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  • The Heat and the Fury

    On the Frontlines of Climate Violence

    “A landmark work on perhaps the essential question of our time.”—David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable EarthAs a journalist on the climate security beat, Peter Schwartzstein has been chased by kidnappers, badly beaten, detained by police, and told, in no uncertain terms, that he was no longer welcome in certain countries. Yet these personal brushes with violence are simply a hint of the ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

  • 氣候變遷下的地緣政治衝突:高溫、乾旱、海平面上升,如何引發區域間的暴力紛爭

    The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence

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    當極端氣候成為日常,氣候變遷不再只是單純的環境問題,而是成為點燃城市與鄉村、農民與牧民、國與國之間衝突的火種!‧乾旱孕育了伊斯蘭國,會不會再催生出伊斯蘭國 2.0**?**‧海平面上升如何逼使孟加拉的農民變成海盜?‧尼羅河上游的水壩,是否將引爆區域間的國際衝突?本書作者,以記者身分造訪了飽受蹂躪的伊拉克城鎮,過去,伊斯蘭國利用乾旱,作為招募工具和恐怖武器。在孟加拉,他採訪了由農民變成的海盜,因為他們再也無法靠土地謀生,只得靠血腥的贖金維生。而聯合國的安全部隊,阻止他參觀尼羅河沿岸正在建造的大壩,這座大壩已將埃及和衣索匹亞推向戰爭的邊緣……高溫與乾旱,掀起水資源和糧食的掠奪;暴雨與土石流,迫使大批鄉村難民湧入都市,<... ... Leer más

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  • The Heat and the Fury

    On the Frontlines of Climate Violence

    “A landmark work on perhaps the essential question of our time.”—David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable EarthAs a journalist on the climate security beat, Peter Schwartzstein has been chased by kidnappers, badly beaten, detained by police, and told, in no uncertain terms, that he was no longer welcome in certain countries. Yet these personal brushes with violence are simply a hint of the ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

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    The Heat and the Fury

    On the Frontlines of Climate Violence

    Narrado por Julian Elfer ...

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    As a journalist on the climate security beat, Peter Schwartzstein has been chased by kidnappers, badly beaten, detained by police, and told, in no uncertain terms, that he was no longer welcome in certain countries. Yet these personal brushes with violence are simply a hint of the conflict simmering in our warming world.Schwartzstein has visited ravaged Iraqi towns where ISIS used drought as a ... Leer más

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    Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

    The “stirring” (Washington Post) story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the worldIn 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule loans. Twenty-three years later they won the Nobel Prize for Peace for their work in ... Leer más

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  • How to Run the World

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  • No Dancing, No Dancing

    Inside the Global Humanitarian Crisis

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  • Move

    Where People Are Going for a Better Future

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  • The Idealist

    Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty

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  • This Is the Way the World Ends

    How Droughts and Die-Offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America

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  • Saudi Arabia on the Edge

    Of all the countries in the world that are vital to the strategic and economic interests of the United States, Saudi Arabia is the least understood by the American people. Saudi Arabias unique place in Islam makes it indispensable to a constructive relationship between the non-Muslim West and the Muslim world. For all its wealth, the country faces daunting challenges that it lacks the tools to ... Leer más

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  • Water, Peace, and War

    Confronting the Global Water Crisis

    This pioneering and authoritative study considers the profound impact of the growing global water crunch on international peace and security as well as possible ways to mitigate the crisis. Although water is essential to sustaining life and livelihoods, geostrategist Brahma Chellaney argues that it remains the world’s most underappreciated and undervalued resource. One sobering fact is that the ... Leer más

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