America's Food: What You Don't Know About What You Eat

We don't think much about how food gets to our tables, or what had to happen to fill our supermarket's produce section with perfectly round red tomatoes and its meat counter with slabs of beautifully marbled steak. We don't realize that the meat in one fast-food hamburger may come from many different cattle raised in several different countries. In fact, most of us have a fairly abstract unders…

Amenities of literature : consisting of sketches and characters of English li…

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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.