ... Read more

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