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Something New Under the Sun

Author	: Helen Gavaghan
Publisher	: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date	: 2012-12-06
ISBN 10	: 9781461216186
Pages	: 300 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (161 users)

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Download or read book Something New Under the Sun written by Helen Gavaghan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the first history of artificial satellites and their uses, Helen Gavaghan shows how the idea of putting an object in orbit around the earth changed from science fiction to indispensable technology in the twinkling of an eye. Focusing on three major areas of development - navigational satellites, communications, and weather observation and forecasting - Gavaghan tells the remarkable inside story of how obscure men and women, often laboring under strict secrecy, made satellite technology possible. "...a gripping read." -NEW SCIENTIST

Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series)

Author	: J. R. McNeill
Publisher	: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date	: 2001-04-17
ISBN 10	: 9780393075892
Pages	: 448 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (758 users)

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Download or read book Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series) written by J. R. McNeill and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-04-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of those rare books that’s both sweeping and specific, scholarly and readable…What makes the book stand out is its wealth of historical detail." —Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his startling book, J. R. McNeill gives us our first general account of what may prove to be the most significant dimension of the twentieth century: its environmental history. To a degree unprecedented in human history, we have refashioned the earth's air, water, and soil, and the biosphere of which we are a part. Based on exhaustive research, McNeill's story—a compelling blend of anecdotes, data, and shrewd analysis—never preaches: it is our definitive account. This is a volume in The Global Century Series (general editor, Paul Kennedy).

Something New Under the Sun

Author	: Alexandra Kleeman
Publisher	: Hogarth
Release Date	: 2021-08-03
ISBN 10	: 9781984826312
Pages	: 369 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (263 users)

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Download or read book Something New Under the Sun written by Alexandra Kleeman and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and environmental collapse in “a darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality” (Time) LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Vulture, Thrillist, Literary Hub “An urgent novel about our very near future, and a deeply addictive pleasure.”—Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies Novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Los Angeles to oversee the film adaptation of one of his books and try to impress his wife and daughter back home with this last-ditch attempt at professional success. But California is not as he imagined. Drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are everywhere, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Patrick finds an unlikely partner in Cassidy Carter—the cynical starlet of his film—and the two investigate the sun-scorched city, where they discover the darker side of all that glitters in Hollywood. Something New Under the Sun is an unmissable novel for our present moment—a bold exploration of environmental catastrophe in the age of alternative facts, and “a ghost story not of the past but of the near future” (The New York Times).

Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series)

Author	: J. R. McNeill
Publisher	: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date	: 2001-04-17
ISBN 10	: 9780393321838
Pages	: 449 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (218 users)

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Download or read book Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series) written by J. R. McNeill and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-04-17 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the impact of humanity on twentieth century Earth, exploring the indirect effects of politics, international relations, technological change, key scientists, and environmental disasters and policies.

Something New Under the Sun: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Living

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Publisher	: Primedia E-launch LLC
Release Date	:
ISBN 10	: 9781619791800
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (918 users)

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Download or read book Something New Under the Sun: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Living written by and published by Primedia E-launch LLC. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sharing God's Planet

Author	: Claire Foster
Publisher	: Church House Publishing
Release Date	: 2005
ISBN 10	: 071514068X
Pages	: 84 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (8 users)

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Download or read book Sharing God's Planet written by Claire Foster and published by Church House Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report explores the causes and consequences of human damage to the environment and suggests how Christians can respond.

Ecological Economics

Author	: Herman E. Daly
Publisher	: Island Press
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN 10	: 1559633123
Pages	: 488 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (23 users)

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Download or read book Ecological Economics written by Herman E. Daly and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introductory textbook for an emerging paradigm that addresses the failure of conventional economics to reflect the value of clean air, water, species diversity and generational equity. It defines a revolutionary 'transdiscipline' that incorporates insights from the environmental sciences.

Swiftly Sterneward

Author	: W. B. Gerard
Publisher	: University of Delaware
Release Date	: 2011-04-07
ISBN 10	: 9781611490596
Pages	: 312 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (95 users)

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Download or read book Swiftly Sterneward written by W. B. Gerard and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of thirteen essays is in honor of the distinguished scholarly career of Melvyn New, Professor Emeritus of the University of Florida. The first eight essays offer various critical perspectives on a diverse group of eighteenth-century authors. Subjects include Pope and Eliot, Swift and Nietzsche, Sterne and Gainsborough, Johnson, Smollett, Lyttelton, and Fielding. The final five essays focus specifically on Sterne, the primary subject of Professor New's career of more than four decades. Contributors are both former students and colleagues and come from the United States, England, and France. They are Martha F. Bowden, Taylor Corse, W. G Day, Madeleine Descargues-Grant, Elizabeth Kraft, Joseph G. Kronick, James E. May, Frank Palmeri, Eric Rothstein, Donald R. Wehrs, and the three co-editors, W. B. Gerard, E. Derek Taylor, and Robert G. Walker.

State of the World 2015

Author	: The Worldwatch Institute
Publisher	: Island Press
Release Date	: 2015-04-13
ISBN 10	: 9781610916103
Pages	: 184 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (161 users)

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Download or read book State of the World 2015 written by The Worldwatch Institute and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We think we understand environmental damage: pollution, water scarcity, a warming world. But these problems are just the tip of the iceberg. Food insecurity, financial assets drained of value, and a rapid rise in diseases of animal origin are among the underreported consequences of an unsustainable global system. In this volume, experts explore these hidden threats along with the central question of how we can develop resilience to these and other shocks.

Down to Earth

Author	: Ted Steinberg
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2002-05-09
ISBN 10	: 9780195140095
Pages	: 361 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (4 users)

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Download or read book Down to Earth written by Ted Steinberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative and provocative new approach to understanding American history turns readers attention to nature as the primary force shaping the course of the United States.

Food Power

Author	: Bryan L. McDonald
Publisher	: Oxford University Press
Release Date	: 2017
ISBN 10	: 9780190600686
Pages	: 265 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (6 users)

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Download or read book Food Power written by Bryan L. McDonald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates during the postwar years about how food power could help the United States achieve goals such as stability, prosperity, and security were part of a larger conversation about the role of food in the security of states, communities, and individuals.0America helped build a new, postwar food system based on the steadying influence of American agricultural surpluses that helped maintain stable prices and food availability. This system averted a global-scale food crisis for almost three decades. The end of this food system in the early 1970s ushered in a much more unstable period in global food relations. 'Food power' argues that efforts to both interpret America's role in the world during the mid-twentieth century and to address contemporary food problems can be strengthened by understanding more fully the ways postwar American policymakers and experts sought to shape the politics of security and prosperity by linking people and places around the world through food.

Crude Reality

Author	: Brian C. Black
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date	: 2020-09-30
ISBN 10	: 9781538142486
Pages	: 305 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (424 users)

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Download or read book Crude Reality written by Brian C. Black and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise, accessible introduction to the history of oil tells the story of how petroleum has shaped human life since it was first discovered oozing inconspicuously from the soil. For a century, human dependence on petroleum caused little discomfort as we enjoyed the heyday of cheap crude—a glorious episode of energy gluttony that was destined to end. Today, we see the disastrous results in environmental degradation, political instability, and world economic disparity in the waning years of a petroleum-powered civilization—lessons rooted in the finite nature of oil. Considering the nature of oil itself as well as humans’ remarkable relationship with it, Brian C. Black spotlights our modern conundrum and then explores the challenges of our future without oil. It is this essential context, he argues, that will prepare us for our energy transition. Bringing his global perspective and wide-ranging technical knowledge, Black has written an essential contribution to environmental history and the rapidly emerging field of energy history in this sweeping, forward-looking survey.

Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication

Author	: Thomas T. Ballmer
Publisher	: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date	: 1982-01-01
ISBN 10	: 9789027225207
Pages	: 172 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (252 users)

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Download or read book Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication written by Thomas T. Ballmer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of two volumes – the first volume being Waltraud Brennenstuhl's Control and Ability (P&B III:4) – treating biocybernetical questions of language. This book starts out from an investigation of the (neuro-)biological relevancy of natural language from the point of view of grammar and the lexicon. Furthermore, the basic mechanisms of the self-organization of organisms in their environments are discussed, in so far as they lead to linguistic control and abilities.

The Decline of Nature

Author	: Gilbert F. LaFreniere
Publisher	: Academica Press,LLC
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: 9781933146515
Pages	: 476 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (465 users)

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Download or read book The Decline of Nature written by Gilbert F. LaFreniere and published by Academica Press,LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An environmental history of ideas embedded in a compact account of Western civilization's ecological impact upon the planet, particularly in Europe and its colonies.

Thomas Jefferson's Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress

Author	: Ari Helo
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2013-12-23
ISBN 10	: 9781107435551
Pages	: 280 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (355 users)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson's Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress written by Ari Helo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could Jefferson claim any consistency in his advocacy of democracy and the rights of man while remaining one of the largest slaveholders in Virginia? This extensive study of Jefferson's intellectual outlook suggests that, once we fully acknowledge the premises of his ethical thought and his now outdated scientific views, he could. Jefferson famously thought the human mind to be 'susceptible of much improvement ... most of all, in matters of government and religion'. Ari Helo's thorough analysis of Jefferson's understanding of Christian morality, atheism, contemporary theories of moral sentiments, ancient virtue ethics, natural rights, and the principles of justice and benevolence suggests that Jefferson refused to be a philosopher, and did so for moral reasons. This book finds Jefferson profoundly political in his understanding of individual moral responsibility and human progress.

Finding Chords to Match the Notes In Your Melody: A Manual for Songwriters and Musicians

Author	: Bruce Osborn
Publisher	: Lulu Press, Inc
Release Date	: 2014-04-24
ISBN 10	: 9781483409559
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (95 users)

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Download or read book Finding Chords to Match the Notes In Your Melody: A Manual for Songwriters and Musicians written by Bruce Osborn and published by Lulu Press, Inc. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-use guide to finding just the right chords to use with any melody. If you have ever composed a melody and then been at a loss as to which basic chords to play along with it . . . if you have ever wondered how to experiment with more complex chord substitutions . . . if you have ever wondered how the “experts” go about choosing which chords to use with their melodies . . . then this book is for you. Through the use of clear, color-coded charts and detailed step-by-step instructions, this book will show you at a glance exactly which chords are the best choices for use over any melody note in any key. In addition, the author includes extended—and often hilarious!—essays describing how he came to develop the charts included in this book, and how his interest in chords lead him to explore the chords and melody in a well-known jazz song. Finally, there are charts—one for each of the 12 notes in a chromatic scale—listing the notes contained in 26 of the most common chords.

The Anthropocene

Author	: Julia Adeney Thomas
Publisher	: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date	: 2020-10-06
ISBN 10	: 9781509534616
Pages	: 288 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (346 users)

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Download or read book The Anthropocene written by Julia Adeney Thomas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and wide-ranging impacts that our planet no longer functions as it did during the previous eleven millennia. So distinctive is this collective human intervention that a new geological interval has been proposed; it is called the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is intriguing scientifically, fascinating intellectually, and deeply disturbing politically, socially, economically, and ethically. We must learn how to co-exist sustainably with the rest of nature in what is emerging as a new planetary state. To do so, we must first understand what "Anthropocene" means in all its dimensions. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach, starting with an exploration of the Anthropocene as a geological concept: ranging across the physical changes to the landscape, to the rapidly heating climate, to a biosphere undergoing transformation. And what of the "anthropos" in the Anthropocene? While geoscience does not normally address political and ethical issues of justice and equity, or economics and culture, Anthropocene studies in the humanities and social sciences investigate the complexities of the human activity driving global change. Here the book looks at human history, both in the deep past and more recently, the politics and economics of growth spurring the Anthropocene, and potential ways of mitigating its cruel effects. Our fragile, still beautiful, planet is finite. The new realities of the Anthropocene will need our best efforts, across disciplinary divides, at effective hope and action.