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Imagining Seattle - Social Values In Urban Governance

by Serin D. Houston

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 Imagining Seattle is a study of social values in urban governance and the relationship of environmentalism, race relations, and economic growth in contemporary Seattle.
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Imagining Seattle - Social Values In Urban Governance

by Serin D. Houston

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 Imagining Seattle is a study of social values in urban governance and the relationship of environmentalism, race relations, and economic growth in contemporary Seattle.
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Imagining Seattle - Social Values In Urban Governance

by Serin D. Houston

25,39€ + 10% CARD

 Imagining Seattle is a study of social values in urban governance and the relationship of environmentalism, race relations, and economic growth in contemporary Seattle.
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In Defense Of Farmers - The Future Of Agriculture In The Shadow Of Corporate Power

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 Industrial agriculture is generally characterized as either the salvation of a growing, hungry, global population or as socially and environmentally irresponsible. Despite elements of truth in this polarization, it fails to focus on the particular vulnerabilities and potentials of industrial agriculture. Both representations obscure individual farmers, their families, their communities, and the risks they face from unpredictable local, national, and global conditions: fluctuating and often volatile production costs and crop prices; extreme weather exacerbated by climate change; complicated and changing farm policies; new production technologies and practices; water availability; inflation and debt; and rural community decline. Yet the future of industrial agriculture depends fundamentally on farmers decisions.In Defense of Farmers illuminates anew the critical role that farmers play in the future of agriculture and examines the social, economic, and environmental vulnerabilities of industrial agriculture, as well as its adaptations and evolution. Contextualizing the conversations about agriculture and rural societies within the disciplines of sociology, geography, economics, and anthropology, this volume addresses specific challenges farmers face in four countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, and the United States. By concentrating on countries with the most sophisticated production technologies capable of producing the largest quantities of grains, soybeans, and animal proteins in the world, this volume focuses attention on the farmers whose labors, decision-making, and risk-taking throw into relief the implications and limitations of our global industrial food system. The case studies here acknowledge the agency of farmers and offer ways forward in the direction of sustainable agriculture.
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In Defense Of Farmers - The Future Of Agriculture In The Shadow Of Corporate Power

29,80€ + 10% CARD

 Industrial agriculture is generally characterized as either the salvation of a growing, hungry, global population or as socially and environmentally irresponsible. Despite elements of truth in this polarization, it fails to focus on the particular vulnerabilities and potentials of industrial agriculture. Both representations obscure individual farmers, their families, their communities, and the risks they face from unpredictable local, national, and global conditions: fluctuating and often volatile production costs and crop prices; extreme weather exacerbated by climate change; complicated and changing farm policies; new production technologies and practices; water availability; inflation and debt; and rural community decline. Yet the future of industrial agriculture depends fundamentally on farmers decisions.In Defense of Farmers illuminates anew the critical role that farmers play in the future of agriculture and examines the social, economic, and environmental vulnerabilities of industrial agriculture, as well as its adaptations and evolution. Contextualizing the conversations about agriculture and rural societies within the disciplines of sociology, geography, economics, and anthropology, this volume addresses specific challenges farmers face in four countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, and the United States. By concentrating on countries with the most sophisticated production technologies capable of producing the largest quantities of grains, soybeans, and animal proteins in the world, this volume focuses attention on the farmers whose labors, decision-making, and risk-taking throw into relief the implications and limitations of our global industrial food system. The case studies here acknowledge the agency of farmers and offer ways forward in the direction of sustainable agriculture.
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Five-Ton Life - Carbon, America, And The Culture That May Save Us

by Susan Subak

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 Uses previously untapped sources to discover and explore various low-carbon locations. In Washington DC, Chicago suburbs, lower Manhattan, and Amish settlements in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Susan Subak examines the built and social environment to discern the characteristics that contribute to lower greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Ogallala - Water For A Dry Land

by Char Miller, John Opie e Kenna Lang Archer

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 Provides an environmental history and historical geography that tells the story of human defiance and human commitment within the Ogallala region. It describes the Great Plains' natural resources, the history of settlement and dryland farming, and the remarkable irrigation technologies that have industrialized farming in the region.
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Good Growing - Why Organic Farming Works

by Leslie A. Duram

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 A provocative and fascinating look at the benefits of organic farming; essential for farmers, consumers, and policymakers.
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Raising A Stink - The Struggle Over Factory Hog Farms In Nebraska

by Carolyn Johnsen

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 Draws on interviews, archival material, and the author's own extensive experience as a journalist to present a timely, informative account of the complicated and troubling agricultural practice in Nebraska - and to put a human face on its causes and consequences. The result is the story of a struggle for the heart and soul of rural America.
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Sustainable Compromises - A Yurt, A Straw Bale House, And Ecological Living

by Alan Boye

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 When the author first lived in sustainable housing, he was young, idealistic, and not much susceptible to compromise - until rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, and loneliness drove him out of the utilities-free yurt he'd built in New Mexico. This book chronicles these two remarkable attempts to live simply in two disparate American eras.
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Growing Local - Case Studies On Local Food Supply Chains

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 In an increasingly commercialized world, the demand for better quality, healthier food has given rise to one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. food system: locally grown food. Many believe that relocalization of the food system will provide a range of public benefits, including lower carbon emissions, increased local economic activity, and closer connections between consumers, farmers, and communities. The structure of local food supply chains, however, may not always be capable of generating these perceived benefits.Growing Local reports the findings from a coordinated series of case studies designed to develop a deeper, more nuanced understanding of how local food products reach consumers and how local food supply chains compare with mainstream supermarket supply chains. To better understand how local food reaches the point of sale, Growing Local uses case study methods to rigorously compare local and mainstream supply chains for five products in five metropolitan areas along multiple social, economic, and environmental dimensions, highlighting areas of growth and potential barriers. Growing Local provides a foundation for a better understanding of the characteristics of local food production and emphasizes the realities of operating local food supply chains.
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Ogallala - Water For A Dry Land

by Char Miller, John Opie e Kenna Lang Archer

29,80€ + 10% CARD

 Provides an environmental history and historical geography that tells the story of human defiance and human commitment within the Ogallala region. It describes the Great Plains' natural resources, the history of settlement and dryland farming, and the remarkable irrigation technologies that have industrialized farming in the region.
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Traveling The Power Line - From The Mojave Desert To The Bay Of Fundy

by Julianne Couch

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 An informed, even-handed discussion of energy production and consumption on the global, national, regional, local, and - most important - personal level
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Five-Ton Life - Carbon, America, And The Culture That May Save Us

by Susan Subak

20,96€ + 10% CARD

 Uses previously untapped sources to discover and explore various low-carbon locations. In Washington DC, Chicago suburbs, lower Manhattan, and Amish settlements in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Susan Subak examines the built and social environment to discern the characteristics that contribute to lower greenhouse-gas emissions.
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In Defense Of Farmers - The Future Of Agriculture In The Shadow Of Corporate Power

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 Illuminates anew the critical role that farmers play in the future of agriculture and examines the social, economic, and environmental vulnerabilities of industrial agriculture, as well as its adaptations and evolution. This volume addresses specific challenges farmers face in four countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
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The Visible Hands That Feed - Responsibility And Growth In The Food Sector

by Ruzana Liburkina

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 The Visible Hands That Feed approaches the food sector against the backdrop of its pivotal role for social and ecological relations to trace the potentials and limitations for sustainable change from within. Liburkina conducts an in-depth exploration of the practices, visions, concerns, and relationships that unfold at the very locations where food is grown, processed, stored, and served.
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In Defense Of Farmers - The Future Of Agriculture In The Shadow Of Corporate Power

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Journals Of Forty-Niners - Salt Lake To Los Angeles

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 Assembles a fascinating array of diaries and memoirs of forty-niners who set out from Salt Lake City toward California's gold fields over the Old Spanish Trail.
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Growing Local - Case Studies On Local Food Supply Chains

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Dreams And Thunder - Stories, Poems, And The Sun Dance Opera

by Zitkala-Sa

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 A collection of the stories and poems of Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird), one of the most influential Native American women of the 20th century. Included are tales about mythical characters such as the Buffalo Woman and the Stone Boy. The volume also contains her libretto, "The Sun Dance Opera".
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The Power Of Solitude - My Life In The German Resistance

by Marion Yorck Von Wartenburg

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 Marion Yorck von Wartenburg was involved in the Nazi resistance group known as the Kreisau Circle, whose co-founder was her husband, Peter. In this memoir, Marion recreates the terrifying reality of her life as the wife of a resistance fighter and at the same time conveys the depth of the bond that existed between her and her husband.
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The New Latin American Mission History

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 Attempts to create a mission history that deals honestly with the actions and philosophic motivations of the missionaries, both as individuals and organizations and as agents of secular powers, and with the experiences and reactions of the indigenous peoples, including their strategies of accommodation, co-optation, and resistance.
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Durkheim And Women

by Jennifer M. Lehmann

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 Presents a feminist analysis of the theoretical writings of Emile Durkheim. Through a close textual reading of Durkheim's widely scattered statements about women, the author reconstructs a coherent Durkheimian theory of women. She places Durkheim squarely in the swirling modernist controversies of his time.
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Imagining Seattle - Social Values In Urban Governance

by Serin D. Houston

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 Imagining Seattle is a study of social values in urban governance and the relationship of environmentalism, race relations, and economic growth in contemporary Seattle.
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