Download or read book Junkyard Planet written by Adam Minter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter--veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner--travels deep into a vast, often hidden, five-hundred-billion-dollar industry that's transforming our economy and environment. With unmatched access to and insight on the waste industry, and the explanatory gifts and an eye for detail worthy of a John McPhee or a William Langewiesche, Minter traces the export of America's junk and the massive profits that China and other rising nations earn from it. What emerges is an engaging, colorful, and sometimes troubling tale of how the way we consume and discard stuff fuels a world that recognizes value where Americans don't. Junkyard Planet reveals that Americans might need to learn a smarter way to take out the trash.
Download or read book The Cosmic Computer written by H. Beam Piper and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conn Maxwell is designated to travel to Earth from the colony world of Poictesme, a world desperate for regeneration following an intersystem war, to try and identify the location of the super computer Merlin, which many of the colonists believe is hidden somewhere on the planet and which they see as their salvation.
Download or read book Discard Studies written by Max Liboiron and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emerging field that looks at waste and wasting broadly construed. Rather than focusing on waste and trash as the primary objects of study, discard studies looks at wider systems of waste and wasting to explore how some materials, practices, regions, and people are valued or devalued, becoming dominant or disposable. In this book, Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky argue that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. They show how the theories and methods of discard studies can be applied in a variety of cases, many of which do not involve waste, trash, or pollution. Liboiron and Lepawsky consider the partiality of knowledge and offer a theory of scale, exploring the myth that most waste is municipal solid waste produced by consumers; discuss peripheries, centers, and power, using content moderation as an example of how dominant systems find ways to discard; and use theories of difference to show that universalism, stereotypes, and inclusion all have politics of discard and even purification—as exemplified in “inclusive” efforts to broaden the Black Lives Matter movement. Finally, they develop a theory of change by considering “wasting well,” outlining techniques, methods, and propositions for a justice-oriented discard studies that keeps power in view.
Download or read book Waste and Want written by Susan Strasser and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999.
Download or read book Junkyard Wisdom written by Roy Goble and published by Deep River Books LLC. This book was released on 2016-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most of us live a life of unprecedented abundance. No matter what our income level, walls of security and distraction inevitably insulate us from the poor or anyone else who might threaten our comfortable life. Yet despite our trappings of wealth--or perhaps because of them--we continue to experience a spiritual hunger for something deeper and more meaningful. In a surprising solution to that hunger, Jesus invites us to utilize our wealth and our talents to create Kingdom relationships, beginning right in our own communities. To tear down the walls, bother literal and cultural, separating God's children in our neighborhoods and across the globe. To experience a life of joy and fulfillment. In Junkyard Wisdom, Roy Goble shares what's waiting for us on the other side of complacency: an abundant future we can only reach together."--Back cover.
Download or read book Junkyard Spaceship written by Jamie McFarlane and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When aliens threaten his country, one grumpy old vet will take the fight to the stars. Albert Jenkins would like nothing more than to putter around his junkyard, selling parts and working on old cars. When an alien spacecraft is shot down by US Air Defense and crash lands on his newly rebuilt home, he's dragged back into the fight of his life. Lightyears away, a war for the control of Earth looms and humanity's freedom hangs in the balance. Previously kicked off Earth, the Korgul are back and they are willing to destroy any who stand in their way. To join the action, AJ lacks just one thing, a spaceship. With only a junkyard full of old parts, he'll need help to get his plan off the ground. Fortunately, he's got a plucky, pop culture loving, nano-sized symbiote who's managed to roll back the damages of eighty years of hard living. With dogged determination he'll repurpose an old, reclaimed shuttle and build a spaceship so he can join the fight one more time. Buy Junkyard Spaceship today and send AJ to the stars to kick some alien butt!
Download or read book Waste written by Kate O'Neill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waste is one of the planet’s last great resource frontiers. From furniture made from up-cycled wood to gold extracted from computer circuit boards, artisans and multinational corporations alike are finding ways to profit from waste while diverting materials from overcrowded landfills. Yet beyond these benefits, this “new” resource still poses serious risks to human health and the environment. In this unique book, Kate O’Neill traces the emergence of the global political economy of wastes over the past two decades. She explains how the emergence of waste governance initiatives and mechanisms can help us deal with both the risks and the opportunities associated with the hundreds of millions – possibly billions – of tons of waste we generate each year. Drawing on a range of fascinating case studies to develop her arguments, including China’s role as the primary recipient of recyclable plastics and scrap paper from the Western world, “Zero-Waste” initiatives, the emergence of transnational waste-pickers’ alliances, and alternatives for managing growing volumes of electronic and food wastes, O’Neill shows how waste can be a risk, a resource, and even a livelihood, with implications for governance at local, national, and global levels.
Download or read book A More Perfect Heaven written by Dava Sobel and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter tells the story of Nicolaus Copernicus and the revolution in astronomy that changed the world.
Download or read book The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets written by Simon Singh and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may have watched hundreds of episodes of The Simpsons (and its sister show Futurama) without ever realising that they contain enough maths to form an entire university course. In The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets, Simon Singh explains how the brilliant writers, some of the mathematicians, have smuggled in mathematical jokes throughout the cartoon's twenty-five year history, exploring everything from to Mersenne primes, from Euler's equation to the unsolved riddle of P vs. NP, from perfect numbers to narcissistic numbers, and much more. With wit, clarity and a true fan's zeal, Singh analyses such memorable episodes as 'Bart the Genius' and 'Homer3' to offer an entirely new insight into the most successful show in television history.
Download or read book Material Value written by Julia L F Goldstein and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business professionals and consumers will learn about the challenges and opportunities facing the manufacturing world in this highly readable perspective on materials and environmental sustainability. Finalist in the 2019 San Francisco Writers Contest.
Download or read book Garbage Land written by Elizabeth Royte and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away? In Garbage Land, acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on the wild adventure that begins once our trash hits the bottom of the can. Along the way, we meet an odor chemist who explains why trash smells so bad; garbage fairies and recycling gurus; neighbors of massive waste dumps; CEOs making fortunes by encouraging waste or encouraging recycling-often both at the same time; scientists trying to revive our most polluted places; fertilizer fanatics and adventurers who kayak amid sewage; paper people, steel people, aluminum people, plastic people, and even a guy who swears by recycling human waste. With a wink and a nod and a tightly clasped nose, Royte takes us on a bizarre cultural tour through slime, stench, and heat-in other words, through the back end of our ever-more supersized lifestyles. By showing us what happens to the things we've "disposed of," Royte reminds us that our decisions about consumption and waste have a very real impact-and that unless we undertake radical change, the garbage we create will always be with us: in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we consume. Radiantly written and boldly reported, Garbage Land is a brilliant exploration into the soiled heart of the American trash can.
Download or read book Junkyard Veterans written by Jamie McFarlane and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a price on their heads, grumpy old vets will risk everything to bring alien assassins to justice. Someone is killing off the old team of vets who repelled Earth's first Korgul invasion. With the end of a war precious few even knew was happening, life's been peaceful. Of course, Albert Jenkins isn't a bit surprised when that peace is shattered by the sounds of rocket propelled grenades fired over the Georgia swamps. To make matters worse, when he reports the alien's foiled attack to the Army, he's ordered to keep things quiet and stop causing trouble. The problem is AJ has only one gear and avoiding trouble isn't in his makeup. So instead of sitting around and waiting for the next RPG to be tossed his way, he takes to the stars and starts tracking bounty hunters the only way he knows how - up close and personal. Junkyard Veterans is the fourth installment of the popular Junkyard Pirate series. Buy Junkyard Veterans and help AJ put alien bounty hunters in their place.
Download or read book Lone Star Planet written by H. Beam Piper and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lone Star Planet" by H. Beam Piper, John Joseph McGuire. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book A History of Future Cities written by Daniel Brook and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai.
Download or read book The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049 written by Tanya Lapointe and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embargoed to 5th October Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a new blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former blade runner who's been missing for 30 years The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049 goes behind the scenes and reveals how this epic production was brought to the screen. Featuring incredible concept art and on-set photography, this deluxe book is a rare treat for fans as key cast and crew tell the story of how Blade Runner was revived and was given a whole new lease of life. See the trailer here
Download or read book The Junk Hyenas Diner written by Sarah Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the mutant hyenas Lucky and Guff and their small clan of misfits running a diner on a hostile, alien world.
Download or read book Indexed written by Jessica Hagy and published by Studio. This book was released on 2008 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hagy has an astonishing talent for visualizing relationships, capturing in pictures what is difficult for most to express in words. With new material along with some of her greatest hits, this utterly unique book will thrill readers who demand humor that makes them both laugh and think.
