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sociolab:

sociolab:

All of the books are in MOBI or AZW format for Kindle.  If you want to convert the files to PDF or ePub I recommend Calibre or online-converter.  If you have any problems with downloads or formatting please let me know and I will fix it asap.

• Myths of Gender by Anne Fausto-Sterling  [X]
• The Second Shift by Arlie Hochschild  [X]
• Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich  [X]
• Feminism Is For Everybody by bell hooks  [X]
• The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills  [X]
• Dude, You’re A Fag by C.J. Pascoe  [X]
• Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Charles A. Ellwood  [X]
• The Goffman Reader by Charles Lemert  [X]
• The Cambridge Companion To Simone de Beauvoir by Claudia Card  [X]
• Genders by David Glover  [X]
• Cultural Geography by David Sibley  [X]
• Critical Theory After Habermas by Dieter Freunlieb  [X]
• Punishment For Sale by Donna Delman  [X]
• Everything Is Obvious by Duncan J. Watts  [X]
• Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch by Dwight A. McBride  [X]
• Encyclopedia of Sociology by Edgar F. Borgatta  [X]
• Bodily Citations by Ellen Armour  [X]
• Suicide by Emile Durkheim  [X]
• The Rules of the Sociological Method by Emile Durkheim  [X]
• Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser  [X]
• Handbook of Social Theory by George Ritzer [X]
• The Blackwell Companion To Major Classical Social Theorists by George Ritzer  [X]
• Between XX and XY by Gerald N. Callahan  [X]
• How To Observe Morals and Manners by Harriet Martineau  [X]
• Habermas and Contemporary Society by John F. Sitton  [X]
• Critical Pedagogy For Social Justice by John Smyth  [X]
• The Power of Labeling by Joy Moncrieffe  [X]
• Gendered Lives by Julia T. Wood  [X]
• Gender Trouble by Judith Butler  [X]
• Undoing Gender by Judith Butler  [X]
• The Spirit Level by Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson  [X]
• The Myth of Choice by Kent Greenfield  [X]
• Essentials of Social Research by Linda Kalof  [X]
• Food Politics by Marion Nestle  [X]
• The Digital Divide by Mark Bauerlein  [X]
• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber  [X]
• Sister Citizen by Melissa Harris-Perry  [X]
• Brandwashed by Martin Lindstrom  [X]
• August Comte by Mike Gane  [X]
• The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf  [X]
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire  [X]
• The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo  [X]
• The Sociology of Culture and Cultural Studies by Pierre Bourdieu  [X]
• Drift by Rachel Maddow  [X]
• The Marx & Engels Reader by Robert C. Tucker  [X]
• Let Them Eat Junk by Robert Albritton  [X]
• Consumer Culture by Roberta Sassatelli  [X]
• The Legacy of Pierre Bourdieu by Simon Susen  [X]
• Gang Leader For A Day by Sudhir Venkatesh  [X]
• Quiet by Susan Cain  [X]
• From Marriage To the Market by Susan Thistle  [X]
• The Cambridge Companion to Marx by Terrell Carver  [X]
• Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen  [X]
• White Like Me by Tim Wise  [X]
• Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness by Toure  [X]
• Building A Housewife’s Paradise by Tracey Deutsch  [X]
• The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore  [X]

Reminder…

mohandasgandhi:

“This is the critical decade. If we don’t get the curves turned around this decade we will cross those lines,” said Will Steffen, executive director of the Australian National University’s climate change institute, speaking at a conference in London.

Despite this sense of urgency, a new global climate treaty forcing the world’s biggest polluters, such as the United States and China, to curb emissions will only be agreed on by 2015 - to enter into force in 2020.

[…]

For ice sheets - huge refrigerators that slow down the warming of the planet - the tipping point has probably already been passed, Steffen said. The West Antarctic ice sheet has shrunk over the last decade and the Greenland ice sheet has lost around 200 cubic km (48 cubic miles) a year since the 1990s.

Most climate estimates agree the Amazon rainforest will get drier as the planet warms. Mass tree deaths caused by drought have raised fears it is on the verge of a tipping point, when it will stop absorbing emissions and add to them instead.

Around 1.6 billion tonnes of carbon were lost in 2005 from the rainforest and 2.2 billion tonnes in 2010, which has undone about 10 years of carbon sink activity, Steffen said.

One of the most worrying and unknown thresholds is the Siberian permafrost, which stores frozen carbon in the soil away from the atmosphere.

“There is about 1,600 billion tonnes of carbon there - about twice the amount in the atmosphere today - and the northern high latitudes are experiencing the most severe temperature change of any part of the planet,” he said.

In a worst case scenario, 30 to 63 billion tonnes of carbon a year could be released by 2040, rising to 232 to 380 billion tonnes by 2100. This compares to around 10 billion tonnes of CO2 released by fossil fuel use each year.

Increased CO2 in the atmosphere has also turned oceans more acidic as they absorb it. In the past 200 years, ocean acidification has happened at a speed not seen for around 60 million years, said Carol Turley at Plymouth Marine Laboratory.

This threatens coral reef development and could lead to the extinction of some species within decades, as well as to an increase in the number of predators.

Bolded emphasis mine. This is about the 50th post I’ve posted or reblogged about the climate “doomsday,” which should be the biggest story everyday but magically isn’t.

(Source: sarahlee310, via olivermae)