Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, Paperback - Andreas Malm

How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the...

An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each other

A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming world McKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting...

Economic cycles are driven by financial flows, namely quantities of savings and credits, and not by high street inflation or interest rates. Their ...

Economic cycles are driven by financial flows, namely quantities of savings and credits, and not by high street inflation or interest rates. Their ...

An examination of shifting global power dynamics in climate change politics, and how this affects our ability to achieve equitable and sustainable ...

The much-awaited book about Abdallah Azzam, one of the jihadi movement's most important figures. It explains why jihadism went international in the...

This book traces an unexpected journey to Latin America for South Asian literature in English. It shows how this encounter fundamentally shaped the...

China's nouveau riche are purchasing billions of dollars of furniture built from endangered African rosewood. Responding to Western powers' attempt...

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Reducere. Why has the United States assumed so extensive and costly a role in world affairs over the last hundred years? The two most common answers to this ...

DescriptionIn The Roots of Western Finance: Power, Ethics, and Social Capital in the Ancient World, Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg take an a...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of World War II, around a quarte...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture, Paperback

Reducere. "The story of the future is written in the past."-Lord Acton, 1877. Did you know Greek philosopher Plato predicted democracy would degenerate into ...

Reducere. A book on the religious, mystic origins and substance of philosophy. This is a critical survey of ancient and modern sources and of scholarly works...

How much of global warming is due to human activities? How far will it be possible to adapt to changes of climate? Sir John Houghton's definitive, ...

The American Revolution is universally seen as a colossal defeat of the powerful British Empire by colonial rebels. Yet the British emerged from th...

The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars - Anthony D'Agostino

Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. This title recounts the enduring conseq...

This new edition of Mark Jacobson's textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and science of the major air pollution and climat...

Fossil Fuels are one of Earth's most important resources. Endangered Energy answers these questions by engaging readers with lively text, graphic f...

*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "So the church has been made a spec...

What does the CO-VID 19 tell us about the climate breakdown, and what should we do about it?

Brandon Absher demonstrates that the neoliberalization of higher education has led to a paradigm shift in contemporary philosophy in the United Sta...

Reducere. Seek for the Ancient Paths"So, why is it so important to minister the Jewish roots to the Church?" I asked the Lord. "It's a matter of life and dea...

This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across th...

Seeking new definitions of ecology in the tar sands of northern Alberta and searching for the sweetness of life in the face of planetary crises.Con...

Many railway modellers include an engine shed somewhere on their layout. However, all too often the shed is squeezed into a quite improbable locati...

Reducere. From former longtime Scholastic magazine editor Jack L. Roberts comes a captivating and engaging new book that will help young readers (ages 9-14) ...

Reducere. Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. In a fascinating account, au...

Friends Forever is an unforgettable saga from bestselling author Lyn Andrews that follows two young woman as they navigate the tricky terrains of l...

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THE FIRST BOOK TO EXPLORE THE HISTORY OF THE CENTRIFUGAL GOVERNOR -AN EARLY ENGINE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 200 PHOTOGRAPHS, ENGRAVIN...

DescriptionMaris Boyd Gillette's groundbreaking study tells the story of Jingdezhen, China's porcelain capital, from its origins in 1004 in Song dy...

An exposé of fragmented trading platforms, poor governance, and exploitative practices in today's capital markets Capital markets have undergone a ...

In Sexual Hegemony Christopher Chitty traces the five-hundred year history of capitalist sexual relations by excavating the class dynamics of the b...

A study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers an analysis of this emerging phenomenon. It argu...

Reducere. Award NamePROSEAward categoryMusic/Performing ArtsBorn into poverty in Mississippi at the close of the nineteenth century, Charley Patton and Jimmi...