Author: Louisa Lelias Greene (hon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Star in the Dust-heap
Author: Louisa Lelias Greene (hon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Talmud. Selections from the Contents of that Ancient Book ... Also, Brief Sketches of the Men who Made and Commented Upon it
Author: TalmudThe Old Bible; Or, the Martyr's Gift. ... With ... Illustrations
Author: E. WYNNE (Author of “Oldcourt.”.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Bulletin
Author: God's Silver; Or, Youthful Days, Etc. [With Plates.]
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Author: Louisa Lelias Greene (hon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Histories of the Dustheap
Author: Stephanie FootePublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262304767
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
An examination of how garbage reveals the relationships between the global and the local, the economic and the ecological, and the historical and the contemporary. Garbage, considered both materially and culturally, elicits mixed responses. Our responsibility toward the objects we love and then discard is entangled with our responsibility toward the systems that make those objects. Histories of the Dustheap uses garbage, waste, and refuse to investigate the relationships between various systems—the local and the global, the economic and the ecological, the historical and the contemporary—and shows how this most democratic reality produces identities, social relations, and policies. The contributors first consider garbage in subjective terms, examining “toxic autobiography” by residents of Love Canal, the intersection of public health and women's rights, and enviroblogging. They explore the importance of place, with studies of post-Katrina soil contamination in New Orleans, e-waste disposal in Bloomington, Indiana, and garbage on Mount Everest. And finally, they look at cultural contradictions as objects hover between waste and desirability, examining Milwaukee's efforts to sell its sludge as fertilizer, the plastics industry's attempt to wrap plastic bottles and bags in the mantle of freedom of choice, and the idea of obsolescence in the animated film The Brave Little Toaster. Histories of the Dustheap offers a range of perspectives on a variety of incarnations of garbage, inviting the reader to consider garbage in a way that goes beyond the common “buy green” discourse that empowers individuals while limiting environmental activism to consumerist practices.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: The Swan and her crew, or The adventures of three young naturalists on the broads and rivers of Norfolk
Author: George Christopher DaviesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Author: