| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Swimming lessons/ David Ehrenfeld. |
| Reminder of title: |
keeping afloat in the age of technology / |
| Author: |
Ehrenfeld, David. |
| Published: |
London ;Oxford University Press, : 2002., |
| Description: |
xvi, 249 p. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Civilization, Modern - 21st century. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=120976An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
019518632X (electronic bk.) |