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Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Environment Watch written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ocean Vuong
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525562044
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous written by Ocean Vuong and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times Bestseller • Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction “A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently universal…Not so much briefly gorgeous as permanently stunning.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one’s own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard. With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years. Named a Best Book of the Year by: GQ, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, TIME, Esquire, The Washington Post, Apple, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, The New York Public Library, Elle.com, The Guardian, The A.V. Club, NPR, Lithub, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue.com, The San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal Magazine and more!
Author : Lester Russell Brown
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393317534
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The World Watch Reader on Global Environmental Issues written by Lester Russell Brown and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of the best and most-requested articles from the Worldwatch Institute's award-winning magazine, "World Watch", the authors focus on such topics as energy and climate, the effects of water scarcity, the food prospect, oceans in distress, and consumerism and the future of the earth.
Author : Lawrence M. Krauss
Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1642938173
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)
Download or read book The Physics of Climate Change written by Lawrence M. Krauss and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency. Here you’ll find the facts, the processes, the physics of our complex and changing climate, but delivered with eloquence and urgency. Lawrence Krauss writes with a clarity that transcends mere politics. Prose and poetry were never better bedfellows.” —Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of Solar and Machines Like Me "The ideal book for understanding the science of global warming..at once elegant, rigorous, and timely." — Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Sixth Extinction “A brief, brilliant, and charming summary of what physicists know about climate change and how they learned it.” —Sheldon Glashow, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Metcalf Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Boston University “The distinguished scientist Lawrence Krauss turns his penetrating gaze on the most pressing existential threat facing our world: climate change. It is brimming with information lucidly analysed. Such hope as there is lies in science, and a physicist of Dr. Krauss’s imaginative versatility is unusually qualified to offer it.” —Richard Dawkins, author of The Blind Watchmaker and Science in the Soul “Lucid and gripping, this study of the most severe challenge humans have ever faced leads the reader from the basic physics of climate change to recognition of the damage that humans have already caused and on to the prospects that lie ahead if we do not change course soon.” —Noam Chomsky, Laureate Professor, University of Arizona, author of Internationalism or Extinction? “Lawrence Krauss tells the story of climate change with erudition, urgency, and passion. It is our great good luck that one of our most brilliant scientists is also such a gifted writer. This book will change the way we think about the future.” —Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of Good Boy and She’s Not There “Everything on climate change that I’ve seen is either dumbed down and bossy or written for other climate scientists. I’ve been looking for a book that can let me, a layperson, understand the science. This book does just what I was looking for. It is important.” —Penn Jillette, Magician, author of Presto! and God, No! “The renowned physicist Lawrence Krauss makes the science behind one of the most important issues of our time accessible to all.” —Richard C. J. Somerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego “Lawrence Krauss is a fine physicist, a talented writer, and a scientist deeply engaged with public affairs. His book deserves wide readership. The book’s eloquent exposition of the science and the threats should enlighten all readers and motivate them to an urgent concern about our planet’s future.” —Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, former president of the Royal Society, author of On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
Author : Rolf Halden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501361910
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Environment written by Rolf Halden and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What is the environment, this elusive object that impacts us so profoundly--our odds to be born; the way we look, feel, and function; and how long and comfortable we may live? The environment is not only everything we see around us but also, at a lesser scale, a hailstorm of molecules large and small that constantly penetrates our bodies, simultaneously nourishing and threatening our health. The concept of oneness with our surroundings urges a reckoning of what we are doing to 'the environment,' and consequently, what we are doing to ourselves. By taking us through this journey of questioning, Rolf Halden's Environment empowers readers with new knowledge and a heightened appreciation of how our daily lifestyle decisions are impacting the places we occupy, our health, and humanity's prospect of survival. With illustrations by Griffin Finke. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Author : Jessica J. Lee
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1646220005
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Two Trees Make a Forest written by Jessica J. Lee and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial past . . . makes breathtakingly clear the connection between nature and humanity, and offers a singular portrait of the complexities inherent to our ideas of identity, family, and love" (Refinery29). A chance discovery of letters written by her immigrant grandfather leads Jessica J. Lee to her ancestral homeland, Taiwan. There, she seeks his story while growing closer to the land he knew. Lee hikes mountains home to Formosan flamecrests, birds found nowhere else on earth, and swims in a lake of drowned cedars. She bikes flatlands where spoonbills alight by fish farms, and learns about a tree whose fruit can float in the ocean for years, awaiting landfall. Throughout, Lee unearths surprising parallels between the natural and human stories that have shaped her family and their beloved island. Joyously attentive to the natural world, Lee also turns a critical gaze upon colonialist explorers who mapped the land and named plants, relying on and often effacing the labor and knowledge of local communities. Two Trees Make a Forest is a genre–shattering book encompassing history, travel, nature, and memoir, an extraordinary narrative showing how geographical forces are interlaced with our family stories.
Author : James Higham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139915495
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Whale-watching written by James Higham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within little more than a generation, whale-watching has been subject to global industrial development. It has been portrayed by destinations and business operators, and advocated by environmental groups, as a sustainable activity and an alternative to whaling. However, in recent years the sustainability of these activities has increasingly been questioned, as research shows that repeated disturbance by boat traffic can severely disrupt critical behaviours of cetaceans in the wild. Bringing together contributions by international experts, this volume addresses complex issues associated with commercial whale-watching, sustainable development and conservation of the global marine environment. It highlights widely expressed concerns for the failure of policy, planning and management and pinpoints both long-standing and emerging barriers to sustainable practice. Featuring numerous case studies, the book provides critical insights into the diverse socio-cultural, political, economic and ecological contexts of this global industry, highlighting the challenges and opportunities that arise along the pathways to sustainability.
Author : Kurt Hoelting
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458758885
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book The Circumference of Home written by Kurt Hoelting and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much is clear to me. If I can't change my own life in response to the greatest challenge now facing our human family, who can? And if I won't make the effort to try, why should anyone else? So I've decided to start at home, and begin with myself. The question is no longer whether I must respond. The question is whether I can turn my response into an adventure. After realizing the gaping hole between his convictions about climate change and his own carbon footprint, Kurt Hoelting embarked on a yearlong experiment to rediscover the heart of his own home: He traded his car and jet travel for a kayak, a bicycle, and his own two feet, traveling a radius of 100 kilometers from his home in Puget Sound. This ''circumference of home'' proved more than enough. Part quest and part guidebook for change, Hoelting's journey is an inspiring reminder that what we need really is close at hand, and that the possibility for adventure lies around every bend.
Author : National Conference on Social Welfare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Proceedings written by National Conference on Social Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill McKibben
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458798585
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Oil and Honey written by Bill McKibben and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet. Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find hand - cuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C. But that's where he spent three days in the summer of 2011, after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. A few months later the protesters would see their efforts rewarded when President Obama agreed to put the project on hold. And yet McKibben realized that this small and temporary victory was at best a stepping - stone. With the Arctic melting, the Midwest in drought, and Hurricane Sandy scouring the Atlantic, the need for much deeper solutions was obvious. Some of those would come at the local level, and McKibben recounts a year he spends in the company of a beekeeper raising his hives as part of the growing trend toward local food. Other solutions would come from a much larger fight against the fossil - fuel industry as a whole. Oil and Honey is McKibben's account of these two necessary and mutually reinforcing sides of the global climate fight - from the absolute centre of the maelstrom and from the growing hive of small - scale local answers to the climate crisis. With characteristic empathy and passion, he reveals the imperative to work on both levels, telling the story of raising one year's honey crop and building a social movement that's still cresting.
Author : David Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134961065
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Just Environments written by David Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we do what we want with other species? How do conflicting international interests affect global issues? What do we owe the next generation? Just Environments investigates these questions and the ethics which lie at their core.
Author : David W. Conklin
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9781412914369
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Cases in the Environment of Business written by David W. Conklin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ivey Casebooks Series is a co-publishing partnership between SAGE Publications and the Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario.
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Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lester Russell Brown
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393308303
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The World Watch Reader on Global Environmental Issues written by Lester Russell Brown and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1991 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprints 17 articles from World watch magazine on problems of the environment and possible solutions. No bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gospel of the Kingdom written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Blyth
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN 13 : 9781899628209
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (282 download)
Download or read book Mountain Watch written by Simon Blyth and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2002 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert D. Bullard
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814771939
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book The Wrong Complexion for Protection written by Robert D. Bullard and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-07-23 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovers the ways the United States government responds to natural and human-induced disasters in relation to race over the past eight decades When the images of desperate, hungry, thirsty, sick, mostly black people circulated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, it became apparent to the whole country that race did indeed matter when it came to government assistance. In The Wrong Complexion for Protection, Robert D. Bullard and Beverly Wright place the government response to natural and human-induced disasters in historical context over the past eight decades. They compare and contrast how the government responded to emergencies, including environmental and public health emergencies, toxic contamination, industrial accidents, bioterrorism threats and show that African Americans are disproportionately affected. Bullard and Wright argue that uncovering and eliminating disparate disaster response can mean the difference between life and death for those most vulnerable in disastrous times.
