Garbage wars : the struggle for environmental justice in Chicago

A study of the struggle for environmental justice, focusing on conflicts over solid waste and pollution in Chicago.In Garbage Wars, the sociologist David Pellow describes the politics of garbage in Chicago. He shows how garbage affects residents in vulnerable communities and poses health risks to those who dispose of it. He follows the trash, the pollution, the hazards, and the people who encou…

Generation digital : politics, commerce, and childhood in the age of the inte…

The role that children and youth play in the emerging digital media culture-as consumers targeted by marketing campaigns, as creators of their own digital culture, and as political participants.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Georeferencing : the geographic associations of information

An introduction to the principles of unified georeferencing, which uses placename and geospatial referencing interchangeably across all types of information storage and retrieval systems.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Global institutions and social knowledge : generating research at the Scripps…

This theoretical and empirical study examines the influence of global institutions on the generation of scientific knowledge. Virginia Walsh's approach reverses the traditional focus of international relations literature--which most often deals with how scientific knowledge influences institutions--and offers an original way to look at international environmental governance. After proposing a t…

An outcast of the islands

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Quantum Theory; A Mathematical Approach

Buku ini terinspirasi oleh pengamatan umum bahwa teori-teori besar fisika modern didasarkan pada struktur matematika dasar yang sederhana dan transparan – sebuah fakta yang biasanya tidak ditekankan dalam buku teks fisika standar – yang memudahkan matematikawan untuk memahami fitur-fitur dasarnya. Buku teks tentang teori kuantum ini ditujukan untuk mahasiswa sarjana atau pascasarjana tingka…

Democracy's Arsenal: Creating a Twenty-First-Century Defense Industry

The author describes the transformations needed in government and industry to achieve a new, more effective system of national defense.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World

A discussion of the opportunities and challenges involved in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from passenger travel.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life

Why it matters that our relationship with nature is increasingly mediated and augmented by technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America

An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history. In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake their profession, challenging their fellow engineers to embrace…