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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.

Mammoth Books presents The Books

Author : Kage Baker
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472104714
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Mammoth Books presents The Books written by Kage Baker and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time beyond the apocalypse, when the remnants of society are trying to restore life to the way it once was, three young circus children go exploring in the town where the circus is camped. As they wander the empty streets they stumble upon a building they will never forget, in which floor after floor is crammed with an abundance of books. This library is heaven for these child survivors of the apocalypse, but they may not be the only ones who feel this way.

Mammoth Books presents Sleepover

Author : Alastair Reynolds
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472104692
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Mammoth Books presents Sleepover written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is not part of the Revelation Space series. It was developed from notes for an unwritten novel and maybe one day that novel will be completed, for we need to know the fate of the Earth. This story presents one of the more unusual apocalyptic ideas.

Mammoth Books presents And the Deep Blue Sea

Author : Elizabeth Bear
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 147210465X
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Mammoth Books presents And the Deep Blue Sea written by Elizabeth Bear and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscent of both "Damnation Alley" by Roger Zelazny and "The Postman" by David Brin, "And the Deep Blue Sea" offers almost three stories for the price of one.

Mammoth Books presents Fermi and Frost

Author : Frederik Pohl
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472104668
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Mammoth Books presents Fermi and Frost written by Frederik Pohl 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: Astronomer Harry Malibert is at an airport when nuclear war breaks out. Having been recognised by a fan, he is offered a seat on a plane to Iceland. Though most of Reykjavík has been destroyed by a thermonuclear weapon, the rest of the Iceland has been left untouched. Malibert and the remaining survivors must take advantage of Iceland's geology in preparing for the nuclear winter ahead of them, all the while calculating their chances of survival and contemplating the Fermi paradox: given the size and age of the universe, there ought to be many extraterrestrial civilisations, yet none has so far been found. Will Malibert and his group survive, and will they or their successors live to see proof of extraterrestrial civilisation?

Once and Future Giants

Author : Sharon Levy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199831548
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Once and Future Giants written by Sharon Levy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets. Then, just as the first humans reached the Americas, these Ice Age giants vanished forever. In Once and Future Giants, science writer Sharon Levy digs through the evidence surrounding Pleistocene large animal ("megafauna") extinction events worldwide, showing that understanding this history--and our part in it--is crucial for protecting the elephants, polar bears, and other great creatures at risk today. These surviving relatives of the Ice Age beasts now face the threat of another great die-off, as our species usurps the planet's last wild places while driving a warming trend more extreme than any in mammalian history. Deftly navigating competing theories and emerging evidence, Once and Future Giants examines the extent of human influence on megafauna extinctions past and present, and explores innovative conservation efforts around the globe. The key to modern-day conservation, Levy suggests, may lie fossilized right under our feet.

Life Writing in the Anthropocene

Author : Jessica White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000396835
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Life Writing in the Anthropocene written by Jessica White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Writing in the Anthropocene is a collection of timely and original approaches to the question of what constitutes a life, how that life is narrated, and what lives matter in autobiography studies in the Anthropocene. This era is characterised by the geoengineering impact of humans, which is shaping the planet’s biophysical systems through the combustion of fossil fuels, production of carbon, unprecedented population growth, and mass extinction. These developments threaten the rights of humans and other-than-humans to just and sustainable lives. In exploring ways of representing life in the Anthropocene, this work articulates innovative literary forms such as ecobiography (the representation of a human subject's entwinement with their environment), phytography (writing the lives of plants), and ethological poetics (the study of nonhuman poetic forms), providing scholars and writers with innovative tools to think and write about our strange new world. In particular, its recognition on plant life reminds us of how human lives are entwined with vegetal lives. The creative and critical essays in this book, shaped by a number of Antipodean authors, bear witness to a multitude of lives and deaths. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

Living in the Anthropocene

Author : W. John Kress
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588346021
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Living in the Anthropocene written by W. John Kress and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 transforming the planet as billions of people compete for resources. These changes have become so noticeable on a global scale that scientists believe we are living in a new chapter in Earth's story: the Anthropocene, or Age of Humans. Living in the Anthropocene: Earth in the Age of Humans is a vital look at this era. The book contextualizes the Anthropocene by presenting paleontological, historical, and contemporary views of various human effects on Earth. It discusses environmental and biological systems that have been changed and affected; the causes of the Anthropocene, such as agricultural spread, pollution, and urbanization; how societies are responding and adapting to these changes; how these changes have been represented in art, film, television, and literature; and finally, offers a look toward the future of our environment and our own lives.

Small and Tall Tales of Extinct Animals

Author : Hélène Rajcak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781877579066
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Small and Tall Tales of Extinct Animals written by Hélène Rajcak and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating journey around the world of extinct animals, combining cartoons with naturalist drawings, and mythology with science.

Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene

Author : Joanna Zylinska
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781013284915
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (849 download)

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Download or read book Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene written by Joanna Zylinska and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life typically becomes an object of reflection when it is seen to be under threat. In particular, humans have a tendency to engage in thinking about life (instead of just continuing to live it) when being confronted with the prospect of death: be it the death of individuals due to illness, accident or old age; the death of whole ethnic or national groups in wars and other forms of armed conflict; but also of whole populations, be they human or nonhuman. Even though Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene is first and foremost concerned with life-understood as both a biological and social phenomenon-it is the narrative about the impending death of the human population (i.e., about the extinction of the human species), that provides a context for its argument. "Anthropocene" names a geo-historical period in which humans are said to have become the biggest threat to life on earth. However, rather than as a scientific descriptor, the term serves here primarily as an ethical injunction to think critically about human and nonhuman agency in the universe. Restrained in tone yet ambitious in scope, the book takes some steps towards outlining a minimal ethics thought on a universal scale. The task of such minimal ethics is to consider how humans can assume responsibility for various occurrences in the universe, across different scales, and how they can respond to the tangled mesh of connections and relations unfolding in it. Its goal is not so much to tell us how to live but rather to allow us to rethink "life" and what we can do with it, in whatever time we have left. The book embraces a speculative mode of thinking that is more akin to the artist's method; it also includes a photographic project by the author. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene

Author : Peter Kraftl
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781538153642
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene written by Peter Kraftl and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents stories of children and young people's entanglements with times of ongoing crisis in the Anthropocene.

Imagining Extinction

Author : Ursula K. Heise
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022635816X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Extinction written by Ursula K. Heise and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim—the first one caused by humans. Heise argues that understanding these stories and symbols is indispensable for any effective advocacy on behalf of endangered species. More than that, she shows how biodiversity conservation, even and especially in its scientific and legal dimensions, is shaped by cultural assumptions about what is valuable in nature and what is not.

Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene

Author : Dominick A. DellaSala
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786846624
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (466 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene written by Dominick A. DellaSala and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene presents a currency-based, global synthesis cataloguing the impact of humanity's global ecological footprint. Covering a multitude of aspects related to Climate Change, Biodiversity, Contaminants, Geological, Energy and Ethics, leading scientists provide foundational essays that enable researchers to define and scrutinize information, ideas, relationships, meanings and ideas within the Anthropocene concept.

The Shock of the Anthropocene

Author : Christophe Bonneuil
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784780812
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Shock of the Anthropocene written by Christophe Bonneuil and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene” The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years. How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a “human species” that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent “environmental awareness,” about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history, The Shock of the Anthropocene dissects a new theoretical buzzword and explores paths for living and acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch.

Anthropocene

Author : Edward Burtynsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783958294899
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Anthropocene written by Edward Burtynsky and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropocene is the newest book by Edward Burtynsky to document human destruction of the earth on a geological scale. In photos as beautiful as they are disconcerting, Burtynsky explores issues such as extinction (large-scale burning of elephant tusks to disrupt illegal trade and the black market, the plight of the last white rhino), technofossils (Nigerian landfi ll sites entirely of plastic, massive concrete tetrapods to protect Chinese coastline from erosion), and terraforming (mines and industrial agriculture). Conta ining specially commissioned poems by Margaret Atwood published here for the fi rst time, a statement by Burtynsky and a range of essays, Anthropocene presents compelling artistic and scientifi c responses to these urgent topics. The book is one part of the larger "Anthropocene" project, a multi-disciplinary body of work with fi lmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier which includes a major traveling exhibition, documentary fi lm and interactive website. Its starting point is the research of the Anthropocene Working Group, an international body of scientists advocating to change the name of our present geological epoch, Holocene, to Anthropocene--the period where human activity dominates climate and environmental change. Including images of the video components and augmented reality experiences from the exhibition, the book, like the overall project, combines traditional and new lens-based media in an innovative and dynamic expression of humanity's profound and lasting changes on the planet.

Ocean Worlds

Author : J. A. Zalasiewicz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199672881
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Ocean Worlds written by J. A. Zalasiewicz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, geologists Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams consider the deep history of oceans, how and when they may have formed on the young Earth - topics of intense current research - how they became salty, and how they evolved through Earth history.

Welcome to the Anthropocene

Author : Nina Möllers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783940396495
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Welcome to the Anthropocene written by Nina Möllers and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The catalog accompanying the exhibition explores the concept of the Anthropocene. It looks at the complexity of human influence on the Earth and how this is reflected in urban development, mobility, energy, climate, food, nature, and global justice. In the essay section, contribution by distinguished scholars discuss the history of the concept of the Anthropocene, its characteristics and consequences, and life in the Anthropocene both today and in the future, as well as the importance of the idea for education, research, and museums. Artistic and literary contributions offer new ways of looking at the changing relationship between humans and nature. Finally,a "making of" section explains the design choices and guiding principles behind the exhibition.