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Happy Apocalypse

Author : Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839765526
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Happy Apocalypse written by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How risk, disasters and pollution were managed and made acceptable during the Industrial Revolution Being environmentally conscious is not nearly as modern as we imagine. As a mode of thinking it goes back hundreds of years. Yet we typically imagine ourselves among the first to grasp the impact humanity has on the environment. Hence there is a fashion for green confessions and mea culpas. But the notion of a contemporary ecological awakening leads to political impasse. It erases a long history of environmental destruction. Furthermore, by focusing on our present virtues, it overlooks the struggles from which our perspective arose. In response, Happy Apocalypse plunges us into the heart of controversies that emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries around factories, machines, vaccines and railways. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz demonstrates how risk was conceived, managed, distributed and erased to facilitate industrialization. He explores how clinical expertise around 1800 allowed vaccination to be presented as completely benign, how the polluter-pays principle emerged in the nineteenth century to legitimize the chemical industry, how safety norms were invented to secure industrial capital and how criticisms and objections were silenced or overcome to establish technological modernity. Societies of the past did not inadvertently alter their environments on a massive scale. Nor did they disregard the consequences of their decisions. They seriously considered them, sometimes with dread. The history recounted in this book is not one of a sudden awakening but a process of modernising environmental disinhibition.

Happy Cruelty Day!

Author : Bob Powers
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312359522
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Happy Cruelty Day! written by Bob Powers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning on January 1, the book features 365 new holidays, each accompanied by a short story explaining the day you woke up in and how to celebrate it.

Happy Apocalypse

Author : Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839765518
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Happy Apocalypse written by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being environmentally conscious is not nearly as modern as we imagine. As a mode of thinking it goes back hundreds of years. Yet we typically imagine ourselves among the first to grasp the impact humanity has on the environment. Hence there is a fashion for green confessions and mea culpas. But the notion of a contemporary ecological awakening leads to political impasse. It erases a long history of environmental destruction. Furthermore, by focusing on our present virtues, it overlooks the struggles from which our perspective arose. In response, Happy Apocalypse plunges us into the heart of controversies that emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries around factories, machines, vaccines and railways. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz demonstrates how risk was conceived, managed, distributed and erased to facilitate industrialization. He explores how clinical expertise around 1800 allowed vaccination to be presented as completely benign, how the polluter-pays principle emerged in the nineteenth century to legitimize the chemical industry, how safety norms were invented to secure industrial capital and how criticisms and objections were silenced or overcome to establish technological modernity. Societies of the past did not inadvertently alter their environments on a massive scale. Nor did they disregard the consequences of their decisions. They seriously considered them, sometimes with dread. The history recounted in this book is not one of a sudden awakening but a process of modernising environmental disinhibition.

A Happy Bureaucracy

Author : M.P. Fitzgerald
Publisher : M.P. Fitzgerald
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Happy Bureaucracy written by M.P. Fitzgerald and published by M.P. Fitzgerald. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nukes ended most of society. Now all that’s left is taxes. No big deal or anything. Safe and sound inside a government bunker, Arthur is proud to be just another drone. But for an ambitious man (and excellent typist) such as Arthur, a promotion to supervisor is just around the corner. But his world is flipped when the brass makes him a census-taker instead. His task: to head out into the irradiated streets armed with paperwork and red tape. Assigned to him is a drug-addicted bodyguard, Rabia Duke, who could care less if they survive. The wastes bring much to fear. But even above radiation, roving gangs, and starvation, what the world should fear the most remains bureaucracy. A happy bureaucracy. Brazil by way of Mad Max, M.P. Fitzgerald’s A Happy Bureaucracy is a bleak and hilarious look at the wheels of a system that keep turning even when nothing else is left.Get your copy today!

My Happy Apocalypse

Author : Jen Town
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book My Happy Apocalypse written by Jen Town and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: My Happy Apocalypse is a collection of poems.

Happy Doomsday

Author : David Sosnowski
Publisher : 47north
ISBN 13 : 9781503901292
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Happy Doomsday written by David Sosnowski and published by 47north. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the end of the world. One minute, people are going about their lives, and the next--not. In the wake of the inexplicable purge, only a handful of young misfits remains.

Apocalypse Daddy

Author : Mark Fielding
Publisher : Mark Fielding
ISBN 13 : 1399944193
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse Daddy written by Mark Fielding and published by Mark Fielding. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enough already! Who ripped your fun out of fatherhood? When did parenting become a war of attrition? Didn't you get the memo? Being a dad is the best damn thing that will ever happen to you. It's the story of a lifetime. It's your own personal 'Once Upon a Time.' You're the director. The screenwriter. You write the first act, the second act, the third act. Do you want a happy beginning, middle and end? Then write one. But you're going to have to work for it. Push yourself beyond what you believe possible. Invest in your daughter. Invest in your son. Invest in yourself. When your kids' time comes - and if Epictetus has taught us anything, their time will come - when they grow up, no matter what, will they know you tried your best? Will you have kept those promises you made at 3 a.m. in the dark on a chill Tuesday morning in April as you sang lullabies into the delicate ear of that sleeping fragile lump of life you call your daughter? I'm like you. I'm a father, I'm a parent. I want what's best for my kids. And I'll go to the end of the world to make that a reality. "Because It's not the end of your world, but what if it was?" The Apocalypse Daddy isn't your traditional guide to fatherhood. You'll find zero nappy reviews. You won't read about car seats and bottle feeding and how to manage your sleep. You won't get a breakdown of the latest gadgets or the top 5 fatherhood mis-haps. They'll be nothing about pregnancy or which pushchair to buy. I don't care what's on your breakfast menu. You'll get something much better than that. Something much more actionable and powerful. You'll get a reminder that the best stories are written in childhood. You'll get a story about Quentin Tarantino and Reservoir Dogs and Stoicism and the ancient courts and emperors and Seneca and Diogenes and Epictetus and Aurelius. You'll learn about the power of running circles in your backyard and playing in grass with your children. You'll read about the magic of sleep deprivation and dreams; of running and jumping and playing; of holidays and the never-ending chaos that always ends too soon. Part love letter to his children, part alternative parenting guide, part stoic meditation, part psychotic breakdown, Apocalypse Daddy is the story of a father and his daughter and how one Spring can last a lifetime. Joining Apocalypse Daddy is a cast of cultural icons, scientists, musicians, dead kings and Schrödinger's cat. Can Buddha, Seneca, Epictetus, Bob Dylan, Diogenes, Richard Nixon, Peter Rabbit, Alfred Hitchcock, Jimi Hendrix and Hunter S Thompson help Apocalypse Daddy overcome the odds and bring education home? Is there enough time for Alice and Luca to teach Apocalypse Daddy about the meaning of life and what being a parent is really about? Undistracted. In the moment.

A Field Guide to the Apocalypse

Author : Athena Aktipis
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1523527234
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to the Apocalypse written by Athena Aktipis and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common sense field guide to understanding, surviving, and thriving in our time of complex chaos and crises. Is this finally it? The end times?Because from COVID-19 to climate catastrophe to the looming AI revolution—not to mention the ever-growing background hum of rage, fear, and anxiety—it’s starting to feel like the party we call civilization is just about over. The good news? It’s always felt that way. Drawing on evolutionary psychology, history, brain science, game theory, and more, cooperation theorist (and, coincidentally, zombie expert) Athena Aktipis reassuringly explains how we, as a species, are hardwired to survive big existential crises. And how we can do so again by leveraging our innate abilities to communicate and cooperate. Pack a ukulele in your prep kit. Practice your risk-management skills. Enlist your crew into a survival team. And embrace the apocalypse. You might just enjoy it. Plus, it will help us build a better and more resilient future for all humankind.

Apocalyptic Transformation

Author : Elizabeth K. Rosen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1461632935
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Apocalyptic Transformation written by Elizabeth K. Rosen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apocalyptic Transformation explores how one the oldest sense-making paradigms, the apocalyptic myth, is altered when postmodern authors and filmmakers adopt it. It examines how postmodern writers adapt a fundamentally religious story for a secular audience and it proposes that even as these writers use the myth in traditional ways, they simultaneously undermine and criticize the grand narrative of apocalypse itself.

Little Apocalypse

Author : Katherine Sparrow
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062849786
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Little Apocalypse written by Katherine Sparrow and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters aren’t real. Everyone knows that. Full of creepy-cool atmosphere and monstrous magic, this gripping middle grade debut will sink its claws into fans of supernatural adventures like Holly Black’s Doll Bones and Ellen Oh’s Spirit Hunters. When a sudden earthquake strands Celia’s parents out of town, she finds herself on her own in a shaken city. She tries to reach out to other kids around her apartment building. Some of them, like the sad boy named Demetri, seem wary of letting her too close. The others call themselves Hunters. They claim the earthquake was caused by monsters only kids can see. And they think Celia is destined to save the city. Celia doesn’t feel destined to save anything—but for the first time, she feels like maybe she’s seeing things as they really are….

The Somnambulist Footprints

Author : Eric W. Bragg
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435713451
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book The Somnambulist Footprints written by Eric W. Bragg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. The SOMNAMBULIST FOOTPRINTS is the result of a collective project in which several contemporary surrealists and fellow travelers wrote short stories according to their own interests and imperatives, based on their common desire to subvert the very foundations of conventional reality, both on the written page and -- more importantly -- beyond it, in the open space of consciousness. Contributing authors: Mariela Arzadun, J. Karl Bogartte, Daniel Boyer, Eric W. Bragg, Mattias Forshage, Parry Harnden, Dale Michael Houstman, Philip Kane, Merl, Ribitch, Matthew Rounsville, Shibek, Andrew Torch, and Xtian. With illustrations in black and white. Edited and introduced by Eric W. Bragg.

Fairytale Apocalypse

Author : Jacqueline Patricks
Publisher : Crazy Bird Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fairytale Apocalypse written by Jacqueline Patricks and published by Crazy Bird Publishing. This book was released on with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two worlds bound by magic... Three people joined by destiny... Lord Kagan Donmall rules the Verge, the border that protects the magical Fae Inlands from the mundane mortal world. Recently, the Verge has been failing and he suspects the source of magic is fading. His prayers to Danu have gone unanswered, until now. The young mortal, Lauren Montgomery, hears the message of Danu and eagerly agrees to be the Lady of the Verge, for she desires more than a mundane life. But Lauren’s twin sister, Tessa-ever her sister’s protector, challenges the decision. The Verge falls, and the Fae and mortal worlds suffer a double apocalypse. Now Kagan, Lauren, and Tessa must survive in this new, hostile world and discover a way to repair that which has been destroyed while navigating the bonds of duty, love, and vengeance.

The Age of Low Tech

Author : Bihouix, Philippe
Publisher : Bristol University Press
ISBN 13 : 1529213266
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Low Tech written by Bihouix, Philippe and published by Bristol University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People often believe that we can overcome the profound environmental and climate crises we face by smart systems, green innovations and more recycling. However, the quest for complex technological solutions, which rely on increasingly exotic and scarce materials, makes this unlikely. A best-seller in France, this English language edition introduces readers to an alternative perspective on how we should be marshalling our resources to preserve the planet and secure our future. Bihouix skilfully goes against the grain to argue that ‘high’ technology will not solve global problems and envisages a different approach to build a more resilient and sustainable society.

Eco-Concepts

Author : Cenk Tan
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666923494
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Eco-Concepts written by Cenk Tan and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eco-Concepts: Critical Reflections in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thought offers an intellectual journey through the ever-evolving landscapes of environmental discourse. This thought-provoking volume brings together contributors from international scholarship to scrutinize and illuminate the contemporary trends reshaping our understanding of the natural environment. From the intricate interplay of rising ecocritical theories like restoration and empirical ecocriticism to the nuanced shifts in the reimagining of ecological concepts, this book unravels the complexities of our relationship with the natural sphere. This scholarly collection serves as a compass, guiding readers through the uncharted territories of environmental scholarship or revisiting existing study through fresh critical perspectives. Eco-Concepts strives to become an essential source of reference for academics, students, and individuals seeking an in-depth exploration of the innovative notions influencing the trajectory of discussions on ecology.

The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Politics and Theory

Author : Joel Jay Kassiola
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031143469
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Environmental Politics and Theory written by Joel Jay Kassiola and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook aims to provide a unique and convenient one-volume reference work, exhibiting the latest interdisciplinary explorations in this urgently burgeoning field of intellectual and practical importance. Due to its immense range and diversity, environmental politics and theory necessarily encompasses: empirical, normative, policy, political, organizational, and activist discussions unfolding across many disciplines. It is a challenge for its practitioners, let alone newcomers, to keep informed about the ongoing developments in this fast-changing area of study and to comprehend all of their implications. Through the planned volume’s extensive scope of contributions emphasizing environmental policy issues, normative prescriptions, and implementation strategies, the next generation of thinkers and activists will have very useful profiles of the theories, concepts, organizations, and movements central to environmental politics and theory. It is the editors’ aspiration that this volume will become a go-to resource on the myriad perspectives relevant to studying and improving the environment for advanced researchers as well as an introduction to new students seeking to understand the basic foundations and recommended resolutions to many of our environmental challenges. Environmental politics is more than theory alone, so the Handbook also considers theory-action connections by highlighting the past and current: thinkers, activists, social organizations, and movements that have worked to guide contemporary societies toward a more environmentally sustainable and just global order. Chapter “Eco-Anxiety and the Responses of Ecological Citizenship and Mindfulness” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

The How of Happy

Author : Ariane Sherine
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472143892
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The How of Happy written by Ariane Sherine and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happiness: as elusive as a working inkjet printer, and as slippery as an eel covered in baby oil. When we chase happiness, it runs away like a cat when you're trying to give it a bath, but the world of pop psychology is filled with competing advice that either claims it can help you catch it or warns you not to seek it out at all. Comedian Ariane Sherine is determined to help us find the true path to happiness, and public health expert David Conrad has the key: 50 well-selected research studies that show you exactly what to do to find happiness in your relationships, your friendships, your finances, your sex life and your career. Using wide-ranging evidence from around the world, Conrad and Sherine show us the true science behind what makes people happy and outline the simple, practical steps we can take to attain this too. This book has all the facts, stats and entertainment you could ever need to live a blissfully content life. And celebrities weigh in with their own versions of happiness too, so you'll find contributions from Derren Brown, Stewart Lee, Jeremy Vine, Rosie Holt, Femi Oluwole, Robin Ince, Sanjeev Kohli, Bec Hill, Arthur Smith and many more.

One Holy and Happy Society

Author : Gerald R. McDermott
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271028958
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book One Holy and Happy Society written by Gerald R. McDermott and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Edwards (1703&–58) was arguably this country's greatest theologian and its finest philosopher before the nineteenth century. His school if disciples (the &"New Divinity&") exerted enormous influence on the religious and political cultures of late colonial and early republican America. Hence any study of religion and politics in early America must take account of this theologian and his legacy. Yet historians still regard Edward's social theory as either nonexistent or underdeveloped. Gerald McDermott demonstrates, to the contrary, that Edwards was very interested in the social and political affairs of his day, and commented upon them at length in his unpublished sermons and private notebooks. McDermott shows that Edwards thought deeply about New England's status under God, America's role in the millennium, the nature and usefulness of patriotism, the duties of a good magistrate, and what it means to be a good citizen. In fact, his sociopolitical theory was at least as fully developed as that of his better-known contemporaries and more progressive in its attitude toward citizens' rights. Using unpublished manuscripts that have previously been largely ignored, McDermott also convincingly challenges generations of scholarly opinion about Edwards. The Edwards who emerges from this nook is both less provincial and more this-worldly than the persona he is commonly given.