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At Home on an Unruly Planet

Author : Madeline Ostrander
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 125062052X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book At Home on an Unruly Planet written by Madeline Ostrander and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Kirkus Reviews' 100 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 A gold Nautilus Book Award winner, Ecology & Environment From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis How do we find a sense of home and rootedness in a time of unprecedented upheaval? What happens when the seasons and rhythms in which we have built our lives go off-kilter? Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live. In At Home on an Unruly Planet, science journalist Madeline Ostrander reflects on this crisis not as an abstract scientific or political problem but as a palpable force that is now affecting all of us at home. She offers vivid accounts of people fighting to protect places they love from increasingly dangerous circumstances. A firefighter works to rebuild her town after catastrophic western wildfires. A Florida preservationist strives to protect one of North America's most historic cities from rising seas. An urban farmer struggles to transform a California city plagued by fossil fuel disasters. An Alaskan community heads for higher ground as its land erodes. Ostrander pairs deeply reported stories of hard-won optimism with lyrical essays on the strengths we need in an era of crisis. The book is required reading for anyone who wants to make a home in the twenty-first century.

Living in an Unruly World

Author : Theodor H. Winkler
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643911769
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Living in an Unruly World written by Theodor H. Winkler and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his new book, Winkler looks at the transition from an US-led to a multipolar world. With a time horizon of 2100, he identifies the megatrends that will shape the century - demography, migration, climate change, the technological revolution -, looks at the leaders and strategies of the key players, notably the US, China, and Russia, and identifies the areas of potential conflict as well as the implications of the decay of the multilateral system and of the growing fragmentation of national politics. The author makes concrete proposals how to cope with the challenges we face. A must for everyone interested in politics.

An Unruly World?

Author : Andrew Herod
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134740573
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book An Unruly World? written by Andrew Herod and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Unruly World explores the diverse conundrums thrown up by seemingly unruly globalization. Examining how fast transnational capitalism is re-making the rules of the game, in a wide variety of different places, domains, and sectors, the authors focus on a wide range of issues: from analysis of 'soft capitalism', and the post-Cold War organizational drives of international trade unions, to the clamour of states to reinvent welfare policy, and the efforts of citizen groups to challenge trade and financial regimes. An Unruly World argues that we are not living in a world bereft of rules and rulers; the rules governing the global economy today are more strictly enforced by international organizations and rhetoric than ever before.

At Home on an Unruly Planet

Author : Madeline Ostrander
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1250871417
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book At Home on an Unruly Planet written by Madeline Ostrander and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis How do we find a sense of home and rootedness in a time of unprecedented upheaval? What happens when the seasons and rhythms in which we have built our lives go off-kilter? Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live. In At Home on an Unruly Planet, science journalist Madeline Ostrander reflects on this crisis not as an abstract scientific or political problem but as a palpable force that is now affecting all of us at home. She offers vivid accounts of people fighting to protect places they love from increasingly dangerous circumstances. A firefighter works to rebuild her town after catastrophic western wildfires. A Florida preservationist strives to protect one of North America's most historic cities from rising seas. An urban farmer struggles to transform a California city plagued by fossil fuel disasters. An Alaskan community heads for higher ground as its land erodes. Ostrander pairs deeply reported stories of hard-won optimism with lyrical essays on the strengths we need in an era of crisis. The book is required reading for anyone who wants to make a home in the twenty-first century.

Beyond Homelessness, 15th Anniversary Edition

Author : Steven Bouma-Prediger
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467466905
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Homelessness, 15th Anniversary Edition written by Steven Bouma-Prediger and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would the world look like if everyone had a home? The rise in homeless encampments. The destruction of our planet. The disconnection from place caused by capitalism and technology. Beyond the unavailability of housing, our culture is experiencing a devastating loss of home. In Beyond Homelessness, Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian Walsh explore the relationship between socioeconomic, ecological, and cultural homelessness. Bouma-Prediger and Walsh blend groundbreaking scholarship with stirring biblical meditations, while enriching their discussion with literature, music, and art. Offering practical solutions and a hope-filled vision of home, they show how to heal the deep dislocations in our society. In this fifteenth-anniversary edition, the authors return to their work with a new postscript, in which they discuss the evolution of their ideas and share true stories of home and community built anew. This revitalized classic is a must-read for any Christian committed to social justice—and anyone longing for home.

The Conceivable Future

Author : Meghan Elizabeth Kallman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538179709
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Conceivable Future written by Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This reassuring consideration of a deeply personal matter teams seamlessly with a reasoned, emphatic call to action." - Booklist, Starred Review • ABooklist Top 10 Book on the Environment & Sustainability 2024 Explore the ways in which the climate crisis is affecting our personal decisions about family planning, parenting, and political action. In The Conceivable Future, authors Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli explore the ways in which the climate crisis is affecting our personal decisions about family planning, parenting, and political action. This book offers fresh, timely answers to questions such as: How do I decide to have a baby when there's the threat of environmental collapse? How do I parent a child in the middle of the climate crisis? What can I actually do to help stop global warming? Drawing from their decade of work with the organization Conceivable Future, Kallman, a sociologist and Rhode Island State Senator, and Ferorelli, an activist and former Climate Bureau editor, offers both informed perspective and practical steps for taking meaningful action in combating the climate crisis, while also making smart, balanced decisions when it comes to starting and maintaining a family. First, The Conceivable Future explores what the real threats are to reproductive, gestational, and infant health (spoiler: it's inequality, heat, and fossil fueled pollution), and debunks the myths of personal carbon footprint, and the harmful legacy of population control. The authors examine the successes and impediments of women-led movements around the world and share what they've learned through ten years of organizing to bring attention to the reproductive crisis that is climate change. Finally, the book looks at what can be done about the climate crisis today. By taking these steps, we can both understand the crisis on its own terms, and stay rooted in the human scale, where our lives retain their full meaning. The Conceivable Future is a must-read for all who want to make a difference in the world--and secure a sustainable future for all our families.

The Glass Planet

Author : Reed
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book The Glass Planet written by Reed and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-03-10 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young autistic Gwydion and his archeologist grandfather are reading ancient stories together and they take us through time in earth's history to thousands of years ago with the book of Moses, the Exodus, and more. But some one or some THING is trying to kill them and stop them from translating the oldest stories. Stories of ancient Gods arriving here, touching off beautiful new civilizations only to be thwarted by the arrival of others from far off worlds. Twisted remains of an unknown king are found in an impossible silver Sarcophagus, and more Scrolls are discovered, stunning young Gwydion into becoming a speaker for the long dead by destroying an ancient demon and gaining his own guardian angel. The old God's have gone home vacating this planet mysteriously leaving empty husks of civilization and confused aboriginal populations all over the world searching to regain the knowledge of their ancient Gods. Gwydion tries to help and pays the highest price.

Neil Gaiman's Mr. Hero Complete Comics Vol. 1

Author : James Vance
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1629915610
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Neil Gaiman's Mr. Hero Complete Comics Vol. 1 written by James Vance and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mind of New York Times Best-selling author and Eisner Award-winning author Neil Gaiman, comes Mr. Hero! Created by the villainous Henry Phage (aka Teknophage) as a sleeper agent, steampunk robot Mr. Hero is the toast of the late 19th century carnival scene. But when an accident during a boxing match causes him to seriously harm a patron, he's boxed up and forgotten. Rediscovered 100 years later by a young street magician, Mr. Hero struggles to overcome his original programming and become the hero his new friend (and the world) needs. This new volume (the first of a two-volume set) will collect all of the classic Mr. Hero comics for the first time anywhere. Volume 2 of the series is planned for Winter 2017.

The Mysteries of the Relict Pyramid (Reality Benders Book #9): LitRPG Series

Author : Michael Atamanov
Publisher : Magic Dome Books
ISBN 13 : 8076197325
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book The Mysteries of the Relict Pyramid (Reality Benders Book #9): LitRPG Series written by Michael Atamanov and published by Magic Dome Books. This book was released on 2022-07-25 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gnat the Devourer is becoming a more prominent figure in grand space politics. Sure, he may not be totally independent yet, but he has enough leeway to be able to differentiate Earth's interests from those of its Geckho suzerains and act exclusively for the good of his own kind. Gnat must balance obligations to his almighty suzerains against a desire to advance humanity’s position in space, and his home planet’s search for ever more allies. Although Earth’s masters are not big fans of his independent ways, the great war has shifted the historic balance of forces, and the Geckho are no longer as powerful as they once were, leaving them with no choice but to abide the Kung of Earth’s antics. So, will Earth be able to take this chance and free itself from alien control completely? And if so, is it even a good idea? And that means one of the human leaders will have to back down.

A Glimpse of the Planet Zinn

Author : Abron S. Touré
Publisher : Abron Toure
ISBN 13 : 1932701435
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book A Glimpse of the Planet Zinn written by Abron S. Touré and published by Abron Toure. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Glimpse of the Planet Zinn is a science fiction fantasy loaded with symbolism and religious overtones. The story unfolds around the lives of three boys. They are heirs destined to inherit the legacy of a great society, where one of the ultimate gifts or achievements is eternal life. This benefaction is ever fleeting and obtained more as a result of predestination or accident rather than one's personal endeavors or abilities. The struggle is very complex. The participants are not even aware that the gift exists. In fact all who reach this height do so without conscious effort. However, the consolation to those who fall short is also quite rewarding. Theirs is the achievement of adulthood which brings with it the glorious rank of full participation as a member of the Zinndarian society.

The Guardians of Grimace

Author : Joseph Arbour
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460278674
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Guardians of Grimace written by Joseph Arbour and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Megan-Hilary is the youngest female astronaut to command a Star Traveller on a mission to explore the galaxy, and she is in for the adventure of a lifetime. Forced down on a planet that hadn't been detected from Earth, she encounters a fascinating race and soon becomes friends with the Gretchels. Grimli, Grenda, and their mentor Dr. Samuel A. Gretchel. On her return to Earth, Megan-Hilary reports to her commander on her finding about the Gretchel culture, customs and the Great Library, which is possibly one of the greatest treasures in the universe. In great fascination, she is sent back to learn more, where she becomes involved in the Gretchels struggles more than she could have imagined. Plagued by a changing climate and a nasty race of beings from the other side of their world, the Gretchels planet faces great danger. This struggle could destroy their world. Will they survive? Can Megan-Hilary help them? Could the Gretchel's ancient past help change the future of their planet? As their whole world is in the threat of ruin by weather and marauding Monstrels, their fate will be tested to the extreme...

Think Like a Rocket Scientist

Author : Ozan Varol
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0753553597
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Think Like a Rocket Scientist written by Ozan Varol and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New ways to think in unprecedented times. Named a "must read" by Susan Cain, "endlessly fascinating" by Daniel Pink, and "bursting with practical insights" by Adam Grant. In this accessible and practical book, Ozan Varol reveals nine simple strategies from rocket science that you can use to make your own giant leaps in work and life -- whether it's landing your dream job, accelerating your business, learning a new skill, or creating the next breakthrough product. Today, thinking like a rocket scientist is a necessity. We all encounter complex and unfamiliar problems in our lives. Those who can tackle these problems -- without clear guidelines and with the clock ticking -- enjoy an extraordinary advantage. Think Like a Rocket Scientist will inspire you to take your own moonshot and enable you to achieve lift-off.

Orbital Poetics

Author : Philip Leonard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350075108
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Orbital Poetics written by Philip Leonard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Nottingham Trent University. What do we mean when we talk of 'world' literature? What does a global, even a planetary view reveal to us about literature, culture and being? In Orbital Poetics Philip Leonard explores conceptions of the world through the history of writing, theory and culture from an orbital perspective. Starting with literary and theoretical writing on satellites, orbit and terrestrial ground from the ancient world to the 21st century, the book casts a revealing new light on what it means to consider literature and culture on a global scale. Along the way, Leonard draws on a wide range of thinkers, writers and texts: from Dante and Goethe to contemporary electronic literature; Haruki Murakami and Tom McCarthy by way of philosophers and theorists including Agamben, Derrida and Heidegger; as well as astronaut photography and popular culture texts, such as novels by Buzz Aldrin and Tess Gerritsen and Alfonso Cuarón's film Gravity.

Back in the Spaceship Again

Author : Karen Sands-O'Connor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031338830X
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Back in the Spaceship Again written by Karen Sands-O'Connor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-08-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much literature for children appears in the form of series, in which familiar characters appear in book after book. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, authors began to write science fiction series for children. These early series generally had plots that revolved around inventions developed by the protagonist. But it was the development and use of rocket and atomic science during World War II that paved the way for interesting and exciting new themes, conflicts, and plots. While much has been written about the early juvenile science fiction series, particularly the Tom Swift books, comparatively little has been written about children's science fiction series published since 1945. This book provides a broad overview of this previously neglected topic. The volume offers a critical look at the history, themes, characters, settings, and construction of post-1945 juvenile science fiction series, including the A.I. Gang, the Animorphs, Commander Toad, Danny Dunn, Dragonfall Five, the Magic School Bus, and Space Cat. The book begins with an introductory history of juvenile science fiction since 1945, with chapters then devoted to particular topics. Some of these topics include the role of aliens and animals, attitudes toward humor, the absence and presence of science, and the characterization of women. A special feature is an appendix listing the various series. In addition, the volume provides extensive bibliographical information.

EBOOK: Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge about Human Nature

Author : LARSEN
Publisher : McGraw Hill
ISBN 13 : 1526847884
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge about Human Nature written by LARSEN and published by McGraw Hill. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBOOK: Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge about Human Nature

Living with Siva

Author : Subramuniya (Master.)
Publisher : Himalayan Academy Publications
ISBN 13 : 0945497989
Total Pages : 967 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Living with Siva written by Subramuniya (Master.) and published by Himalayan Academy Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with Siva is the second in the series of The Master Course trilogy. The 365 daily lessons include spiritual rules "for the lion-hearted" on God, worship, marriage and family life, money, sex, child-rearing, nonviolence and tolerance, forgiveness, hospitality, karma, nature and more.

Sexual Generations

Author : Robin Roberts
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068102
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Generations written by Robin Roberts and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boldly going where no one has gone before, Robin Roberts forges intriguing links between feminist politics and theory and the second Star Trek series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. This lively discussion shows how science fiction's ability to make the familiar strange allows Star Trek to expose and comment on entrenched attitudes toward gender roles and feminist issues. By having aliens or sexually neutral beings enact female dominance or passivity, experience pregnancy or maternity, or suffer rape or abortion, Star Trek provides viewers with a new perspective on these experiences and an antidote to explicit and implicit cultural biases. Roberts maintains that the relevance of Star Trek: The Next Generation to feminist issues accounts as no other factor can for the program's huge following of female fans. The incisive and innovative readings in Sexual Generations provide food for thought about how the final frontier can clarify pressing questions of our own space and time.