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  • Agriculture in Urban Planning

    Generating Livelihoods and Food Security

    Edited by Mark Redwood ...
    This volume, by graduate researchers working in urban agriculture, examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanizing global south, the book examines the contribution of urban agriculture and city farming to livelihoods and food security.Case studies cover food production diversification for robust ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Wastewater Irrigation and Health

    Assessing and Mitigating Risk in Low-income Countries

    Edited by Pay Drechsel, Liqa Raschid-Sally, Mark Redwood, Akissa Bahri ...
    In most developing countries wastewater treatment systems are hardly functioning or have a very low coverage, resulting in large scale water pollution and the use of very poor quality water for crop irrigation especially in the vicinity of urban centres. This can create significant risks to public health, particularly where crops are eaten raw.Wastewater Irrigation and Health approaches this ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Buddhism and Law

    An Introduction

    Edited by Rebecca Redwood French, Mark A. Nathan ...
    As the first comprehensive study of Buddhism and law in Asia, this interdisciplinary volume challenges the concept of Buddhism as an apolitical religion without implications for law. Buddhism and Law draws on the expertise of the foremost scholars in Buddhist studies and in law to trace the legal aspects of the religion from the time of the Buddha to the present. In some cases, Buddhism provided ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

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  • Whose Land Is Our Land?

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  • Public Housing Myths

    Perception, Reality, and Social Policy

    Edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, Lawrence J. Vale ...
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  • The Buddha Walks into a Bar . . .

    A Guide to Life for a New Generation

    by Lodro Rinzler ...
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  • The Intercultural City

    Planning for Diversity Advantage

    by Charles Landry, Phil Wood ...
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  • Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

    by Chögyam Trungpa ...
    This modern spiritual classic highlights a trick we play on ourselves and offers a brighter reality: liberation by letting go of the self rather than working to improve itThe Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa calls attention to the commonest pitfall to which every aspirant on the spiritual path falls prey: what he calls spiritual materialism. "The problem is that ego can convert anything ... Read more

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  • The Housing Bomb

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    by M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Peterson, Jianguo Liu ...
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  • Understanding Cairo

    The Logic of a City Out of Control

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