wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Cash For Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America
ISBN: 9780813546940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Over the past two decades, concern about the environment has brought with it a tremendous increase in recycling in the United States and around the world. For many, it has become not only a civic, but also a moral obligation. Long before our growing levels of waste became an environmental concern, however, recycling was a part of everyday life for many Americans, and for a variety of reasons. From rural peddlers who traded kitchen goods for scrap metal to urban children who gathered rags in exchange for coal, individuals have been finding ways to reuse discarded materials for hundreds of...
Over the past two decades, concern about the environment has brought with it a tremendous increase in recycling in the United States and around the wo...
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182,60 zł |
Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
ISBN: 9781479826940 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him -clean and articulate, - he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive racial stereotypes in American history. This book tells the history of the corrosive idea that whites are clean and those who are not white are dirty. From the age of Thomas Jefferson to the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day, ideas about race and waste have shaped where people have lived, where people have worked, and how American society's wastes have been managed. Clean and White offers a history of...
When Joe Biden attempted to compliment Barack Obama by calling him -clean and articulate, - he unwittingly tapped into one of the most destructive rac...
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386,05 zł |
Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: Encyc Consumption and Waste
ISBN: 9781412988193 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 1224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining what we throw away today tells a story in real time and becomes an important and useful tool for academic study. Trash is studied by behavioral scientists who use data com-piled from the exploration of dumpsters to better understand our modern society and culture. Why does the average American household send 470 pounds of uneaten food to the garbage can on an annual basis? How do different societies around the world cope with their garbage in...
Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining w...
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1878,09 zł |
Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
ISBN: 9781479874378 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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125,15 zł |
Coastal Metropolis: Environmental Histories of Modern New York City
ISBN: 9780822946526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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192,20 zł |
Technology and the Environment in History
ISBN: 9781421438993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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131,80 zł |