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  • Beyond the Lab and the Field

    Infrastructures as Places of Knowledge Production Since the Late Nineteenth Century

    Modifié par Eike-Christian Heine, Martin Meiske ...
    Collections Livre 11 - Intersections
    Beyond the Lab and the Field analyzes infrastructures as intense sites of knowledge production in the Americas, Europe, and Asia since the late nineteenth century. Moving beyond classical places known for yielding scientific knowledge, chapters in this volume explore how the construction and maintenance of canals, highways, dams, irrigation schemes, the oil industry, and logistic networks ... En savoir plus

    $73.59 CAD

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  • Hayek's Bastards

    Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right

    par Quinn Slobodian ...
    Collections Livre 9 - Near Futures
    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismHow neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold WarNeoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory—but they didn’t. Instead, they saw the chameleon of communism changing colors from red to green. The poison of civil rights, feminism, and environmentalism ran through the veins of ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

    par James C. Scott ...
    Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics-the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Something New Under the Sun

    par J. R. McNeill ...
    The definitive environmental history of the twentieth-century world, now updated for the twenty-first.Humans have long transformed the planet, scratching its surface for stones and ores, planting and harvesting crops, sparking fires for light and heat. But since the dawn of industrialization and especially since 1950, our impact has accelerated sharply. Economic, technological, and demographic ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Great Acceleration

    An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945

    par J. R. McNeill, Peter Engelke ...
    The Earth has entered a new age—the Anthropocene—in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a massive uncontrolled experiment. The Great Acceleration explains its causes and consequences, highlighting the role of energy systems, as ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Manifesto for the Earth

    Action Now for Peace, Global Justice and a Sustainable Future

    par Mikhail S. Gorbachev ...
    For more than a decade Mikhail Gorbachev has been engaged in working to protect the earth and its inhabitants via the organization he founded in 1992, Green Cross International. In an age when ecological crises, poverty and military conflicts are humanity's main challenges, Gorbachev urges us to stop regarding these problems in isolation. The man who changed the destiny of Russia, Europe and the ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • White Skin, Black Fuel

    On the Danger of Fossil Fascism

    par Andreas Malm, The Zetkin Collective ...
    Rising temperatures and the rise of the far right. What disasters happen when they meet?In the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis, White Skin, Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political constellation, revealing its deep historical roots. Fossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. No one loved them more passionately than the classical fascists ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Age of Ecology

    par Joachim Radkau ...
    This book is the first major study of the history of environmentalism, from its origins in romanticism and the nature cults of the late 18th century to the global environmental movements of today.Radkau shows that this is not a single story of the steady ascent of environmentalism but rather a multiplicity of stories, each with its own dramatic tension: between single-issue movements and the ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Oceans Rise Empires Fall

    Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe

    par Gerard Toal ...
    A powerful explanation of why geopolitical competition makes implementing effective climate change policies so difficult. As the Russia-Ukraine war has shown, great-power competition drives states to prioritize fossil fuel acquisition over working toward a zero-carbon future. In the last few years, it has become abundantly clear that the effects of accelerating climate change will be catastrophic, ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Lifelines of Our Society

    A Global History of Infrastructure

    par Dirk van Laak ...
    Traduit par Erik Butler ...
    Collections series Infrastructures
    A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today’s strongest global force over government and individual lives. Who should build and maintain infrastructures? How are they to be protected? And why ... En savoir plus

    $36.79 CAD

  • Being and Swine

    The End of Nature (As We Knew It)

    par Fahim Amir ...
    Traduit par Geoffrey C. Howes, Corvin Russell ...
    Forget everything you think you know about nature. Fahim Amir’s award-winning book takes pure delight in posing unexpected questions: Are animals victims of human domination, or heroes of resistance? Is nature pristine and defenceless, or sentient and devious? Is being human really a prerequisite for being political?In a world where birds on Viagra punch above their weight and termites hijack the ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Microhistories of Technology

    Making the World

    par Mikael Hård ...
    Collections series History (R0)
    In this open access book, Mikael Hård tells a story of how people around the world challenged the production techniques and products brought by globalization. Retaining their autonomy and freedom, creative individuals selectively adopted or rejected modern gadgets, tools, and machines. In standard historical narratives, globalization is portrayed as an unstoppable force that flattens all obstacles ... En savoir plus

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