National Identity in a Global Political Economy

Jane (4th year) lent me an excerpt of this book from her previous research:

True, Jacqui and Charlie Gao. 'National Identity in a Global Political Economy.' 

From the book: New Zealand Government & Politics, Raymond Miller, Auckland: Oxford University Press, 2010.

The Ethics of What We Eat

Link: The Ethics of What We Eat

Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, to set their critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it comes from, how it is produced, and whether it was raised humanely. The Ethics of What We Eat explores the impact our food choices have on humans, animals, and the environment. Recognizing that not all of us will become vegetarians, Singer and Mason offer ways to make healthful, humane food choices. As they point out: You can be ethical without being fanatical.

Principles Of City Land Values | by Richard M. Hurd

The continual readjustments in the life of a city reflecting the total social relations of its inhabitants, lead to the concept of a city as a living organism. That such a concept is popularly held is shown by the common phrases, the “heart” of the city, to represent the business centre, the “arteries” of traffic to represent the streets, the ‘lungs" of the city to represent the parks, and to carry the simile further the railroad depots and wharves may be called the mouths through which the city is fed, the telephone and telegraph lines its nervous system, while man in his residence has been likened by Spencer to a particle of protoplasm surrounding itself with a cell.

Judy and I have talked a lot about the significance of analogies... Marshall McLuhan, the concept of Gaia, etc