Tragedy of the Commons, Paperback - Peter Wuteh Vakunta

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Free, Fair, and Alive is a penetrating cultural critique, table-pounding political treatise, and practical playbook for "commoning" - free, self-or...

Reducere. Custom and tradition within the acequia (irrigation ditches) agricultural communities of New Mexico, despite the law that assigns a priority date a...

The enclosure of the commons, space once available for communal use, was not a singular event but an act of "slow violence" that transformed lands,...

Reducere. In recent decades, the various strands of the food movement have made enormous strides in calling attention the many shortcomings and injustices of...

DescriptionThis remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny--and th...

Capitalism and the Commons focuses on land-based commons, the political and social perspectives they offer, how the commons are appropriated by cap...

Reducere. In this compelling book, award-winning adventure writer and former Lower Adirondack Search and Rescue team member Peter Bronski chronicles true sto...

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In bold and intelligently written essays, historian Peter Linebaugh takes aim at the thieves of land, the polluters of the seas, the ravagers of th...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Peter RobisonNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 240 x 36Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Description'One of the most important books I've read in years' Brian EnoWe are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted...

DescriptionThe Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The classic ingredients of the genr...

A new history of the Thirty Years' War, an illuminating account of a devastating conflict which had long-lasting consequences for Europe. 'A histor...

Discover the astonishing facts about the Titanic and how it came to a catastrophic end in this illustrated, accessible and riveting account of one ...

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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action - Elinor Ostrom

Publisher: Institute of Economic AffairsAuthor(s): Elinor OstromIllustration(s): tables & chartsNumber of pages: 107Publication date: 2012Dimension...

DescriptionAdvances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experimen...

Reducere. The figures are eye-opening: more than 1.6 billion works on 9 million websites are licensed under Creative Commons (CC). These materials constitute...

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Percent-for-art commissions may represent the official, professionalized face of public art, but beyond the plaza - another kind of art has been ta...

Friedrich Nietzsche was arguably the most important and influential thinker of the nineteenth century. "The Birth of Tragedy", his first published ...

Reducere. In the early nineteenth century Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and principal author of the Declaration of Independence, con...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Malcolm (University of Michigan) McCulloughIllustration(s): 58 b 116 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: ...

The House of Commons is the United Kingdom's key democratic institution. But it faces serious challenges which it is ill-equipped to meet. This boo...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Guy StandingNumber of pages: 592Collection: Pelican BooksPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 146 x 223 x 47Cov...

Reducere. Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural...

'Exquisite' (New Yorker), 'breathtaking' (Los Angeles Times), 'baroque and moon-lit' (Boston Globe) - House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers...

Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary an...

Elinor Ostrom is recognised for producing a body of work which demonstrates how people can construct rules that allow them to exploit the environme...

Examines how scientific, economic, and regulatory responses to the problem of overfishing have changed over the past twenty years. Based on fieldwo...

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Reducere. DescriptionNot since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a more p...

Reducere. DescriptionWill anyone ever know what happened to the Aloha, a sport fishing boat that vanished with all onboard in the Pacific off San Francisco's...

Reducere. Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest, darkest and most violent tragedy. Although initially written to interest and perhaps flatter James I, it has est...