Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe, Hardcover - Mario Alejandro Ariza

A deeply-reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist into the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City-a watery har...

It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. Consensual realism is ...

A comprehensive exploration, spanning 1, 300 years, of the art and culture of the Sahel region of Africa

Reducere. Historian and author M. B. Synge tells the reader the greatest and most compelling stories of antiquity; those of ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and I...

Reducere. With the advent of global warming and the nuclear arms race, humans are rapidly approaching a moment of truth. Technologically supreme, they manife...

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Reducere. The final steps are the longestA timeless paradise greets Odin upon arrival to the islands of the gods. Vanaheim is the ultimate respite after the ...

When capitalism doesn't fight climate change but rather tries to make a buck out of it The Great Adaptation tells the story of how scientists, gove...

Recipes that chart the culinary history and traditions of the lands that once belonged to the Venetian Republic, with a particular focus on the Tri...

From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second Wor...

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Reducere. An urgent call for the political transformation needed to address the common causes of climate change, COVID-19, and racism." . . . some big titles...

Reducere. Martin Prechtel continues the narrative of his unique life in Santiago, Atitlan in Long Life, Honey in the Heart, an eloquent memoir replete with t...

Reducere. Mario Lemieux is one of a rare breed of sports stars whose holistic impact on a city and fan base has transcended mere accomplishments on the stat ...

Reducere. One of the world's leading scholars of religious trends shows how climate change has driven dramatic religious upheavals. Long before the current e...

Contributor(s): Author: Andy MayThis book is dedicated to science. Scientists are skeptical, we ask: "Is that idea correct? How can I test it?" The...

During the late 19th century, a small group of Frenchmen from the fort at Detroit settled north along the shore of Lake St. Clair at the mouth of t...

Reducere. This remarkable and beautifully illustrated book chronicles the history of Canada's western mountain glaciers through stunning photography, persona...

A revelatory study of how climate change will affect individual economic decisions, and the broad impact of those choices Selected by Publishers We...

A Compelling Vision of the Future"Maynard has written a thoughtful and thought-provoking response to the moment we're in, chronicling how we got he...

An internationally renowned architect, urban planner, and scholar describes the major technological forces driving the future of cities Since citie...

An urgent and provocative call to action from the world's leading climate scientist.

Reducere. In his Q&A with Bill McKibben featured in the paperback edition of Storms of My Grandchildren, Dr. James Hansen, the world's leading climatologist,...

An authoritative survey of the science and economics of climate policy. Challenges common assumptions about the policies needed to forestall a clim...

Description"Mark Obmascik has deftly rescued an important story from the margins of our history--and from our country's most forbidding frontier. D...

DescriptionLed by Pritzker Prize-winning artistic director Alejandro Aravena (born 1967), the Elemental studio, based in Santiago, Chile, possesses...

Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel displaces conventional ways of thinking about the relationship between the munda...

Climate predictions - and the computer models behind them - play a key role in shaping public opinion on climate change. Providing an accessible in...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is dedicated to science. Scientists are skeptical, we ask: "Is that idea correct? How can I test it?" Then we resolve to gathe...

Reducere. Nine kittens go on an exciting boating adventure that's a (funny) catastrophe in this playful picture book that demonstrates the key math concept o...

DescriptionBeachcombing, overturning a boulder, or simply parting the strands of seaweed in a rock pool can offer a glimpse into a thriving underwa...

Reducere. Twenty-one years after Kaya Press first published Sesshu Foster's City Terrace Field Manual, a powerful collection of prose poems that map the East...

Publisher: Potter BooksAuthor(s): Matt ThomasIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 192Collection: M.I.FivePublication date: 2009Dimensions...

Stray Poems opens with San Francisco Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia's inaugural address, where he provides a brilliant and impassioned poetic acco...

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Reducere. North Dakota is regarded as flyover country, but extraordinary narratives play out on this improbable Great Plains landscape. North Dakota is the h...

Reducere. DescriptionWhy is it that parts of one city may be plagued with poverty and crime, while other parts thrive; and how that can be reversed. Alice Sm...

The story of a fascinating, bohemian - and, at times outrageous - life that spanned the twentieth century - the perfect book for fans of the Mitfords.

Pieces together Australia's climate history for the first time. It shows a continent always vulnerable to climate extremes and variability. It give...

Reducere. Porcelain is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Gr nbei...

This work does not necessarily prove or disprove anything. It is an exposition of the current body of more or less accepted thinking on the subject...

Reducere. DescriptionLockport, New York. It's not what you would have called a "steel town, " at least not like those scattered along the Monongahela north a...