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  • Engaging with the Past and Present

    The Relationship between Past and Present across the Disciplines

    Edición de Paul M. Dover ...
    Series series Engaging with...
    This collection brings together fifteen essays from practitioners of a variety of disciplines that concern themselves with the past, not only historians, but scholars from other branches of the humanities and social sciences (including theology, art history, public history, and archival science) and natural sciences (including geology, paleontology, astronomy, and paleoanthropology).What is the ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Empathic Civilization

    The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

    de Jeremy Rifkin ...
    "One of the leading big-picture thinkers of our day" (Utne Reader) delivers his boldest work in this erudite, tough-minded, and far-reaching manifesto.Never has the world seemed so completely united-in the form of communication, commerce, and culture-and so savagely torn apart-in the form of war, financial meltdown, global warming, and even the migration of diseases.No matter how much we put our ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Fire in the Stone

    Prehistoric Fiction from Charles Darwin to Jean M. Auel

    de Nicholas Ruddick ...
    Series series Early Classics of Science Fiction
    The genre of prehistoric fiction contains a surprisingly large and diverse group of fictional works by American, British, and French writers from the late nineteenth century to the present that describe prehistoric humans. Nicholas Ruddick explains why prehistoric fiction could not come into being until after the acceptance of Charles Darwin's theories, and argues that many early prehistoric ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Facing Gaia

    Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime

    de Bruno Latour ...
    Traducido por Catherine Porter ...
    The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the material world.The situation is even more unstable today, now that we have entered an ecological mutation of unprecedented scale. ... Leer más

    $22.00 USD

  • Insectopedia

    de Hugh Raffles ...
    A New York Times Notable BookA stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world.For as long as humans have existed, insects have been our constant companions. Yet we hardly know them, not even the ones we’re closest to: those that eat our food, share our ... Leer más

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  • Human Accomplishment

    The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950

    de Charles Murray ...
    "Readers . . . are sure to enjoy [the] arguments and elegant presentation" of this "engaging" cultural survey by the controversial co-author of The Bell Curve ( Kirkus Reviews)."At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did them. ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Culture of Growth

    The Origins of the Modern Economy

    de Joel Mokyr ...
    From Nobel Prize–winning economist Joel Mokyr, a revealing look at why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place ... Leer más

    $20.19 USD

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  • Beyond Measure

    The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

    de James Vincent ...
    **Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science & TechnologyNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Economist"Quietly thrilling.…The story of humans measuring things is no less than the story of civilization." —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Book ReviewA vibrant account of how measurement has invisibly shaped our world, from ancient civilizations to the modern day.* ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

    Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Edición de Jason W. Moore ...
    Series series Kairos
    The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity’s relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition?Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • An Urchin in the Storm

    de Stephen Jay Gould ...
    "What pleasure to see the dishonest, the inept, and the misguided deftly given their due, while praise is lavished on the deserving—for reasons well and truly stated."—Kirkus ReviewsRanging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould expands on geology, biological determinism, "cardboard Darwinism," and evolutionary theory in this sparkling collection ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Green Halo

    A Bird's-Eye View of Ecological Ethics

    de Erazim Kohak ...
    The Green Halo is a highly readable introduction to the vast field of contemporary ecological thought. It is a basic education in environmental philosophy and a welcome propadeutic for understanding the most crucial problem facing humankind in the coming century: How can humans live on this earth so that they do not destroy the preconditions for their own existence? ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • A People's History of Science

    Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks

    de Clifford D Conner ...
    We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the universe; how Newton divined gravity from the falling apple; how Einstein unlocked the mysteries of time and space with a simple equation. This history is made up of long periods of ignorance and confusion, punctuated once an age by a ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD