Human Planet. How We Created the Anthropocene, Paperback - Mark A. Maslin

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Creating a visual and written timeline of the age of human domination, The Human Age reveals how this era was born, the ways in which it is impacti...

'Punchy and to the point. No beating around the bush. This brilliant book contains all the information we need to have in our back pocket in order ...

From artificial glaciers in the Himalayas to painted mountains in Peru, electrified reefs in the Maldives to garbage islands in the Caribbean, the ...

A deeply moving and insightful collection of personal essays from #1 bestselling author John Green. The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, i...

In The Vision Revolution, Mark Changizi, prominent neuroscientist and vision expert, addresses four areas of human vision and provides explanations...

Reducere. DescriptionThe recent 10, 000 year history of climatic stability on Earth that enabled the rise of agriculture and domestication, the growth of cit...

Radical new critical theory for the twenty-first century: how to think about the Anthropocene

An international and interdisciplinary team of scholars offer innovative models of thinking about environmentality in the humanities and in Anthrop...

This book is for readers interested in how literature tackles climate change, 'petro-culture', extinction, and the proposed 'human' epoch of the An...

Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co IncAuthor(s): Kieran D. (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA) OharaNumber of pages: 200Publication dat...

The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years...

Reducere. Fiction. A Sàmi woman studying Alaska fish populations sees our past and future through their present signs of stress and her ancestral knowledge. ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Mark (University of Aberystwyth, UK) WhiteheadIllustration(s): 25 Line drawings, color; 33 Halftones, col...

Reducere. This vital gathering tells slanted anthropocenic truths, re-cognising the manifold everyday as a crucial space-time of enquiry, excavation and enta...

An Artforum Best Book of the YearA Legal Theory Bookworm Book of the YearNature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will...

DescriptionIn Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Is...

The Anthropocene is a term proposed for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards) to highlight the role of ...

Reducere. Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene contributes to the growing literature on artistic responses to global climate change and its consequen...

DescriptionHumans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particularly fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens...

The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-tho...

Reducere. In Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time ...

A fascinating, progressive collection of articles and case studies that explore the intersectionality of environmental justice and social justice, ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 162Collection: Routledge Research in the AnthropocenePublication date: 2020Dimensions: 154 x 233 x ...

Reducere. About the AuthorJessica Cory teaches in the English department at Western Carolina University. She grew up in southeastern Ohio, and her work has b...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Jurgen RennIllustration(s): 105 b/w illus.Number of pages: 584Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155...

In collaboration with IKEA, this inspirational study explores how to live more sustainably - and well - based on the experience of both ordinary an...

Winner of the Scientific & Medical Network Book Prize 2019 In Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene, Andrew ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Michael (Dublin City University, Ireland) CroninNumber of pages: 178Collection: New Perspectives in Trans...

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Reducere. Humans are at the dawn of major shifts in the relationships among society, the environment, and technology. This transformation has profound implic...

An analysis of the inescapable fact that Generation Y (and subsequent generations) will be poorer than their parents, and how we should pursue othe...

How have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us?Publisher: Harp...

droughts occur in Australia and Darfur... Further substantial climate change is unavoidable and the risks to the natural world, the economy and our...

DescriptionInfrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene explores life in the age of climate change through a series of infrastructural...

"A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory's intersections with neocybernetic systems theory"--Illustrations: 13 B-W Illustrations

In this creative exploration of climate change and the big questions confronting our high-energy civilization, Adam Briggle connects the history of...

This accessible textbook provides an ideal point of entry into the field, providing basic information on the nature of soft-sediment ecosystems, ex...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Mark PatersonIllustration(s): 23 black & whilte illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Publication dat...

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A damning account of the forces that have hijacked progress on climate change, and a bold vision of what it will take, politically and economically...

Adding to a growing body of knowledge about how the social-ecological dynamics of the Anthropocene affect human health, this collection presents st...

Reducere. A sweeping exploration of the ways in which emotions shaped the course of human history, and how our experience and understanding of emotions have ...

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Mark CarneyNumber of pages: 528Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 234 x 40Cover type: Paperback ...

What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene--the age of humans? Just as paleontologists lo...

The climate emergency and other dramatic environmental changes pose growing threats to the health of humanity, and have defined a new geological ep...

It's warming. It's us. We're sure. It's bad. But we can fix it. After speaking to the international public for close to fifteen years about sustain...

Offers a thought-provoking, necessary alternative to paralysis in the face of alarming planetary change. The report's release comes as the COVID-19...