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  • Global Philosophy

    What Philosophy Ought to Be

    Collections Livre 20 - Societas
    This book is about education, learning, rational inquiry, philosophy, science studies, problem solving, academic inquiry, global problems, wisdom and, above all, the urgent need for an academic revolution. Despite this range and diversity of topics, there is a common underlying theme. Education ought to be devoted, much more than it is, to the exploration real-life, open problems; it ought not to ... En savoir plus

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  • How Universities Can Help Create a Wiser World

    The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution

    Collections Livre 18 - Societas
    In order to make progress towards a better world we need to learn how to do it. And for that we need institutions of learning rationally designed and devoted to helping us solve our global problems, make progress towards a better world. It is just this that we lack at present. Our universities pursue knowledge. They are neither designed nor devoted to helping humanity learn how to tackle global ... En savoir plus

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  • Ethics and Science

    An Introduction

    Collections series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    Who owns your genes? What does climate science imply for policy? Do corporations conduct honest research? Should we teach intelligent design? Humans are creating a new world through science. The kind of world we are creating will not simply be decided by expanding scientific knowledge, but will depend on views about good and bad, right and wrong. These visions, in turn, depend on critical thinking ... En savoir plus

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  • The Consequences of Modernity

    par Anthony Giddens ...
    In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which ... En savoir plus

    $24.75 CAD

  • False Alarm: Global Warming--Facts Versus Fears

    par Paul MacRae ...
    Fear: The public, media and politicians are told the planet is warming at an "accelerated" rate, that humans are the principal cause of this warming, and the results will be 'oblivion'. Fact: The planet hasn't warmed appreciably since 1998 (apart from the El Nino warming of 2014-15), humanity's role in warming is less than natural variation, and past warming has even been called 'paradise'. False ... En savoir plus

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  • Why We Disagree About Climate Change

    Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

    par Mike Hulme ...
    Climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution'. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity's place on Earth. Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international climate change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider's account of the ... En savoir plus

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  • Defiant Earth

    The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene

    par Clive Hamilton ...
    Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – one in which the serene and clement conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish are disappearing and we quail before 'the wakened giant'.The emergence of a conscious creature capable of using technology to bring about a rupture in the ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Ecology of Law

    Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community

    Winner, IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award in Politics/Current Events: A systems theorist and a legal scholar present a new paradigm for protecting our planet.This is the first book to trace the fascinating parallel history of law and science from antiquity to modern times, showing how the two disciplines have always influenced each other—until recently. In the past few decades, science has shifted from ... En savoir plus

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  • A Good Book, In Theory

    Making Sense Through Inquiry, Second Edition

    This brief and engagingly written book provides a unique introduction to the process of social inquiry and the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry, offering a strong foundation in critical thinking that is rooted in the social sciences but maintains relevance across the disciplines. ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Climate Leviathan

    A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future

    How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worseDespite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two degrees Celsius set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What are the likely political and ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Ecological Rift

    Capitalism’s War on the Earth

    Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts have been driven through the delicate fabric of the biosphere. The economy and the earth are headed ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Metamorphosis of the World

    How Climate Change is Transforming Our Concept of the World

    par Ulrich Beck ...
    We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things change but other things remain the same capitalism changes, but some aspects of capitalism remain as they always were. Metamorphosis implies a much more radical transformation in which the old certainties of modern society are falling away and something ... En savoir plus

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