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How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate by Hoffman Andrew J
epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Hoffman, Andrew J. [Hoffman, Andrew J.]

5 HISTORICAL ANALOGIES FOR CULTURAL CHANGE Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. —H. G. Wells Consider the central cultural question of climate change: Do ...
( Category: Political Parties May 25,2019 )
Try Common Sense by Philip K. Howard
epub |eng | 2018-12-05 | Author:Philip K. Howard

Tools for a Moral Society Morality is demonstrated by acts, not talk or intent. “To act morally is to do good to beings of flesh and blood,” Durkheim said, “to ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Administration May 20,2019 )
The Wild and the Toxic by Thomson Jennifer;
epub |eng | | Author:Thomson, Jennifer;

Conclusion This book opened by weaving together two claims. First, there is no way to think about our present environment without also thinking about health. Second, health and environmental activism ...
( Category: Environmental Policy May 19,2019 )
Rebuilding an Enlightened World by Bill Ivey
epub |eng | 2018-05-16 | Author:Bill Ivey

FIVE STORIES JUST BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016, JAMES Alefantis, owner of a family-oriented pizza shop in suburban Washington, suddenly noticed menacing messages posted by dozens of new Instagram ...
( Category: Cultural Policy May 17,2019 )
Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune Can Teach Us About Digital Technology by Lizzie O'Shea
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Lizzie O'Shea

8 Automation Can Mean Less Work and More Living Downing Tools so We Can Build Robots to Eat the Rich In the foundations of the old law quadrangle at the ...
( Category: Cultural Policy May 16,2019 )
City of Dreams by Podair Jerald;
epub |eng | | Author:Podair, Jerald;

7 THE ARECHIGA DISPOSSESSIONS The manner in which the evictions were carried out certainly influenced the ways in which they were interpreted, as did the nature of the media coverage ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development May 15,2019 )
Jump-Starting America by Jonathan Gruber & Simon Johnson
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-04-09 | Author:Jonathan Gruber & Simon Johnson [Gruber, Jonathan]

USING AN INDEPENDENT COMMISSION A major issue that will be raised with such a new large commitment is governance. How do we make sure this does not turn into a ...
( Category: Economic Policy May 12,2019 )
Future Cities by Paul Dobraszczyk
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Dobraszczyk

An enormous range of projects from this period envisaged new urban communities under protective canopies of one kind or another. These included the geodesic bio-domes developed by Buckminster Fuller and ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development May 12,2019 )
Contemporary Urban Planning by John M. Levy
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:John M. Levy [John M. Levy]

Transportation Planning and Land Use Land use and transportation planning are very much a chicken and egg situation. In the short term, land use shapes the demand for transportation. Many ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development May 10,2019 )
The Rough Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Robert Henson

Global warming itself may be responsible for some of the dimming – perhaps around a third – as it increases the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere (which makes ...
( Category: Environmental Policy May 9,2019 )
No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder
epub |eng | | Author:Rachel Louise Snyder

When Adams first began studying how to change the behavior of abusive men, before he’d made the connections to narcissism, nearly all the research from the 1960s and ’70s described ...
( Category: Social Policy May 8,2019 )
End of Discussion by Mary Katharine Ham
epub |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Mary Katharine Ham

What a coincidence! To recap, this white woman decided that she’d start claiming Native American lineage just prior to making a blockbuster career jump into the Ivies, and continued to ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism May 8,2019 )
Fighting Back the Right by David Niose
epub |eng | 2014-10-23 | Author:David Niose

Corporate Power Grows While the specter of racism made social egalitarianism impossible in America in the generations following the end of slavery, economic dynamics were also at work in shaping ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism May 4,2019 )
Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z's New Path to Success by Shalini Shankar
epub |eng | 2019-04-29 | Author:Shalini Shankar

Since 2011, the Scripps National Spelling Bee has been held at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Before that, it was at the Grand Hyatt ...
( Category: Asian May 2,2019 )
Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving by Caitlyn Collins
epub |eng | 2019-02-12 | Author:Caitlyn Collins [Collins, Caitlyn]

Ideal Worker Norms Although more and more Italian women are employed outside the home,54 workplaces still adhere to a traditional breadwinner model. It was clear in conversations with moms in ...
( Category: Cultural Policy May 1,2019 )

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