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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Social Movements
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword to the Third Edition vi Chapter 1 The Study of Social Movements: Recurring Questions, (Partially) Changing Answers 1 Chapter 2 Social Changes and Social Movements 31 Chapter 3 The Symbolic Dimension of Collective Action 66 Chapter 4 Collective Action and Identity 90 Chapter 5 Individuals, Networks, and Participation 113 Chapter 6 Organizations and Organizing within Social Movements 134 Chapter 7 Eventful Protests 161 Chapter 8 Political Opportunities for Social Movements 197 Chapter 9 The Effects of Social Movements 232 References 260 Index 321
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Geology and Mineralogy of Gemstones
Book SynopsisUnderstanding gemstones in a geological context Gemstones are colorful treasures of the Earth that have captivated humans for thousands of years. The physical and chemical characteristics of each type of gem provide insights into the geological processes that created them. Geology and Mineralogy of Gemstones is a textbook aimed at upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. It presents the basic mineralogical and geological knowledge needed to understand gemstones and examines the characteristics and geological origins of different types of gemstone. Volume highlights include: Concepts in mineralogyStructure and chemical composition of mineralsGeological processes that lead to the formation and movement of gemstonesEquipment and tools used to examine gemstones and their physical properties The American Geophysical Union promotes discovery in Earth and space science for the benefit of humanity. Its publications disseminate scientific knowledge and provide resources for researTable of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgements xiii Part I Developing Base Knowledge 1 1 Minerals and Mineralogy 3 1.1 Minerals and Rocks 3 1.2 What is a Gemstone? 3 1.3 Atoms, Elements, and Bonding 4 1.3.1 Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons 4 1.3.2 Atomic Mass 5 1.3.3 Atomic Structure, Electrical Charges, and Ions 5 1.3.4 Elements 6 1.3.5 Element Groups 6 1.3.6 Elemental Abundance in the Earth’s Crust 7 1.3.7 Compounds and Mixtures 8 1.3.8 Chemical Bonds 8 1.4 Physical Properties of Minerals 9 References 11 2 Basics of Rocks and Geology 13 2.1 Earth System Science 13 2.2 The Earth’s Structure and Plate Tectonics 13 2.3 General Rock Types and the Rock Cycle 19 2.4 Metasomatism and Hydrothermal Fluids 23 2.5 Geological Structures 24 2.6 Important Rock Types for Gemstone Deposits 24 2.7 Weathering, Sedimentation, and Secondary Gem Deposits 26 References 28 3 Intermediate Mineralogy 29 3.1 Structure and Chemistry of Minerals 29 3.1.1 Crystallography and Symmetry 29 3.1.2 Mineral Classes 32 3.1.3 Mineral Formulae 32 3.1.4 Element Substitutions 33 3.2 Light 34 3.2.1 Reflection and Refraction 34 3.2.2 Illumination 39 3.2.3 Dispersion 41 3.2.4 Optic Class 42 3.2.5 Color in Minerals 43 3.2.6 Pleochroism 44 3.2.7 Transparency 46 References 47 4 Concepts of Gemmology and Tools 49 4.1 Concepts of Gemmology 49 4.1.1 Gemmological Properties for Testing, Faceting, and Treatments 49 4.2 Tools 51 4.2.1 Collecting and Field Tools 51 4.2.2 Gemmological Tools 52 4.2.3 Advanced Tools 57 References 60 Part II Gemstones and Their Origins 63 5 Diamond 65 5.1 Introduction 65 5.2 Basic Qualities of Diamond 67 5.2.1 Crystal Structure 68 5.2.2 Crystal Chemistry and Type Classification of Diamond 69 5.2.3 Diamond Crystal Forms 71 5.2.4 Colored Diamonds 74 5.3 Common Diamond Treatments 76 5.4 Synthetic Diamond 79 5.5 Geology of Diamond and Kimberlite 79 5.5.1 Diamond Growth 81 5.5.2 Kimberlite Volcanoes 82 5.5.3 Lamproite 83 5.6 Global Distribution and Production of Diamond 84 5.7 Diamonds from Canada 92 5.8 The 4 Cs 95 5.8.1 Cut 95 5.8.2 Clarity 95 5.8.3 Color 96 5.8.4 Carat 98 5.9 Diamond Shapes 98 5.10 Diamond Valuation 99 5.11 Kimberley Process: A 5th C? 100 References 100 6 Corundum 103 6.1 Introduction 103 6.2 Basic Qualities of Corundum 104 6.2.1 Chemistry and Crystal Structure of Corundum 104 6.2.2 Corundum Crystal Forms 104 6.2.3 Colors of Corundum 104 6.3 Faceted Gem Corundum 107 6.4 Corundum Valuation 107 6.5 Corundum Treatments, Synthetics, and Imitations 110 6.6 Geology of Gem Corundum: Three Main Genetic Models 113 6.6.1 Metamorphic Corundum in Silica-Deficient Gneisses, Mafic-Ultramafic Rocks and Marbles 114 6.6.2 Xenocrysts in Alkali Basalts and Lamprophyres 118 6.6.3 Secondary Accumulation in Placers 120 6.7 Rarity of Gem Corundum 124 6.8 Global Distribution and Production of Corundum 124 References 127 7 Beryl 131 7.1 Introduction 131 7.2 Basic Qualities of Beryl 132 7.2.1 Chemistry and Crystal Structure of Beryl 132 7.2.2 Colors of Beryl and Gem Varieties 134 7.3 Beryl Valuation 138 7.4 Common Treatments, Synthetics, and Imitations 140 7.5 Geology of Gem Beryl: Three Main Genetic Models 141 7.5.1 Pegmatitic 141 7.5.2 Magmatic 141 7.5.3 Metamorphic 146 7.6 Large Beryl Crystals 149 7.7 Global Distribution of Beryl 149 References 150 8 Pegmatites 153 8.1 Introduction 153 8.2 Pegmatite Mineralogy 153 8.3 Pegmatite Genesis 154 8.4 Geochemical Families of Pegmatites 155 8.5 Pegmatite Morphology 157 8.6 Corrosion 161 8.7 Rarity of Gem-Bearing Pegmatites 162 8.8 Tourmaline 162 8.8.1 Introduction and Basic Qualities of Tourmaline 162 8.8.2 Chemistry and Crystal Structure of Tourmaline 165 8.8.3 Colors and Gem Varieties of Tourmaline 166 8.8.4 Tourmaline Recognition, Value and Treatments 168 8.9 Spodumene 172 8.9.1 Introduction and Basic Qualities of Spodumene 172 8.9.2 Colors and Gem Varieties of Spodumene 173 8.9.3 Spodumene Recognition, Value, and Treatments 173 8.10 Topaz 175 8.10.1 Introduction and Basic Qualities of Topaz 175 8.10.2 Geology of Gem Topaz 176 8.10.3 Colors and Gem Varieties of Topaz 179 8.10.4 Topaz Recognition, Value, and Treatments 181 References 181 9 Chrysoberyl 185 9.1 Introduction and Basic Qualities of Chrysoberyl 185 9.2 Geology of Gem Chrysoberyl 185 References 189 10 Spinel 191 10.1 Introduction and Basic Qualities of Spinel 191 10.2 Geology of Gem Spinel 192 References 195 11 Tanzanite 197 11.1 Introduction and Basic Qualities of Tanzanite 197 11.2 Geology of Tanzanite 197 References 200 12 The Garnet Group 201 12.1 Introduction and Basic Qualities of the Garnet Group 201 12.2 Geology of Gem Garnet 201 References 207 13 Jade: Jadeite and Nephrite 209 13.1 Introduction and Basic Qualities of Jade 209 13.2 Geology of Jade 209 References 217 14 Quartz and Silica Gems 219 14.1 Introduction and Basic Qualities of Quartz and Silica Gem Varieties 219 14.2 Quartz 219 14.3 Amethyst 220 14.4 Agate 221 14.5 Opal 222 References 228 15 Other Gems 231 15.1 Olivine 231 15.1.1 Introduction and Basic Qualities of Olivine 231 15.1.2 Geology of Gem Peridot 231 15.2 Turquoise 236 15.2.1 Introduction and Basic Qualities of Turquoise 236 15.2.2 Geology of Turquoise 237 15.3 Lapis Lazuli 238 15.3.1 Introduction and Basic Qualities of Lapis Lazuli 238 15.3.2 Geology of Lapis Lazuli 238 15.4 Zircon 243 15.4.1 Introduction and Basic Qualities of Zircon 243 15.4.2 Geology of Gem Zircon 244 References 247 16 Organic Gems 251 16.1 Amber 251 16.2 Ammolite 251 References 257 Index 259
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Water
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Figures vii List of Tables ix List of Boxes x Acknowledgments xi Part 1 Foundations 1 1 The Hydrosocial Cycle 3 2 Water and Empire 27 3 Legal Waters 48 4 The Business of Water 74 Part 2 Big Waters 95 5 Eating Water 97 6 Dam Fever 122 7 Shared Waters 147 Part 3 Water is Life 169 8 Intimate Waters 171 9 The Right to Water 196 10 Future Waters 217 Bibliography 237 Index 279
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgements xiii About the Companion Website xv Part A Sedimentary Materials, Processes and Products 1 1 Introduction to Sedimentology and Stratigraphy 3 1.1 Overview 4 1.2 Sedimentology 5 1.3 Stratigraphy 6 1.4 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy 7 Further Reading 8 2 Clastic Sediments: Gravel, Sand and Mud 9 2.1 Classification of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks 10 2.2 Gravel and Conglomerate 12 2.3 Sand and Sandstone 15 2.4 Clay, Silt and Mudrock 26 2.5 Textures and Analysis of Clastic Sedimentary Rocks 29 2.6 Clastic Sediments: Summary 34 Further Reading 34 3 Biogenic, Chemical and Volcanogenic Sediments 35 3.1 Limestone 36 3.2 Evaporite Minerals 44 3.3 Cherts 46 3.4 Sedimentary Phosphates 47 3.5 Sedimentary Ironstone 47 3.6 Carbonaceous (Organic) Deposits 49 3.7 Volcaniclastic Sedimentary Rocks 51 Further Reading 52 4 Processes of Transport and Sedimentary Structures 53 4.1 Transport Media 54 4.2 The Behaviour of Fluids and Particles in Fluids 55 4.3 Flows, Sediment and Bedforms 60 4.4 Waves 70 4.5 Sediment Gravity Flows 73 4.6 Mudcracks 77 4.7 Erosional Sedimentary Structures 78 4.8 Terminology for Sedimentary Structures and Beds 79 4.9 Sedimentary Structures and Sedimentary Environments 81 Further Reading 82 5 Field Sedimentology, Facies and Environments 83 5.1 Field Sedimentology 84 5.2 Graphic Sedimentary Logs 85 5.3 Palaeocurrents 91 5.4 Sampling Sedimentary Rocks 94 5.5 Description of Core 96 5.6 Interpreting Past Depositional Environments 97 5.7 Reconstructing Palaeoenvironments 101 5.8 Summary: Facies and Environments 105 Further Reading 105 Part B Continental Environments 107 6 Continental Environments and Sources of Sediment 109 6.1 From Source of Sediment to Formation of Strata 110 6.2 Tectonic Uplift 110 6.3 Global Climate 111 6.4 Weathering Processes 112 6.5 Erosion and Transport 115 6.6 Denudation and Landscape Evolution 118 6.7 Continental Environments of Deposition 124 Further Reading 126 7 Glacial Environments 127 7.1 Distribution of Glacial Environments 128 7.2 Glacial Ice 129 7.3 Continental Glacial Environments 131 7.4 Continental Glacial Deposition 136 7.5 Marine Glacial Environments 138 7.6 Glacial Deposits in the Stratigraphic Record 140 7.7 Glacial Sedimentology and Stratigraphy 141 Further Reading 142 8 Aeolian Environments 143 8.1 Aeolian Transport 144 8.2 Characteristics of Wind- blown Particles 145 8.3 Desert Environments 146 8.4 Aeolian Bedforms 148 8.5 Stratigraphic Record of Aeolian Deposits 152 8.6 Aeolian Deposits Outside Deserts 155 8.7 Summary 157 Further Reading 158 9 Rivers and Alluvial Fans 159 9.1 Fluvial and Alluvial Systems 160 9.2 River Channels 162 9.3 Floodplain Deposition 170 9.4 Alluvial Fans 171 9.5 Fossils in Fluvial and Alluvial Environments 175 9.6 Soils and Palaeosols 176 9.7 Fluvial and Alluvial Stratigraphy 179 Further Reading 184 10 Lakes 185 10.1 Lakes and Lacustrine Environments 186 10.2 Freshwater Lakes 187 10.3 Freshwater Lake Clastic Deposits 190 10.4 Saline Lakes 193 10.5 Ephemeral Lakes 194 10.6 Lacustrine Carbonates 197 10.7 Lacustrine Stratigraphy 198 10.8 Recognition of Lacustrine Facies in the Stratigraphic Record 199 Further Reading 200 11 Volcanic Rocks and Sediments 201 11.1 Volcanic Rocks and Sediment 202 11.2 Transport and Deposition of Volcaniclastic Material 205 11.3 Eruption Styles 209 11.4 Facies Associations in Volcanic Successions 210 11.5 Volcanic Material in Other Environments 213 11.6 Volcanic Rocks in Earth History 214 Further Reading 215 Part C Marine Environments 217 12 The Marine Realm: Morphology and Processes 219 12.1 Oceans and Seas 220 12.2 Oceanic Currents 222 12.3 Wave and Storm Processes 222 12.4 Tides 223 12.5 Chemical and Biochemical Sedimentation in Oceans 228 12.6 Marine Fossils 230 12.7 Trace Fossils 231 Further Reading 235 13 Deltas 237 13.1 Modern Deltas 238 13.2 Variations in Delta Morphology 241 13.3 Syndepositional Deformation in Deltas 249 13.4 Deltaic Successions 249 13.5 Deltaic Cycles and Stratigraphy 254 13.6 Fossils in Deltaic Deposits 255 13.7 Recognition of Deltaic Deposits 255 Further Reading 256 14 Clastic Coasts and Estuaries 259 14.1 Coasts 260 14.2 Beaches 261 14.3 Wave- dominated Coastlines 265 14.4 Tidally Influenced Coastal Systems 269 14.5 Estuaries 271 14.6 Fossils in Coastal and Estuarine Environments 275 14.7 Recognition of Coastal and Estuarine Systems 276 Further Reading 277 15 Shallow Sandy Seas 279 15.1 Shallow Marine Environments 280 15.2 Storm and Wave- dominated Shallow Clastic Seas 282 15.3 Tide- dominated Clastic Shallow Seas 286 15.4 Responses to Change in Sea Level 290 15.5 Fossils in Sandy Shelf Successions 291 15.6 Criteria for the Recognition of Sandy Shallow Marine Sediments 292 Further Reading 293 16 Shallow Marine Carbonate and Evaporite Environments 295 16.1 Carbonate and Evaporite Depositional Environments 296 16.2 Coastal Carbonate and Evaporite Environments 299 16.3 Shallow Marine Carbonate Deposits 303 16.4 Carbonate Platform Facies and Successions 309 16.5 Marine Evaporites 314 16.6 Mixed Carbonate- clastic Environments 317 16.7 Recognition of Shallow Marine Carbonate and Evaporite Facies 318 Further Reading 319 17 Deep Marine Environments 321 17.1 The Deep Seas 322 17.2 Sediment Gravity Flow Processes in Deep Seas 323 17.3 Submarine Fans 325 17.4 Ancient Submarine Fan Systems 328 17.5 Slope Aprons 332 17.6 Ocean Current and Pelagic Sedimentation 333 17.7 Chemogenic Sediments 337 17.8 Fossils in Deep Ocean Sediments 337 Further Reading 339 Part D Post-depositional Processes 341 18 Soft Sediment Deformation 343 18.1 Deformation After Deposition 344 18.2 Large- scale Post- depositional Features 350 Further Reading 353 19 Diagenesis 355 19.1 Diagenetic Processes 356 19.2 Clastic Diagenesis 363 19.3 Carbonate Diagenesis 366 19.4 Diagenesis of Volcaniclastic Sediments 369 19.5 Formation of Coal, Oil and Gas 370 Further Reading 375 Part E Stratigraphy 377 20 Stratigraphy: Concepts and Lithostratigraphy 379 20.1 Geologic Time 380 20.2 Stratigraphic Units 385 20.3 Lithostratigraphy 385 20.4 Applications of Lithostratigraphy 391 Further Reading 394 21 Biostratigraphy 395 21.1 Fossils in Sedimentology and Stratigraphy 396 21.2 Classification of Organisms 397 21.3 Evolutionary Trends 398 21.4 Biozones and Zone Fossils 400 21.5 Taxa Used in Biostratigraphy 404 21.6 Applied Biostratigraphy 408 21.7 Biostratigraphy and Other Stratigraphic Techniques 409 Further Reading 410 22 Dating and Correlation Techniques 411 22.1 Techniques for Dating and Correlation 412 22.2 Radiometric dating 412 22.3 Magnetostrati graphy 416 22.4 Chemostrati graphy 418 22.5 Dating in the Quaternary 421 Further Reading 423 23 Subsurface Stratigraphy and Sedimentology 425 23.1 Introduction to Subsurface Stratigraphy and Sedimentology 426 23.2 Seismic Reflection Data 426 23.3 Borehole Stratigraphy and Sedimentology 432 23.4 Petrophysical Logging 435 23.5 Subsurface Facies and Basin Analysis 440 Further Reading 441 24 Sequence Stratigraphy and Sea Level Changes 443 24.1 Sea- level Changes and Sedimentation 444 24.2 Depositional Sequences and Systems Tracts 452 24.3 Parasequences: Components of Systems Tracts 457 24.4 Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy 461 24.5 Applications of Sequence Stratigraphy 463 24.6 Causes of Sea Level Fluctuations 467 24.7 Sequence Stratigraphy: Summary 473 Further Reading 474 25 Sedimentary Basins 475 25.1 Controls on Sediment Accumulation 476 25.2 Basins Related to Lithospheric Extension 478 25.3 Basins Related to Subduction 484 25.4 Basins Related to Crustal Loading 486 25.5 Basins Related to Strike- slip Tectonics 489 25.6 Complex and Hybrid Basins 490 25.7 The Record of Tectonics in Stratigraphy 490 25.8 Sedimentary Basin Analysis 492 25.9 Integrating Sedimentology and Stratigraphy: the History of the Earth’s Surface 495 Further Reading 496 References 497 Index 511
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Classical Sociological Theory
Book SynopsisA world-class introduction to the historical and continuing impact of classical theoryon sociological debate The latest edition ofClassical Sociological Theoryoffersstudents a definitive guide to thetheoreticalfoundationsof sociology and the continuing impact ofthe ideas explored byearlytheorists, includingMarx, Durkheim, Weber, Mead, Simmel, Freud, Du Bois, Adorno, Marcuse, Parsons, and Merton.The prestigious editorshave integrated several readingsonthe most influential theoriesarising out of the Enlightenment era and the work of de Tocqueville. Readers are introduced to seminal works in classical sociological theoryby way of editorial introductions that lend historical and intellectual perspectiveto the included readings.The readings themselveshave been selected based on their combinations of theoretical sophistication andaccessibility.From analyses ofself and society to examinations of critical theory and structural-functional analysis,Classical Sociological Theoryremainsthe gold stTable of ContentsNotes on the Editors ix Acknowledgments xi General Introduction 1 Part I Precursors to Sociological Theory 25 Introduction to Part I 27 1 Of the Natural Condition and the Commonwealth (from Leviathan) 36Thomas Hobbes 2 Of the Social Contract (from The Social Contract) 44Jean-Jacques Rousseau 3 What is Enlightenment? (from Immanuel Kant, The Philosophy of Kant) 55Immanuel Kant 4 The Wealth of Nations (from The Wealth of Nations) 60Adam Smith Part II Liberal Theories of Social Order 71 Introduction to Part II 73 5 Influence of Democracy on the Feelings of the Americans (from Democracy in America) 83Alexis de Tocqueville 6 Tyranny of the Majority (from Democracy in America) 102Alexis de Tocqueville 7 What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear (from Democracy in America) 112Alexis de Tocqueville 8 Society in America (from Society in America) 118Harriet Martineau 9 “A Belated Industry” 126Jane Addams 10 Freedom in a Complex Society (from The Great Transformation) 133Karl Polanyi Part III The Sociological Theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 141 Introduction to Part III 143 11 The German Ideology (from The German Ideology, Part One) 154Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 12 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1884 (from Collected Works, Vol 3) 158Karl Marx 13 Manifesto of the Communist Party (from Collected Works, Vol 6) 168Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 14 Wage-Labour and Capital (from Karl Marx: Selected Works) 183Karl Marx 15 Classes (from Collected Works, Vol 37) 191Karl Marx 16 The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof (from Capital, An Abridged Edition) 193Karl Marx 17 The General Formula for Capital (from Capital, An Abridged Edition) 198Karl Marx Part IV The Sociological Theory of Emile Durkheim 203 Introduction to Part IV 205 18 The Rules of Sociological Method (from The Rules of Sociological Method) 211Emile Durkheim 19 The Division of Labor in Society (from The Division of Labor in Society) 228Emile Durkheim 20 The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (from Elementary forms of the Religious Life) 250Emile Durkheim 21 Suicide (from Suicide: A Study in Sociology) 262Emile Durkheim Part V The Sociological Theory of Max Weber 271 Introduction to Part V 273 22 “Objectivity” in Social Science (from The Methodology of the Social Sciences) 279Max Weber 23 Basic Sociological Terms (from The Theory of Social and Economic Organization) 286Max Weber 24 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (from Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism with Other Writings on the Rise of the West) 296Max Weber 25 The Distribution of Power within the Political Community: Class, Status, Party (from Max Weber: Essays in Sociology) 314Max Weber 26 The Types of Legitimate Domination (from The Theory of Social and Economic Organization) 323Max Weber 27 Bureaucracy (from Max Weber: Essays in Sociology) 331Max Weber Part VI Self and Society 341 Introduction to Part VI 343 28 The Self (from Mind, Self and Society: From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist) 348George Herbert Mead 29 The Stranger (from Georg Simmel: On Individuality and Social Forms) 361Georg Simmel 30 The Triad (from The Sociology of Georg Simmel) 366Georg Simmel 31 The Metropolis and Mental Life (from Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms) 372Georg Simmel 32 The Souls of Black Folk (from The Souls of Black Folk) 381W.E.B. Du Bois 33 The Damnation of Women (from W.E.B. Du Bois A Reader) 387W.E.B. Du Bois Part VII Critical Theory 397 Introduction to Part VII 399 34 Traditional and Critical Theory (from Critical Theory: Selected Essays) 406Max Horkheimer 35 The Culture Industry (from The Dialectic of Enlightenment) 418Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno 36 One-Dimensional Man (from One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society) 430Herbert Marcuse 37 “Reflections on Violence” 438Hannah Arendt Part VIII Sociology of Knowledge 445 Introduction to Part VIII 447 38 Ideology and Utopia (from Ideology and Utopia) 451Karl Mannheim 39 The Social Construction of Reality (from The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge) 462Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann 40 The Phenomenology of the Social World (from The Phenomenology of the Social World) 471Alfred Schutz Part IX Functionalism 483 Introduction to Part IX 485 41 The Position of Sociological Theory (from The Position of Sociological Theory) 491Talcott Parsons 42 Manifest and Latent Functions (from Social Theory and Social Structure) 498Robert K. Merton 43 “Social Structure and Anomie” 505Robert K. Merton Part X Social Exchange 513 Introduction to Part X 515 44 Social Behavior as Exchange 520George C. Homans 45 Exchange and Power in Social Life (from Exchange and Power in Social Life) 531Peter M. Blau Index 543
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Green Six Sigma
Book SynopsisApply the tried-and-tested principles of Six Sigma to the fight against climate change In this much needed book, Dr RonBasudelivers an insightful exploration as well as sage advice on how to apply the principles of Lean Six Sigma to today's climate crisis.Green Six Sigma: A Lean Approach to Sustainable Climate Change Initiativesis an adaption of Lean Six Sigma for climate change initiatives. How can we use Green Six Sigma urgently and effectively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the harmful effects of global warming? This practical and workable book covers topics that are highly relevant to the times we live in: Climate change challenges and initiatives to mitigate them Examination of the Green Six Sigma approach, its tools and techniques as well as modifications to incorporate both the digital revolution and sustainability Applications of the Green Six Sigma approach to a variety of areas relevant to climate Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgements xiii About the Author xv Chapter 1: Climate Change Challenges 1 Chapter 2: International and National Climate Change Initiatives 13 Chapter 3: The Evolution of Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma and Green Six Sigma 27 Chapter 4: More of Green Six Sigma 53 Chapter 5: Green Six Sigma Tools 95 Chapter 6: The Digital Revolution and Climate Change 197 Chapter 7: Green Six Sigma and Clean Energy 219 Chapter 8: Green Six Sigma and Green Supply Chain 235 Chapter 9: Green Six Sigma and Green Transport 259 Chapter 10: Green Six Sigma and Retrofitting Buildings 275 Chapter 11: Green Six Sigma and Climate Adaptation 291 Chapter 12: Implementation: Making It Happen 311 Appendix 1: Carbon Footprint Factsheet 345 Appendix 2: Yield Conversion Table 351 References 353 Glossary 361 Index 377
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Anthropocene
Book SynopsisThe Anthropocene is a concept which challenges the foundations of humanities scholarship as it is traditionally understood. It calls not only for closer engagement with the natural sciences but also for a synthetic approach bringing together insights from the various subdisciplines in the humanities and social sciences which have addressed themselves to ecological questions in the past. This book is an introduction to, and structured survey of, the attempts that have been made to take the measure of the Anthropocene, and explores some of the paradigmatic problems which it raises. The difficulties of an introduction to the Anthropocene lie not only in the disciplinary breadth of the subject, but also in the rapid pace at which the surrounding debates have been, and still are, unfolding. This introduction proposes a conceptual map which, however provisionally, charts these ongoing discussions across a variety of scientific and humanistic disciplines.This book willTrade Review"The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities provides an excellent survey of the debates surrounding the new geological ‘Age of Humans’ from the perspective of the humanities. It offers impressively precise and pointed summaries of essential arguments from philosophy, anthropology, history, politics, and the arts regarding human transformations of the global environment. Even the most complex ideas are presented in a clear and engaging fashion. A must-read for all readers with an interest in environmental issues!" — Ursula K. Heise, Marcia H. Howard Chair in Literary Studies at the Department of English and the Institute of Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, USA"Sometimes, timing is everything. Horn and Bergthaller intervene at an important moment in the debates about the Anthropocene. The idea that we are entering a new epoch of Earth time in which human beings are playing a key role is one that needs to be to be shaped and contested by the widest possible set of interlocutors. In order for that to happen, people beyond the ‘core set’ of those from various disciplines who have been debating the Anthropocene for the last two decades need to be given the tools to join this urgent collective task. This book, readable and clear without ducking the difficult questions, will help make that possible.The authors are both accomplished and perceptive thinkers, but like the most generous of hosts they do not make themselves the centre of attention – instead, that place goes to their guests, the readers. Horn and Bergthaller provide a very balanced introduction to the terrain; but then, rather than offering yet another magical solution to all the political and epistemological tensions in the Anthropocene concept, and thereby simply adding to the cacophony of interpretations, they then give us a 'cartography of faultlines', gently guiding us through the task of coming to our own sense-making of this turbulent time in both Earth processes and human thought." — Bronislaw Szerszynski, Reader in Sociology, Lancaster University, UK"Over the past decade, the Anthropocene has become the paradigmatic object of inquiry in the emergent environmental humanities, but nowhere has it been explored so comprehensively or incisively as Horn and Bergthaller do here. ‘Anthropocene’ is also a vigorously contested term, for which they examine both predecessors and competitors, whilst making a persuasive case for its continued deployment in a nuanced manner that integrates pertinent critiques. As well as revisiting earlier theoretical paradigms, such as Michel Foucault’s notion of ‘biopolitics’, through the lens of the Anthropocene, they also introduce Anglophone readers to less well-known perspectives from German environmental theory, such as Rolf Peter Sieferle’s eco-historical concept of the socio-metabolic regime. Underpinned by a careful consideration of the scientific research underlying the proposal that the planet has entered a new geological era marked by the largely ecologically disastrous impacts of globalising industrial society, Horn’s and Bergthaller’s brilliant analysis of the implications of this historically unprecedented, and extremely perilous, situation extends to questions of epistemology, religion, ethics, politics, aesthetics and poetics. Attending also to how the postulate of the Anthropocene is being taking up and reinterpreted in non-Western, especially Asian, contexts, this book has a valuably transnational as well as a profoundly transdisciplinary reach. As such, it is itself a fine exemplar of the project of the environmental humanities." — Kate Rigby, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Bath Spa University, UK and Adjunct Professor of Literary Studies, Monash University, Australia"The start of the Anthropocene marks a dangerous new phase in the life of the planet with profound and unsettling consequences to the human enterprise. For anyone in search of a lucid guide to these problems, Horn and Bergthaller have written an elegant and accessible survey, which introduces us to the intricacies of earth system science without ever losing sight of social and historical perspectives. In eleven succinct chapters, Horn and Bergthaller explore the key contributions of the Anthropocene framework to the humanities, including questions of agency, limits, justice, energy and scale. This is that rare kind of introductory text which will be of value to both newcomers and advanced students." — Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Associate Professor of British History, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, The University of Chicago, USA"The Anthropocene – a proposed name for a new and human-dominated geological epoch - is both a scientific and a popular term, mired in debates and controversies that have deeply influenced humanist thought of our times. Readers will find in Horn and Bergthaller’s book not only a lucid guide to these debates but also an intelligent and thoughtful framework through which to view them. A very welcome addition to the burgeoning literature in the humanities on the Anthropocene." — Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago, USA"The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities provides an excellent survey of the debates surrounding the new geological ‘Age of Humans’ from the perspective of the humanities. It offers impressively precise and pointed summaries of essential arguments from philosophy, anthropology, history, politics, and the arts regarding human transformations of the global environment. Even the most complex ideas are presented in a clear and engaging fashion. A must-read for all readers with an interest in environmental issues!" — Ursula K. Heise, Marcia H. Howard Chair in Literary Studies at the Department of English and the Institute of Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, USA"Sometimes, timing is everything. Horn and Bergthaller intervene at an important moment in the debates about the Anthropocene. The idea that we are entering a new epoch of Earth time in which human beings are playing a key role is one that needs to be to be shaped and contested by the widest possible set of interlocutors. In order for that to happen, people beyond the ‘core set’ of those from various disciplines who have been debating the Anthropocene for the last two decades need to be given the tools to join this urgent collective task. This book, readable and clear without ducking the difficult questions, will help make that possible.The authors are both accomplished and perceptive thinkers, but like the most generous of hosts they do not make themselves the centre of attention – instead, that place goes to their guests, the readers. Horn and Bergthaller provide a very balanced introduction to the terrain; but then, rather than offering yet another magical solution to all the political and epistemological tensions in the Anthropocene concept, and thereby simply adding to the cacophony of interpretations, they then give us a 'cartography of faultlines', gently guiding us through the task of coming to our own sense-making of this turbulent time in both Earth processes and human thought." — Bronislaw Szerszynski, Reader in Sociology, Lancaster University, UK"Over the past decade, the Anthropocene has become the paradigmatic object of inquiry in the emergent environmental humanities, but nowhere has it been explored so comprehensively or incisively as Horn and Bergthaller do here. ‘Anthropocene’ is also a vigorously contested term, for which they examine both predecessors and competitors, whilst making a persuasive case for its continued deployment in a nuanced manner that integrates pertinent critiques. As well as revisiting earlier theoretical paradigms, such as Michel Foucault’s notion of ‘biopolitics’, through the lens of the Anthropocene, they also introduce Anglophone readers to less well-known perspectives from German environmental theory, such as Rolf Peter Sieferle’s eco-historical concept of the socio-metabolic regime. Underpinned by a careful consideration of the scientific research underlying the proposal that the planet has entered a new geological era marked by the largely ecologically disastrous impacts of globalising industrial society, Horn’s and Bergthaller’s brilliant analysis of the implications of this historically unprecedented, and extremely perilous, situation extends to questions of epistemology, religion, ethics, politics, aesthetics and poetics. Attending also to how the postulate of the Anthropocene is being taking up and reinterpreted in non-Western, especially Asian, contexts, this book has a valuably transnational as well as a profoundly transdisciplinary reach. As such, it is itself a fine exemplar of the project of the environmental humanities." — Kate Rigby, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Bath Spa University, UK and Adjunct Professor of Literary Studies, Monash University, Australia"The start of the Anthropocene marks a dangerous new phase in the life of the planet with profound and unsettling consequences to the human enterprise. For anyone in search of a lucid guide to these problems, Horn and Bergthaller have written an elegant and accessible survey, which introduces us to the intricacies of earth system science without ever losing sight of social and historical perspectives. In eleven succinct chapters, Horn and Bergthaller explore the key contributions of the Anthropocene framework to the humanities, including questions of agency, limits, justice, energy and scale. This is that rare kind of introductory text which will be of value to both newcomers and advanced students." — Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Associate Professor of British History, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, The University of Chicago, USA"The Anthropocene – a proposed name for a new and human-dominated geological epoch - is both a scientific and a popular term, mired in debates and controversies that have deeply influenced humanist thought of our times. Readers will find in Horn and Bergthaller’s book not only a lucid guide to these debates but also an intelligent and thoughtful framework through which to view them. A very welcome addition to the burgeoning literature in the humanities on the Anthropocene." — Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago, USA"The volume exceeds expectations, especially given the scope of the task it undertakes. Offering some of the most exquisite interdisciplinary writing in the field, The Anthropoceneis a demanding and multifaceted introduction as well as a relevant work for those who wish to dig deeper." — Susanne Fuchs, Journal of EcohumanismTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Definitions 3. Genealogies 4. Nature and Culture 5. The Anthropos 6. Politics 7. Aesthetics 8. Biopolitics 9. Energy 10. Scales I: The Planetary 11. Scales II: Deep Time 12. Conclusion: How Western Is the Anthropocene?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Landscape Design in Color
Book SynopsisArchitects, landscape architects and urban designers experiment with color and lighting effects in their daily professional practice. Over the past decade, there has been a reinvigorated discussion on color within architectural and cultural studies. Yet, scholarly enquiry within landscape architecture has been minimal despite its important role in landscape design. This book posits that though color and lighting effects appear natural, fleeting, and difficult to comprehend, the sensory palette of built landscapes and gardens has been carefully constructed to shape our experience and evoke meaning and place character. Landscape Design in Color: History, Theory, and Practice 1750 to Today is an inquiry into the themes, theories, and debates on color and its impact on practice in Western landscape architecture over the past three centuries. Divided into three key periods, each chapter in the book looks at the use of color in the written and built work of key prominTrade Review"Mira Engler takes a hearty bite into a space within design that is very rarely discussed: COLOR. Color generates the same disquietude as the topic of beauty, as it’s assumed to be too qualitative within the design profession. Beauty or color are not considered an acceptable form of "vision," but rather irrational, dispensable, and irrelevant in addressing important landscape and environmental issues. Color is even more threatening to clients, especially white men of European descent, who feel it could erode their appearance of being responsible and trustworthy. Women, who are viewed as more frivolous and less responsible, have some latitude with color. But not much. The lack of color discourse underscores how deeply cultural and personal the topic can be. And although most designers shun color and most clients make immediate unfavorable judgements about it, none has the power to ignore it. Reacting to color is in our DNA. The book is a wonderful read. It shares many stories about the impact and glory of color in landscape design, and it shows how color is a strong medium of communication and a chief signifier within world’s cultures. I suggest you read this book and let your freak flag fly!"Martha Schwartz, Martha Schwartz Partners, Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design "Mira Engler’s marvelous book empowers us to understand and shape the world through color. Color is at landscape architecture’s heart affecting perceptions of depth, space, and identity, yet color’s agency is rarely discussed or even acknowledged. Providing a much-needed chromatic overview of landscape history, theory, and practice, Engler’s book bravely tackles a considerable void in landscape knowledge and makes the convincing case for color in landscape architecture and design. This colorful book is a joy to read."Gareth Doherty, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Author of Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State "In Landscape Design in Color, Mira Engler offers us new vistas, taking in the designed environment as well as the cultures they reflect. She breathes new life into old concepts central to art and design disciplines, such as disegno vs. colore, while her discussions of contemporary artists and designers provide points of connection to audiences well outside her field. Engaging with enduring theoretical debates as well as more current treatments of race and gender, this is interdisciplinarity at its most exciting and relevant."Aaron Fine, Professor of Art, Truman State University. Author of Color Theory: A Critical Introduction Table of ContentsPart I: Pre-Modernism 1. Structural Color: Uniform Verdure, Humphry Repton (1752–1818) 2. Artificial Color: Bright and Complementary, J. C. Loudon (1783–1843) 3. Color as Impression: Graduated Harmony, William Robinson (1838–1935) and Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932) Part II: Modernism 4. Material and Phenomenal Color: Simultaneous Contrast, Gabriel Guevrekian (1900–70) 5. Spatial Color: A-Chrome, Garrett Eckbo (1910–2000) 6. Symphony of Color: Tropical Saturation, Roberto Burle Marx (1909–94) Part III: Postmodernism, Onward 7. Conceptual Color: Purely Synthetic, Martha Schwartz (b. 1950) 8. Affective Light Color: Translucence, Petra Blaisse (b. 1955) 9. Color Now: Gender, Skin, and Screen Postscript: Color Prospects
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Project in International Development
Book SynopsisThe project has become fundamental to international development and humanitarian practice, playing a key role in defining objectives, funding streams and ultimately determining what success looks like. This book provides a much-needed overview of the project in international development practice, guiding the reader through the latest theoretical debates, and exploring the core tools and stages of planning and design.The book starts with an overview of the role of the project through development history, before taking the reader through the stages of a standard project management cycle. Each chapter introduces the stage, the most common tools used to support that phase of planning, and the critical debates that exist around it, with examples to illustrate discussions from around the world and a range of development fields. The book explores the challenges to working effectively in contemporary aid contexts, including the role of politics and the pressures wrought by the demandTrade ReviewA timely and neatly presented book that critically reflects upon insufficiently questioned arenas. Scott's multi-sectoral experiences allow for a compelling tightening of the theory-practice gap, guiding readers through the project management cycle as both a practical tool and an instrument for governing aid and taming its politics.Nadine Hassouneh and Elisa Pascucci, researchers at “The Bad Project”, Tampere University, Finland.The project concept and project formats are extraordinarily pervasive in development organizations, yet are largely taken for granted and insufficiently reflected on. Caitlin Scott’s impressive book helps to fill this basic gap in consideration, and it does so clearly, incisively, and thought-provokingly.Des Gasper, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University RotterdamTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Project in International Development 2. Project management in the aid sector 3. Project Inceptions 4. Project Planning : from logframes to adaptive management 5. Monitoring: indicators, adaptation and learning 6. Evaluation and Impact 7. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban Regeneration in the UK
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides an accessible and critical synthesis of urban regeneration in the UK, incorporating key policies, approaches, issues, debates and case studies. The central objective of the textbook is to place the historical and contemporary regeneration agenda in context.Section I sets up the conceptual and policy framework for urban regeneration in the UK. Section II traces policies that have been adopted by central government to influence the social, economic and physical development of cities, including early town and country and housing initiatives, community-focused urban policies of the late 1960s, entrepreneurial property-led regeneration of the 1980s, competition for urban funds in the 1990s, urban renaissance and neighbourhood renewal policies of the late 1990s and 2000s, and new approaches in the age of austerity during the 2010s. Section III illustrates the key thematic policies and strategies that have been pursued by cities themselves, focusing particularTable of ContentsSection I – The Context for Urban Regeneration 1. Introduction: The Decline and Rise of UK Cities Section II – Central Government Urban Regeneration Policy 2. The Early Years of Regeneration: Physical Regeneration (1945–1968) and Social and Community Welfare (1968–1979) 3. Entrepreneurial Regeneration (1980s) 4. Competition and Urban Policy (1991–1997) 5. Urban Renaissance and Neighbourhood Renewal (1997–2010) 6. Regeneration in the Age of Austerity (2010s) Section III – Transforming Cities: City Level Responses to Urban Change 7. Urban Competitiveness 8. New Forms of Urban Governance 9. Community and Regeneration 10. Urban Regeneration and Sustainability 11. Retail-Led Regeneration 12. Housing-Led Regeneration and Gentrification 13. Culture and Regeneration 14. Regenerating Suburban and Exurban Areas of Cities Section IV – Conclusion 15. Urban Regeneration: Learning from the Past, Lessons for the Future
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Prosperity without Growth
Book SynopsisWhat can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental and social limits?The publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate. Tim Jackson's piercing challenge to conventional economics openly questioned the most highly prized goal of politicians and economists alike: the continued pursuit of exponential economic growth. Its findings provoked controversy, inspired debate and led to a new wave of research building on its arguments and conclusions.This substantially revised and re-written edition updates those arguments and considerably expands upon them. Jackson demonstrates that building a post-growth' economy is a precise, definable and meaningful task. Starting from clear first principles, he sets out the dimensions of that task: the nature of enterprise; the quality of our working lives; the structure of investment; and the role of the money supply. He shows how the economy of tomorrow Trade Review‘It is hard to improve a classic, but Jackson has done it… a clearly written yet scholarly union of moral vision with solid economics.’ — Herman Daly, University of Maryland, USA‘I remember exactly where I was when I first read Prosperity Without Growth. It cut through the intellectual clamour with clarity, courage — and hope.’ — Naomi Klein, Author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate‘An excellent critical review of mainstream academic thoughts on poverty in the contemporary global system; a convincing illustration of the shortcomings of these thoughts on the case of Canada’ — Samir Amin, Professor of Political Economy, Director of Third World Forum and Chair of World Forum For Alternatives, Egypt‘With much of the world in turmoil, calling for higher economic growth is every politician’s comfort blanket of choice. But Tim Jackson compellingly urges those politicians to give up their comfort blanket, to re-think our continuing dependence on economic growth, and to start preparing – urgently – for a world where such growth is no longer viable as its environmental cost massively exceeds its benefits. Prosperity Without Growth remains the single most important book addressing this most critical of contemporary challenges.’ — Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director of Forum for the Future, UK. ‘Tim Jackson's Prosperity without Growth systematises and renders tangible an essential project few believed to be practical: recovering the dream of shared prosperity and human development through decoupling it from the bandwagon of growth. Essential reading for those refusing to succumb to a dystopic future.’ — Yanis Varoufakis, DiEM25 co-founder and Professor of Economics, University of Athens, Greece. ‘Tim Jackson has brought his ground-breaking book bang up to date and substantially deepened its arguments. This extensively revised edition sets out more clearly than ever the dimensions of a new and different economics – working for people, planet and prosperity. There isn’t a better exposition out there of why and how we need to move beyond growth.’ — Caroline Lucas, MP for Brighton, Pavilion and a member of the Green Party, UK. 'One of the most important essays of our generation: both visionary and realistic, rooted in careful research and setting out difficult but achievable goals, it gives what we so badly need - an alternative to passivity, short-term selfishness and cynicism.' — Dr Rowan Williams, The Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge University and was the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, UK. ‘This challenge to the prevailing growth-based economic paradigm confronts an inescapable dilemma: how to reconcile "our aspirations for the good life with the limitations and constraints of a finite planet." Its thoughtful and penetrating critique is enriched by an outline of credible programs to achieve this end. A very valuable contribution to urgent concerns that cannot be ignored.’ — Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics, MIT, USA. ‘Tim Jackson spearheads the obvious truth that GDP growth is not necessary in order to achieve higher well-being in the rich world. Government intervention can produce the desired result, namely full employment, less inequity and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.’ — Jorgen Randers, author of "2052 – A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years"(2012) and co-author of "One Percent is Enough. Managing economic growth to reduce unemployment, inequity and greenhouse gas emissions." (2016)"Tim Jackson’s revised second edition of his Prosperity without Growth continues to provide a stimulating and accessible account of the issues facing the planet, an assessment of how we’re dealing with the problems, and the kinds of solutions that are necessary for us to be able to continue to live and thrive here." --Jonathan Warner, Quest University, CanadaTable of ContentsForeword to the first edition Prologue to the second edition1 The Limits to Growth 2 Prosperity Lost 3 Redefining Prosperity 4 The Dilemma of Growth 5 The Myth of Decoupling 6 The ‘Iron Cage’ of Consumerism 7 Flourishing – Within Limits 8 Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow 9 Towards a ‘Post-growth’ Macroeconomics 10 The Progressive State11 A Lasting Prosperity
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Pearson Education Limited Edexcel GCE Geography AS Level Student Book and
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Pearson Education Limited Earth An Introduction to Physical Geology Global
Book SynopsisTable of Contents 1. An Introduction to Geology 2. Plate Tectonics: A Scientific Revolution Unfolds 3. Matter and Minerals 4. Magma, Igneous Rocks, and Intrusive Activity 5. Volcanoes and Volcanic Hazards 6. Weathering and Soil 7. Sedimentary Rocks 8. Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks 9. Geologic Time 10. Crustal Deformation 11. Earthquakes and Earthquake Hazards 12. Earth’s Interior 13. Divergent Boundaries: Origin and Evolution of the Ocean Floor 14. Convergent Boundaries: Origin of Mountains 15. Mass Wasting: The Work of Gravity 16. Running Water 17. Groundwater 18. Glaciers and Glaciation 19. Deserts and Winds 20. Shorelines 21. Global Climate Change 22. Earth’s Evolution Through Geologic Time 23. Energy and Mineral Resources 24. Touring Our Solar System Appendix A: Metric and English Units Compared
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Clothing Alterations and Repairs
Book SynopsisA detailed, step-by-step guide to successfully altering and repairing ready-made apparel that will help you achieve the perfect fit and extend the life of your clothing.Whether you are interested in tailoring your wardrobe, starting a business, or learning a skill that will save you money and the planet, you''ll find what you need through illustrated step-by-step projects and no-nonsense videos. You''ll learn to make alterations to your ready-made clothing, including a variety of hemming techniques and taking in/ letting out seams, and repair methods to fix zippers, tears, and holes. There are also detailed guidelines on more complex techniques, including adjusting suit jacket sleeves, reshaping necklines and even fixing backpacks, tents and bags.Trade ReviewChelsey's passion for teaching comes through vividly in this book. Her knowledge of various alteration techniques will aid anyone learning to sew or complete clothing alterations. There is a growing trend to reduce textile waste by altering or repairing the clothing that would otherwise end up in a landfill. If you would like to contribute to that trend then this book is step one for you. * Sara Holden, Owner, Altered Ego, LLC, USA. *A long-awaited and very welcome addition to my shelf. Chelsey Byrd Lewallen does a masterful job of providing the depth and the detail of repairs, without making assumptions of the reader’s skill level or ability, making this an incredibly accessible text for all levels. * Sarah Mosher, Assistant Professor of Costume Design and Technology in Theatre Arts, Baylor University, USA *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. How to Use this Book and Tools of the Trade How to Use this Book Tools of the Trade Types of Pins Types of Rulers Marking Tools Needles Thread Machines Pressing/ Ironing Hardware and Tools 2. Working with Alterations, Repairs and Clients Before you get started The Bare Necessities Sewing Space The Deluxe Sewing Space Step Two: The Logistics of Clothing Alterations and Repairs Finding the Problem Step Three: Working with clients Identifying fabric Fiber Content Structure: Wovens, Knits, and Nonwovens 3. Bottom Hems Shortening Measuring Pants, Shorts, Skirts and Dresses for Hemming Serge and Blind Hem Three Methods: Blind Hemming Machine, Home Machine Blind Hem, or Hand Stitch Twice Turn Hem Cadet Cut Hem Knitwear Coverstitch Hem Knitwear Faux Coverstitch using a Twin Needle Twice-Turned Hem On Eveningwear and Formalwear Napkin Roll Hem Hand Stitch Hems: Cross Stitch, Vertical Hem Stitch, Prick/ Pick Stitch Cross Stitch Vertical Hem Stitch Prick/ Pick Stitch Lengthening Bottom Hems: Maxing Out Adding Fabric Bias Tape Adding Fabric Adding Lace 4. Top Hems Knitwear Coverstitch Knitwear Faux Coverstitch using a Twin Needle Shirttail Hem Lined Suit Jacket Hem Unlined Suit Jacket Hems Maxing Out Seam Allowance Lengthening Suit Jacket Hems 5. Taking in Bottoms Back Gap Waistbands: Using Elastic Side Seams/ Outseams & Inseam Tips Sample Measurement Table Inseams Darts/Pleats/ Tucks Ease/ Gathers Taking in a Skirt or Pant with a Side Zipper Side Seams Inseams Waistbands: Using Seam Allowance, Elastic, or Gussets Waistbands: Using Seam Allowance Waistbands: Using Elastic Waistbands: Using Gussets/ Farbic Panels 6. Letting Out Bottoms Side Seams Inseams Waistbands: Using Seam Allowance, Elastic, or Gussets Waistbands: Using Seam Allowance 7. Jeans Taking in the Center Back/ Back Gap: Jeans Jeans Hem with Option to Distress Original Jean Hem Taking in the Outseams/ Inseams 8. Taking in Tops Side Seams Princess Seams/ Darts on Front Top Pleats/ Tucks Boned Bodices in Formalwear 9. Letting Out Tops Side Seams Panels Boned Bodices in Formalwear 10. Sleeves, Shoulders and Armscyes When to Say “No!” Taking up Shoulders Taking in Sleeves or Sleeves and Side Seams Lined Suit Jacket Sleeve Hems Button Down Shirt Cuffs and Plackets 11. Crotch Seams How to Measure Crotch Seams Taking in Crotch Seams Letting out Crotch Seams Adding Gussets 12. Necklines and Collars Collar/ Neckline Types Reshaping Necklines Collar Adjustments 13. Repairs Buttons How to Sew on a Button that has Fallen off or is Loose on a Garment two and Four-Hole Button Shank Button Decorative Patches/ Visible Mending Iron-On Patches Stitch Witchery/ Fusible Bonding Patches About Darning Machine Darning Hand Darning Zippers Anatomy of a Zipper Types of Zippers When to Replace a Zipper When to Fix a Zipper/ Replace a Zipper Head Replacing a Zipper Head on Non-Separating/Closed/ Closed at Both Ends/ Continuous Zippers Replacing a Zipper Head on for Separating Zippers When to Replace a Zipper Head When to Say No Linings Replacing or Rethreading Drawstrings Hook and Loop Tape Resources Glossary Acknowledgements Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Staging the End of the World
Book SynopsisThis book is a brief history of the end of the world as seen through the eyes of theatre. Since its inception, theatre has staged the fall of empires, floods, doomsdays, shipwrecks, earthquakes, plagues, environmental degradations, warfare, nuclear annihilation, and the catastrophic effects of climate change. Using a wide range of plays alongside contemporary thinkers, this study helps guide and galvanize the reader in grappling with the climate crisis. Kulick divides this litany of theatrical cataclysms into four distinct historical phases: the Ancients, including Euripides and Bhasa, the legendary Sanskrit dramatist; the Age of Belief, with the anonymous authors of the medieval mystery cycles, Shakespeare, and Pushkin; the Moderns, with Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, Beckett, and Bond; and, finally, the way the world might end now, encompassing Caryl Churchill, Tony Kushner, and Anne Washburn. In tandem with the insights gleaned from these playwrights, the book draws upon the work Trade ReviewIt's odd to call a book about the apocalypse delightful. It's odd to encounter a book about plays, a work of literary and philosophical inquiry, that has the urgency and force of a political tract, that's unashamedly, and persuasively, a call to action. It's almost as odd to encounter a rigorous scholarly work of extraordinary erudition that's also grippingly, compellingly readable. Staging The End Of The World is all these things; I've never read anything like it. Jonathan Schell, Amitav Ghosh, Hannah Arendt, Asja Lacis, Arne Naess, Thich Nhat Hanh, Davids Benatar and Graeber, Kant and Levinas are just a few among the legions assembled by the author to engage with, expand upon and illuminate the works of a host of playwrights, from Aeschylus to Anne Washburn, for a deeply serious exploration of the most serious subject imaginable. These pages are often heartbreaking, frightening, disturbing, and they contain passages of dark despair, but they're suffused with generosity, clarity and a strange, original spirit of grief-stricken determination and joy. Brian Kulick, a great theater artist who's also a glorious thinker and writer, has written a book that's an important contribution to our understanding of how plays work on us and what they can tell us about ourselves and our overwhelming, imperiled world; and more than that, he's offered magnificent proof of the necessity of playfulness, even in the face of the direst circumstances, if we hope to discover paths forward and to create change. * Tony Kushner *Brian Kulick’s latest book is a marvel and a delight. Staging the End of the World uses theatre to examine humanity's most chilling fears and deepest hopes. Kulick’s brilliant mind refuses to accept traditional intellectual boundaries. This is a wonderful book about the theatre which is also a mesmerizing philosophical study and an urgent response to climate change. Kulick is the most incisive and widely learned mind in the American theatre, and he has written an indispensable book. * Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, Public Theater, New York City, USA *A thought-provoking and timely analysis of theatre’s preoccupation with the end of the world and eco-catastrophe from antiquity to the present. * Chris Megson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: On Transforming Our Social Imaginary PART ONE: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS IN ANCIENT TIMES 1. Lessons Amongst the Ruins; Or, What Survives and Why: How the Cultural Detritus of the Ancients Can Become a Kind of First Philosophy 2. Slouching Toward Kurukshetra: A Brief Look at the Mahabharatas of Bhasa, Bharati, and Brook 3. Diasporas Old and New: What Euripides' Children of Herakles Can Tell Us About the Coming Climate Wars and Resulting Refugee Crisis PART TWO: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS IN THE AGE OF FAITH 4. Noahs, Arks, and Floods: Why Medieval Mystery Plays Still Have Something to Say About Our Modern Day “End of Days” 5. Shipwrecks, Recursion, and the Necessity of Deep Ecology: Surviving Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the Breaking of Our Anthropocene Ways 6. On Earthquakes and Metaphors: Bouilly’s Disaster of Lisbon and the Fukushima Variation PART THREE: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS IN MODERN TIMES 7. Plague’s Threat to Our Immune and Belief Systems: A Look at Pushkin’s A Feast in the Time of Plague 8. A Canary in the Bourgeois Coal Mine, Part One: Pollution and Direct Critique in Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People 9. A Canary in the Bourgeois Coal Mine, Part Two: Denial and Indirect Critique in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard PART FOUR: THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS NOW 10. Ethics During Dark Times: Brecht’s He Who Says Yes and He Who Says No 11. On the Other Side of the Apocalypse: The Broken Worlds of Beckett and Bond 12. Nostalgia for the Future: The Fraught Tomorrows of Rivera, Churchill, Washburn, and Kushner Coda: And in the End Notes Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC An Illustrated Coastal Year
Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated and informative anthology of coastal wildlife throughout the year.They say that no one in the British Isles lives more than an hour or two from the coast, a coastline of contrasts with scenery that changes from estuaries, shingle beaches, saltmarshes and sand dunes, to rocky shores, rugged cliffs, machair and bustling harbours.Our shores are teeming with wildlife, be it in the water, on the tideline, clinging to cliffs or in the skies above them, and this beautiful book you can learn more about familiar and favourite coastal species and some intriguing lesser-known marine creatures.Season by season, Celia Lewis''s wonderful illustrations show the flowers, birds, animals, fish and insects found at that time of year. Her craft projects, using driftwood, pebbles and shells, are suitable for all ages and will encourage you to put beachcombed mementos to surprising uses. Or get creative with food and work some foraged ingredients iTrade ReviewThe book is a veritable symphony of the sea. -- Lucy Jones * BBC Wildlife *Artist Celia Lewis's tone is fresh and breezy, but beneath the low-key charm lies a trove of riches and reminders about the UK coast. -- Lucy Jones * BBC Wildlife *Dotted throughout the book are celebrations of glorious British wildlife ... lovingly depicted in exquisite detail making them a joy to pore over. -- Lucy Jones * BBC Wildlife *Lewis captures the spectacular shades of the British coastline with a deft and colourful touch. * BBC Wildlife *This beautifully illustrated book will enhance any visit to the seaside. * Coast *Celia Lewis combines her own beautiful watercolours with informative text, showing how seasons change at the water's edge. Birds, animals, fish and insects - they are all here. * This England *This is an artistic look at life along the seashore. * Bird Watching *The seashore is uncovered season by season in this delightfully illustrated book ... the author's watercolours, linocuts and informative commentary highlight and identify what you might see or pick up during a walk along the tideline or a coastal path. * Choice *This is a visual delight of a book exploring the varied fauna and flora, from small to large, that can be found in the water and onshore around the British coast during the year ... It contains some beautiful watercolours of a wide variety of wildlife from otters and puffins, to porpoise and starfish. * Countryside *We all love spending time near the water's edge, so next time you feel like stretching your legs along a coastal path, fancy a day trip to the seaside or are planning balmy summer holidays, dip into An Illustrated Coastal Year and be inspired by the incredible diversity of wildlife to be found around our little archipelago. * Land Love magazine *A delightful book easy to dip in and out of, that both pleases the eye and educates at the same time. * The Landsman *Table of ContentsPreface Spring Summer Autumn Winter Useful websites Acknowledgements Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The End of Eden
Book SynopsisAt once an elegy and an exhortation.ELIZABETH KOLBERT A revelatory exploration of climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems - an homage to the miraculous, vibrant entity that is life on Earth.The stories we usually tell ourselves about climate change tend to focus on the damage inflicted on human societies by big storms, severe droughts, and rising sea levels. But the most powerful impacts are being and will be felt by the natural world and its myriad species, which are already in the midst of the sixth great extinction. Rising temperatures are fracturing ecosystems that took millions of years to evolve, disrupting the life forms they sustain - and in many cases driving them towards extinction. The natural Eden that humanity inherited is quickly slipping away.Although we can never really know what a creature thinks or feels, The End of Eden invites the reader to meet wild species on their own terms in a range of ecosystems that span the glTrade ReviewA moving, chilling elegy for biodiversity as we know it … The world that Adam Welz describes is in terminal collapse. The tone of the book … is measured and precise, the atmosphere cool, displaying not outrage but instead careful attention to accuracy in descriptions and analyses. A disturbing and important book. * New York Times *Climate change, Adam Welz shows, is already pushing many creatures toward oblivion, and its impacts are only going to grow. The End of Eden is at once an elegy and an exhortation—a plea to save what’s left of the Earth’s magnificent diversity. * Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of THE SIXTH EXTINCTION *Welz’s elegy for the natural world will leave you marveling at the intricacies of animal adaptations over millenniums of evolution even as you mourn their rapid loss in the face of human culture. * New York Times Review of Books *Adam Welz’s The End of Eden should begin with the same kind of content warning that flashes across TV screens before the start of certain shows. “This program contains graphic images. Viewer discretion is advised.” … it is a book that fundamentally changes us as we read. * Washington Independent Review of Books *Welz’s study, which he conceived as an attempt to examine such disruptions ‘without turning myself to stone,’ amounts to a haunting warning. * The New Yorker *Eye-opening … A poignant elegy for creatures lost to climate change and a rigorous call to arms against further devastation. * Kirkus Reviews *An eloquent, deeply informed account of the unfolding consequences of the climate crisis for all life on Earth. * Michelle Nijhuis, author of BELOVED BEASTS: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction *A beautifully rendered tour of a natural world on the brink. * Publisher's Weekly *Adam Welz has thrown a wonderfully wide net over the natural world, from birds to corals to mammals, in Europe, North America and Australia, to portray the array of life at risk in a rapidly warming world. He evokes wonder, which may well be the last arrow we have in the quiver to convince us to change our course. * Jim Robbins, New York Times correspondent and author of THE WONDER OF BIRDS *
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Edinburgh University Press Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil
Book SynopsisStudies how oil has shaped the societies and cultures of the modern and contemporary Middle East.Trade Review"This groundbreaking collection of interdisciplinary essays is a major contribution to understanding the social life of oil in the Middle East. Rather than the usual and reductive focus on the geopolitics of oil or the impact of its financial revenues in enabling states and ruling elites, the contributors shed light on the many ways in which oil has shaped everyday social experience, covering topics from the ecology and the built environment of cities and nation states to the public imaginaries and the cultural and material lives of ordinary peoples. ?" -Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul University
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John Murray Press UnStuck
Book SynopsisA collection of healing and inspirational stories, written for parents and caregivers to help our youth fearlessly forge their own path in this new world.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Future of Environmental Criticism
Book Synopsis* A critical summary of the emerging discipline of ecocriticism. * Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism. * Traces the history of the ecocritical movement from its roots in the 1970s through to its diversification and proliferation today.Trade Review"Where did ecocriticism spring from? What directions has it taken on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond? What have been its key debates? What are its most radical strands that should take environmentally aware literary criticism into the future? Economically and elegantly, Lawrence Buell develops an astutely judged overview of a richly diverse but crucially important movement in literary studies. A leading practitioner in the field, Buell reveals how his own work has been influenced by the key debates and identifies the challenges for us all, writers and readers, local neighbours and global species, in facing the future our literary culture mediates and influences." Terry Gifford, author of Pastoral (1999) and The Unreliable Mushrooms (poetry, 2003). "A much needed overview of a vital new field, The Future of Environmental Criticism captures the ecocritical movement’s present state of dynamic metamorphosis as it opens into post-humanism and ecofeminism, engages poststructural theory and environmental justice, and tests out alliances with various scientific fields and critical science studies in an increasingly international context. Nobody could accomplish this task better than Lawrence Buell, whose earlier books The Environmental Imagination and Writing for an Endangered World have become defining works for the environmental turn in literary scholarship. The previous works were primarily American in focus, while the new one begins in an Anglo-American context and broadens to a global literary scope. This latest volume completes an indispensable trilogy." Louise Westling, University of Oregon “Buell (Harvard) is one of the US’s major voices on environmental criticism-.-a fairly recent area of literary and cultural studies known as “ecocriticism.” Several recent works have offered suggestions about how this movement or approach can be defined, but none addresses the subject so broadly, so authoritatively, and in such precise and carefully considered terms as this one does- Buell helped establish the terms for humanistic environmental writing with The Environmental Imagination (CR, Sep’95, 33-0121) and Writing for an Endangered World (CH, Nov01., 39-1386), and he perceives the present study as a “roadmap of trends, emphases, and controversies within green literary studies more generally.’ Comprising five brief chapters, all accessible and extraordinarily well informed, the book starts with a history of environmental criticism and writing; moves to a consideration of the relevant major writers involved in complicating its issues; considers its impact in terms of ethics and gender and of the judiciary and politics; and finally looks at its future, The glossary, full notes, and extended bibliography make it clear that the book’s main thrust is definitional, though Buell sees the study as more ‘essayistic” than definitive, Summing Up: Essential: All academic libraries.” T. Loe, SUNY Oswego “Buell’s survey, framed by chapters about the emergence and possible future development of ecocriticism, organizes its material through a focus on issues of literary realism and representation in their relation to nature (chapter 2); the central role of place, space, and imagination for ecocritical thought (chapter 3); and a discussion of politics and ethics in ecocriticism that ranges from deep ecology to ecofeminism and environmental justice (chapter 4). These broad but well chosen categories allow Buell to cover an enormous range of creative and theoretical material that he discusses with the encompassing mastery and insight that readers of his two earlier works on ecocriticism … have come to expect.” Contemporary Literature "This is an important beginning that shows how the future of the book lies in the past." Travis V. Mason, Canadian Literature 191 “An extremely methodical, accessible, and timely introduction to the field of environmental criticism for specialists and non-specialists alike, a teasing insight into ecocriticism at work, and an excellent exposition of the development and evolution of the discipline in its most recent manifestations.” Ruth Glynn, University of Bristol, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. 1 The Emergence of Environmental Criticism. 2 The World, the Text, and the Ecocritic. 3 Space, Place, and Imagination from Local to Global. 4 The Ethics and Politics of Environmental Criticism. 5 Environmental Criticism’s Future. Glossary of Selected Terms. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Urban Geography
Book SynopsisUrban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities. Reveals both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and the networks, flows and relations which increasingly connect cities and urban spaces at the global scale Uses the city as a lens for proposing and developing critical concepts which show how wider social processes, relations, and power structures are changing Considers the experiences, lives, practices, struggles, and words of ordinary urban residents and marginalized social groups rather than exclusively those of urban elites Shows readers how to develop critical perspectives on dominant neoliberal representations of the city and explore the great diversity of urban worlds Trade Review“I like this book for the above points. The authors have succeeded to stir thoughts about urbanization and to appreciate urban geography from an alternative perspective. This book would be particularly helpful to students and those involved in urbanization processes, including businesses.” (3D Visualization World Magazine, 24 June 2015) Table of ContentsList of Figures vii List of Tables xi List of Boxes xii Acknowledgments xiv Preface xvi 1 Approaching the City 1 2 Cities for Whom? The Contours and Commitments of Critical Urban Geography 27 3 Production, Economy, and the City 53 4 A World of Cities 77 5 Labor and the City 100 6 The City and Social Reproduction 122 7 Governing the City: The State, Urban Planning, and Politics 141 8 Experiencing Cities 162 9 Molding and Marketing the Image of the City 184 10 Nature and Environment in the City 206 11 Urban Arts and Visual Cultures 229 12 Alternative Urban Spaces and Politics 252 13 Urban Crises 274 14 Epilogue: Critical Urban Geographies and Their Futures 299 Glossary 307 References 325 Index 347
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Handbook of Erosion Modelling
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Worlding Cities
Book SynopsisWorlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of generations, disciplines, and sites of study. Describes the new theoretical framework of worlding' Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital and culture Includes a unique collection of authors across generations, disciplines, and sites of study Demonstrates how references to Asian power, success, and hegemony make possible urban development and limit urban politics Trade Review“I am hopeful that this collection, along with others of its kind, will inspire new lines of research and theorisation that will help arrest the actual realities of cities in an era of planetary urbanisation.” (Urban Studies, 1 February 2015) Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii Series Editors’ Preface xiii Preface and Acknowledgments xv Introduction Worlding Cities, or the Art of Being Global 1 Aihwa Ong Part I Modeling 27 1 Singapore as Model: Planning Innovations, Knowledge Experts 29 Chua Beng Huat 2 Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City-Building in China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanisms 55 Lisa Hoffman 3 Planning Privatopolis: Representation and Contestation in the Development of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects 77 Gavin Shatkin 4 Ecological Urbanization: Calculating Value in an Age of Global Climate Change 98 Shannon May Part II Inter-Referencing 127 5 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's Urban Postmodern: The Case of Hong Kong 129 Helen F. Siu 6 Cracks in the Façade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in Dubai 160 Chad Haines 7 Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities – Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai 182 Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann 8 Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace of Sovereignty 205 Aihwa Ong Part III New Solidarities 227 9 Speculating on the Next World City 229 Michael Goldman 10 The Blockade of the World-Class City: Dialectical Images of Indian Urbanism 259 Ananya Roy 11 Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi 279 D. Asher Ghertner Conclusion Postcolonial Urbanism: Speed, Hysteria, Mass Dreams 307 Ananya Roy Index 336
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Fossils at a Glance
Book SynopsisFossils provide a powerful tool for the study of the nearly 4-billion-year history of life, and its role in the evolution of Earth systems. They also provide important data for evolutionary studies, and contribute to our understanding of the extinction of organisms and the origins of modern biodiversity.Trade Review"Generally, the book by Milsom & Rigby is a must for all beginners (especially undergraduate students) and educators in geosciences (not only palaeontology, but also general and historical geology). Additionally, the reviewer tends to recommend this book strongly for fossil amateurs and field geologists." (Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie, 1 January 2011) Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. 1. Introduction. 2. Fossil classification and evolution. 3. Sponges. 4. Corals. 5. Bryozoans. 6. Brachiopods. 7. Echinoderms. 8. Trilobites. 9. Mollusks. 10. Graptolites. 11. Vertebrates. 12. Land plants. 13. Microfossils. 14. Trace fossils. 15. Precambrian life. 16. Phanerozoic life. Reading list. Geological timescale. Index.
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Little, Brown Book Group Adventures in Volcanoland
Book SynopsisAdventures in Volcanoland charts journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the world''s most important volcanoes, from Nicaragua to Hawaii, Santorini to Ethiopia, exploring Tamsin Mather''s obsession with these momentous geological formations, the cultural and religious roles they have played in the minds of those living around them at different times throughout history, and the science behind their formation and eruptions.Volcanoes help to make and shape our world, bursting forth from inside of the earth and, in many places, looming over us. Present since the earth''s beginning they continue to maintain its life support systems and, their extraordinary chemistry may even have created the ingredients needed for life to kick start.In some places volcanoes are even beginning to provide us with part of the energy we need to curb our use of fossil fuels. They have fascinated humans for millennia, their eruptions charted throughout
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Storms of My Grandchildren
Book Synopsis_______________''When the history of the climate crisis is written, Hansen will be seen as the scientist with the most powerful and consistent voice calling for intelligent action to preserve our planet''s environment'' - Al GoreFew people know more about climate change than James Hansen ... This unnerving and fluently written book is the definitive one to read'' - BBC WildlifeAnyone concerned about the world our children and grandchildren must inherit owes it to themselves to read this book'' - Irish Times_______________An urgent and provocative call to action from the world''s leading climate scientist Dr James Hansen, the world''s leading scientist on climate issues, speaks out with the full truth about global warming: the planet is hurtling to a climatic point of no return. Hansen - whose climate predictions have come to pass again and again, beginning in the 1980s when he first warned US Congress about global warming -Trade Review'When the history of the climate crisis is written, Hansen will be seen as the scientist with the most powerful and consistent voice calling for intelligent action to preserve our planet's environment.' * Al Gore *‘Anyone concerned about the world our children and grandchildren must inherit owes it to themselves to read this book' * Irish Times *‘James Hansen gives us the opportunity to watch a scientist who is sick of silence and compromise; a scientist at the breaking point - the point at which he is willing to sacrifice his credibility to make a stand to avert disaster' * LA Times *‘Few people know more about climate change than James Hansen ... This unnerving and fluently written book is the definitive one to read' * BBC Wildlife *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Reading the Rocks
Book SynopsisA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017A rich and exuberant group biography of the first geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history. These first geologists were made up primarily, and inevitably, of gentlemen with the necessary wealth to support their interests, yet boosting their numbers, expanding their learning and increasing their findings were clergymen, academics and women. This lively and eclectic collection of characters brought passion, eccentricity and towering intellect to geology and Brenda Maddox in Reading the Rocks does them full justice, bringing them to vivid life. The new science of geology was pursued by this assorted band because it opened a window on Earth's ancient past. They showed great courage in facing the conflict between geology and Genesis that immediately presented itself: for the rocks and fossils being dug up showed that the Earth was immeasurably old, rather than springing from aTrade ReviewReading the Rocks, the latest book by the frighteningly prolific biographer Brenda Maddox, relates how a handful of British men – and one woman – blasted out the intellectual cutting through which the theory of natural selection would follow … Maddox, whose previous biographical scalps include George Eliot, DH Lawrence and Rosalind Franklin, has a fine eye for idiosyncrasy, the primacy of money and the sheer squawking rivalrousness of the academic world’ -- Oliver Moody * The Times *If you liked Jenny Uglow’s The Lunar Men, you’ll enjoy this colourful group biography of the Victorian gentleman geologists and fossil-hunters (not all of whom were gentlemen) who established that the Earth was formed somewhat before 4004BC – which was the widely accepted date before those little geological hammers started chipping away. Maddox writes elegant, old-school scientific-biographical history, and she shapes this story neatly as a prequel to Charles Darwin’s better-known one -- Books of the Year * Sunday Times *Brenda Maddox’s new book is about this magic moment in the history of modern geology … the overall result is a fascinating picture of scientific life, and of fundamental changes in thinking, over a vital half-century ***** * Daily Telegraph *Maddox’s book is a fascinating group biography of the pioneers of geology who eventually inspired Charles Darwin to develop his theory of evolution … Maddox brings to life the personalities of the time and conjures superbly the excitement and controversy that the new science caused -- Ian Critchley * Sunday Times *The rock/collecting geek in me loved this enthralling group biography in Lunar Men-style of the first geologist -- A History Pick of the Month * Bookseller *The intricacy of detail, such as professional jealousies and the finger points of controversies, will appeal to specialists, but the leavening of this scholarly book with a wealth of incidental information, from Lyell’s views on slavery to Wordsworth’s thoughts on the violations of Mother Nature, ensures that it will also be of interest to the general reader * Country Life *
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Policy Press Radical Solutions to the Housing Supply Crisis
Book SynopsisThis book analyses the roots of the current housing crisis in England, critically reviewing the development of policy under successive UK Governments and presenting a specific critique of the current Conservative Government's housing and planning reforms.Trade Review"This timely and accessible book offers an alternative to existing accounts and an authoritative perspective that will stimulate academic and policy debate over how to address the continuing failure of housing supply and housing policy in England." Alan Murie, Emeritus Professor of Urban and Regional Studies, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsSection 1: The context; Conservative government policy and the Housing and Planning Act 2016; Critiques of the current direction of government policy; The failure of governments since 1979 and the ideological continuities; Section 2: The crisis of housing supply; The housing deficit; Affordable by whom?; The wrong kind of homes; The ineffecient use of the existing stock; The failure of the English planning system; Section 3: There is an alternative; A radical programme for reform; Conclusion: The four key issues.
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Guilford Publications Introduction to Mediation Moderation and
Book SynopsisAcclaimed for its thorough presentation of mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis, this book has been updated to reflect the latest developments in PROCESS for SPSS, SAS, and, new to this edition, R. Using the principles of ordinary least squares regression, Andrew F. Hayes illustrates each step in an analysis using diverse examples from published studies, and displays SPSS, SAS, and R code for each example. Procedures are outlined for estimating and interpreting direct, indirect, and conditional effects; probing and visualizing interactions; testing hypotheses about the moderation of mechanisms; and reporting different types of analyses. Readers gain an understanding of the link between statistics and causality, as well as what the data are telling them. The companion website (www.afhayes.com) provides data for all the examples, plus the free PROCESS download. New to This Edition *Rewritten Appendix A, which provides the only documentationTrade Review“I know I speak for organizational researchers and graduate students everywhere when I say how much PROCESS, and prior editions of this book, have contributed to making some of the more difficult parts of the research process accessible and fun. I look forward to using the third edition in my own research, and (again) buying a copy for all my graduate students. Adding to the appeal of the third edition are features such as the new code for R users--now available for every example in the book--and techniques to analyze the strength of two specific direct effects that differ in sign. Hayes has made an immense contribution with his continual updates to PROCESS, and shows in his writing and his workshops that he is a gifted teacher.”--Julian Barling, PhD, FRSC, Distinguished University Professor and Borden Chair of Leadership, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Canada "This book would make an excellent companion text to accompany a course on regression analysis that also addresses mediation and moderation, two topics of enormous practical utility. It can also serve as a useful reference for more experienced researchers and methodologists wanting to learn about mediation, moderation, and advanced applications. Reading this book is like taking an immersive workshop on mediation and moderation analysis, with the author right there to explain everything."--Kristopher J. Preacher, PhD, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University "This book is a staple on my bookshelf and a text that I recommend to all my students who are interested in quantitative research. The impressive third edition now includes code and examples for R. Making the incredibly flexible and useful analytic tools of PROCESS available for a free, open-source statistical software program is a huge contribution to the field. This is a most useful book for advanced graduate courses that focus on regression, as well as for faculty.”--Michael D. Broda, PhD, School of Education, Virginia Commonwealth University "I have used this text for several years in my graduate-level statistics classes. It makes the teaching of mediation and moderation much easier, and the associated PROCESS code makes conducting these analyses much less tedious. Colleagues have found this book and PROCESS very helpful in their research endeavors, and several of my students have used PROCESS in their theses and dissertations. The third edition has all of the things I liked about the earlier editions, plus some nice new stuff--the inclusion of R code will be helpful to those who do not have access to SAS or SPSS, and I especially enjoyed the more detailed discussion of unstandardized, standardized, and partially standardized coefficients. I recommend this book without reservation."--Karl L. Wuensch, PhD, Department of Psychology, East Carolina University-A very nice book that is readable enough for the intermediate statistics user but with enough technical detail to appeal to advanced users as well....This book would make an excellent textbook for an advanced graduate-level multiple regression course, or just a great resource for the interested reader. (on the first edition)--Journal of Educational Measurement, 8/1/2014ƒƒThis book elegantly presents both the basic and advanced issues of mediation and moderation analysis…It will be beneficial for graduate students and applied researchers who are interested in causal mechanisms using linear models. (on the first edition)--Journal of the American Statistical Association, 9/1/2014Table of ContentsI. Fundamentals 1. Introduction 1.1. A Scientist in Training 1.2. Questions of Whether, If, How, and When 1.3. Conditional Process Analysis 1.4. Correlation, Causality, and Statistical Modeling 1.5. Statistical and Conceptual Diagrams, and Antecedent and Consequent Variables 1.6. Statistical Software 1.7. Overview of This Book 1.8. Chapter Summary 2. Fundamentals of Linear Regression Analysis 2.1. Correlation and Prediction 2.2. The Simple Linear Regression Model 2.3. Alternative Explanations for Association 2.4. Multiple Linear Regression 2.5. Measures of Model Fit 2.6. Statistical Inference 2.7. Multicategorical Antecedent Variables 2.8. Assumptions for Interpretation and Statistical Inference 2.9. Chapter Summary II. Mediation Analysis 3. The Simple Mediation Model 3.1. The Simple Mediation Model 3.2. Estimation of the Direct, Indirect, and Total Effects of X 3.3. Example with Dichotomous X: The Influence of Presumed Media Influence 3.4. Statistical Inference 3.5. An Example with Continuous X: Economic Stress among Small-Business Owners 3.6. Chapter Summary 4. Causal Steps, Scaling, Confounding, and Causal Order 4.1. What about Baron and Kenny? 4.2. Confounding and Causal Order 4.3. Effect Scaling 4.4. Multiple Xs or Ys: Analyze Separately or Simultaneously? 4.5. Chapter Summary 5. More Than One Mediator 5.1. The Parallel Multiple Mediator Model 5.2. Example Using the Presumed Media Influence Study 5.3. Statistical Inference 5.4. The Serial Multiple Mediator Model 5.5. Models with Parallel and Serial Mediation Properties 5.6. Complementarity and Competition among Mediators 5.7. Chapter Summary 6. Mediation Analysis with a Multicategorical Antecedent 6.1. Relative Total, Direct, and Indirect Effects 6.2. An Example: Sex Discrimination in the Workplace 6.3. Using a Different Group Coding System 6.4. Some Miscellaneous Issues 6.5. Chapter Summary III. Moderation Analysis 7. Fundamentals of Moderation Analysis 7.1. Conditional and Unconditional Effects 7.2. An Example: Climate Change Disasters and Humanitarianism 7.3. Visualizing Moderation 7.4. Probing an Interaction 7.5. The Difference between Testing for Moderation and Probing It 7.6. Artificial Categorization and Subgroups Analysis 7.7. Chapter Summary 8. Extending the Fundamental Principles of Moderation Analysis 8.1. Moderation with a Dichotomous Moderator 8.2. Interaction between Two Quantitative Variables 8.3. Hierarchical versus Simultaneous Entry 8.4. The Equivalence between Moderated Regression Analysis and a 2 x 2 Factorial Analysis of Variance 8.5. Chapter Summary 9. Some Myths and Additional Extensions of Moderation Analysis 9.1. Truths and Myths about Mean-Centering 9.2. The Estimation and Interpretation of Standardized Regression Coefficients in a Moderation Analysis 9.3. A Caution on Manual Centering and Standardization 9.4. More Than One Moderator 9.5. Comparing Conditional Effects 9.6. Chapter Summary 10. Multicategorical Focal Antecedents and Moderators 10.1. Moderation of the Effect of a Multicategorical Antecedent Variable 10.2. An Example from the Sex Discrimination in the Workplace Study 10.3. Visualizing the Model 10.4. Probing the Interaction 10.5. When the Moderator Is Multicategorical 10.6. Using a Different Coding System 10.7. Chapter Summary IV. Conditional Process Analysis 11. Fundamentals of Conditional Process Analysis 11.1. Examples of Conditional Process Models in the Literature 11.2. Conditional Direct and Indirect Effects 11.3. Example: Hiding Your Feelings from Your Work Team 11.4. Estimation of a Conditional Process Model Using PROCESS 11.5. Quantifying and Visualizing (Conditional) Indirect and Direct Effects 11.6. Statistical Inference 11.7. Chapter Summary 12. Further Examples of Conditional Process Analysis 12.1. Revisiting the Disaster Framing Study 12.2. Moderation of the Direct and Indirect Effects in a Conditional Process Model 12.3. Statistical Inference 12.4. Mediated Moderation 12.5. Chapter Summary 13. Conditional Process Analysis with a Multicategorical Antecedent 13.1. Revisiting Sexual Discrimination in the Workplace 13.2. Looking at the Components of the Indirect Effect of X 13.3. Relative Conditional Indirect Effects 13.4. Testing and Probing Moderation of Mediation 13.5. Relative Conditional Direct Effects 13.6. Putting It All Together 13.7. Further Extensions and Complexities 13.8. Chapter Summary V. Miscellanea 14. Miscellaneous Topics and Some Frequently Asked Questions 14.1. A Strategy for Approaching a Conditional Process Analysis 14.2. How Do I Write about This? 14.3. Power and Sample Size Determination 14.4. Should I Use Structural Equation Modeling Instead of Regression Analysis? 14.5. The Pitfalls of Subgroups Analysis 14.6. Can a Variable Simultaneously Mediate and Moderate Another Variable’s Effect? 14.7. Interaction between X and M in Mediation Analysis 14.8. Repeated Measures Designs 14.9. Dichotomous, Ordinal, Count, and Survival Outcomes 14.10. Chapter Summary Appendix A. Using PROCESS Appendix B. Constructing and Customizing Models in PROCESS
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The University of North Carolina Press Red Coats and Wild Birds
Book SynopsisDuring the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. During their tours abroad, many British officers engaged in formal and informal scientific research. In this ambitious history of ornithology and empire, Kirsten A. Greer tracks British officers as they moved around the world.
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Hodder Education CCEA ASA2 Unit 3 Geography Student Guide 3
Book SynopsisExam Board: CCEALevel: A-levelSubject: GeographyFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018Reinforce students'' geographical understanding throughout their course; clear topic summaries with sample questions and answers help students improve their exam technique and achieve their best.Written by a teacher with extensive examining experience, this guide:- Helps students identify what they need to know with a concise summary of the topics examined at AS and A-level- Consolidates understanding through assessment tips and knowledge-check questions- Offers opportunities for students to improve their exam technique by consulting sample graded answers to exam-style questions- Develops independent learning and research skills- Provides the content students need to produce their own revision notes
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Hodder Education WJECEduqas Alevel Geography Student Guide 5
Book SynopsisExam Board: WJEC, Eduqas Level: AS/A-level Subject: Geography First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: Summer 2017Reinforce students'' geographical understanding throughout their course; clear topic summaries with sample questions and answers help students improve their exam technique and achieve their best.Written by teachers with extensive examining experience, this guide:- Helps students identify what they need to know with a concise summary of the topics examined at AS and A-level- Consolidates understanding through assessment tips and knowledge-check questions- Offers opportunities for students to improve their exam technique by consulting sample graded answers to exam-style questions- Develops independent learning and research skills- Provides the content students need to produce their own revision notes
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Headline Publishing Group The Yorkshire Forager
Book SynopsisAlysia Vasey''s earliest memories are of walking alongside her grandfather as they explored the West Yorkshire moors that they called home. As an adult, this love for wild things stayed with her, even as she learnt that her family''s knowledge of edible plants were a legacy of a much darker time during the Second World War. After leaving Yorkshire in search of adventure, Alysia was eventually guided home by her motto: Be true to yourself and you will become the person you were meant to be. She left her traditional path and took a far wilder journey that gradually evolved into one of the UK''s most successful foraging businesses, supplying some of the greatest chefs in the world and the best restaurants in the country Her achievements are the result of a bit of luck, a lot of knowledge and a huge amount of self-belief. Here, Alysia also shares not only her story, but also her vast knowledge of UK plant lore. A true Yorkshirewoman, Alysia tells it Trade ReviewAlysia Vasey reveals how she turned her love of nature into a successful career as a forager * Sunday Express *Meet the woman the chefs pay to forage their wildly delicious ingredients. * Daily Mail *The Yorkshire Forager... tells [Alysia's] story, and shares some secrets, with humour and pathos. * Regional Press Association *Alysia Vasey... looked to her Yorkshire roots and turned her childhood passion into her profession. * The Telegraph *Alysia Vasey provides a fascinating insight into foraging, edible foliage, plant lore and the Great British countryside. * Liz Earle Wellbeing Magazine *
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Headline Publishing Group Subterranea
Book Synopsis''AN ORIGINAL AND TIMELY ODYSSEY INTO OUR MYSTERIOUS UNDERWORLD . . . THRILLING PROOF THAT SCIENCE AND IMAGINATION SHARE THE GROUND BENEATH OUR FEET'' Nicholas Crane, presenter of BBC2''s Coast and Great British JourneysIf you were to peel back the Earth''s surface like an orange, then take a sly peek underneath, what extraordinary things would you see?Subterranea is where the world''s remaining mysteries are yet to be found. For millennia, across nations and cultures, it has been a hotbed of fantastical stories. It''s where humans have kept their most sacred treasures and their darkest secrets. It''s where we have found evidence of our past and may, at some point, find an escape route for our uncertain future. But what would we find there today? From the underground cities of Cappadocia to smuggling tunnels on the US-Mexico border, caves full of tiny blind dragons and a seed vault located 1300km inside the Arctic circle, SuTrade ReviewAn original and timely odyssey into our mysterious underworld ... Thrilling proof that science and imagination share the ground beneath our feet. * Nicholas Crane, presenter of BBC2's Coast and Great British Journeys *An incredible and evocative journey into the most exotic and unknown realms on the planet ... Here is a book that makes you stop and wonder at every page; a deeply engaging guided tour through an eerie world where mankind's old myths and legends seem to acquire a mesmerising reality. * Sinclair McKay *With evocative maps and stunning photography, Subterranea shows that the underground realm is just as captivating as the above-ground world around us. * Daily Mail *Accompanied by stunning photography and illustrative maps, this book is a great way to escape from the outside world by diving into the depths of another. 5 STARS ***** * How It Works magazine *Chris Fitch is fascinated by these fantastical underworlds, and has gone in search of enigmatic cave paintings, eerie plague pits, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the illicit smuggling tunnels snaking between Mexico and the USA. * The Simple Things magazine *Remarkable places ... glorious illustrations. * Wanderlust magazine *With evocative maps and stunning photograpghy, Subterranea shows that the underground realm is just as captivating as the above-ground world around us.' -- Ciara Dossett * Daily Mail *
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Headline Publishing Group Closer to the Edge
Book SynopsisLeo Houlding started climbing at ten years of age in the Lake District and was the youngest person (and first Briton) to free climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park in the United States at eighteen years, which cemented his reputation. He has since gone on to summit the world''s toughest peaks and explore the most extreme places on our planet. During such explorations he has had to deal with tragedy when close friends and colleagues have been killed or badly injured, and he will discuss how you deal with such loss and carry on. Honest, raw and exhilarating, Closer to the Edge will be a ''warts-and-all'' insight into the extreme life of one of Britain''s best mountaineer adventurers. What drives him? How does he assess risk and judge what level he''ll take himself to be successful, and how does he balance this with teaching his own children the lessons he has learnt in some of the world''s most dangerous and extreme places.Trade ReviewLeo is an amazing climber and adventurer who's been pushing the limits for as long as I can remember. He's done some of the wildest climbs on earth. -- Alex Honnold
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Life Changing
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION''Pilcher is both very funny and very, very clever.'' Gillian Burke''Richly entertaining throughout.'' Sunday TimesFor the last three billion years or so, life on Earth was shaped by natural forces. Evolution tended to happen slowly, with species crafted across millennia. Then, a few hundred thousand years ago, along came a bolshie, big-brained, bipedal primate we now call Homo sapiens, and with that, the Earth's natural history came to an abrupt end. We are now living through the post-natural phase, where humans have become the leading force shaping evolution. This thought-provoking book considers the many ways that we've altered the DNA of living things and changed the fate of life on earth. We have carved chihuahuas from wolves and fancy chickens from jungle fowl. We've added spider genes to goats and coral genes to tropical fish. It's possible to buyTrade ReviewTackles how humans are altering existing animal life. It has some good lines and is richly entertaining throughout, but under the surface it is pretty serious.' * Sunday Times *Helen Pilcher takes on the unenviable task of describing how our species has been on a collision course, spanning roughly 300,000 years of history, with the rest of life on earth. It shouldn't make for good reading but, mercifully, Pilcher is both very funny and very, very clever. -- Gillian Burke, biologist and TV presenterWith warm wit and glorious pace, Life Changing delivers an eloquent commentary on this, the age of post-natural history. Expertly pulling together and detailing the work of hundreds of scientists around the world, Pilcher encourages us to ask timely questions about our role as stewards and curators of a planet struggling under our influence. -- Jules Howard, naturalist, science writer and author of Sex on EarthTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Wolf that Rolled Over Chapter 2: Strategic Moos and Golden Gnus Chapter 3: Super Salmon and Spider-Goats Chapter 4: Game of Clones Chapter 5: Screwworms and Suicide Possums Chapter 6: The Age of the Chicken Chapter 7: Sea-Monkeys and Pizzly Bears Chapter 8: Darwin’s Moth Chapter 9: Resilient Reefs Chapter 10: Love Island Chapter 11: Pigs and Purple Emperors Chapter 12: The New Ark Additional Reading Acknowledgements Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cornerstones
Book SynopsisFINALIST IN THE PEOPLE''S BOOK PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2022/2023 WRITTEN BY THE WAINWRIGHT-CONSERVATION-PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF REBIRDING. Transform your understanding of the natural world forever and discover the wild forces that once supported Britain's extraordinary natural riches, and could again.Our precious archipelago is ravaged by climate change, bereft of natural ecosystems and lies at the mercy of global warming, flooding, drought and catastrophic biodiversity loss. But could restoring species that once helped protect our islands help turn this crisis around?From familiar yet imperilled honeybees and ancient oak woods to returning natives like beavers and boars, Britain's cornerstone species may hold the key to recovering our biodiversity on land and in our seas. In Cornerstones, we discover how beavers craft wetlands, save fish, encourage otters, and prevent rivers from flooding. We learn how disruptive' boars are seasoned butterfly conservationisTrade ReviewCornerstones makes a bold, riveting and visionary case for reviving the wild species that can help us restore our living planet. This is an exciting read! * Patrick Barkham, author of The Butterfly Isles and Wild Child *By concentrating on 'cornerstones', we have the potential to transform landscapes and lives. A brilliant read. * Bird Watching magazine *Very few writers can navigate the complexities of the interconnectedness of nature and humanity, but Macdonald achieves this with skill and impact. Cornerstones paves a compelling pathway of hope, and it is as bright and brilliant as it is essential. * Sophie Pavelle, author of Forget Me Not *It’s an interesting debate and one we should have. * Simon Lester, Country Life *This celebration of the species that anchor healthy, life-giving ecosystems is a timely reminder to recognise – and urgently protect – our common roots. * New Statesman *A primordially fortifying book. * New Statesman *It is ultimately a hopeful tale, and one well worth reading. * Lorraine Connolly, Country Life *Benedict Macdonald continues to come up with practical and effective solutions to the biodiversity crisis, with his latest book, Cornerstones. -- Stephen MossI think this is this author’s best book, so far, and that makes it excellent. -- Mark AveryMacdonald crams in evidence from a dizzying array of studies and writes with the urgency of an evangelist […] it’s exciting, convincing stuff. * Countryfile *Macdonald's skill is in painting a big picture and communicating the benefits for all to see. -- Keith Betton * Birdwatch magazine *This book is a brave, wonderfully descriptive and immensely important diagnosis of how far the countryside has drifted. -- Chris Fitch * Geographical *From the first sentence of the introduction, I was drawn in by evocative descriptions of Nature at its best. * Lorraine Connolly, Country Life *The author’s great strength is in painting vivid pictures, helping us to imagine a possible future where we have more self-willed, wilder land. -- Ian Carter * British Wildlife *Macdonald excels in describing the who and what of rewilding. He offers fascinating tales of the ways in which animals may transform British landscapes [...] Macdonald’s vision for rewilding reminds us of the potentially transformative animal lives around us. Humans could and should allow them to help restore our natural world. -- Barbara J. King * Times Literary Supplement *From this book you will uncover the important role ‘wild forces’ once played, and could play again, in boosting biodiversity and restoring broken ecosystems — all described in remarkably researched detail [...] one very important book. * Rewilding Britain *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter one - Boar Chapter two - Birds of Prey Chapter three - Beavers Chapter four - Whales Chapter five - Bees Chapter six - Cattle and Horses Chapter seven - Trees Chapter eight - Lynx and Wolves Chapter nine - Humans
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Forecast A Diary of the Lost Seasons
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewForecast is the most urgently needed, most important book I have read in a very long time. * Michael Morpurgo *This urgent, elegiac book’s call to mend our broken relationship with the land feels more vital by the day. * Mail on Sunday *With a journalist's eye for detail, he backs up his captivating anecdotal evidence regarding the seasons with the results of solid scientific research to finger the culprit: global warming. * Countryfile *At its core, this book is a love letter to the biosphere and to our bond with it. Joe Shute has a journalist’s ear and a lover’s eye; he demonstrates what one sees while moving across the land, tracking change when all else seemed still. This is no ordinary nature diary – it enlarges our perspective of what has altered, and what is being lost … this is one of the most poignant and affecting nature books I have read this year. * Miriam Darlington *An absolutely beautiful account of life going on while the world stopped. I loved it. * Kate Bradbury *Joe Shute does not rant but, with passion and expertise, illuminates in beautifully clear prose, laced with well-judged literary and historical references, the scale of the threat posed to our natural world by Climate Change. A ‘must read’ for anyone who is curious and who cares. * Jonathan Dimbleby *Joe Shute is one of Britain's finest writers on nature. Or indeed, any other subject. * John Lewis-Stempel *What a wonderful read. Joe has interwoven our national pastime, our obsession about the weather, into a fascinating history of our changing climate through the centuries and its defining influence on our consciousness. Told through the eyes of farmers, poets and philosophers as well as the author’s own personal explorations across the country, Forecast is a beautifully written elegy to our natural world and a warning of how quickly it is changing. * William Sieghart *Table of ContentsChapter 1: A Lockdown Spring Chapter 2: Weather Watch Chapter 3: Storm Clouds Chapter 4: Seasons Past Chapter 5: The Changing Harvest Chapter 6: Exodus Chapter 7: Budburst Chapter 8: Winter Sleep Chapter 9: Muirburn Chapter 10: Melting Chapter 11: Waterland Chapter 12: The Vast Machine Chapter 13: Weather Notes Chapter 14: Solstice Further Reading Acknowledgements Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Deadly Balance
Book SynopsisThe predators that can hunt, kill and eat us occupy a unique place in the human psyche. In this book, Adam Hart looks at our relationship with these animals from a conservation perspective.Whether it''s lions in Africa, tigers in India or sharks in the world's oceans, we are fascinated by and often terrified of predators. Animals that can hunt, kill, and eat us occupy a unique place in the human psyche, and for good reason. Predation forms a big part of our evolutionary history, but in the modern world there are many people who live alongside animals that can, and sometimes do, make them prey.In The Deadly Balance, biologist Adam Hart explores the complex relationships we have with predators, and investigates what happens when humans become prey. From big cats to army ants, via snakes, bears, wolves, crocodiles, piranhas and more, Hart busts some myths and explores the science behind such encounters. Despite their fearsome and often wildly exaggerated reputations, theseTrade ReviewConservation is never easy - especially when predators and people are involved. In The Deadly Balance, Hart guides us through the challenges people and predators face around the world and discusses the solutions we need to adopt to conserve predators and keep people safe. An authoritative must-read for anyone interested in wildlife and conservation. * Steve Backshall, zoologist and TV presenter *Immersive, poignant and primal, this timely book is a powerful reminder of our humble place alongside predators, and their vital role in building a functioning, resilient planet. * Sophie Pavelle, author of Forget Me Not *If we are to live alongside predators in a seemingly ever-decreasing world, we need to understand them now better than ever before. Hart's book provides that insight and understanding. A brilliant book, unravelling our complex and interwoven relationships with some of the planet's most iconic predators * Ben Garrod, author and TV presenter *One of the most refreshing perspectives on predators I have ever read: an impassioned plea for us to consider the lived experience of people and communities for whom predation is an ever-present threat, that is effortlessly readable and grounded in great science. In Hart’s capable hands, predators are anything but monsters: they are living, breathing organisms that are exemplars of survival, that shape ecosystems and that directly influence the lives of humans and communities with whom they co-exist. * Jules Howard, author of Wonderdog *[A] thoughtful and thorough presentation of ‘our relationship with predatory animals’. -- Tony Miksanek * Booklist *Looks at the science behind living with predators safely, how to know what’s truth and what’s myth, and how to stay alive when human life encroaches on that of a predator. -- Terri Schlichenmeyer * Bristol Herald Courier *Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students. General readers. * Choice *The Deadly Balance is well-written and thoroughly researched … an important contribution to science. * Canadian Field Naturalist Journal *Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Lions Chapter Three: Tigers Chapter Four: Crocodilians Chapter Five: Forest Legends Chapter Six: Hyenas Chapter Seven: Other Cats Chapter Eight: Bears Chapter Nine: Canids Chapter Ten: Fish, Lizards and Primates Chapter Eleven: What can we do? Acknowledgements References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Home Waters
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE MARITIME FOUNDATION AWARD FOR BEST BOOK 2024A fascinating and original look at how the sea has defined Britain - and decided the course of its history - for thousands of years. Being an island nation is a core part of the British identity. An estimated two thirds of the world's population have never seen the sea, but in the UK that drops to under 10 per cent. Yet most people don't appreciate the impact our position on the edge of a continental shelf has had on our history, going back thousands of years. Our coast neither starts nor ends at the beach, and this eye-opening book takes a look beneath the surface to explore the forces of nature that have made Britain what it is. We experience some of the highest tides on the planet and we are battered with waves that have travelled halfway around the globe before they get here, but most of what we understand about our unique waters has only been discovered in living memory. In this fascinating guided tour of the faTrade ReviewBowers looks beyond the beach to what lies beneath the surface of the sea and how it works. The intertwining of oceanography and history is fascinating. The sea will always holds its secrets, but Home Waters makes them a bit more accessible. * Geographical, magazine of the Royal Geographical Society *An unusual and stimulating book. * Yachting Monthly *Table of Contents1 A Boundary in the Ocean – understanding Britain’s place on the edge of a continental shelf 2 Coastal Currents – what happens when fresh water (rain) mixes with salt water (the sea) and why currents around Britain go in the direction they do 3 A Toe in the Water – exploring the different layers of the sea, and why temperature differences matter to sealife 4 Waves on a Cornish Beach – how preparations for the Normandy landings in 1944 taught us some waves travel halfway around the planet before getting here 5 A Night at The Alma – learning from devastating storm surges on the Essex coast to predict them and save lives in future 6 High Tide at Clevedon – understanding why the Bristol Channel has the second largest rise and fall of the tide in the world 7 Inspecting the Eagre – observing the tidal bore that sweeps up the River Trent to understand how these spectacular phenomena work 8 Double Tides at Port Ellen – the strange fluctuations in sea level at Southampton and Islay, and why they happen 9 Light and Colour – how measuring sunlight in the sea at Plymouth Sound led to new understandings about how the sea works 10 Layers in a Loch – why waves and currents can develop on lakes and lochs, and why this is important
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC What Climate Justice Means And Why We Should Care
Book SynopsisWe owe it to our fellow humans and other species to save them from the catastrophic harm caused by climate change.Philosopher Elizabeth Cripps approaches climate justice not just as an abstract idea but as something that should motivate us all. Using clear reasoning and poignant examples, starting from irrefutable science and uncontroversial moral rules, she explores our obligations to each other and to the non-human world, unravels the legacy of colonialism and entrenched racism, and makes the case for immediate action.The second half of the book looks at solutions. Who should pay the bill for climate action? Who must have a say? How can we hold multinational companies, organisations even nations to account? Cripps argues powerfully that climate justice goes beyond political polarization. Climate activism is a moral duty, not a political choice.Trade ReviewInsightful and timely…'climate justice' is essential if we are to deal with climate change. Compelling. -- Professor Mark Maslin, author of How to Save Our PlanetThe iron law of global warming is: the less you did to cause it, the sooner and harder you suffer its effects. As this book makes clear, that raises very deep questions about justice, which we will be grappling with for the forseeable future. If you read this, you'll have a good headstart on a crucial debate. -- Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?An essential primer. Elizabeth Cripps deftly explains the complexity of wicked problems without ever losing sight of the fundamental truth that, before it is a technical or political issue, climate injustice is a moral one. -- Professor David Farrier, Chair in Literature and the Environment, University of EdinburghThis book is a short and direct conversation with a philosopher carefully thinking through our duties now toward other people given the scary changes we all may face. While it may be painful reading at times, you will gain insights not available in any other book about climate change. The subtle analysis does not stifle the passion, and the deep feeling does not cloud the arguments. A moving philosophical plea for immediate radical action with the reasons distilled to their essence. If you wonder where to begin to tackle the worsening climate, start here. -- Professor Henry Shue, Merton College, Oxford. Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies, DPIRWe live in a world increasingly impacted not only by climate change, but also its unjust impacts on both human and nonhuman communities. Elizabeth Cripps offers a lucid, comprehensive, and pertinent overview of a range of ideas and realities of climate justice in all its complexity. She offers the crucial argument that, in everyday political and personal practice, climate change is a choice to violate the rights of the most vulnerable. As inequitable as climate change can be, Cripps insists that it is possible, and straightforward, to choose climate justice instead. -- David Schlosberg, Professor of Environmental Politics and Director, Sydney Environment Institute, University of SydneyThe concept of climate justice is increasingly being invoked. But what is climate justice? In her brilliant book, Elizabeth Cripps gives us a definitive answer. What Climate Justice Means shows why climate change is a matter of justice, who bears responsibility for this and what citizens and governments ought to do. It vividly conveys the realities of climate injustices and makes a compelling moral case for action. -- Simon Caney, Professor of Political Theory, University of Warwick… impassioned treatise from philosopher Cripps … Sincere and substantial, this offers bountiful insight into the movement for climate justice. * Publishers Weekly *There are complex moral quandaries in What Climate Justice Means, but it’s written for everybody. And this is not philosophy as some kind of intellectual luxury. It’s a matter of life and death, of how we live with integrity in the face of a global catastrophe which we did not create, but in which we are complicit. -- Jeremy Williams * The Earthbound Report *... serves to stiffen the moral sinew. * Big Issue in the North *[Cripps] presents clear and compelling evidence of the burden borne by disadvantaged populations, maintaining that climate change is, above all, “about privilege.” * Science Magazine *[Cripps] makes you care about climate change’s most vulnerable victims and in the process offers advice on how we all can help … Cripps argues powerfully that climate justice goes beyond political polarization. Climate activism is a moral duty, not a political choice. * The Revelator *Cripps successfully argues her central point: Climate policies won't succeed if climate justice isn't at their forefront … Cripps' argument, a timely update to former President of Ireland Mary Robinson's earlier linking together of climate justice and human rights … makes fine, inspirational reading. * NPR.com *In this short, accessible book, Elizabeth Cripps makes the moral case for action on climate change …Cripps demonstrates that climate justice goes beyond politics—climate change is a moral duty, not a political choice. * Porchlight Books *Cripps seemingly endeavors to compose a compelling moral philosophy, examining core issues concerning climate change. Her effort...yields engaging contemplation of the topic. * Hattiesburg America *Cripps is pragmatic enough to recognize this will probably not happen until “inclusive activism” puts pressure on the system. The book is an interesting read in that it looks at climate change and responses to it from a philosophical and moral approach backed up with concrete examples from a global viewpoint. * Bowling Green Daily News *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Basic Justice, Incontrovertible Science Chapter Two: The Same Storm, But Not The Same Boat Chapter Three: Beyond Humans Chapter Four: What Climate Justice Looks Like Chapter Five: The Least Unjust Option Chapter Six: But What Can I Do? Conclusion: Key Points Further Reading Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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John Murray Press Where the Wild Winds Are
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA Financial Times Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Daily Telegraph Book of the Year''Travel writing in excelsis'' -Jan Morris, author of Venice''A thrilling and gorgeous tale, packed with meteorological wonder'' -Amy Liptrot, author of The OutrunNick Hunt sets off on an unlikely quest: to follow four of Europe''s winds across the continent...His wind-walks begin on Cross Fell, the highest point of the Pennines, as he chases the roaring Helm - the only named wind in Britain. In southern Europe he follows the Bora - a bitter northerly that blows from Trieste through Slovenia and down the Croatian coast. His hunt for the ''snow-eating'' Foehn becomes a meandering journey of exhilaration and despair through the Alpine valleys of Switzerland, and his final walk traces an ancTrade ReviewWhere the Wild Winds Are is full to the brim with learning, entertainment, description, scientific fact and conjectural fiction. It is travel writing in excelsis. -- Jan Morris * Literary Review *A thrilling and gorgeous tale, packed with meteorological wonder. -- Amy Liptrot, author of 'The Outrun'A quest both quixotic and entertainingly escapist. * Financial Times - Books of the Year *There are poignant moments of calm amid the tumult, insights that capture the joy of walking alone. * The Times Literary Supplement *An exuberant, invigorating blast of a book. -- Michael Kerr * Daily Telegraph - Books of the Year *A wonderful book; reading it is like being introduced to a gang of complex characters by an entertaining and erudite host. It has been a joy getting to know them better and in all their moods. -- Tristan Gooley, author of 'The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs'Where the Wild Winds Are blew me away. -- Seán Williams, Radio 3, Free ThinkingAn ingenious idea that [Hunt] carries off with panache and aplomb. An extremely gifted writer . . . his writing here has agreeable echoes of Leigh Fermor's evocative prose. * New European *A pleasure from start to finish. -- John Sandoe Books - Book of the MonthNick Hunt's writing is powerful, playful, searching and often strikingly original. As he walks through the world, his journeys always reveal more than they set out to find. -- Paul Kingsnorth, author of 'The Wake'An irresistable book that combines travel adventure with cultural history, meteorology and storytelling. * Bath Life *
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Hodder & Stoughton Ask an Ocean Explorer
Book SynopsisHow deep do sharks swim? Have more people been into space then the deep ocean? And what effect are we having on the health of our seas? Ask An Ocean Explorer answers these questions and more!
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Edinburgh University Press Thinking Nature
Book SynopsisMoving between ancient and modern sources, philosophy and theology, and science and popular culture, Sean McGrath offers a genuinely new reflection on what it means to be human in an era of climate change, mass extinction and geoengineering.
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Duke University Press Energopolitics
Book SynopsisDominic Boyer examines the politics of wind power and how it is shaped by myriad factorsfrom the legacies of settler colonialism and indigenous resistance to state bureaucracy and corporate investmentwhile outlining the fundamental impact of energy and fuel on political power.Trade Review"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- L. L. Johnson * Choice *"Howe and Boyer look back on the past with fresh eyes. . . . Howe and Boyer’s project has many virtues. For one, it articulates the perils of corporate wind economies. For another, it positions Indigenous communities (like the Zapotec) not as outmoded objects for anthropological inquiry, but (á la Gayatri Spivak) as 'active [producers] of culture.' Most importantly, perhaps, is how Wind and Power in the Anthropocene documents alternatives to corporate wind ventures like Mareña. The book highlights, for example, community-based initiatives that also seek to harness the awesome power of istmeño wind—projects that promote communal welfare and environmental justice." -- Stacey Balkan * Public Books *"The duograph is an interesting and novel way to approach collaborative writing, which I enjoyed engaging with. . . . Energopolitics elegantly brings together political theory and ethnography. -- Anna G. Sveinsdóttir * Journal of Latin American Geography *“In Wind and Power in the Anthropocene, a two-volume ‘duograph,’ Cymene Howe, in Ecologics, and Dominic Boyer, in Energopolitics, explore the development of wind parks during the early twenty-first century on the isthmus of Tehuantepec…. One of the most refreshing components of their collaborative and individual writing is the clarity of their position as researchers in this project as they circulated among politicians, indigenous peoples, and corporate officials. It is a necessary exercise, as they argue, for appreciating the entrenchment of the wind in local political and social relations.” -- Nathan Kapoor * Technology and Culture *“Boyer’s book seeks ways around human-centered notions of politics.... More important than his theoretical discussion is his contention that in order to understand aeolian politics in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, one must attend to situated, historical processes with which transitions to renewable energy become intimately entangled.” -- Chakad Ojani * Anthropology Book Forum *“[Ecologics and Energopolitics] make strong arguments on political processes in the field of wind energy in Mexico...[and] are important contributions to an anthropology of energy, a still growing field within the discipline.” -- Oliver D. Liebig * Anthropos *Table of ContentsJoint Preface to Wind and Power in the Anthropocene / Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer ix Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1 1. Ixtepec 27 2. La Ventosa 60 3. Oaxaca de Juaréz 95 4. Distrito Federal 127 5. Guidxiguie' (Juchitán de Zaragoza) 158 Joint Conclusion to Wind and Power in the Anthropocene / Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer 194 Notes 199 References 225 Index 251
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Duke University Press Climatic Media
Book SynopsisIn Climatic Media, Yuriko Furuhata traces climate engineering from the early twentieth century to the present, emphasizing the legacies of Japan’s empire building and its Cold War alliance with the United States. Furuhata boldly expands the scope of media studies to consider technologies that chemically “condition” Earth’s atmosphere and socially “condition” the conduct of people, focusing on the attempts to monitor and modify indoor and outdoor atmospheres by Japanese scientists, technicians, architects, and artists in conjunction with their American counterparts. She charts the geopolitical contexts of what she calls climatic media by examining a range of technologies such as cloud seeding and artificial snowflakes, digital computing used for weather forecasting and weather control, cybernetics for urban planning and policing, Nakaya Fujiko’s fog sculpture, and the architectural experiments of Tange Lab and the Metabolists, who Trade Review“Climatic Media is a groundbreaking project that will have far-reaching resonances and implications across the humanities and social sciences. Given its critical rigor, deeply engaging analysis, and the wide-ranging readership it forges, Climatic Media is no doubt one of the most exciting books to mark this new decade. This is a field-changing work and a fascinating and extremely rewarding read.” -- Weihong Bao, author of * Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915–1945 *“Yuriko Furuhata’s Climatic Media is a timely, vital, and urgent book. At a moment of extreme disaster speculation and technophilic ambitions to re-engineer both ourselves and our planet’s climate, this book offers both critique and inspiration. Tracing an alternative Japanese genealogy of climate control, Furuhata convincingly demonstrates how conditioning the climate and conditioning ourselves are joint projects. In exposing the militarized, imperial, and contested epistemologies that construct our contemporary ideas of ecology, she also opens a route by which we might envision and design alternative forms of environmental management, forms that might be more equitable, noncolonial, and diverse.” -- Orit Halpern, author of * Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945 *“I came away with a newfound appreciation for the hidden nature of atmospheric management that we see but do not see every day. . . . The book is itself a fascinating contribution to science and technology studies, history of science and technology, and cultural and media theory literature, and offers a new way of imagining Japanese history.” -- Fiona C. Williamson * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews *“Climatic Media sits at the intersection of media studies and the history of science and technology. Furuhata taps into a current trend by looking at climate as media. Highly Recommended.” -- P. L. Kantor * Choice *“[Climatic Media] is an important contribution to our understanding of many aspects of Japanese epistemic communities, the US-Japan alliance, and our current predicament of global warming and potential, man-made solutions. Hopefully, it will help our responses become more thoughtful.” -- Daniel P. Aldrich * Pacific Affairs *“It is the intersection of histories of technology, environmental mediation, and their geopolitical stakes that makes Furuhata’s book so interesting. It taps into such a crucial topic of discussion that it is sure to be widely read and referenced in and outside media studies.” -- Jussi Parikka * Leonardo *“[Furuhata] makes a remarkable contribution to the histories of climate in East Asia —where architecture, weather, and digital computing are reinforced as mutually interdependent discourses that continue to evolve and transform how we think about climate control.” -- Jennifer Ferng * Leonardo *“Those interested in Japanese media studies, theories of elemental/environmental media, and/or transpacific Cold War history will find much to celebrate in Climatic Media. . . . It is an important book that points the way toward a more critically minded mode of environmental scholarship that demonstrates the potentials of adopting a transpacific approach to the tracing of (often surprising) media genealogies.” -- Jon L. Pitt * Journal of Asian Studies *“Climatic Media marvels in its connections. . . . Furuhata’s bid to define climatic media and to establish the ecological and transpacific geopolitical feedback loops that ‘undergird atmospheric control as forms of air conditioning and social conditioning’ becomes a refreshing and necessary endeavor.” -- Laura Beltz Imaoka * Film Quarterly *“A timely and urgent work in our doom-laden age of climate change, [Climatic Media] encompasses not only the air-conditioning of discrete spaces and rooms but also that of climate-controlled shelters and atmospheric control on a geographic scale. . . . With ample original materials and thorough research, particularly the transpacific historical analysis, it gives several clear commentaries on the continuity of science-based technology between the Japanese imperial era and the postwar context.” -- Togo Tsukahara * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Outdoor Weather: Artificial Fog and Weather Control 25 2. Indoor Weather: Air-Conditioning and Future Forecasting 48 3. To the Greenhouse: Weatherproof Architecture as Climatic Media 80 4. Spaceship Earth: Plastics and the Ecological Dilemma of Metabolist Architecture 104 5. Cloud Control: Tear Gas, Cybernetics, and Networked Surveillance 133 Conclusion: Explicating the Backgrounds 166 Notes 177 Bibliography 215 Index 237
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Duke University Press Petrochemical Planet
Book SynopsisIn Petrochemical Planet Alice Mah examines the changing nature of the petrochemical industry as it faces the existential threats of climate change and environmental activism. Drawing on research from high-level industry meetings, petrochemical plant tours, and polluted communities, Mah juxtaposes the petrochemical industry’s destructive corporate worldviews with environmental justice struggles in the United States, China, and Europe. She argues that amid intensifying public pressures, a profound planetary industrial transformation is underway that is challenging the reigning age of plastics and fossil fuels. This challenge comes from what Mah calls multiscalar activism—a form of collective resistance that spans local, regional, national, and planetary sites and scales and addresses the interconnected issues of environmental justice, climate, pollution, health, extraction, land rights, workers’ rights, systemic racism, and toxic colonialism. Reflecting on the obTrade Review“This exciting and inspiring book takes a bold approach to the petrochemical industry’s historical and present-day activities and impacts while raising critical questions about its possible futures. Alice Mah’s research reveals that many environmental and labor struggles go beyond mobilizing against a single polluting facility to show how networks and coalitions constitute a movement on a global scale. Petrochemical Planet speaks to the urgency of our epoch, in which the petrochemical industry has had an outsized influence on the health of humanity and the planet, while actors from multiple quarters are demanding and creating inspiring models of change.” -- David Naguib Pellow, author of * What Is Critical Environmental Justice? *“It is remarkable that while there have been a handful of broad accounts of the economic history of the petrochemical industry, critical scholarship on the industry has primarily focused on particular sites and accidents. In this context, Alice Mah’s book stands out as a vital wide-ranging intervention. Petrochemical Planet illuminates both the pervasive harms of petrochemical capitalism and the multiple conflicts that its development continues to foster. What is needed is a counter-hegemonic project that engages with environmental justice. Mah shows us how and why such a project is both possible and necessary.” -- Andrew Barry, author of * Material Politics: Disputes along the Pipeline *"Alice Mah’s book assembles content that facilitates our departure from a state of ignorance, regardless of our current level of knowledge on the subject. It is not designed solely for experts. Quite the opposite, its language is accessible, and the content seamlessly intertwines elements of the petrochemical industry. . . . A robust, comprehensive, and up-to-date foundation that strengthens discussions, proposals, and actions towards a paradigm shift in our understanding of human growth and progress." -- Carolina Ibelli-Bianco * International Journal of Environmental Studies *"Mah warns that failure to control the petrochemical industry’s expansion could result in social, health, and economic deteriorations and she offers her reflections on transforming this complex industry. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers." -- J. Tavakoli * Choice *Table of ContentsAbbreviations vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. The Petrochemical Game of War 25 2. Enduring Toxic Injustice and Fenceline Mobilizations 53 3. Multiscalar Activism and Petrochemical Proliferation 71 4. The Competing Stakes of the Planetary Petrochemical Crisis 95 5. Petrochemical Degrowth, Decarbonization, and Just Transformations 119 6. Toward an Alternative Planetary Petrochemical Politics 141 Notes 153 Bibliography 185 Index 207
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Earth
Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.In Earth, a planetary scientist and a literary humanist explore what happens when we think of the Earth as an object viewable from space. As a blue marble, a blue pale dot, or, as Chaucer described it, this litel spot of erthe, the solitary orb is a challenge to scale and to human self-importance. Beautiful and self-contained, the Earth turns out to be far less knowable than it at first appears: its vast interior an inferno of incandescent and yet solid rock and a reservoir of water vaster than the ocean, a world within the world. Viewing the Earth from space invites a dive into the abyss of scale: how can humans apprehend the distances, the temperatures, and the time scale on which planets are born, evolve, and die?Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.Trade Review[An] alchemy of unlikely ideas ... [The authors] reflect on the geological history of the earth and humanity's understanding of it over the millennia. * Sydney Morning Herald *Earth is a magical, unusual, curious book … Cohen and Elkins-Tanton describe it as a “little book about an impossibly large subject.” This subject is made even larger by Cohen and Elkins-Tanton’s forays into discussions of beauty, creativity, and imagination (including my favorite question in the book: “Can you die from an overactive imagination?”) and how they connect to science and ultimately this planet. This makes Earth a book that is, ultimately, a testament to what can be discovered if we are brave enough to combine the unexpected. * PopMatters *Learning from this volume as a reader means … not only to participate in a conversation between specialists from two disciplines, but also to do so across different modes of expression, and experimenting together with the two authors in an innovative and completely unique creative space. Different readers (and reviewers) will learn different things from this handsome (it just about fits in an adult’s hand) and beautifully designed volume … What surprised me was how ‘realistic’ the object lesson became for me as a scholar because of the multiple narrative modes and tones in which it is written. The fragmentary mix of subjective impressions and scientific factoids all of us sedulously collect before we force them into linear narratives are all discernible as patterns in a rich and open ended fabric. * Medievally Speaking *Earth is ambitious, thought-provoking and inspirational, conversationally written between two dissimilar but very complementary viewpoints. In this great age of exoplanetary discovery, it makes me wonder how unique our wonderful home planet really is. * Scott Parazynski, MD, University Explorer and Professor at Arizona State University, USA, and NASA Astronaut (retired) *As much as the mindsets of a distinguished planetary scientist and a medieval studies professor differ, it is what they share in common when thinking about that object so dear to all of us, the Earth, that is so fascinating. What this delightful and informative book ultimately demonstrates is that the humanity of science itself offers untold fuel for the humanities to ponder our existence. The Object of this book, the Earth, is at once more interesting and better off because both of these scholars chose to write about it. * Lawrence M. Krauss, theoretical physicist and author of A Universe from Nothing and The Greatest Story Ever Told—So Far *Gorgeous … The book’s words and images can’t quite banish scale’s disorienting shifts, but interweaving planet-sized ideas with human words and emotions opens doors … I’m struck not so much by the disparity of [the authors’] fields as their shared curiosity and commitment to generative and generous thinking. * The Bookfish *Table of Contents1. Prologue: Genesis 2. Orbit 3. Ground (Why Earth?) 4. Scale (Barriers to Understanding) 5. Radiance (Earth's beauty) 6. Gravity (Earth's Pull) 7. Interlude: A Hike Around Piestewa Peak 8. Imagination List of Illustrations Notes Index
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