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“diane sicotte”

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  • From Workshop to Waste Magnet

    Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region

    de Diane Sicotte ...
    Series series Nature, Society, and Culture
    Like many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation: neighborhoods littered with abandoned waste sites, polluting factories, and smoke-belching incinerators. However, other neighborhoods within and around the city are relatively pristine. This eye-opening book reveals that such environmental inequalities did not occur by chance, but were ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

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  • The Hidden Life of Trees

    What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from A Secret World

    de Peter Wohlleben, Suzanne Simard ...
    Traducido por Jane Billinghurst ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Mysteries of Nature
    A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • One of the most beloved books of our time: an illuminating account of the forest, and the science that shows us how trees communicate, feel, and live in social networks. After reading this book, a walk in the woods will never be the same again.“Breaks entirely new ground ... [Peter Wohlleben] has listened to trees and decoded ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

    de Charles Montgomery ...
    A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier peopleCharles Montgomery's Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life.After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • High Price

    A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society

    de Carl Hart ...
    A pioneering neuroscientist recounts his youth in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and how it led him to his groundbreaking work in drug addiction.Winner, Pen/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award"A fascinating combination of memoir and social science." —John Tierney, New York TimesAs a youth, Carl Hart didn't realize the value of school; he studied just enough to stay on the ba... ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices

    Practical Advice from The Union of Concerned Scientists

    de Michael Brower, Warren Leon ...
    From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment.Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth diapers or disposables? Some choices have a huge impact on the environment; others are of negligible importance. To those of us who care about our ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Bird on Fire:Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

    Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

    de Andrew Ross ...
    Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Your Atomic Self

    The Invisible Elements That Connect You to Everything Else in the Universe

    de Curt Stager ...
    "Delightful alchemy: Curt Stager transforms atomic science into lustrous, golden stories about the hidden connections that unite us all." —David George Haskell, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Forest UnseenWhat do atoms have to do with your life? In Your Atomic Self, scientist Curt Stager reveals how they connect you to some of the most amazing things in the universe.You will ... Leer más

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  • Our Better Nature

    Environment and the Making of San Francisco

    de Philip J. Dreyfus ...
    Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Ecotopia 2121

    A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia?in 100 Cities

    de Alan Marshall ...
    **A 2016 Green Book Festival "Future Forecasts" WinnerA stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea.**Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the world when Thomas More published his book Utopia, about an island paradise far away from his troubled land. It was an instant hit, and the literati ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Urban Green

    Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago

    de Colin Fisher ...
    In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that working-class white immigrants and African Americans in rapidly industrializing Chicago also fled the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Streetwise

    Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community

    de Elijah Anderson ...
    In a powerful, revealing portrait of city life, Anderson explores the dilemma of both blacks and whites, the underclass and the middle class, caught up in the new struggle not only for common ground—prime real estate in a racially changing neighborhood—but for shared moral community. Blacks and whites from a variety of backgrounds speak candidly about their lives, their differences, and their ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Building Resilient Urban Communities

    Edición de Jonas Joerin, Rajib Shaw, R. R. Krishnamurthy ...
    Series Libro 15 - Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
    "How do urban communities in Asian cities experience the impacts of urbanisation and climate change? This book throws light on the ongoing processes of rapid urban transformation in many cities in developing countries, with particular reference to cities such as Chennai in India. Due to increasing demands on infrastructures and urban services, cities in developing countries are often pushed to the ... Leer más

    $136.99 USD