World on Fire: Humans, Animals, and the Future of the Planet, Hardcover - Mark Rowlands

Reducere. Mark Rowlands presents a novel analysis of three epoch-defining environmental problems: climate, extinction, and pestilence. Our climate is changin...

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Whether you like mammals, aquatic creatures, insects, birds, amphibians, or reptiles, this browsable book contains kids' favorite animals that woul...

DescriptionA provocative argument that eating meat is not what made humans human and that the future is not necessarily carnivorous.Humans are eati...

Reducere. "When you wake up and you see that the Earth is not just the environment, the Earth is us, you touch the nature of interbeing. And at that moment y...

With a global population estimated to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050 we face a huge challenge in feeding everyone on the planet.Publisher: Corners...

An eye-opening analysis of how China is transforming Africa's information space, and the consequences for geopolitics, security and Africa's relati...

The former Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus examines the role of the European Central Bank in the euro crisis and what role it should play in...

Reducere. 1. World On Fire 2. Shadow Life 3. Automatic Overdrive 4. Wicked Stone 5. 30 Years To Life 6. Bent To Fly 7. Stone Blind 8. Too Far Gone 9. Beneath...

Reducere. From computers to airplanes to life-giving medicines, the technological marvels of our world were made possible by the human use of fire. But the u...

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An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclai...

A radical manifesto for how to deal with environmental breakdown

Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Laurie Laybourn-LangtonNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 21Cover type: Paperback /...

Publisher: ATF PressNumber of pages: 142Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 162 x 237 x 23Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Hilary D ReganRedescopera fa...

Reducere. About the Book Chapter I. God Chapter II. Jesus Christ Chapter III. Life in Christ Chapter IV. Revelation Chapter V. The Church Chapter VI. The Hum...

We all want cities, where more than half of the world's population currently live, to be just, successful, clean, fair, green, sustainable, safe, h...

Reducere. Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been published, Six Degrees is what readers of Al Gore's best-selling An Inconve...

Reducere. The first Rothery book to explore ocean life: Pacific walrus, king penguin, narwhal, great white shark, squid, seahorse, moray eel, humpback whale,...

Reducere. Our world is wonderful, and it's up to us to take care of it. You may feel small, but your actions can make a big difference. This title encourages...

A fascinating title that charts the relationship between the philosopher, Mark Rowlands, and his well-travelled wolf. From the bestselling author o...

From the big bang, to the origin and evolution of intelligent life in a search for the meaning of human existence, Why are We Here?, by author Bruc...

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Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life growing toxicity and rising temperatures coupled with overfishing have led many marine sp...

Providing a reading of Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor as political thinkers, Gary Wilder explains how these eminent anti-colonial thinkers, poets...

With the notion of work transforming at a faster rate than it has in centuries, }Gigged{ offers a timely dissection of conventional work's possible...

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A menu for an edible future. In a world expected to reach a staggering population of 9 billion by 2050, and with global temperatures rising fast, h...

In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historia...

Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities--both in terms of their indivi...

This study examines the work of Matthew Spinka and Howard Kaminsky on medieval Hussites. The author analyzes their numerous contributions to our un...

Reducere. In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remai...

Volume 1 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of planetary relations What are the sources of our deepest evolutionary and planetary c...

It's Plato, it's Hume, Baudrillard and the concept of the Nietzschean superman!' Keanu Reeves on The MatrixThe Philosopher at the End of the Univer...

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Argues that however misguided individual conclusions about science may be, most Christians reason their way to those conclusions in the same way th...

A passionate account of how the gulf between France's metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guilluy,...

Reducere. The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a gripping account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her collea...

Now in paperback, this sees Rowlands explore the intimate relationship between running and thinking, especially thoughts about the meaning of life....

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DescriptionIn 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for e...

Reducere. "We need to look after our planet, because our planet looks after us. If we all make small changes to protect the planet, we will see big results."...

Reducere. This fast-paced and timely book from Vijay Prashad is the best critical primer to the Middle East conflicts today, from Syria and Saudi Arabia to t...