Abandoned in the Wasteland

Abandoned in the Wasteland
Title Abandoned in the Wasteland PDF eBook
Author Newton Minow
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 254
Release 1995
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0809015897

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Broadcasters, parents, public officials, and teachers have all abandoned our children to a wasteland of vacuous, often violent television programing. In this eloquent book, Newton Minow and Craig LaMay persuasively demonstrate that this is a false application of the First Amendment. Broadcasters are required by law to serve the public interest, and the Supreme Court and Congress have said that service to children is a broadcaster's obligation under law, they remind us; the First Amendment can be used on behalf of children, to help make television a force that will nurture and not harm them.

Corporate Wasteland

Corporate Wasteland
Title Corporate Wasteland PDF eBook
Author Steven High
Publisher Between the Lines
Pages 230
Release 2010-12-08
Genre History
ISBN 1926662075

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A Fascinating Investigation of Industry’s Modern Ruins and the "Deindustrial Sublime."

Wasteland

Wasteland
Title Wasteland PDF eBook
Author Vittoria Di Palma
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 281
Release 2014-08-26
Genre Architecture
ISBN 0300197799

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In an eloquent history of landscape and land use, Vittoria Di Palma takes on the “anti-picturesque”—how landscapes that elicit fear and disgust have shaped our conceptions of beauty and the sublime.

The Other Dark Matter

The Other Dark Matter
Title The Other Dark Matter PDF eBook
Author Lina Zeldovich
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 268
Release 2021-11-19
Genre Science
ISBN 022661557X

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The history of human waste. How I learned to love the excrement; The early history of human excreta; Treasure nigh soil as if it were gold!; The water closet dilemma and the sewage farm paradigm; Germs, fertilizer, and the poop police -- The present: a sludge revolution in progress. The great sewage time bomb and the redistribution of nutrients on the planet; Loowatt, a loo that turns waste into watts; The crap that cooks your dinner and container-based sanitation; HomeBiogas : your personal digester in a box; Made in New York; Lystek, the home of sewage smoothies; How DC water makes biosolids BLOOM; From biosolids to biofuels -- The future of medicine and other things; Poop : the best (and cheapest medicine; Looking where the sun doesn't shine; From the kindness of one's gut : an insider look into stool banks -- Afterword : breathing poetry into poop.

The Wasteland

The Wasteland
Title The Wasteland PDF eBook
Author K. A Knight
Publisher
Pages 240
Release 2018-09-16
Genre
ISBN 9781731285683

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The world ended and with it so did the rules.I was stolen from my family and raised in the Wastelands to the North. I did what I had to ensure my survival. I became The Champion, with my history carved into my skin for all to see.Now I spend my days drinking and hiding from my past until four newcomers offer me a job I can't refuse. When my past and future mix I must once again rise and fight. This time it's not for my freedom, it's for my happiness.*18+ Reverse Harem Romance. Warning this book contains scenes and references of abuse that some readers may find triggering.*

The Other Parent

The Other Parent
Title The Other Parent PDF eBook
Author James P. Steyer
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 292
Release 2003-05-06
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 0743405838

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Examines how we have allowed media to bombard our children's lives and offers practical advice on countering the incessant parade of images that frighten, intrigue, and influence America's kids.

Islands of Abandonment

Islands of Abandonment
Title Islands of Abandonment PDF eBook
Author Cal Flyn
Publisher Penguin
Pages 384
Release 2021-06-01
Genre Nature
ISBN 1984878204

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A beautiful, lyrical exploration of the places where nature is flourishing in our absence "[Flyn] captures the dread, sadness, and wonder of beholding the results of humanity's destructive impulse, and she arrives at a new appreciation of life, 'all the stranger and more valuable for its resilence.'" --The New Yorker Some of the only truly feral cattle in the world wander a long-abandoned island off the northernmost tip of Scotland. A variety of wildlife not seen in many lifetimes has rebounded on the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl. A lush forest supports thousands of species that are extinct or endangered everywhere else on earth in the Korean peninsula's narrow DMZ. Cal Flyn, an investigative journalist, exceptional nature writer, and promising new literary voice visits the eeriest and most desolate places on Earth that due to war, disaster, disease, or economic decay, have been abandoned by humans. What she finds every time is an "island" of teeming new life: nature has rushed in to fill the void faster and more thoroughly than even the most hopeful projections of scientists. Islands of Abandonment is a tour through these new ecosystems, in all their glory, as sites of unexpected environmental significance, where the natural world has reasserted its wild power and promise. And while it doesn't let us off the hook for addressing environmental degradation and climate change, it is a case that hope is far from lost, and it is ultimately a story of redemption: the most polluted spots on Earth can be rehabilitated through ecological processes and, in fact, they already are.