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  • Bicycling Science, fourth edition

    by David Gordon Wilson, Theodor Schmidt, Jeremy J M. Papadopoulos ...
    THE BIBLE OF TECHNICAL BICYCLING: Everything you need to know about bicycles—from their history to their mechanics—is in this updated edition of the classic bicycling book.The perfect gift for cyclists and bicycle enthusiasts!The bicycle is almost unique among human-powered machines in that it uses human muscles in a near-optimum way. This essential volume offers a comprehensive account of the ... Read more

    $45.59 CAD

  • Water

    Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity

    by Jeremy J. Schmidt ...
    An intellectual history of America's water management philosophyHumans take more than their geological share of water, but they do not benefit from it equally. This imbalance has created an era of intense water scarcity that affects the security of individuals, states, and the global economy. For many, this brazen water grab and the social inequalities it produces reflect the lack of a coherent ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Landlocked

    Water, Energy, and Planetary Politics in Alberta

    by Jeremy J. Schmidt ...
    A study of oil-rich Alberta reveals the entwined relationships among geoscience, governance, and power.The Canadian province of Alberta holds the world’s fourth-largest reserve of fossil fuels, with oil sands famous for bitumen, a viscous form of petroleum. A critical testing ground for international environmental ideas and energy policies, Alberta pioneered state-led efforts to understand, ... Read more

    $36.09 CAD

  • Melancholy and the Care of the Soul

    Religion, Moral Philosophy and Madness in Early Modern England

    by Jeremy Schmidt ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Melancholy is rightly taken to be a central topic of concern in early modern culture, and it continues to generate scholarly interest among historians of medicine, literature, psychiatry and religion. This book considerably furthers our understanding of the issue by examining the extensive discussions of melancholy in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century religious and moral philosophical ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Water Ethics

    Foundational Readings for Students and Professionals

    Edited by Jeremy J. Schmidt, Peter G. Brown, Dr. ...
    Having manipulated water for irrigation, energy, and burgeoning urban centers, humans are facing the reality that although fresh water is renewable, it is as finite as any other resource. Countries, states, and cities are now scrambling to develop an intelligent, well-informed approach to mitigate the growing global water crisis. Water Ethics is based on the belief that responding to contemporary ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Global Challenges in Water Governance

    Environments, Economies, Societies

    by Jeremy J. Schmidt, Nathanial Matthews ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a historically situated explanation of the rise of global water governance and the contemporary challenges that global water governance seeks to address. It is particularly concerned with connecting what are often technical issues in water management with the social and political structures that affect how technical and scientific advice affects decisions. Schmidt and Matthews ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Understanding Global Social Policy

    by Meri Koivusalo, Ross Fergusson, Lutz Leisering, Susan L Robertson, Theo Papaioannou, Carolyn Snell, Roger Dale, Nicola Piper, Sophie Mackinder, Robert O'Brien, Kevin Farnsworth, Jeremy J Schmidt, Rianne Mahon, Eeva Ollila ...
    Series series Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
    With a contemporary overview of global social policy formation, the third edition of this leading textbook identifies key issues, debates and priorities for action in social policy across the Global South and North.Accessible and lively, it incorporates seven new chapters covering theory, social justice, climate, migration, gender, young people and water, energy and food. The original chapters ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • State of the World 2014

    Governing for Sustainability

    by The Worldwatch Institute, David W. Orr, Tom Prugh, Michael Renner, John Gowdy, Robert Engelman, Michael L. Weber, Conor Seyle, Matthew Wilburn King, Matt Leighninger, Diana Lind, Monty Hempel, Peter Brown, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Cormac Cullinan, Isabel Hilton, Sam Geall, Shakuntala Makhijani, Aaron Sachs, Inge Kaul, Maria Ivanova, Rick Worthington, Sean Sweeney, Dr., Thomas Palley, Gar Alperovitz, Colleen Cordes, David Bollier, Burns Weston, Petra Bartosiewicz, Marissa Miley, Evan Musolino, Katie Auth, Nina Netzer, Judith Gouverneur, Josephine Mitschke, Ian Johnson, Yu Hongyuan ...
    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 ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Paws, Claws, and Magic Tales

    Fellowship of Fantasy, #5

    by H. L. Burke, A. J. Bakke, Janeen Ippolito, Lelia Rose Foreman, Savannah Jezowski, Sharon Hughson, Laura L. Zimmerman, Grace Bridges, J. L. Rowan, Ace G. Pilkington, Pamela Sharp, Rachel Ann Michael Harris, Jenelle Schmidt, Karin De Havin, Jeremy Rodden, Naomi P. Cohen ...
    Series Book 5 - Fellowship of Fantasy
    There's just something magical about cats.Fierce hunters content to rest upon our sofas. Sweet friends but stubbornly independent. Fluffy little murder balls with jellybean toes and razor-sharp claws. It's easier to answer what cats aren't than what they are.In this purr-fect collection, awesome authors pounce upon the challenge of the mysterious cat like the elusive little red dot it is. Curl up ... Read more

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