Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations, Paperback - Anthony McMichael

When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occur...

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This second edition presents how genetic information can be used to conserve threatened species, as well as manage ecologically or commercially imp...

Analyses the ways in which the management of natural resources may impact climate change, and how climate change impacts the adaptation strategies ...

"A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it." Bill Clinton, 42nd Pre...

This paper outlines the importance of tracking adaptation in the context of the implementation of the Paris Agreement and provides a flexible and c...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Linda VillarosaNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 234 x 23Cover type: Paperback /...

Floods, Famines and Emperors. El Nino and the Fate of Civilisations - Brian Fagan

No one will ever again die from smallpox. With the battle won against that 'most terrible of the ministers of death', an unprecedented humanitarian...

A case study of one of the most important global institutions of cultural policy formation, UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary demonstrates the re...

Reducere. In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civiliz...

'This is one of those rare books that have something really important to say. Anatol Lieven is telling his fellow realists that at this moment the ...

Dealing with the imminent decline of cheap oil, this book shows how oil and war have been closely related in the 20th century. Tracing the crucial ...

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A strident argument about the dangers of compromise in art, politics, and everyday life On Compromise is an argument against contemporary liberal s...

Countess Sofia Panina lived a remarkable life. Born into an aristocratic family in imperial Russia, she found her true calling in improving the liv...

Climate change is increasingly acknowledged as a security issue. But how exactly is 'security' understood? McDonald identifies different accounts o...

This handbook examines human responses to climatic and environmental changes in the past, their impacts on disease patterns, nutritional status, mi...

Reducere. "Superbly written and researched." --Booklist "Builds a strong case." --Kirkus Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move int...

From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flo...

How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman EmpireHere is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of h...

Reducere. This title collects Berry's signature views on the interconnectedness of both Earth's future and the Christian future. He ponders why Christians ha...

A dramatic account of the fateful year leading to the ultimate crisis of the Roman Republic and the rise of Caesar's autocracy

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Eva RosenIllustration(s): 15 b/w illus.Number of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x ...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncNumber of pages: 261Collection: Global Crises and the MediaPublication date: 2009Dimensions: 151 x 225 x 15Cove...

DescriptionA definitive account of how we have come to understand the fundamental processes behind global warmingSyukuro Manabe is perhaps the lead...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Daniel YerginNumber of pages: 544Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 27Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Rise...

DescriptionGet a new perspective from the 'other half' of macroeconomics The failure of the vast majority of economists in government, academia and...

Reducere. For the updated paperback edition of Under the Surface, Tom Wilber has written a new chapter and epilogue covering developments since the book's in...

Reducere. The complete five unabridged books of The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. This epic collection of economic ideas show that people and free markets...

The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, benefi...

Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature's creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before g...

Reducere. In the annals of Vietnam War history, no figure has been more controversial than Ngo Dinh Diem. During the 1950s, U.S. leaders hailed Diem as "the ...

Lessons from the Hindu culture are used to teach the world methods of sustainability.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Vandana ...