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Dematerializing

Author : Jane Hammerslough
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786745592
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Dematerializing written by Jane Hammerslough and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Getting what you want" today is increasingly linked to buying something. But is the purchase always enough? Picking up where "simplifying" may not satisfy, Dematerializing acknowledges the pleasures, along with the pitfalls, of living in a material world. With a sharp reporter's eye and a wry sensibility, Jane Hammerslough encourages readers to explore how a consumption-crazed culture affects their own relationships with objects. By considering what possessions can and can't do, and by exploring where belief in the magic of the material encroaches on belief in ourselves and other people, Dematerializing offers insight into the pressures of living in a possession-obsessed environment--and ways to tame materialism in our own lives. Grounded by real-world examples, research, and the author's own experience, this inspiring book is for those who appreciate having "nice things" but are also disturbed by the control "nice things" sometimes have on their lives.

Making the Modern World

Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119942535
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Making the Modern World written by Vaclav Smil and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand for materials? These and many other questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization. Over the course of time, the modern world has become dependent on unprecedented flows of materials. Now even the most efficient production processes and the highest practical rates of recycling may not be enough to result in dematerialization rates that would be high enough to negate the rising demand for materials generated by continuing population growth and rising standards of living. This book explores the costs of this dependence and the potential for substantial dematerialization of modern economies. Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization considers the principal materials used throughout history, from wood and stone, through to metals, alloys, plastics and silicon, describing their extraction and production as well as their dominant applications. The evolving productivities of material extraction, processing, synthesis, finishing and distribution, and the energy costs and environmental impact of rising material consumption are examined in detail. The book concludes with an outlook for the future, discussing the prospects for dematerialization and potential constrains on materials. This interdisciplinary text provides useful perspectives for readers with backgrounds including resource economics, environmental studies, energy analysis, mineral geology, industrial organization, manufacturing and material science.

The Matter of the Dematerializing Armored Car

Author : Steve Levi
Publisher : Publication Consultants
ISBN 13 : 1594337527
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book The Matter of the Dematerializing Armored Car written by Steve Levi and published by Publication Consultants. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Matter of the Dematerializing Armored Car, Chief of Detectives Heinz Noonan is asked to solve the disappearance of an empty armored car and its two drivers from a tunnel with guards on both ends. Why would anyone want to steal an empty armored car and is it linked the $12 million in cash in the armored car vault under the control of the United States Department of Treasury which vanishes without a trace – legally? A suspenseful thriller of breathtaking action where the detective must solve an impossible crime before the heist can become an unsolved crime!

Materials and Dematerialization

Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1394181205
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (941 download)

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Download or read book Materials and Dematerialization written by Vaclav Smil and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-06-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MATERIALS AND DEMATERIALIZATION World-renowned scientist Vaclav Smil examines a critical topic in the research and policy domain of sustainable resource use Over the course of time, the modern world has become dependent on unprecedented flows of materials. Now even the most efficient production processes and the highest practical rates of recycling may not be enough to result in dematerialization rates that would be high enough to negate the rising demand for materials generated by continuing population growth and rising standards of living. Materials and Dematerialization considers the principal materials used throughout history, from wood and stone, through to metals, alloys, plastics and silicon, describing their extraction and production as well as their dominant applications. The evolving productivities of material extraction, processing, synthesis, finishing and distribution, and the energy costs and environmental impact of rising material consumption are examined in detail, along with the relationship between socio-economic development and resource use, including major technological and innovation aspects. The book concludes with an outlook for the future, discussing the prospects for dematerialization, potential constraints on materials, and an updated appraisal of material requirements and prospects during the coming decades. Building on the success of his 2013 book, Vaclav Smil has thoroughly revised this landmark text to highlight advances that have taken place over the last decade, including a thorough review of statistics and references to 2022. This updated edition also includes new content to explicitly address material for global energy transition and for securing food for a still growing global population. Praise for the 1st edition “Vaclav Smil keeps turning out amazing books. Making the Modern World, I just finished, and it’s pretty fantastic.” (Interview with Bill Gates, January 2014)

Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5

Author : Oleh Dokuka
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1787287297
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Hands-On Reactive Programming in Spring 5 written by Oleh Dokuka and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, businesses need a new type of system that can remain responsive at all times. This result is achievable and is called reactive, which means it reacts to changes. The development of such systems is a complex task, requiring a deep understanding of the domain. The developers of the Spring Framework help with the reactive version

Dematerialization and the Social Materiality of Art

Author : Elize Mazadiego
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004457887
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Dematerialization and the Social Materiality of Art written by Elize Mazadiego and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dematerialization and the Social Materiality of Art Elize Mazadiego interprets experimental art practices that negated the object’s primacy, developing new materialities rooted in Argentina’s changing social life and transformative experiences of modernization in the 1950s and 1960s.

Economics of Industrial Ecology

Author : Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262220712
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)

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Book Synopsis Economics of Industrial Ecology by : Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh

Download or read book Economics of Industrial Ecology written by Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies that integrate scientific, technological, and economic dimensions of industrial ecology and material flows. The use of economic modeling techniques in industrial ecology research provides distinct advantages over the customary approach, which focuses on the physical description of material flows. The thirteen chapters of Economics of Industrial Ecology integrate the natural science and technological dimensions of industrial ecology with a rigorous economic approach and by doing so contribute to the advancement of this emerging field. Using a variety of modeling techniques (including econometric, partial and general equilibrium, and input-output models) and applying them to a wide range of materials, economic sectors, and countries, these studies analyze the driving forces behind material flows and structural changes in order to offer guidance for economically and socially feasible policy solutions. After a survey of concepts and relevant research that provides a useful background for the chapters that follow, the book presents historical analyses of structural change from statistical and decomposition approaches; a range of models that predict structural change on the national and regional scale under different policy scenarios; two models that can be used to analyze waste management and recycling operations; and, adopting the perspective of local scale, an analysis of the dynamics of eco-industrial parks in Denmark and the Netherlands. The book concludes with a discussion of the policy implications of an economic approach to industrial ecology.

European Governance

Author : G.P.E. Walzenbach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351938568
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book European Governance written by G.P.E. Walzenbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection provides a balanced evaluation of multi-level governance. Written by international experts of policy-making in the European Union, each contribution builds on common conceptual definitions, critically debating their adaptation to policy-specific contexts and investigating their usefulness for conducting empirical research. This engaging text uses case studies to identify the specific changes that have occurred in power relations across different levels of the EU system. With varying emphasis on state and non-state actors, on country comparisons and international processes, the reader is invited to join a fruitful dialogue among the contributors about the symbiotic relationship of multi-level analysis with other conceptual innovations such as transnational regulation, network formation or market internationalization. This book confronts sophisticated theoretical reasoning with the actual realities of policy-making and is therefore essential reading for all those interested in the risks and opportunities of a comparative-interdisciplinary approach to European governance.

Capitalism for Realists

Author : Tibor Rutar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000784932
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Capitalism for Realists written by Tibor Rutar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of extreme political polarization and waning of reasoned debate across political divides, Capitalism for Realists carefully explores the inner workings of capitalism in a consciously non-partisan and balanced way. Does the modern capitalist economy alleviate poverty and exploitation, or exacerbate them? What, exactly, is ‘neoliberalism,’ and how well or poorly has it performed in the past 40 years? Does capitalism undermine democracy, or is it rather one of its key necessary conditions? How have altruism, cooperation, tolerance, violence, and trust fared under the influence of the modern market society? Should we analyse capitalism through the mainstream economic lens or a more critical Marxist perspective? This book offers answers to these questions. Synthesizing decades of research across disciplines, Capitalism for Realists offers an overarching perspective on the modern economy by theoretically unifying many of the claims and conclusions about it offered by various traditionally rivalrous social science paradigms, such as institutional, neoclassical, and public choice economics on the one hand, and Marxist sociology on the other. The book presents and critically assesses the latest data and debates on such crucial contemporary issues as the relationship between poverty, exploitation, inequality, and capitalism, the nature of ‘neoliberalism’ and the successes and failures of both state-led industrial policy and the Washington consensus, capitalist peace theory, historical origins of modern capitalism, and more. What emerges is a clear picture of the merits and demerits of the modern economy too nuanced to be simplified and categorized by the prevailing political discourses. Rich in empirical detail, this lively, accessible book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students with interests in sociological theory, political theory, economics, and political and economic sociology.

Edge City

Author : Joel Garreau
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307801942
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Edge City written by Joel Garreau and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City.

Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art

Author : Joanna Page
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 178735976X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art written by Joanna Page and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Projects that bring the ‘hard’ sciences into art are increasingly being exhibited in galleries and museums across the world. In a surge of publications on the subject, few focus on regions beyond Europe and the Anglophone world. Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art assembles a new corpus of art-science projects by Latin American artists, ranging from big-budget collaborations with NASA and MIT to homegrown experiments in artists’ kitchens. While they draw on recent scientific research, these art projects also ‘decolonize’ science. If increasing knowledge of the natural world has often gone hand-in-hand with our objectification and exploitation of it, the artists studied here emphasize the subjectivity and intelligence of other species, staging new forms of collaboration and co-creativity beyond the human. They design technologies that work with organic processes to promote the health of ecosystems, and seek alternatives to the logics of extractivism and monoculture farming that have caused extensive ecological damage in Latin America. They develop do-it-yourself, open-source, commons-based practices for sharing creative and intellectual property. They establish critical dialogues between Western science and indigenous thought, reconnecting a disembedded, abstracted form of knowledge with the cultural, social, spiritual, and ethical spheres of experience from which it has often been excluded. Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art interrogates how artistic practices may communicate, extend, supplement, and challenge scientific ideas. At the same time, it explores broader questions in the field of art, including the relationship between knowledge, care, and curation; nonhuman agency; art and utility; and changing approaches to participation. It also highlights important contributions by Latin American thinkers to themes of global significance, including the Anthropocene, climate change and environmental justice.

The Urantia Book

Author : Urantia Foundation
Publisher : Urantia Foundation
ISBN 13 : 0911560513
Total Pages : 2165 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book The Urantia Book written by Urantia Foundation and published by Urantia Foundation. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 2165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the form of a revelation from divine beings, the classic guide to expanding consciousness presents texts discussing God, the universe, angels and other beings, the history of the world, the development of civilization, personal spiritual growth, and the life and teachings of Jesus.

Property Rights in Investment Securities and the Doctrine of Specificity

Author : Erica Johansson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540859047
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Property Rights in Investment Securities and the Doctrine of Specificity written by Erica Johansson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-01-31 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates the requirement for specificity as a criterion for property rights in securities evidenced by electronic entries made on securities accounts. It compares English, US and Swedish law with the aim of finding viable solutions.

Money Banking and Finance

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Publisher : Academic Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9788171886104
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Money Banking and Finance written by and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Case of Partial Dematerialization of the Body of a Medium

Author : Aleksandr Aksakov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book A Case of Partial Dematerialization of the Body of a Medium written by Aleksandr Aksakov and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Social Metabolism

Author : Manuel González de Molina
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319063588
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Social Metabolism written by Manuel González de Molina and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over this last decade, the concept of Social Metabolism has gained prestige as a theoretical instrument for the required analysis, to such an extent that there are now dozens of researchers, hundreds of articles and several books that have adopted and use this concept. However, there is a great deal of variety in terms of definitions and interpretations, as well as different methodologies around this concept, which prevents the consolidation of a unified field of new knowledge. The fundamental aim of the book is to conduct a review of the past and present usage of the concept of social metabolism, its origins and history, as well as the main currents or schools that exist around this concept. At the same time, the reviews and discussions included are used by the authors as starting points to draw conclusions and propose a theory of socio-ecological transformations. The theoretical and methodological innovations of this book include a distinction of two types of metabolic processes: tangible and intangible; the analysis of the social metabolism at different scales (in space and time) and a theory of socio-ecological change overcoming the merely “systemic” or “cybernetic” nature of conventional approaches, giving special protagonism to collective action.

Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism

Author : L. Harrington
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137091932
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism written by L. Harrington and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth-century discovered the concept of sacred place largely through the work of Martin Heidegger and Mircea Eliade. Their writings on sacred place respond to the modern manipulation of nature and secularization of space, and so may seem distinctively post-modern, but their work has an important and unacknowledged precedent in the Neoplatonism of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism traces the appearance and development of sacred place in the writings of Neoplatonists from the third to ninth centuries, and sets them in the context of present-day debates over place and the sacred.