Packing Them In

Author : Sylvia Hood Washington
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739158600
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Packing Them In written by Sylvia Hood Washington and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004-12-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new book by Sylvia Washington adds a vital new dimension to our understanding of environmental history in the United States. Washington excavates and tells the stories of Chicago's poor, working class, and ethnic minority neighborhoods—such as Back of the Yards and Bronzeville—that suffered disproportionately negative environmental impacts and consequent pollution related health problems. This pioneering work will be essential reading not only for historians, but for urban planners, sociologists, citizen action groups and anyone interested in understanding the precursors to the contemporary environmental justice movement.

Author : Sylvia Hood Washington
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532026161
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Packing Them In written by Sylvia Hood Washington and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sylvia Hood Washingtons Packing Them In provides strong and often startling evidence of the depths and complexities of environmental racism in Chicago, and offers an innovative historical explanation for how this social ill developed in nineteenth and twentieth century America. Drawing from Michel Foucaults concept of power/knowledge and from theories of racial formation, Washington also demonstrates how the process through which some European immigrant groups were reclassified from non-white to white over time, allowed them to move out of spaces where they faced environmental injustice into spaces of environmental privilege. This argument represents a significant contribution to environmental justice studies and suggests a comparative and relational ethnic studies approach to future treatments of the subject. Packing Them In is a path breaking book and a welcome addition to the fields of environmental history and environmental justice studies (David Naguib Pellow, Dehlsen professor of Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, and author of Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago). A pathbreaking book. Sylvia Hood Washington uses Chicago as a case study of how human health inequalities in urban environments change over time. In showing the ways white identity shaped exposure to environmental pollutants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, she provides historical context to the environmental racism identified in the United States in the late twentieth century. Packing Them In is instructive for those seeking to understand the structural origins of the present struggle for environmental justice, and a model for undertaking studies of urban environmental history that address the struggle. This model remains as important today as it was when Packing Them In was first published (Carl Zimring, associate professor and coordinator of the Sustainability Studies, Pratt Institute, and author of Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism). Packing Them In is a path-breaking book that is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding how the social, political, and economic dimensions of urban environmental issues evolve over time. Packing Them In makes a significant contribution to the environmental justice literature as it challenges the notion that racism and inequalities arise solely from black-white dynamics. By using history to understand the evolution of racial and spatial dynamics and by embedding the work in Michel Foucault theoretical framework of power and knowledge, Washington demonstrates the importance of expanding traditional environmental justice frameworks in the analysis of case studies such as these (Dorceta E. Taylor, James E. Crowfoot, collegiate professor of the University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment).

Author : Allen Carr
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141015179
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Packing it in the Easy Way written by Allen Carr and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-01-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I'm going to cure the world of smoking' Until he discovered the Easyway, this statement by Allen Carr - made more than twenty years ago - was not just laughable but totally unthinkable because Carr couldn't even cure himself of the wretched weed. But, after years of trying and failing to stop his one-hundred-a-day habit through every technique around, Allen Carr not only quit for good but created the Easyway to stop smoking. He followed this by writing the bestselling book on quitting as well as setting up a successful chain of clinics to help others in their goal to be free of tobacco. His story, from slave to a habit that was destroying his life to latter-day lifestyle guru, makes for both inspirational and utterly compelling reading.

Author : Allison Fallon
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 080248509X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Packing Light written by Allison Fallon and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carrying baggage you don't need? When I was in college, I figured my life would come together around graduation. I’d meet a guy, have a beautiful wedding, and we'd buy a nice little house—not necessarily with a picket fence, but with whatever kind of fence we wanted. Whatever we decided, I would be happy. When I got out of college and my life didn’t look like that, I floundered, trying to get the life I had always dreamed of through career, travel, and relationships. But none of them satisfied me as I hoped. Like many twentysomethings, I tried to discover the life of my dreams, but instead I just kept accumulating baggage—school loans, electronics I couldn’t afford, hurt from broken relationships, and unmet expectations for what life was “supposed to be” like. Just when I had given up all hope of finding the “life I’d always dreamed about,” I decided to take a trip to all fifty states . . . because when you go on a trip, you can’t take your baggage. What I found was that “packing light” wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. This is the story of my trip and learning to live life with less baggage.

Author : Francis W. Davis
Publisher : Howell Books
ISBN 13 : 9780876058992
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horse Packing in Pictures written by Francis W. Davis and published by Howell Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the rider, hunter, camper, or fisherman who wants to get to inaccessible places, this book tells what to take and how to pack it on a horse.

Author : Hitha Palepu
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 1101905646
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Pack written by Hitha Palepu and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s time to pack perfect. Every trip, every time. Your journey starts here. When you travel, the journey is just as important as the destination—and packing is the first step. In How to Pack, Hitha Palepu, a former consultant who has traveled more than 500,000 cumulative miles around the world, shows that what and how you pack are who you are. Confidence and comfort inspire success upon arrival, whether you’re exploring a new city, hoping to nail a job interview, or relaxing on a beach. In How to Pack, you’ll learn about: · Power Pieces vs. Fantasy Pieces: How clothing earns its place in your suitcase · The Accessory Math Secret: The precise formula for all you need to finish off your outfits · Folding versus Rolling: What’s right for which items · Globetrotter Gorgeous: Editing your beauty routine while still looking great · The Packing Timeline: How to avoid “I’m forgetting something” syndrome · Pack Perfect Lists: Samples and blanks for any kind of trip

Author : Joan Didion
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374608792
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The White Album written by Joan Didion and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.

Author : Rick Steves
Publisher : Rick Steves
ISBN 13 : 1641710470
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travel as a Political Act written by Rick Steves and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change the world one trip at a time. In this illuminating collection of stories and lessons from the road, acclaimed travel writer Rick Steves shares a powerful message that resonates now more than ever. With the world facing divisive and often frightening events, from Trump, Brexit, and Erdogan, to climate change, nativism, and populism, there's never been a more important time to travel. Rick believes the risks of travel are widely exaggerated, and that fear is for people who don't get out much. After years of living out of a suitcase, he still marvels at how different cultures find different truths to be self-evident. By sharing his experiences from Europe, Central America, Asia, and the Middle East, Rick shows how we can learn more about own country by viewing it from afar. With gripping stories from Rick's decades of exploration, this fully revised edition of Travel as a Political Act is an antidote to the current climate of xenophobia. When we travel thoughtfully, we bring back the most beautiful souvenir of all: a broader perspective on the world that we all call home. All royalties from the sale of Travel as a Political Act are donated to support the work of Bread for the World, a non-partisan organization working to end hunger at home and abroad.

Author : Grip
Publisher : Rockport Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1616736534
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1,000 Package Designs written by Grip and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packaging is everywhere you look—it’s in your refrigerator, your medicine cabinet, your closets, on the streets, in the stores, etc. Putting together a compendium of 1,000 of the best packages will offer designers a true array of inspiration and illustrate why people make the buying choices they make. The package of a product often times makes or breaks a sale—consumers are drawn to certain colors, graphics, and shapes, and this book will have plenty to offer of all three. This will be the ninth book in the 1,000 series following 1,000 Bags, Tags & Labels, 1,000 Greetings, 1,000 Graphic Elements, 1,000 Type Treatments, 1,000 Icons, Symbols + Pictograms

Author : Stanley Wayne Burt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apple Handling and Packing in the Appalachian Area written by Stanley Wayne Burt and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: