Junkyard Planet

Author: Adam Minter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 160819793X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter--veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner--travels deep into a vast, often hidden, five-hundred-billion-dollar industry that's transforming our economy and environment. With unmatched access to and insight on the waste industry, and the explanatory gifts and an eye for detail worthy of a John McPhee or a William Langewiesche, Minter traces the export of America's junk and the massive profits that China and other rising nations earn from it. What emerges is an engaging, colorful, and sometimes troubling tale of how the way we consume and discard stuff fuels a world that recognizes value where Americans don't. Junkyard Planet reveals that Americans might need to learn a smarter way to take out the trash.

Discard Studies

Author: Max Liboiron
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262369516
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
An argument that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. Discard studies is an emerging field that looks at waste and wasting broadly construed. Rather than focusing on waste and trash as the primary objects of study, discard studies looks at wider systems of waste and wasting to explore how some materials, practices, regions, and people are valued or devalued, becoming dominant or disposable. In this book, Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky argue that social, political, and economic systems maintain power by discarding certain people, places, and things. They show how the theories and methods of discard studies can be applied in a variety of cases, many of which do not involve waste, trash, or pollution. Liboiron and Lepawsky consider the partiality of knowledge and offer a theory of scale, exploring the myth that most waste is municipal solid waste produced by consumers; discuss peripheries, centers, and power, using content moderation as an example of how dominant systems find ways to discard; and use theories of difference to show that universalism, stereotypes, and inclusion all have politics of discard and even purification—as exemplified in “inclusive” efforts to broaden the Black Lives Matter movement. Finally, they develop a theory of change by considering “wasting well,” outlining techniques, methods, and propositions for a justice-oriented discard studies that keeps power in view.

SUMMARY

Author: Edition Shortcut (author)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781005242923
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Junkyard Planet

Author: H. Beam Piper
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497495104
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

SUMMARY - Junkyard Planet: Travels In The Billion-Dollar Trash Trade By Adam Minter

Author: Shortcut Edition
Publisher: Shortcut Edition
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 30

Book Description
* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. By reading this summary, you will learn more about the global waste recycling economy, particularly in China and the United States. You will also learn that : Houston has the lowest waste recycling rate in the United States; San Francisco has the highest waste recycling rate in the United States; China produces more waste than the United States; Per capita waste generation is four to five times higher in the United States than in China; Slums around the world are the largest recycling plants; The key U.S. concept in waste generation is "municipal solid waste". Adam Minter's book scans a little-known sector of the global economy: that of waste recycling, which represents an annual turnover of $500 billion. He explains in detail how the scraps of our affluent society become real nuggets in the hands of all those involved in a long chain of stakeholders, from the beggar in the American megacities to the immigrant from rural China stranded in Shanghai or Beijing. *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!

Junkyard Planet

Author: H. Beam Piper
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 9781434400796
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
This novel had its genesis in a much shorter story called "Graveyard of Dreams" (Galaxy, 1958) Piper expanded it to book length, and it appeared in 1963 as Junkyard Planet. Ace later renamed the book The Cosmic Computer for its paperback appearance. This edition returns the book to Piper's original title, Junkyard Planet. Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his home world of Poictesme, dubbed "The Junkyard Planet" because of all the military equipment left behind after the last war. Conn claims he has found the location of Merlin, a military super-computer rumored to have been left behind. But is Merlin real, or just a myth? And will Conn's knowledge of the computer save Poictesme -- or tear his world apart?

Junkyard Planet

Author: H. Beam Piper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstellar travel
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description

The Planet Hoppers

Author: Jyoti Bhansali
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
Two children, Aanya and Evaan and their golden retriever, are taken to various planets by Rudiv, their robot friend. In a roller coaster ride full of thrill and adventure, Rudiv takes them to Pizza Planet (a planet where they witness a cheese war), Dictionary Planet (a celestial body in the shape of an open dictionary), Silent Planet (a place where spoken words can only be seen not heard) and many more. This book takes young minds through an exciting journey in the realm of space where they can let their imaginations soar beyond the bounds of the earth. They can hop from planet to planet and be a part of cosmic adventures along with the protagonists, painting the universe with their dreams. In this exciting world in space, every child becomes an explorer, discovering the wonders of an imaginary universe with boundless creativity.

H. Beam Piper

Author: John F. Carr
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476614571
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
H. Beam Piper is one of science fiction’s most enigmatic writers. In 1946 Piper appeared seemingly from out of nowhere, already at the top of his form. He published a number of memorable short stories in the premier science fiction magazine of the time, Astounding Science Fiction, under legendary editor John W. Campbell. Piper quickly became friends with many of the top writers of the day, including Lester Del Rey, Fletcher Pratt, Robert Heinlein and L. Sprague de Camp. Piper also successfully made the turn from promising short story writer to major novelist, authoring Four-Day Planet, Cosmic Computer, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen and Little Fuzzy, which was nominated for a Hugo award. Even those who counted Piper among their friends knew very little about the man or his life as a railroad yard bull in Altoona, Pennsylvania. This biography illuminates H. Beam Piper, both the writer and the man, and answers lingering questions about his death. Appendices include a number of Piper’s personal papers, a complete bibliography of Piper’s works, and an essay on Piper’s Terro-Human Future History series.

The Cosmic Computer

Author: H. Beam Piper
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Book Description
Conn Maxwell is designated to travel to Earth from the colony world of Poictesme, a world desperate for regeneration following an intersystem war, to try and identify the location of the super computer Merlin, which many of the colonists believe is hidden somewhere on the planet and which they see as their salvation.