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- The sociology book / by Hobbs, Mitchell.; Todd, Megan.; Tomley, Sarah.; Weeks, Marcus.; Thorpe, Christopher.; Yuill, Chris.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC- Subjects: Sociology.;
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- The future is analog : how to create a more human world / by Sax, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."The beloved author of The Revenge of Analog lays out a case for a human future--not the false technological utopia we've been living. For years, consumers have been promised a simple, carefree digital future. We could live, work, learn, and play from the comforts of our homes, and have whatever we desire brought to our door with the flick of a finger. Instant communication would bring us together. Technological convenience would give us more time to focus on what really mattered. When the pandemic hit, that future transformed into the present, almost overnight. And the reviews aren't great. It turns out that leaving the house is underrated, instant communication spreads anger better than joy, and convenience takes away time rather than giving it to us. Oops. But as David Sax argues in this insightful book, we've also had our eyes opened. There is nothing about the future that has to be digital, and embracing the reality of human experience doesn't mean resisting change. In chapters exploring work, school, leisure, and more, Sax asks perceptive and pointed questions: what happens to struggling students when they're not in a classroom? If our software is built for productivity, who tends to the social and cultural aspects of our jobs? Can you have religion without community? For many people, the best parts of quarantine have been the least digital ones: baking bread, playing board games, going hiking. We used our hands and hugged our children and breathed fresh air. This book suggests that if we want a healthy future, we need to choose not convenience but community, not technology but humanity"--- Subjects: Technology; Technology;
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- Superfreakonomics : global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance / by Levitt, Steven D.; Dubner, Stephen J.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Economics; Economics;
- © 2009., HarperCollins,
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- Natural causes : an epidemic of wellness, the certainty of dying, and killing ourselves to live longer / by Ehrenreich, Barbara,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.From the bestselling author of 'Nickel and Dimed', comes an exploration of how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better. Drawing on varied sources, from personal experience and sociological trends to pop culture and current scientific literature, this book examines the ways in which we obsess over death and tackles the seemingly unsolvable problem of how we might better prepare ourselves for the end.- Subjects: Aging.; Death;
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- Going horizontal : creating a non-hierarchical organization, one practice at a time / by Slade, Samantha,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.- Subjects: Management.; Supervision.; Organizational behavior.; Organizational sociology.;
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- Blockchain radicals : how capitalism ruined crypto and how to fix it / by Dávila, Joshua,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto have opened up a new terrain for political action. It is not surprising, however, that the crypto space has also become overrun by unscrupulous marketing, theft and scams. The problem is real, but it isn't a new one. Capitalism has ruined crypto, but that shouldn't be the end of it. Blockchain Radicals shows us how this has happened, and how to fix crypto in a way that is understandable for those who have never owned a cryptocurrency as well as those who are building their own decentralised applications. Covering everything from how Bitcoin saved WikiLeaks to decentralised finance, worker cooperatives, the environmental impact of Bitcoin and NFTs, and the crypto commons, it shows how these new tools can be used to challenge capitalism and build a better world for all of us. While crypto is often thought of as being synonymous with unbridled capitalism, Blockchain Radicals shows instead how the technology can and has been used for more radical purposes, beyond individual profit and towards collective autonomy."--- Subjects: Blockchains (Databases); Technology; Technology;
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- For the love of men : a new vision for mindful masculinity / by Plank, Liz,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.- Subjects: Intersectionality (Sociology); Masculinity.; Men;
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- Cat City. by Kolak, Ben,film director.; First Run Features (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by First Run Features in 2023.A feature documentary chronicling Chicago's love/hate relationship with feral cats. CAT CITY tells the story of Chicago's outdoor cats, the communities who look after them, and the ordinance that protects them.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Documentary films.; Science.; Social sciences.; Zoology.; Sociology.; Documentary films.;
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- The culture of war / by Van Creveld, Martin,1946-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-466) and index.LSC- Subjects: Sociology, Military.; War.; Military art and science;
- © c2008., Presidio Press/Ballantine Books,
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- Urban jungle : the history and future of nature in the city / by Wilson, Ben,1980-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of rising seas and threatening weather, the natural world may prove the city's savior. Since the beginning of civilization, humans have built cities to wall nature out, then glorified it in beloved but quite artificial parks. In Urban Jungle, Ben Wilson--the author of Metropolis, a seven-thousand-year history of cities that the Wall Street Journal called "a towering achievement"--looks to the fraught relationship between nature and the city for clues to how the planet can survive in an age of climate crisis. Whether it was the market farmers of Paris, Germans in medieval forest cities, or the Aztecs in the floating city of Tenochtitlan, pre-modern humans had an essential bond with nature. But when the day came that water was piped in and food flown from distant fields, that relationship was lost. Today, urban areas are the fastest-growing habitat on Earth and in Urban Jungle Ben Wilson finds that we are at last acknowledging that human engineering is not enough to protect us from extremes of weather. He takes us to places where efforts to rewild the city are under way: to Los Angeles, where the city's concrete river will run blue again, to New York City, where a bleak landfill will be a vast grassland preserve. The pinnacle of this strategy will be Amsterdam: a city that is its own ecosystem, that makes no waste and produces its own energy. In many cities, Wilson finds, nature is already thriving. Koalas are settling in Brisbane, wild boar may raid your picnic in Berlin. Green canopies, wildflowers, wildlife: the things that will help cities survive, he notes, also make people happy. Urban Jungle offers the pleasures of history--how backyard gardens spread exotic species all over the world, how war produces biodiversity--alongside a fantastic vision of the lush green cities of our future. Climate change, Ben Wilson believes, is only the latest chapter in the dramatic human story of nature and the city"--- Subjects: Climatic changes.; Urban ecology (Biology); Urban ecology (Sociology);
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