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  • Toward a Unified Ecology

    de Timothy Allen, Thomas Hoekstra ...
    Series series Complexity in Ecological Systems
    The first edition of Toward a Unified Ecology was ahead of its time. For the second edition, the authors present a new synthesis of their core ideas on evaluating communities, organisms, populations, biomes, models, and management. The book now places greater emphasis on post-normal critiques, cognizant of ever-present observer values in the system. The problem it addresses is how to work ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Supply-Side Sustainability

    de Timothy Allen, Joseph Tainter, Thomas Hoekstra ...
    Series series Complexity in Ecological Systems
    While environmentalists insist that lower rates of consumption of natural resources are essential for a sustainable future, many economists dismiss the notion that resource limits act to constrain modern, creative societies. The conflict between these views tinges political debate at all levels and hinders our ability to plan for the future.Supply-Side Sustainability offers a fresh approach to ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Rational Optimist

    How Prosperity Evolves

    de Matt Ridley ...
    “A delightful and fascinating book filled with insight and wit, which will make you think twice and cheer up.” — Steven PinkerIn a bold and provocative interpretation of economic history, Matt Ridley, the New York Times-bestselling author of Genome and The Red Queen, makes the case for an economics of hope, arguing that the benefits of commerce, technology, innovation, and change—what Ridley calls ... Leer más

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  • Unbound

    How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink

    de Richard L. Currier ...
    Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story.Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Nonzero

    The Logic of Human Destiny

    de Robert Wright ...
    In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and discerning where history will lead us next.In Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Wright asserts that, ever since the primordial ooze, life has followed a ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition

    A Declaration of Sustainability

    de Paul Hawken ...

    $12.49 USD

  • Here on Earth

    A Natural History of the Planet

    de Tim Flannery ...
    From the internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer, and conservationist comes an awe-inspiring account of earth's evolution.Beginning at the moment of creation with the Big Bang, Here on Earth explores the evolution of Earth from a galactic cloud of dust and gas to a planet with a metallic core and early signs of life within a billion years of being created. In a compelling narrative, Flannery ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The End of the Long Summer

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Lever of Riches

    Technological Creativity and Economic Progress

    de Joel Mokyr ...
    In a world of supercomputers, genetic engineering, and fiber optics, technological creativity is ever more the key to economic success. But why are some nations more creative than others, and why do some highly innovative societies--such as ancient China, or Britain in the industrial revolution--pass into stagnation? Beginning with a fascinating, concise history of technological progress, Mokyr ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Ecotechnic Future

    Envisioning a Post-Peak World

    de John Michael Greer ...
    How to survive and thrive in the post-industrial ageIn response to the coming impact of peak oil, John Michael Greer helps us envision the transition from an industrial society to a sustainable ecotechnic world-not returning to the past, but creating a society that supports relatively advanced technology on a sustainable resource base.Fusing human ecology and history, this book challenges ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Infinite Resource

    The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet

    de Ramez Naam ...
    Climate change. Finite fossil fuels. Fresh water depletion. Rising commodity prices. Ocean acidification. Overpopulation. Deforestation. Feeding the world’s billions. We’re beset by an array of natural resource and environmental challenges. They pose a tremendous risk to human prosperity, to world peace, and to the planet itself. Yet, if we act, these problems are addressable. Throughout history ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Living in the Anthropocene

    Earth in the Age of Humans

    de Thomas E. Lovejoy, Edward O. Wilson ...
    Explores the causes and implications of the Anthropocene, or Age of Humans, from multiple points of view including anthropological, scientific, social, artistic, and economic.Although we arrived only recently in Earth's timeline, humans are driving major changes to the planet's ecosystems. Even now, the basic requirements for human life--air, water, shelter, food, nature, and culture--are rapidly ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD