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Books narrated by Majora Carter

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  • Reclaiming Your Community

    You Don't Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One

    by Majora Carter ...
    Majora Carter shows how brain drain cripples low-status communities and maps out a development strategy focused on talent retention to help them break out of economic stagnation. "My musical, In the Heights, explores issues of community, gentrification, identity and home, and the question: Are happy endings only ones that involve getting out of your neighborhood to achieve your dreams? In her ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sustainable South Bronx: A Model For Environmental Justice

    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Founder and Executive Director of Sustainable South Bronx, Marjora Carter points to environmental justice as the civil-rights issue of the twenty-first century. She advocates economically sustainable projects informed by community needs. Her work to ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD

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    Reclaiming Your Community

    You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One

    by Majora Carter ...
    Narrated by Majora Carter ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 21 min

    How can we solve the problem of persistent poverty in low-status communities? Majora Carter argues that these areas need a talent-retention strategy, just like the ones companies have. Retaining homegrown talent is a critical part of creating a strong local economy that can resist gentrification. But too many people born in low-status communities measure their success by how far away from them ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Earthcare

    An Anthology in Environmental Ethics

    This anthology, designed for use in undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, includes new and classic readings by leading writers in the field, full-length case studies, and many short discussion cases. Introductions and discussion questions are provided for all the essays, with each chapter introduced by a summary of the issues and appropriate philosophic, historical and scientific ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • The Vertical Farm

    Feeding the World in the 21st Century

    "The vertical farm is a world-changing innovation whose time has come. Dickson Despommier's visionary book provides a blueprint for securing the world's food supply and at the same time solving one of the gravest environmental crises facing us today."--StingImagine a world where every town has their own local food source, grown in the safest way possible, where no drop of water or particle of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Nerd Reich

    Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

    by Gil Durán ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A haunting picture of the political project pursued and abetted by a confederacy of Silicon Valley elites. Their goal is nothing less than to destroy liberal democracy. . . . In the fractured attention economy in which we all now reside, it’s easy to know these disparate facts and still have only a vague understanding of their larger significance. It is the mastery of ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The New City

    How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future

    Cities are at once among humanity’s crowning achievements and core drivers of the climate crisis. Their dependence on the outside world for vital resources is causing global temperatures to rise and wildlife habitats to shrink. But we have the opportunity to make cities more sustainable by transforming the built environment.Dickson D. Despommier proposes a visionary yet achievable plan for ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • People, Parasites, and Plowshares

    Learning from Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders

    Dickson D. Despommier's vivid, visceral account of the biology, behavior, and history of parasites follows the interplay between these fascinating life forms and human society over thousands of years. Despommier focuses on long-term host-parasite associations, which have evolved to avoid or even subvert the human immune system. Some parasites do great damage to their hosts, while others have ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Lights Out

    Ten Myths About (and Real Solutions to) America's Energy Crisis

    In this timely book, former Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham debunks the myths that warp our current debate over energy, and offers new solutions to the real problems we face in America.Drawing on the very latest thinking from experts in industry and academia, and his own experiences running America's Energy Department, he proposes a fresh approach to meeting our daunting energy threats. This ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    The Vertical Farm

    Feeding the World in the 21st Century

    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 7 min

    When Columbia professor Dickson Despommier set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big—he thought up. Despommier's stroke of genius, the vertical farm, has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These farms, grown inside skyscrapers, would provide solutions to many of the serious problems we currently face, including:—Allowing year ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    And the Fight for the Living World

    INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define the contemporary right―and a recipe for how to fight them.The planet burns and shared reality melts, a new iteration of the far right is on the march. How can we understand this dangerous new ... Read more

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  • The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

    How to Think About Artificial Intelligence—Before It's Too Late

    by Cory Doctorow ...
    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNational Indie Bestseller"[Doctorow] resembles the great rock critics of an earlier era, a high-tech Greil Marcus or even a Lester Bangs." —Stephen Marche, The New York Times Book ReviewA short, provocative guide to what's good, bad, and stupid about AI and the discourse around AI, by the author of Enshittification.In modern tech parlance, a c... ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD