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The Poisoned City
Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins.
Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes....
Knitting Socks from Around the World
25 Patterns in a Variety of Styles and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2011
This book collects 25 fantastic patterns for socks inspired by knitting traditions from around the world. Patterns from top designers including Star Athena, Beth Brown-Reinsel, Candace Eisner Strick, Chrissy Gardiner, Janel Laidman and Anna Zilboorg are featured, along with an introduction from Nancy Bush, author of Folk Socks.
Friction
An Ethnography of Global Connection
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
A wheel turns because of its encounter with the surface of the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. In both cases, it is friction that produces movement, action, effect. Challenging the widespread view that...
by Gary Paul Green, Anna L. Haines
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
***A comprehensive approach focused on sustainable change ** *
Asset Building and Community Development, Fourth Edition examines the promise and limits of community development by showing students and practitioners how asset-based developments can improve the sustainability and quality of...
Conversing with Cancer
How to Ask Questions, Find and Share Information, and Make the Best Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
With more than 40% of people eventually facing a cancer diagnosis, Conversing with Cancer is a much-needed addition to understanding and improving cancer care through strong communication among providers, patients, and caregivers. Each person whose life is affected by a cancer diagnosis—patient,...
Confucianism as a World Religion
Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism...
by Anna Ternavskaya
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Economics - Foreign Trade Theory, Trade Policy, grade: 1,0 (A), Leeds Metropolitan University, course: Multinational Enterprises, 31 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This report examines the effect of foreign direct investment...
by Anna Suvorova
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Get Inspired and Empowered by this delicious book that will honestly and lovingly guide you into a new world. Everything is possible here: we are living in harmony with the self, with each other and with the world around us, and in this world.... even medicine tastes like chocolate.
by Lou Anna Claveau
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
This very short story was originally written for my son, Aaron. After giving up hope that he would never learn to stop lying I discovered the character of Leon the Lying Lion. Aaron and Leon meet up and Aaron is put in a position to teach Leon about the effects of lying on those around him. Aaron...
An Aesthesia of Networks
Conjunctive Experience in Art and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
The experience of networks as the immediate sensing of relations between humans and nonhuman technical elements in assemblages such as viral media and databases.
Today almost every aspect of life for which data exists can be rendered as a network. Financial data, social networks, biological...
Political Polling in the Digital Age
The Challenge of Measuring and Understanding Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
The 2008 presidential election provided a "perfect storm" for pollsters. A significant portion of the population had exchanged their landlines for cellphones, which made them harder to survey. Additionally, a potential Bradley effect -- in which white voters misrepresent their intentions...
The Citizen Machine
Governing by Television in 1950s America
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
The Citizen Machine is the untold political history of television’s formative era. Historian Anna McCarthy goes behind the scenes of early television programming, revealing that long before the age of PBS, leaders from business, philanthropy, and social reform movements as well as public intellectuals...
Girl!
The Ultimate Guide To Being You
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
'Sometimes life feels really complicated. Friendships, school stuff, all the things I care about, big changes happening in the world . . . but then I wonder what I can do, because I'm just one girl.' Ella, 13 Do you sometimes feel like Ella? Then open this book! It has heaps of ideas to help you make...
West Coast Road Eats
The Best Road Food from San Diego to the Canadian Border
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
As "locavore" becomes part of our everyday vocabulary and food critics continue to give West Coast cuisine accolades for its freshness and sustainability, West Coast Road Eats shows how why we eat-and where we eat it-matters more than ever. Part guidebook, part travelogue, and part history...