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  • Tenacious Beasts

    Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals

    de Christopher J. Preston ...
    An inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons about how to share a planet.First Honorable Mention, The Rachel Carson Environment Book AwardWinner of the 2024 High Plains Book Award, Non-Fiction CategoryFinalist, 2024 PROSE Awards: Popular Science and Mathematics CategoryIncluded in The New Yorker's "Best Books of 2023, So Far"The news about wildlife ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Synthetic Age

    Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World

    de Christopher J. Preston ...
    Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering.We have all heard that there are no longer any places left on Earth untouched by humans. The significance of this goes beyond statistics documenting melting glaciers and shrinking species counts. It signals a new geological epoch. In The ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Climate Justice and Geoengineering

    Ethics and Policy in the Atmospheric Anthropocene

    Edición de Christopher J. Preston ...
    It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous troubling ethical issues. The pertinent question yet to be addressed is how the ethical issues raised by climate engineering compare to those raised by alternative proposals for tackling climate change.This volume is the first to put the ethical issues raised by climate engineering into a comprehensive, comparative context so that the ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Engineering the Climate

    The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management

    de Wylie Carr, Maialen Galarraga, Benjamin Hale, Marion Hourdequin, Ashley Mercer, Konrad Ott, Clare Palmer, Ronald Sandler, Holly Jean Buck, Patrick Taylor Smith, Kyle Powys Whyte, Albert Borgmann, Forrest Clingerman, Dane Scott, Bronislaw Szerszynski ...
    Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management discusses the ethical issues associated with deliberately engineering a cooler climate to combat global warming. Climate engineering (also known as geoengineering) has recently experienced a surge of interest given the growing likelihood that the global community will fail to limit the temperature increases associated with ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Grounding Knowledge

    Environmental Philosophy, Epistemology, and Place

    de Christopher J. Preston ...
    Mountains and freeways, oceans and apartment buildings, trees and automobiles: such things lend shape to mental activity, says Christopher J. Preston. Yet Western epistemology, since its origins, has neglected these material factors. Even postmodern perspectives on how we think and know continue to emphasize social and cultural factors over the physical environment.Grounding Knowledge claims that ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Sind wir noch zu retten?

    Wie wir mit neuen Technologien die Natur verändern können

    de Christopher J. Preston ...
    Traducido por Sebastian Vogel ...
    Series series Life Science and Basic Disciplines (German Language)
    Nanotechnologie, synthetische Biologie, Wiedererweckung ausgestorbener Arten und Geoengineering – werden Menschen die Natur in Zukunft mit solchen Methoden grundlegend umgestalten? Man könnte es sich vorstellen.Auf der Erde gibt es keinen von Menschen unberührten Ort mehr – das hat wohl jeder schon einmal gehört. Aber die Bedeutung dieser Tatsache erschöpft sich nicht in Statistiken, die ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Saving Creation

    Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston III

    de Christopher J. Preston ...
    Holmes Rolston III has long been recognized as the father of environmental ethics.” Internationally renowned for the synthesis he has found in evolutionary biology and Christianity, Rolston has followed an immensely interesting life course. In this compelling biography, Rolston’s story is traced from childhood to the present, detailing the process by which he has come to hone his profound ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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    Tenacious Beasts

    Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals

    de Christopher J. Preston ...
    Narrado por Tristan Morris ...

    Completo

    9 hora 36 minutos

    The news about wildlife is dire—more than 900 species have been wiped off the planet since industrialization. Against this bleak backdrop, however, there are also glimmers of hope and crucial lessons to be learned from animals that have defied global trends toward extinction: bears in Italy, bison in North America, whales in the Atlantic. These populations are back from the brink, some of them in ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    Synthetic Age, The

    Outdesigning Evolution, Resurrecting Species, and Reengineering Our World

    de Christopher J. Preston ...
    Narrado por Scott Merriman ...

    Completo

    7 hora 52 minutos

    Imagining a future in which humans fundamentally reshape the natural world using nanotechnology, synthetic biology, de-extinction, and climate engineering.We have all heard that there are no longer any places left on Earth untouched by humans. The significance of this goes beyond statistics documenting melting glaciers and shrinking species counts. It signals a new geological epoch. In The ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • Dark Matter of the Mind

    The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

    de Daniel L. Everett ...
    From a linguist and anthropologist, "a fascinating argument" about culture, cognition, and the concept of human nature ( Choice).Is it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in any particular way? For Daniel L. Everett, the answer is a resounding no: it isn't in our nature to do any of these things because human nature does ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A World on the Wing

    The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds

    de Scott Weidensaul ...
    **New York Times BestsellerFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the YearAn exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration.**In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, or remain in unbroken ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Bears

    Without Fear

    de Kevin Van Tighem ...
    Fear of bears seems almost to be part of what it is to be human. Our species emerged out of the depths of time into a world already populated by these great carnivores. Before we mastered iron and later developed firearms, we had few defences against bears—only watchful caution and elaborate ceremonies and sacrifices to ward off fear.Where human populations grow, bears have traditionally dwindled ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD