Swimming lessons : keeping afloat in the age of technology /
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=120976 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Lies we live
- Brainstorming ; Pretending ; Magic of the Internet ; Nothing simple ; Sherlock, Nero, and us
- 2. Wrecking our civilization : a manual
- Rejecting gifts ; Adaptation ; Forecast : chilly, overcast, light drizzle, no people left ; Pseudocommunities ; Obsolescence ; Social evolution versus sudden change ; Writing
- 3. Deadly economics
- Affluence and austerity ; Durable goods ; Spending our capital ; Saving by selling ; Hot spots and the globalization of conservation ; Gingko and the stump ; Death penalty
- 4. Relating to nature in a manmade world
- Vine cleaners ; Connoisseur of nature ; Death of a plastic palm ; Scientific discoveries and nature's mysteries ; I reinvent agriculture ; Thinking about breeds and species ; Teaching field ecology ; More field ecology : Rightofway Island ; Walk in the woods ; Degrees of intimacy
- 5. Restoring the community
- Utopia fallacy ; Traditions ; Jane Austen and the world of the community ; Universities and their communities ; Invalid's guide ; Swimming lessons.