Author:
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: consumption, confronting
Number of Pages: 390
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $34.00
ISBN-10: 0262661284
ISBN-13: 9780262661287

Comforting terms such as "sustainable development" and "green production" frame environmental debate by stressing technology (not green enough), economic growth (not enough in the right places), and population (too large). Concern about consumption emerges, if at all, in benign ways--as calls for green purchasing or more recycling, or for small changes in production processes. Many academics, policymakers, and journalists, in fact, accept the economists� view of consumption as nothing less than the purpose of the economy. Yet many people have a troubled, intuitive understanding that tinkering

Author: R.W. Greene
Publisher: Esri Pre
Keywords: handbook, gis, catastrophe, confronting
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1589480406
ISBN-13: 9781589480407

Showing how geographic information systems (GIS) technology can provide crucial and timely information and analysis to organizations involved in emergency response and homeland security, this hands-on manual is written for communities that face the threat of large-scale disasters, whether they be wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, or terrorist attacks. With full-color maps depicting the landscape of real catastrophic events, community checklists, and lessons learned from the real world of catastrophe response and preparedness, this manual is essential reading for communities that seek to make

Author: Fred Emil Katz
Publisher: State Univ Of New York Pr
Keywords: journeys, evil, confronting
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2004-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0791460304
ISBN-13: 9780791460306

Using insights from behavioral science, a Holocaust survivor explores how evil actions can seem moral to the perpetrators and how we must alter our thinking to prevent this.

Author: Leonard P. Zakim
Publisher: Ktav Publishing House
Keywords: guide, practical, semitism, anti, confronting
Number of Pages: 157
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: $49.38
ISBN-10: 0881256749
ISBN-13: 9780881256741

Author: Stuart Sim
Publisher: Edinburgh University Pre
Keywords: culture, noise, politics, confronting, silence, manifesto
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-06-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0748625917
ISBN-13: 9780748625918

Silence has played a crucial role in human history in important areas of our existence such as religion and the arts. Yet we live in an increasingly noisy society in which silence is under perpetual assault from the 24/7 lifestyle. The business world cynically exploits noise as part of its marketing strategy; the military deploys noise as a weapon. Without question, noise is a political issue on a global scale.This book mounts a strong argument for silence, arguing that we need more rather than less of it in our lives. The alternative is an environment scarred even further by noise, so often t

Author: Karen Houppert
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: taboo, menstruation, unmentionable, last, confronting, curse
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2000-05-24
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0374526923
ISBN-13: 9780374526924

Village Voice reporter Karen Houppert intrepidly attacks the laissez-faire attitude of many "personal products" companies with The Curse, and her investigations should rabble-rouse women to action. Most notable is her pointed discussion of dioxin, a class A (most toxic of the toxins) carcinogen, and how studies have shown traces of it in tampons from every major U.S. manufacturer. Dioxin is a chemical that’s been given "zero tolerance" status by the Environmental Protection Agency because of its strongly suspected link "to lower sperm counts in men, a higher probability of endometriosis

Author: Mark W. Forema
Publisher: College Press Publishing Company, Inc.
Keywords: issues, clinical, confronting, bioethics, christianity
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0899007554
ISBN-13: 9780899007557