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How to Feed the World : The History and Future of Food. by Smil, Vaclav.;
'How to Feed the World' is an indispensable analysis of how the world really produces and consumes its food - and a scientist's exploration of how we can successfully feed a growing population without killing the planet. Vaclav Smil lives in Winnipeg, MB.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: SCIENCE / Environmental Science; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General;
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Calling In : How to Start Making Change with Those You'd Rather Cancel. by Ross, Loretta J.;
From a pioneering Black feminist and MacArthur Genius Fellow, 'Calling In' is a memoir-manifesto-handbook about how to rein in the excesses of cancel culture so we can truly communicate and solve problems together.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists; SELF-HELP / Communication & Social Skills; SOCIAL SCIENCE;
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Is a River Alive?. by Macfarlane, Robert.;
At the heart of 'Is a River Alive?' is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings, who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. From the author of 'Underland', named one of The Guardian's Best Books of the 21st century.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: LAW / Environmental; NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection; SOCIAL SCIENCE;
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A History of the World in Six Plagues : How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to Covid-19. by Bonhomme, Edna.;
In the vein of 'Medical Apartheid', 'The Color of Law', and 'Just Medicine', 'A History of the World in Six Plagues' is a prodigious history of global disease that reveals the devastating link between public health and systemic inequality.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / African American & Black; SCIENCE / History; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity;
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Thunder Song Essays [electronic resource] : by LaPointe, Sasha.aut; cloudLibrary;
The author of the award-winning memoir Red Paint returns with a razor-sharp, clear-eyed collection of essays on what it means to be a proudly queer indigenous woman in the United States today Drawing on a rich family archive as well as the anthropological work of her late great-grandmother, Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe explores themes ranging from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and conscientious honesty. Unapologetically punk, the essays in Thunder Song segue from the miraculous to the mundane, from the spiritual to the physical, as they examine the role of art—in particular music—and community in helping a new generation of indigenous people claim the strength of their heritage while defining their own path in the contemporary world.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Indigenous Studies; Native Americans; Popular Culture;
© 2024., Catapult,
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The Trauma Beat A Case for Re-Thinking the Business of Bad News [electronic resource] : by Cherry, Tamara.aut; cloudLibrary;
A groundbreaking and thorough examination of the trauma caused by the media covering crimes, both to victims and journalists, from a respected journalist and victim advocate In The Trauma Beat, an eye-opening combination of investigative journalism and memoir, former big-city crime reporter Tamara Cherry calls on her award-winning skills as a journalist to examine the impact of the media on trauma survivors and the impact of trauma on members of the media. As Tamara documents the experiences of those who were forced to suffer on the public stage, she is confronted by everything she got wrong on the crime beat. Covering murders and traffic fatalities to sexual violence and mass violence, Cherry exposes a system set up to fail trauma survivors and journalists. Why do some families endure a swell of unwanted attention after the murder of a loved one, while others suffer from a lack of attention? What is it like to have a microphone shoved in your face seconds after escaping the latest mass shooting? What is the lasting impact on the reporter holding that microphone? The Trauma Beat explores these issues with the raw, reflective detail of a journalist moving from ignorance to understanding and shame to healing.General adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Media Studies; Editors, Journalists, Publishers; Criminology;
© 2023., ECW Press,
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How the world really works : the science behind how we got here and where we're going / by Smil, Vaclav,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible--a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check--because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts. In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn't inevitable--the foolishness of allowing 70 per cent of the world's rubber gloves to be made in just one factory became glaringly obvious in 2020--and that our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, such that any promises of decarbonization by 2050 are a fairy tale. For example, each greenhouse-grown supermarket-bought tomato has the equivalent of five tablespoons of diesel embedded in its production, and we have no way of producing steel, cement or plastics at required scales without huge carbon emissions. Ultimately, Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead? Compelling, data-rich and revisionist, this wonderfully broad, interdisciplinary guide finds faults with both extremes. Looking at the world through this quantitative lens reveals hidden truths that change the way we see our past, present and uncertain future"--
Subjects: Science and civilization.; Technology and civilization.; Science; Technological innovations;
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On My Honor : The Secret History of the Boy Scouts of America. by Christensen, Kim.;
Today, more than 82,000 former Boy Scouts have filed claims alleging they were sexually abused - seven times the number of similar allegations that rocked the Catholic Church two decades ago. Continuing his decades-long investigation, Kim Christensen untangles the full story of the Boy Scouts of America, tracking its creation, growth, influence, and the massive generational trauma it has caused.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Social History; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment;
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How to talk to a science denier : conversations with Flat Earthers, climate deniers, and others who defy reason / by McIntyre, Lee C.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In How to Talk to a Science Denier, Lee McIntyre tells the story of his own adventures in talking face to face with science deniers and their victims-including a Flat Earth convention in Denver, coal miners in rural Pennsylvania, and fishermen in the Maldives-and what he learned from the experience"--
Subjects: Science; Science; Pseudoscience.; Truthfulness and falsehood.; Reasoning.;
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Jennie's Boy A Newfoundland Childhood [electronic resource] : by Johnston, Wayne.aut; cloudLibrary;
NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE CBC WINNER OF THE 2023 LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of his Newfoundland boyhood. For six months between 1966 and 1967, Wayne Johnston and his family lived in a wreck of a house across from his grandparents in Goulds, Newfoundland. At seven, Wayne was sickly and skinny, unable to keep food down, plagued with insomnia and a relentless cough that no doctor could diagnose, though they had already removed his tonsils, adenoids and appendix. To the neigh­bours, he was known as “Jennie’s boy,” a back­handed salute to his tiny, ferocious mother, who felt judged for Wayne’s condition at the same time as worried he might never grow up. Unable to go to school, Wayne spent his days with his witty, religious, deeply eccentric mater­nal grandmother, Lucy. During these six months of Wayne’s childhood, he and Lucy faced two life-or-death crises, and only one of them lived to tell the tale. Jennie’s Boy is Wayne’s tribute to a family and a community that were simultaneously fiercely protective of him and fed up with having to make allowances for him. His boyhood was full of pain, yes, but also tenderness and Newfoundland wit. By that wit, and through love—often expressed in the most unloving ways—Wayne survived.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Social Classes; Personal Memoirs; Literary;
© 2022., Knopf Canada,
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