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    Consumerism, Sustainability and Design

    Gold winner of the AXIOM Business Book Award in the category of Philanthropy, Non-Profit, Sustainability. Please see: http://www.axiomawards.com/77/award-winners/2017-winnersConsumerism promises a shortcut to a 'better' life through the accumulation of certain fashionable goods and experiences. Over recent decades, this has resulted in a rising tide of cheap, short-lived goods produced, used and ... Read more

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  • Religion and Schooling in Canada

    The Long Road to Separation of Church and State

    Series series Education
    Les organisations chrétiennes ont toujours été impliquées dans l’éducation canadienne. En 1949, cinq provinces comptaient des écoles confessionnelles protégées par la Constitution. Le gouvernement fédéral a essentiellement confié sa responsabilité de l’éducation pour les peuples autochtones aux églises pour plus d’un siècle. Résultat : une histoire de mauvais traitements seulement mise au jour ... Read more

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  • Designing for Zero Waste

    Consumption, Technologies and the Built Environment

    Series series Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
    Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an accelerating speed and rising consumption trends across the globe have placed material efficiency, waste reduction and recycling at the centre of many government policy agendas, giving them an unprecedented urgency. While there has been a considerable literature addressing ... Read more

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  • Motivating Change: Sustainable Design and Behaviour in the Built Environment

    Series series Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design
    Today’s most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influences that can be seen to shape change.Exploring the underlying dimensions of behaviour change in terms of consumption, media, social innovation and urban systems, the essays in this book are from many disciplines, including architecture, urban design, ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Subverting Consumerism

    Reuse in an Accelerated World

    Series series Antinomies
    There is now a widespread interest in reuse in many domains, from opera houses built over old warehouses, to vintage clothes and everyday goods incorporating repurposed materials or parts. Despite its ubiquity, this extensive creative work is typically seen in narrowly environmental terms, as a means of reducing carbon, resource use or waste. However, as this volume shows, reuse also has aesthetic ... Read more

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  • Flying Solo: How To Go It Alone in Business Revisited

    From the founders of Flying Solo, Australia's micro business community, comes the book that started it all, fully updated for a new wave of modern business owners. Originally published by Allen & Unwin in 2005, Flying Solo: How to go it alone in business is the bestselling guide to breaking out on your own. It gives you the tools you need to plan and start your own venture or totally overhaul and ... Read more

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    The Life of Saint Monica (Unabridged)

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    2 hours 4 min

    This book is above all things the story of a mother. But it is also the story of a noble woman—a woman who was truly great, for the reason that she never sought to be so. Because she understood the sphere in which a woman's work in the world must usually lie, and led her life truly along the lines that God had laid down for her; because she suffered bravely, forgot herself for others, and remained ... Read more

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