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Creation and Ecology

Author : Ronald A. Simkins
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532698720
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Creation and Ecology written by Ronald A. Simkins and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Ronald A. Simkins addresses the current environmental crisis and what the Bible might contribute in response to it. The environmental crisis includes loss of biodiversity, degradation of the soil, and especially climate change. If left unchecked, these trends will bring about the collapse of human civilization. These environmental problems are interrelated and share a similar cause: the exploitation of the natural world through an economy structured by capitalist relations of production and powered by the burning of fossil fuels. Through our economic relations, we have depleted natural resources, polluted natural environments, and altered natural processes. These problems are a product of our political economy, which entails not only our politics, ideology, and religion, but primarily our economic system. Because the crisis is economic at its core, Simkins first sets the Bible within its own economic context, exploring how the biblical ideas of creation—an understanding of the human relationship to the natural world—were the product of the ancient Israelite political economy. Then Simkins places the biblical tradition in conversation with the current environmental crisis. The result is a far richer view of creation in the biblical tradition and a better understanding of what is at stake in the current environmental crisis.

Beyond Liberalism

Author : Prabhat Patnaik
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231561229
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Liberalism written by Prabhat Patnaik and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberalism holds that individual freedom can be realized under capitalism. “Classical liberalism” tends to focus on excessive state interference as the primary threat to freedom. More recent theorists, however, recognize that capitalism, left to itself, would be characterized by mass social ills and argue that state intervention is necessary to guarantee individual freedom. This book is a Marxist critique of liberalism. Prabhat Patnaik demonstrates that liberalism and Marxism provide vastly differing accounts of individual freedom and the forces that restrict it. In the Marxist view, people, contrary to appearances, lack real agency under capitalism. Competition coerces individuals to act according to the impersonal logic of capitalism, making them mere instruments of the system. In this way, capitalism creates universal alienation, and true individual freedom is possible only through overcoming it. Patnaik argues that socialism can secure individual agency in both economic and political spheres, though actually existing socialism has failed in this respect. He also considers what a socialist society should look like: not a planned economy but a highly decentralized system in which citizens are directly involved in taking decisions affecting their lives and enjoy fundamental economic rights as well as political ones. Readable yet rigorous, Beyond Liberalism brings together political philosophy and political economy to offer a renewed vision of socialism.

The Public

Author : Louis Freeland Post
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Public written by Louis Freeland Post and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Human Microbiome

Author : Rosamond Rhodes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019982942X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Human Microbiome written by Rosamond Rhodes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human microbiome is the bacteria, viruses, and fungi that cover our skin, line our intestines, and flourish in our body cavities. Work on the human microbiome is new, but it is quickly becoming a leading area of biomedical research. What scientists are learning about humans and our microbiomes could change medical practice by introducing new treatment modalities. This new knowledge redefines us as superorganisms comprised of the human body and the collection of microbes that inhabit it and reveals how much we are a part of our environment. The understanding that microbes are not only beneficial but sometimes necessary for survival recasts our interaction with microbes from adversarial to neighborly. This volume explores some of the science that makes human microbiome research possible. It then considers ethical, legal, and social concerns raised by microbiome research. Chapters explore issues related to personal identity, property rights, and privacy. The authors reflect on how human microbiome research challenges reigning views on public health and research ethics. They also address the need for thoughtful policies and procedures to guide the use of the biobanked human samples required for advancing this new domain of research. In the course of these explorations, they introduce examples from the history of biomedical science and recent legal cases that shed light on the issues and inform the policy recommendations they offer at the end of each topic's discussion. This volume is the product of an NIH Human Microbiome Project grant. It represents three years of conversations focused on consensus formation by the twenty-seven members of the interdisciplinary Microbiome Working Group. "The microbiome is a relatively new area of medical attention. Ethical issues related to the microbiome have barely been identified, much less carefully analyzed. This volume is an excellent start toward that ethical analysis. Many of the arguments are persuasive and provocative. In particular, some contributors challenge the ethical need for anonymizing microbiome specimens as well as the need for individual informed consent for specific uses of these specimens. I highly recommend this volume for all those interested in the microbiome and in new frontiers in medical ethics." -Leonard M. Fleck, Michigan State University

The Public

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Public written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The land question, Property in land. The condition of labor

Author : Henry George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The land question, Property in land. The condition of labor written by Henry George and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Texanist

Author : David Courtney
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477312978
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Texanist written by David Courtney and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.

Natural Gas and Gasoline Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Natural Gas and Gasoline Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Neoliberalism from Below

Author : Verónica Gago
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372738
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Neoliberalism from Below written by Verónica Gago and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Neoliberalism from Below—first published in Argentina in 2014—Verónica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but also by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other marginalized groups. Using the massive illegal market La Salada in Buenos Aires as a point of departure, Gago shows how alternative economic practices, such as the sale of counterfeit goods produced in illegal textile factories, resist neoliberalism while simultaneously succumbing to its models of exploitative labor and production. Gago demonstrates how La Salada's economic dynamics mirror those found throughout urban Latin America. In so doing, she provides a new theory of neoliberalism and a nuanced view of the tense mix of calculation and freedom, obedience and resistance, individualism and community, and legality and illegality that fuels the increasingly powerful popular economies of the global South's large cities.

Protein Machines, Technology, and the Nature of the Future

Author : Wyatt Galusky
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031087178
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Protein Machines, Technology, and the Nature of the Future written by Wyatt Galusky and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationships between humans, chickens, and environments in the context of protein production. The history of these relationships reveals them to be increasingly technological, which results in humans becoming more responsible for those animals and their environments. Understanding this development through the configuration of various kinds of protein machines is key to confronting the kinds of future we wish to promote, and the characteristics of the present we wish to sustain. The book is organized around narratives that explore the concept of the protein machine, with a particular focus on the development of the chicken as it has moved from the field to the factory to the laboratory. These transformations are interconnected, and culminate in efforts to cultivate meat without the animal. Our ultimate goal will be to ask what kind of future does this technology envision, and what roles do humans and animals play in it?

Land-Value Taxation

Author : K.C. Wenzer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315501554
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Land-Value Taxation written by K.C. Wenzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars examines the merits and shortcomings of Land-Value taxation, and how it compares and contrasts with the conventional property tax. The latter is shown as deterring enterprise to the detriment of employment and as pushing up the cost of improving property with inflationary consequences. The former, with evidence from places where it is already in use, is shown to encourage optimum land use, foster employment, and prevent urban sprawl.

Integrated Natural Resource Management

Author : Bruce Morgan Campbell
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845933419
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Integrated Natural Resource Management written by Bruce Morgan Campbell and published by CABI. This book was released on 2003 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which contains 15 separately authored chapters, discusses both the principles and applications of an integrated approach to natural resource management. Such an approach must embrace the complexity of systems and redirect research towards the greater inclusion of issues such as participatory approaches, multi-scale analysis and an array of tools for system analysis, information management and impact assessment. Case studies, particularly from developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, are included. This book is of interest to a wide range of readers in many disciplines, including forestry, soil and management sciences, agriculture, and development studies.

Thinking Through the Environment

Author : Mark J. Smith
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415211727
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Through the Environment written by Mark J. Smith and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This broad ranging and thought provoking set of readings stresses the diversity of responses in the way the natural environment has been understood and questioned in the modern world.

Democracy and the History of Political Thought

Author : Patrick N. Cain
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793621608
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Democracy and the History of Political Thought written by Patrick N. Cain and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a fresh perspective on current democratic theory and practice by recovering the rich evaluations of democracy in the history of political thought. Each author addresses a single thinker’s reflections on the virtues and defects of democracy and the relationship between democracy and other regimes. Together, these essays explore the tensions within the democratic way of life that arise from an attachment to equality, liberty, citizenship, law, and the divine. Above all, this work aims at recovering a more complex understanding of democracy, connecting the perennial questions of political philosophy to the perplexities and crises of modern democracy.

Progress

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Progress written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Making of the Modern Body

Author : Catherine Gallagher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520908287
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Modern Body written by Catherine Gallagher and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have only recently discovered that the human body itself has a history. Not only has it been perceived, interpreted, and represented differently in different epochs, but it has also been lived differently, brought into being within widely dissimilar material cultures, subjected to various technologies and means of control, and incorporated into different rhythms of production and consumption, pleasure and pain. The eight articles in this volume support, supplement, and explore the significance of these insights. They belong to a new historical endeavor that derives partly from the crossing of historical with anthropological investigations, partly from social historians' deepening interest in culture, partly from the thematization of the body in modern philosophy (especially phenomenology), and partly from the emphasis on gender, sexuality, and women's history that large numbers of feminist scholars have brought to all disciplines.

The Disposition of Nature

Author : Jennifer Wenzel
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823286797
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Disposition of Nature written by Jennifer Wenzel and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist, 2022 Ecocriticism Book Prize, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Shortlisted, 2020 Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present How do literature and other cultural forms shape how we imagine the planet, for better or worse? In this rich, original, and long awaited book, Jennifer Wenzel tackles the formal innovations, rhetorical appeals, and sociological imbrications of world literature that might help us confront unevenly distributed environmental crises, including global warming. The Disposition of Nature argues that assumptions about what nature is are at stake in conflicts over how it is inhabited or used. Both environmental discourse and world literature scholarship tend to confuse parts and wholes. Working with writing and film from Africa, South Asia, and beyond, Wenzel takes a contrapuntal approach to sites and subjects dispersed across space and time. Reading for the planet, Wenzel shows, means reading from near to there: across experiential divides, between specific sites, at more than one scale. Impressive in its disciplinary breadth, Wenzel’s book fuses insights from political ecology, geography, anthropology, history, and law, while drawing on active debates between postcolonial theory and world literature, as well as scholarship on the Anthropocene and the material turn. In doing so, the book shows the importance of the literary to environmental thought and practice, elaborating how a supple understanding of cultural imagination and narrative logics can foster more robust accounts of global inequality and energize movements for justice and livable futures.