Politics of Catastrophe

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Niall FergusonNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 28Cover type: Paperback / so...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Peter Y. PaikNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 139 x 215 x 17Cover type: Pap...

Medical catastrophes, although rare, do happen. Ronald W. Dworkin suggests the cause often lies in the politics of medicine and the conflicting dem...

Using shocks (natural disaster, military catastrophe) not as a justification for privatisation, cuts and a lack of free market restraint, but inste...

A vital collection bringing together Black Lives Matter and COVID-19 from the acclaimed political and literary magazine Boston Review. From the COV...

Capitalism is killing the planet, and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life requires a radical alternative. In this new...

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In this short, powerful, and thoroughly documented book, Kirkpatrick Sale, who has been on the cutting edge of American social commentary for fifty...

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

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Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indeb...

Understanding US culture through the post-apocalyptic novel This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tony KushnerFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America comes this powerful portrayal of individual dissolu...

What does Japan's 2011 nuclear accident have in common with the 2005 flooding of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina? This thought-provoking book pr...

Hegemony or Survival is Noam Chomsky's essential polemic on American foreign policy. Noam Chomsky, the world's foremost intellectual activist, pres...

New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn unsettling journey into the United States' disaster-bound food system, and an exploration of possible ...

DescriptionPeter C. Caldwell and Karrin Hanshew's Germany Since 1945 traces the social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of t...

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Are we as a species headed towards extinction? As our economic system renders our planet increasingly inhospitable to human life, powerful individu...

Reducere. That Winter the Wolf Came is written for this era of global struggle. It finds its ferment at the intersection of ecological and economic catastrop...

DescriptionA progressive argument for repealing the Human Rights Act. Contrary to contemporary panic around human rights repeal, Human Rights - Ill...

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2007 The Invisible Cure is an account of Africa's AIDS epidemic from the inside--a revelatory dispatch from the in...

In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire...

DescriptionHow Trump got to the Oval Office--and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him thereDonald Trump's residency in the Whi...

Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also ...

"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...

"Carbon Comes out of the Closet" is a humorous conservative "Children's Book" that tackles Climate Change, Energy and Fake News in a manner that is...

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We have entered the gateway to the apocalypse. This theological concept is the best metaphor to describe the world in which we are already living. ...