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Emission Impossible

On policies and persuasion

Green Guides

Two books to help your garden grow

Ulysses Unbound

Navigating this Age of Appetite

Margaret Visser

Margaret Visser is a Canadian broadcaster and lecturer, and the author of six books. She lives in Canada and in France.

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A Millennium of Manners

A comparative survey of good—and bad—behaviour October 2009
Modern voices are often raised in protest at what is perceived to be a rising tide of incivility. Loud conversations in restaurants, no one offering to give up a seat on the bus to someone old or pregnant, litter in the streets, queuing rules broken—rivers of discontent about infractions of manners such as these flood the internet and the…