Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with politics, the answers are often profoundly local. Cultural Sustainabilities presents twenty-three essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnographers, documentary filmmakers, musicians, artists, and activists, each asking a particular question or presenting a s...

If you feel alone and lost, this book is for you.If you are stuck in your life and dream of a change, this book is for you.If you need faith to keep on moving forward, this book is for you.As sometimes life just sucks no matter what you do.This book offers you 6 true stories of people who have managed to change their lives. Short stories that will prove you that you are not alone with your struggles and ther...

The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what extent does free speech actually endanger speech protection? This book examines today's calls for speech legislation and places it into historical perspective, using fascinating examples from the past 200 years, to explain the historical context of laws regulating speech. Over time, the freedom to speak has grown, the ways in wh...