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  • Divided Waters

    Bridging the U.S.-Mexico Border

    by Helen Ingram, Nancy K. Laney, David M. Gillilan ...
    Among all natural resource and environmental problems between the United States and Mexico, water has been the most troublesome, with ongoing historic contests over water supply becoming superseded by new controversies over water quality. Divided Waters analyzes the politics of water management along the U.S.-Mexico border, using the case of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora as a window on the ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Myth and (mis)information

    Constructing the medical professions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature and culture

    Edited by Allan Ingram, Helen Williams, Clark Lawlor ...
    This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture. It combines a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches, from medical history to book history, exploring literary and scientific texts, such as satiric poetry, essays, anatomies, advertisements, and the ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • A Policy Approach to Political Representation

    Lessons from the Four Corners States

    by Helen M. Ingram, Nancy K. Laney, John R. McCain ...
    Series series RFF Policy and Governance Set
    Analyzes the extent to which the voters of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah are concerned about problems associated with development and the extent to which state senators respond to voters' concerns.Originally published in 1980 ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Public Policy for Democracy

    Edited by Helen Ingram, Steven Rathgeb Smith ...
    A fundamental rethinking is under way about the roles of government, citizens, and community organizations in public policy. Can government be reconstructed to make public policies more responsive to citizens and thus more effective? This challenge is apparent in the activist policy agenda of the Clinton administration, which supports national service programs, government-voluntary collaborations, ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD

  • Water for Food in a Changing World

    Edited by Alberto Garrido, Helen Ingram ...
    Series series Contributions from the Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy
    There is not enough water globally for all the things humans need and want water to do for us. Water supply bubbles are bursting in China, the Middle East and India with potentially serious implications for the global economy and for political stability. Even the United States is depleting groundwater on average 25% faster than it is being replenished. Our thirst for water grows with our ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Saving Water in a Desert City

    by William E. Martin, Helen M. Ingram, Nancy K. Laney, Adrian H. Griffin ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This book was stimulated by and sets out to analyse a political battle over water pricing by a municipal system. Originally published in 1984, this title provides improved methods for demand function estimation where block rates are involved, suggests procedures for rational pricing of municipal water, and explains how politics can dominate when real decisions are made. Due to the additional ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

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  • The Social Life of Books

    Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

    by Abigail Williams ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    "A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of Growth

    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    Economics has failed us ... but there is life after growth!Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

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  • Consumptive Chic

    A History of Beauty, Fashion, and Disease

    by Professor Carolyn A. Day ...
    During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a tubercular 'moment' in which perceptions of the consumptive disease became inextricably tied to contemporary concepts of beauty, playing out in the clothing fashions of the day. With the ravages of the illness widely regarded as conferring beauty on the sufferer, it became commonplace to regard tuberculosis as a positive affliction, one to ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Weeping Britannia

    Portrait of a Nation in Tears

    by Thomas Dixon ...
    There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia - the first history of crying in Britain - comprehensively debunks this myth. Far from being a persistent element in the 'national character', the notion of the British stiff upper lip was in fact the product of a relatively brief ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD

  • The End of Growth

    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to drop, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable, natural limits. Richard ... Read more

    $11.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • An Everyday Life of the English Working Class

    Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century

    by Carolyn Steedman ...
    This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton, administering justice from his country house Clifton Hall. Using Woolley's voluminous diaries and ... Read more

    $55.19 CAD