Burning Matters

Burning Matters
Title Burning Matters PDF eBook
Author Peter C. Little
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 249
Release 2021-11-09
Genre Science
ISBN 0190934549

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Introduction: From e-waste ashes to ethnographic intervention -- Amidst global e-waste trades and green neoliberalization -- "We are all North here" : Dagomba migrations and meanings -- Erasure, demolition, and violent obsolescence in the urban margins -- Embodied burning, e-waste epidemiology, and toxic postcolonial corporality -- Visualizing Agbogbloshie and re-envisioning e-waste anthropology -- Looming uncertainties and neoliberal techno-optimism -- Conclusion: New openings, relations, and burning matters.

White House Burning

White House Burning
Title White House Burning PDF eBook
Author Simon Johnson
Publisher Vintage
Pages 386
Release 2013-02-12
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0307947645

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From the authors of the national bestseller 13 Bankers, a chilling account of America’s unprecedented debt crisis: how it came to pass, why it threatens to topple the nation as a superpower, and what needs to be done about it. With bracing clarity, White House Burning explains why the national debt matters to your everyday life. Simon Johnson and James Kwak describe how the government has been able to pay off its debt in the past, even after the massive deficits incurred as a result of World War II, and analyze why this is near-impossible today. They closely examine, among other factors, macroeconomic shifts of the 1970s, Reaganism and the rise of conservatism, and demographic changes that led to the growth of major—and extremely popular—social insurance programs. What is unquestionably clear is how recent financial turmoil exacerbated the debt crisis while creating a political climate in which it is even more difficult to solve.

The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks

The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks
Title The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 1252
Release 1914
Genre Copyright
ISBN

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Lectio Matters

Lectio Matters
Title Lectio Matters PDF eBook
Author Mary Margaret Funk
Publisher Liturgical Press
Pages 273
Release 2013
Genre Religion
ISBN 0814635059

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Lectio divina is a way of praying by sustained immersion into a revelatory text. While Scripture is the classic place of encounter with God, the text could also be the book of life or the book of nature. InLectio Matters, respected spiritual guide Meg Funk accompanies the reader in exploring the various levels of lectio divina as taught by the ancient church writers and by sharing her own long experience. By means of this wisdom both ancient and new, lectio divina can become our burning bush, a real encounter with the living God, in which we take off our sandals and bow our brow to the ground.

Forest Protection in Canada, 1912

Forest Protection in Canada, 1912
Title Forest Protection in Canada, 1912 PDF eBook
Author Canada. Commission of Conservation. Committee on Forests
Publisher
Pages 240
Release 1913
Genre Forest fires
ISBN

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Burning the Books

Burning the Books
Title Burning the Books PDF eBook
Author Richard Ovenden
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 321
Release 2020-10-13
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0674241207

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The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.

The Colliery Manager's Handbook

The Colliery Manager's Handbook
Title The Colliery Manager's Handbook PDF eBook
Author Caleb Pamely
Publisher
Pages 666
Release 1891
Genre Coal mines and mining
ISBN

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