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Fevered Planet

Author : John Vidal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526632195
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Fevered Planet written by John Vidal and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and urgent investigation from John Vidal, Environment Editor of the Guardian for nearly thirty years, into how the destruction of nature is releasing disease into our societies 'Urgent, fascinating and essential' GEORGE MONBIOT 'A searing, vital work' BETTANY HUGHES Covid-19, mpox, bird flu, SARS, HIV, AIDS, Ebola; we are living in the Age of Pandemics – one that we have created. As the climate crisis reaches a fever pitch and ecological destruction continues unabated, we are just beginning to reckon with the effects of environmental collapse on our global health. Fevered Planet exposes how the way we farm, what we eat, the places we travel to and the scientific experiments we conduct create the perfect conditions for deadly new diseases to emerge and spread faster and further than ever. Drawing on the latest scientific research and decades of reporting from more than 100 countries, former Guardian environment editor John Vidal takes us into deep, disappearing forests in Gabon and the Congo, valleys scorched by wildfire near Lake Tahoe and our densest, polluted cities to show how closely human, animal and plant diseases are now intertwined with planetary destruction. He calls for an urgent transformation in our relationship with the natural world, and expertly outlines how to make that change possible.

Fevered

Author : Linda Marsa
Publisher : Rodale
ISBN 13 : 160529201X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Fevered written by Linda Marsa and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of the impact of global warming on human health cites spiraling rates of disease and heatstroke-related deaths and outlines a blueprint for protecting oneself from environment-related health challenges.

More Than Hot

Author : Christopher Hamlin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421415038
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book More Than Hot written by Christopher Hamlin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A conceptual and cultural history of fever, a universally experienced and sometimes feared symptom. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Christopher Hamlin’s magisterial work engages a common experience—fever—in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than Hot is a history of the world through the lens of fever. The book deals with the expression of fever, with the efforts of medical scientists to classify it, and with fever’s changing social, cultural, and political significance. Long before there were thermometers to measure it, people recognized fever as a dangerous, if transitory, state of being. It was the most familiar form of alienation from the normal self, a concern to communities and states as well as to patients, families, and healers. The earliest medical writers struggled for a conceptual vocabulary to explain fever. During the Enlightenment, the idea of fever became a means to acknowledge the biological experiences that united humans. A century later, in the age of imperialism, it would become a key element of conquest, both an important way of differentiating places and races, and of imposing global expectations of health. Ultimately the concept would split: "fevers" were dangerous and often exotic epidemic diseases, while “fever” remained a curious physiological state, certainly distressing but usually benign. By the end of the twentieth century, that divergence divided the world between a global South profoundly affected by fevers—chiefly malaria—and a North where fever, now merely a symptom, was so medically trivial as to be transformed into a familiar motif of popular culture. A senior historian of science and medicine, Hamlin shares stories from individuals—some eminent, many forgotten—who exemplify aspects of fever: reflections of the fevered, for whom fevers, and especially the vivid hallucinations of delirium, were sometimes transformative; of those who cared for them (nurses and, often, mothers); and of those who sought to explain deadly epidemic outbreaks. Significant also are the arguments of the reformers, for whom fever stood as a proxy for manifold forms of injustice. Broad in scope and sweep, Hamlin’s study is a reflection of how the meanings of diseases continue to shift, affecting not only the identities we create but often also our ability to survive.

The Business of Sustainability

Author : Scott G. McNall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313384959
Total Pages : 1153 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Business of Sustainability written by Scott G. McNall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume set is a landmark comprehensive overview of the business of sustainability, providing 56 separate chapters from leaders in business, non-profit organizations, and from within the academic and policy world. In today's business environment, "garbage" isn't simply worthless refuse to be disposed of anymore; it often represents a material with monetary value. The human population is using up about 30 percent more natural resources in one year than the earth can regenerate. Because businesses constitute half of the world's largest economies, there can be no sustainability without sustainable businesses. The Business of Sustainability: Trends, Policies, Practices, and Stories of Success is a foundation set that effectively captures and articulates the why, what, who, and how of sustainability and business. Volume I covers the scientific, economic, and social underpinnings of sustainability and identifies the challenges facing business leaders. Volume II explores the global network of designers, producers, suppliers, distributors, and consumers that must be addressed as a unit from a cradle-to-cradle, life-cycle perspective. Volume III presents examples of success across many industries, demonstrating that sustainability is indeed possible. Each volume analytically addresses the larger issues, such as the challenges of managing a business to the standards of sustainability, measuring progress or success, and creating—and maintaining—sustainable businesses. This monumental work provides a comprehensive treatment of sustainability in the world of businesses, exploring all of its dimensions: obstacles, metrics, opportunities, and pathways to success.

The Energy Glut

Author : Ian Roberts
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848138709
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book The Energy Glut written by Ian Roberts and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-wide, over a billion adults are overweight and 300 million are officially 'obese', more than 3,000 people die every day on the world's roads and global warming and war threaten our survival as a species. The Energy Glut tells the story of energy and how our abuse of fossil fuel energy links all of these public issues as manifestations of the same fundamental planetary malaise. This exciting new book argues that the pulse of fossil fuel energy released from the ground after the discovery of oil not only started the process of catastrophic climate change, but also propelled the average human weight distribution upwards. The author presents a frightening vision of humans besieged by a food industry that uses sophisticated marketing techniques to sell mountains of energy-dense food to those who are 'functionally paralysed', with fewer opportunities to move our bodies than ever before. We see why the accumulation of body fat is a political, not a personal, problem. This insightful new work offers and appraises for the reader a set of personal and political de-carbonising strategies, but to 'tread more lightly on our world' we first need to make sense of the systemic processes, and The Energy Glut takes expert first steps in this direction.

Mammoth Books presents Life in the Anthropocene

Author : Paul Di Filippo
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472104676
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Mammoth Books presents Life in the Anthropocene written by Paul Di Filippo and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indebted to Gaia Vince's New Scientist article 'Surviving in a Warmer World', Paul di Filippo's story depicts the life of Aurbindo Bandjalang in the climate change-ravaged planet of the Anthropocene Age. A member of the Reboot Civilisation, 'AB' is part of a new configuration of humanity, nine billion people crowded together in densely populated, high-rise areas on the quarter of the Earth's present-day land mass that remains above water. Di Filippo imagines a world in which the Earth's resources are pushed to their very limits and the human race, while dependent on the all-powerful Sun for its survival, is also subject to its devastating effect on Earth's climate.

Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency

Author : Andreas Malm
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839762160
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency written by Andreas Malm and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been unprecedented. Governments have spoken of being at war and find themselves forced to seek new powers in order to maintain social order and prevent the spread of the virus. This is often exercised with the notion that we will return to normal as soon as we can. What if that is not possible? Secondly, if the state can mobilize itself in the face of an invisible foe like this pandemic, it should also be able to confront visible dangers such as climate destruction with equal force. In Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency, leading environmental thinker, Andreas Malm demands that this war-footing state should be applied on a permanent basis to the ongoing climate front line. He offers proposals on how the climate movement should use this present emergency to make that case. There can be no excuse for inaction any longer.

Solving the Climate Crisis through Social Change

Author : Gar W. Lipow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Solving the Climate Crisis through Social Change written by Gar W. Lipow and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an accessible and easy-to-follow argument that the climate crisis is a side effect of inequality and injustice, and demonstrates how strategies such as large-scale social investment will prove far more effective in reducing greenhouse gas pollution than cap-and-trade or other forms of free-market environmentalism. Solving the Climate Crisis through Social Change: Public Investment in Social Prosperity to Cool a Fevered Planet offers a new approach to battling the climate crisis, arguing that the massive waste that caused the current environmental crisis resulted not only from fundamental structural flaws in markets but also from social inequality, lack of democracy, and a deeply flawed foreign policy. Rather than providing the typical doomsday perspective, it offers realistic optimism about the expanding climate crisis, highlighting the convergence between the necessary steps to save the planet and what needs to be done to improve the lives of Americans. The author's discussion of the United States's role in the climate crisis spans subjects as varied as the 17th-century forests of New England, the evolution of housework over 200 years, the American addiction to the automobile, the lettuce fields of California in the 1970s, and the Guano wars in 19th-century Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. This book will appeal to a wide range of readers, from the interested general public to students, academics, professionals, and other experts. The main section presents a clear and accessible survey of the economic, social, and political causes of the climate crisis, accompanied by potential solutions, while extensive appendixes offer in-depth and technical discussions.

Apocalypse Flame

Author : Johnny 99
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 145664646X
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse Flame written by Johnny 99 and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2024-03-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the Brink of Existence in the Embers of Tomorrow In a world dancing on the razor's edge between salvation and ruin, Apocalypse Flame: The Condemned World We Live In offers a piercing gaze into the tangled web of 21st-century calamities. Merging a richly provocative narrative with meticulously researched insights, this book exposes the filigree of failings within modern civilization. Commence your journey on the scorching cliffs of a planet in peril, charting the course through the climate crisis and man's indelible mark on Earth's delicate order. Watch as Chapter 1 paints a shocking tableau of our world's fever, sparking a tumultuous dialogue with your own conscience. The narrative delves through the glass and rebar of our societal ruins, dissecting the decay of morality and mesh of crime that mire our collective existence. Traverse the seedy underbelly of humanity's own doing and confront the specters haunting our culture's shaky foundations. Submit to the siren call of your digital distractions as Chapter 3 sketches a damning portrait of our technological overlords, questioning if we are truly masters of our devices or prisoners of an addictive mirage. This exploration will challenge your conceptions of freedom in our interconnected void. Feel the weight of gold and the allure of power in The Idolatry of Wealth, a critical examination of money's insidious influence on our lives and relationships. Ponder whether wealth truly dictates a person's worth and consider the often-untold stories of those trampled beneath ambition's relentless march. Witness the controversial convergence of spirituality and sacrilege, crime and capitalism, as well as affection and apathy through the pen of a sharp-eyed soothsayer. And as the narrative cascades toward its climactic close, discover prophetic insights into the second coming, leaving your heart pounding with questions of salvation, and the troubling yet hopeful paths we could thread toward redemption. With a comprehensive appendix of resources, Apocalypse Flame does more than just illustrate the maelstrom. It offers a lantern in the chaos, guiding readers towards informed action and deeper understanding, lighting the first spark towards a future that could still be bright, should we choose to seize it. A manifesto for the modern age, a reflection of our greatest anxieties, and a beacon of potential hope--Apocalypse Flame is not merely a book but a critical companion for anyone daring to navigate the condemned--and potentially redeemable--world we live in.

Inisfail

Author : Aubrey De Vere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Inisfail written by Aubrey De Vere and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Green Energy Economies

Author : John Byrne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351516671
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Green Energy Economies written by John Byrne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green Energy Economies offers insight into the major drivers that are shaping a new future powered by clean energy sources. Assembling cutting-edge researchers as contributors, the book provides a comprehensive account of the shift underway, examining in detail the complexities and intricacies involved with such a transition. The book first details the promises and problems of a green energy transition. Next, it explores the economic benefits that a comprehensive strategy toward a green energy economy might create. Then it investigates how communities will be affected and explores the social, cultural, and other changes that are likely to result. Finally, it explores the shift toward new technologies in-depth. Green Energy Economies concludes with policy options that support a transition to a better energy, environmental, and economic future. The contributors argue that a green energy economy offers great promise, but its realization will require making hard choices, and soon. They argue for investments in renewable energy and economic systems that can deliver a sustainable and equitable future. This book makes a forceful case for a green future.

Backpacker

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backpacker written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.

WIKIWORLD and Other Stories

Author : Paul Di Filippo
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book WIKIWORLD and Other Stories written by Paul Di Filippo and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Di Filippo is a joyful writer…insightful…skillful.” —Washington Post This collection presents PAUL DI FILIPPO at his best and most creative—an astonishing, multiverse-spanning selection of 19 of his very best tales, from humorous to serious, from otherworldly to in-your-backyard (and in-your-face)! Here are: Providence Argus Blinked Life in the Anthropocene Bombs Away! Cockroach Love Waves and Smart Magma To See Infinity Bare The End of the Great Continuity Fjaerland The HPL Commonplace Book Professor Fluvius’s Palace of Many Waters Yes We Have No Bananas A Partial and Conjectural History of Dr. Mueller’s Panoptical Cartoon Engine The New Cyberiad iCity Return to the 20th Century Murder in Geektopia The Omniplus Ultra! Wikiworld Introduction by Rudy Rucker

This Changes Everything

Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451697384
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book This Changes Everything written by Naomi Klein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With strong first-hand reporting and an original, provocative thesis, Naomi Klein returns with this book on how the climate crisis must spur transformational political change

A Healthy Society, Updated and Expanded Edition

Author : Ryan Meili
Publisher : Purich Books
ISBN 13 : 0774880287
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book A Healthy Society, Updated and Expanded Edition written by Ryan Meili and published by Purich Books. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Healthy Society, Updated and Expanded Edition, is one doctor’s vision for a new approach to politics – and a new approach to building a healthier world. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician, Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes and ignores more fundamental conditions that lead to poor health. The social determinants of health – income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports – have far more impact than the actions of health care providers. This updated edition describes the positive steps that have been taken since the publication of the first edition. It includes expanded discussions of basic income, poverty reduction strategies, innovative housing polices, carbon pricing, and the role of health professionals in working for health equity, as well as new chapters on poverty, food security, and climate change. This book breaks important ground, showing us how a focus on health can change Canadian politics for the better.

Inisfail; a Lyrical Chronicle of Ireland

Author : Aubrey Thomas De Vere (formerly Hunt.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inisfail; a Lyrical Chronicle of Ireland written by Aubrey Thomas De Vere (formerly Hunt.) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cy Coleman Anthology (Songbook)

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1458452816
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book Cy Coleman Anthology (Songbook) written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (P/V/G Composer Collection). With 26 musical shows and hundreds of songs to his credit, Cy Coleman is the gold standard of musical theatre perfection. This anthology features 50 of his greatest tunes, including: Big Spender * I Love My Wife * If My Friends Could See Me Now * Never Met a Man I Didn't Like * The Rhythm of Life * Witchcraft * You Can Always Count on Me * and more, plus a foreword by Larry Gelbart.