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  • Our Planetary Condition

    Foundations for a Politics with the Earth

    by Frederic Hanusch, Liza B. Bauer, Clemens Finkelstein, Claus Leggewie ...
    Series series Earth System Governance
    An actionable framework for doing politics with Earth’s nonliving, living, and technological agencies to expand planetary habitability.Our Planetary Condition advances a simple yet transformative claim: We do not live on but are part of a planet whose nonliving, living, and technological forces actively shape politics. If keeping the Earth habitable is the defining challenge of our time, then ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

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  • The Politics of Deep Time

    by Frederic Hanusch ...
    Series series Elements in Earth System Governance
    Human societies increasingly interact with processes on a geological or even cosmic timescale. Despite this recognition, we still lack a basic understanding of these interconnections and how they translate into politics. This Element provides an exploration and systematization of 'the politics of deep time' as a novel lens of planetary politics in three steps. First, it demonstrates why deep-time ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Democracy and Climate Change

    by Frederic Hanusch ...
    Series series Routledge Global Cooperation Series
    Democracy and Climate Change explores the various ways in which democratic principles can lead governments to respond differently to climate change. The election cycle can lead to short-termism, which often appears to be at odds with the long-term nature of climate change, with its latency between cause and effect. However, it is clear that some democracies deal with climate change better than ... Read more

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  • Ways of Being

    Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

    by James Bridle ...
    Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle’s Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence—plant, animal, human, artificial—and how they transform our understanding of humans’ place in the cosmos.What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans or shared with other beings— beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The End of the Long Summer

    Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth

    by Dianne Dumanoski ...
    For the past twelve thousand years, Earth’s stable climate has allowed human civilization to flourish. But this long benign summer is an anomaly in the Earth’s history and one that is rapidly coming to a close. The radical experiment of our modern industrial civilization is now disrupting our planet’s very metabolism; our future hinges in large part on how Earth responds. Climate change is already ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Earthly Order

    How Natural Laws Define Human Life

    by Saleem H. Ali ...
    The Covid-19 Pandemic has brought forth global anxiety about linkages between the environment and society at a fundamental structural level. Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life provides an accessible exposition of the latest foundational knowledge on how natural and social systems science can inform planetary crises. Humanity has either tried to conquer or capitulate to natural order ... Read more

    $32.39 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Gaia in Turmoil

    Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis

    Edited by Eileen Crist, H. Bruce Rinker ...
    Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.Gaian theory, which holds that Earth's physical and biological processes are inextricably bound to form a self-regulating system, is more relevant than ever in light of increasing concerns about global climate ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Environing Media

    Edited by Adam Wickberg, Johan Gärdebo ...
    This edited volume interrogates the role of media technologies in the formation of environments, understood both as physical spaces and as epistemological constructs about them. Using the concept of ‘environing media’, the book advances a deeper understanding of how media processes – defined here as the storage, process, and transmission of data – influence human-Earth relations.Virtually all ... Read more

    $68.70 CAD

  • At Least Know This

    Essential Science to Enhance Your Life

    by Guy P. Harrison ...
    This primer on essential scientific literacy gives readers the basics to understand themselves and the world around them, plus a glimpse of how much more science has to offer. Science tells us a good deal about who we are, where we come from, the nature of the universe, how our brains work, and much, much more. Unfortunately, most people are largely unaware of this treasure trove of information. ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Reactivating Elements

    Chemistry, Ecology, Practice

    Edited by Dimitris Papadopoulos, María Puig de la Bellacasa, Natasha Myers ...
    Series series Elements
    The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Speciesism in Biology and Culture

    How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary Boundaries

    Edited by Brian Swartz, Brent D. Mishler ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores a wide-ranging discussion about the sociopolitical, cultural, and scientific ramifications of speciesism and world views that derive from it. In this light, it integrates subjects across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.The 21st-century western world is anthropocentric to an extreme; we adopt unreasonably self-centered and self-serving ideas and ... Read more

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  • Perspectives in Bioethics, Science, and Public Policy

    Edited by Jonathan Beever, Nicolae Morar ...
    Series series Purdue Studies in Public Policy
    In this book, nine thought-leaders engage with some of the hottest moral issues in science and ethics. Based on talks originally given at the annual "Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science," the chapters explore interconnections between the three areas in an engaging and accessible way. Addressing a mixed public audience, the authors go beyond dry theory to explore some of the difficult ... Read more

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