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The Omnivore's Dilemma

Author : Michael Pollan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143038583
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Omnivore's Dilemma written by Michael Pollan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Outstanding . . . a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits." —The New Yorker One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year and Winner of the James Beard Award Author of This is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestseller In Defense of Food and Food Rules What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore’s Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species. In the years since, Pollan’s revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food. Bringing wide attention to the little-known but vitally important dimensions of food and agriculture in America, Pollan launched a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences that even the simplest everyday food choices have on both ourselves and the natural world. Ten years later, The Omnivore’s Dilemma continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.

Reading the Environment

Author : Melissa Walker
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393965094
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Environment written by Melissa Walker and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse Voices and Forms. Contemporary Focus: Historical Perspective. Help with Reading and Writing.

How to See

Author : George Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book How to See written by George Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: How to see. Boston: Little, Brown, 1977.

The Reading Environment

Author : Aidan Chambers
Publisher : York, Me. : Stenhouse Publishers ; Markham, Ont. : Pembroke Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Reading Environment written by Aidan Chambers and published by York, Me. : Stenhouse Publishers ; Markham, Ont. : Pembroke Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reading is a provocative act; it makes things happen." "It is a fact of our psychological make-up that we cannot read anything without experiencing some kind of response." "If we are forced to read as a duty, expecting no delight,we are likely to find it a boring business." "We cannot easily read for ourselves what we haven't heard said." "Some people say they don't like reading stories, butI've never come across anyone who doesn't like hearing one." With such forthright statements Aidan Chambers ensures that The Reading Environment will make things happen about the ways reading is presented in schools. For Chambers, reading is a life-enhancing occupation, not a pastime. Drawing memorably on his own experience as a teacher and a reader, he offers a multitude of stimulating ideas for opening the rewards of thoughtful reading to all children. Concerned with the practical aspects of creating an environment that supports children as they become readers, he provides suggestions on school book fairs and displays, reading areas, author visits, and book selection. But having enabled children to become readers is only part of the issue, and he also addresses ways of keeping track of children's reading and helping them develop responses to what they read. Concise and elegantly written, The Reading Environment will be a valuable book for preservice and inservice teachers, and its distinctive blend of reflective and active comment make it an enlightening reminder to parents, media specialists, and librarians. Tell Me: Children, Reading, and Talk is the companion volume toThe Reading Environment.

Water for the Environment

Author : Avril Horne
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128039450
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Water for the Environment written by Avril Horne and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water for the Environment: From Policy and Science to Implementation and Management provides a holistic view of environmental water management, offering clear links across disciplines that allow water managers to face mounting challenges. The book highlights current challenges and potential solutions, helping define the future direction for environmental water management. In addition, it includes a significant review of current literature and state of knowledge, providing a one-stop resource for environmental water managers. - Presents a multidisciplinary approach that allows water managers to make connections across related disciplines, such as hydrology, ecology, law, and economics - Links science to practice for environmental flow researchers and those that implement and manage environmental water on a daily basis - Includes case studies to demonstrate key points and address implementation issues

Hand to Earth: Saving the Environment

Author : Jessica Cohn
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
ISBN 13 : 9781433348686
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Hand to Earth: Saving the Environment written by Jessica Cohn and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the environmental problems the planet faces and how everyone can help solve them.

Mexican Americans and the Environment

Author : Devon G. Peña
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816550824
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Mexican Americans and the Environment written by Devon G. Peña and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican Americans have traditionally had a strong land ethic, believing that humans must respect la tierra because it is the source of la vida. As modern market forces exploit the earth, communities struggle to control their own ecological futures, and several studies have recorded that Mexican Americans are more impacted by environmental injustices than are other national-origin groups. In our countryside, agricultural workers are poisoned by pesticides, while farmers have lost ancestral lands to expropriation. And in our polluted inner cities, toxic wastes sicken children in their very playgrounds and homes. This book addresses the struggle for environmental justice, grassroots democracy, and a sustainable society from a variety of Mexican American perspectives. It draws on the ideas and experiences of people from all walks of life—activists, farmworkers, union organizers, land managers, educators, and many others—who provide a clear overview of the most critical ecological issues facing Mexican-origin people today. The text is organized to first provide a general introduction to ecology, from both scientific and political perspectives. It then presents an environmental history for Mexican-origin people on both sides of the border, showing that the ecologically sustainable Norteño land use practices were eroded by the conquest of El Norte by the United States. It finally offers a critique of the principal schools of American environmentalism and introduces the organizations and struggles of Mexican Americans in contemporary ecological politics. Devon Peña contrasts tenets of radical environmentalism with the ecological beliefs and grassroots struggles of Mexican-origin people, then shows how contemporary environmental justice struggles in Mexican American communities have challenged dominant concepts of environmentalism. Mexican Americans and the Environment is a didactically sound text that introduces students to the conceptual vocabularies of ecology, culture, history, and politics as it tells how competing ideas about nature have helped shape land use and environmental policies. By demonstrating that any consideration of environmental ethics is incomplete without taking into account the experiences of Mexican Americans, it clearly shows students that ecology is more than nature study but embraces social issues of critical importance to their own lives.

The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s

Author : Dorceta E. Taylor
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822392240
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s written by Dorceta E. Taylor and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and the perceptions of and responses to breakdowns in social order, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. She demonstrates how social inequalities repeatedly informed the adjudication of questions related to health, safety, and land access and use. While many accounts of environmental history begin and end with wildlife and wilderness, Taylor shows that the city offers important clues to understanding the evolution of American environmental activism. Taylor traces the progression of several major thrusts in urban environmental activism, including the alleviation of poverty; sanitary reform and public health; safe, affordable, and adequate housing; parks, playgrounds, and open space; occupational health and safety; consumer protection (food and product safety); and land use and urban planning. At the same time, she presents a historical analysis of the ways race, class, and gender shaped experiences and perceptions of the environment as well as environmental activism and the construction of environmental discourses. Throughout her analysis, Taylor illuminates connections between the social and environmental conflicts of the past and those of the present. She describes the displacement of people of color for the production of natural open space for the white and wealthy, the close proximity between garbage and communities of color in early America, the cozy relationship between middle-class environmentalists and the business community, and the continuous resistance against environmental inequalities on the part of ordinary residents from marginal communities.

A Child's Introduction to the Environment

Author : Michael Driscoll
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0762499478
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book A Child's Introduction to the Environment written by Michael Driscoll and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the water, land, and air around us with this entertaining and informative look at our magnificent planet—and learn how your experiments, activities, and everyday actions can help save the environment. This book looks at the wide variety of ecosystems and environmental regions of the Earth, from deserts and forests, to cities and farms, to oceans and ice caps, as well as the atmosphere, weather, energy sources, plants, and animals of each area. Michael Driscoll and professor of meteorology Dennis Driscoll explain the changes to our planet that are currently taking place, including rising temperatures and sea levels, and the effects they can have on our environment. They also profile young environmental activists like Greta Thunberg and Isra Hirsi, and highlight important, everyday actions such as water conversion and recycling that kids can do on their own or with their parents. Also included are fun projects and experiments to do at home like brewing sun tea, creating lightning, and making a smog detector. Packed with facts, experiments, and a removable poster with tips on how to save the planet, this comprehensive guide will inspire kids and their families to think about our planet in new ways and help keep it beautiful and healthy for years to come.

A Forest of Voices

Author : Chris Anderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781559343152
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book A Forest of Voices written by Chris Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reading the Earth

Author : Michael P. Branch
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Earth written by Michael P. Branch and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press Ecocriticism is a scholary approach to literature that is rapidly building momentum and legitimacy because of its usefulness as a means of inquiry into the relationship between human culture and the nonhuman world. This collection demonstrates promising new directions in the study of literature and environment and suggests the importance and passion of this scholarly enterprise.

Reading: Its Nature and Development

Author : Charles Hubbard Judd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Reading: Its Nature and Development written by Charles Hubbard Judd and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reading

Author : The Open University
Publisher : The Open University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading written by The Open University and published by The Open University. This book was released on with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 8-hour free course explored how to develop skills in reading, to make it more enjoyable and rewarding, and how to read actively and critically.

Reading is All Around Us

Author : Jennifer Prior
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
ISBN 13 : 1425890687
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Reading is All Around Us written by Jennifer Prior and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NULL

The Language Of Environment

Author : George Myerson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317821637
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The Language Of Environment written by George Myerson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. “Environment” challenges modern knowledge and its institutions: academic disciplines, research groups, journals and presses, syllabuses and texts, professions and data banks, media experts and policy advisors. The language of environment makes no policy proposals, it is not prescriptive. But it is an attempt to think about the cultural context of all proposals and prescriptions, the cultures of authority and expertise in our time. How is knowledge made to count, and how do all the different claims connect, or collide?

Events and the Environment

Author : Robert Case
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136190937
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Events and the Environment written by Robert Case and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of our planet’s support systems are in crisis. Climate change, resource shortages and environmental pollution threaten our economy and lifestyles. Society as a whole needs to adopt policies that can meet these challenges. The ever expanding event industry is no exception. Anyone involved in organising and managing events needs to understand the complex relationship between events and the environment so that they can implement sustainable management practices. This is the first book to provide a thorough exploration of the multi-dimensional relationships between events and the environment. It achieves this by not only critically evaluating the positive and negative impacts on the environment but also by reviewing the ways the events industry uses the environment as a resource and how the environment helps to shape events. It traces the evolution of the concepts of sustainability and sustainable development and the implementation of environmental legislation. It offers insights into how sustainable measurement practices can be incorporated into the planning, management and monitoring of events and concludes by reflecting on some of the future environmental issues that still need to be resolved within the industry. It illustrates these ideas with a wide range of case studies at a variety of scales and geographical locations on all the earth’s continents. To encourage reflection on the principal themes and promote critical thinking, there are discussion questions and links to further reading in each chapter. This book is essential reading for students of Events Management.

Green Building, Environment, Energy and Civil Engineering

Author : Jimmy Kao
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1315349574
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Green Building, Environment, Energy and Civil Engineering written by Jimmy Kao and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings volume contains select Green Building, Materials and Civil Engineering related papers from the 2016 International Conference on Green Building, Materials and Civil Engineering (GBMCE2016) which was held in Hong Kong, P.R. China, April 17-18, 2016. This volume of proceedings aims to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academics as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in the fields of Energy, Environment and Civil Engineering.