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Wild Life

Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs

By: Keena Roberts

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Wild Life

Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs

By: Keena Roberts

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a "baboon camp" in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb. Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. She could wield a spear as easily as a pencil, and it wasn't unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on any given day. But for the months of the year when her family lived in the United States, this brave kid from the bush was cowed by the far more treacherous landscape of the preppy, private school social hierarchy. Most girls Keena's age didn't spend their days changing truck tires, baking their own bread, or running from elephants as they tried to do their schoolwork. They also didn't carve bird whistles from palm nuts or nearly knock themselves unconscious trying to make homemade palm wine. But Keena's parents were famous primatologists who shuttled her and her sister between Philadelphia and Botswana every six months. Dreamer, reader, and adventurer, she was always far more comfortable avoiding lions and hippopotamuses than she was dealing with spoiled middle-school field hockey players. In Keena's funny, tender memoir, Wild Life, Africa bleeds into America and vice versa, each culture amplifying the other. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Wild Life is ultimately the story of a daring but sensitive young girl desperately trying to figure out if there's any place where she truly fits in.

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Grand Central Publishing

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Wild Life

Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs

By: Keena Roberts

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Gerrymandering the States

Partisanship, Race, and the Transformation of American Federalism

By: Alex Keena,Michael Latner,Anthony J. McGann McGann,Charles Anthony Smith

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Gerrymandering the States

Partisanship, Race, and the Transformation of American Federalism

By: Alex Keena,Michael Latner,Anthony J. McGann McGann,Charles Anthony Smith

State legislatures are tasked with drawing state and federal districts and administering election law, among many other responsibilities. Yet state legislatures are themselves gerrymandered. This book examines how, why, and with what consequences, drawing on an original dataset of ninety-five state legislative maps from before and after 2011 redistricting. Identifying the institutional, political, and geographic determinants of gerrymandering, the authors find that Republican gerrymandering increased dramatically after the 2011 redistricting and bias was most extreme in states with racial segregation where Republicans drew the maps. This bias has had long-term consequences. For instance, states with the most extreme Republican gerrymandering were more likely to pass laws that restricted voting rights and undermined public health, and they were less likely to respond to COVID-19. The authors examine the implications for American democracy and for the balance of power between federal and state government; they also offer empirically grounded recommendations for reform.

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248

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Cambridge University Press

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1009002554

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Sustainable Housing in a Circular Economy

By: Naomi Keena,Avi Friedman

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Sustainable Housing in a Circular Economy

By: Naomi Keena,Avi Friedman

This book relates circular economy principles to housing design and construction and highlights how those principles can result in both monetary savings, positive environmental impact, and socio-ecological change. Chapters focus on three key circular economy principles and apply them to architectural construction and design, namely rethinking of the end-of-use phase of a building and the potential of design-for-disassembly; the role of digitization and data standardization in fostering evidence-based circular economy design decision-making; and presenting space as a resource to conserve, via exploration of the sharing economy and flexibility principles. Beyond waste management and material cycles, this book provides a holistic understanding of the opportunities across the building life cycle that can allow for sustainable and affordable circular housing. With case studies from 13 different countries, including but not limited to the Hammarby Sjöstad district in Sweden, the Circle House in Denmark, Benny Farm in Canada, VMD Prefabricated House in Mexico, and the Deep Performance Dwelling in China, authors pair theoretical frameworks with real-world examples. This will be a useful resource for upper-level students and academics of architecture, construction, and planning, especially those studying and researching housing design, building technology, green project management, and environmental design.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003851258

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Gerrymandering, the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Revolution of 2004

By: Anthony J. McGann,Charles Anthony Smith,Michael Latner,Alex Keena

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Gerrymandering, the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Revolution of 2004

By: Anthony J. McGann,Charles Anthony Smith,Michael Latner,Alex Keena

This book provides a standard to gauge partisan gerrymandering, which increased after the Supreme Court ruled it a non-justiciable issue.

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Cambridge University Press

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110714325X

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9781107143258

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Wild Life

Wild Life

Wild Life

Wild Life

Gerrymandering the States

Gerrymandering the States

Sustainable Housing in a Circular Economy

Sustainable Housing in a Circular Economy

Gerrymandering, the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Revolution of 2004

Gerrymandering, the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Revolution of 2004

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