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Sandel, author of The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?\u003cbr\u003eA fresh and penetrating insight from one of the great authorities on globalisation into what's gone wrong with our world and what needs to be put right. -- Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003eEssential reading for anyone interested in making the world a better place. \u003ci\u003eRescue\u003c\/i\u003e provides an urgently needed roadmap for us all. -- Arianna Huffington, Founder \u0026amp; CEO, Thrive Global\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRescue\u003c\/i\u003e gives us hope that we can come together to build forward better and shape societies and economies that are fairer, greener and more inclusive. 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Goldin brings statistics alive in this optimistic analysis of the positive as well as the negative impact of the pandemic - it is a beacon of hope for the future. -- Lord Norman Foster\u003cbr\u003eThis well-researched book shows us what is wrong with our current economic model and provides a convincing clarion call for change after the pandemic. -- Baroness Minouche Shafik, Director, London School of Economics\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Ian Goldin is mapping the short- and long-term consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in his excellent book \u003ci\u003eRescue\u003c\/i\u003e. We know that some negative effects will linger for a long time in our societies and economies, but there is also hope of a brighter future. Professor Goldin points out that something better can come out of this if we make a joint effort to reset our communities on a more sustainable path. This well-written book gives hope of a better future. -- Cécilia Malmström, former European Commissioner for Trade\u003cbr\u003eIn this broad-ranging book, Ian Goldin aptly views the West's failure to address at all adequately the Covid-19 virus as emblematic of widespread national failures. To get out of this dystopia, he argues, nations will have to create nothing less than \"a different operating system\" and they must cooperate far more than in the past. This radical book is a must-read. -- Professor Edmund Phelps, economist and Nobel Laureate\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRescue\u003c\/i\u003e is a wise and hopeful book. As the world begins to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, Ian Goldin has assembled an extraordinary range of data to assess its impact and identify opportunities for transformative change. 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Volcanologist Anna Arnardóttir has spent her entire life studying the volcanic powers under the earth’s crust, but even she cannot fathom the catastrophe at hand.  As a series of eruptions threaten most of Iceland’s population, she’s caught off her rational guard by the most terrible natural disaster of all—love. The world as she knows it is about to fall apart, and so is her heart.  Caught between the safety of a nation and her feelings for her children, her lover, and her past, Anna embarks on a dangerous journey to save the lives of the people she loves—and her soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This fiercely wrought thriller from Björnsdóttir perfectly balances science and psychology…Björnsdóttir smoothly integrates geological and historical information about Iceland’s volcanos into the action. 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As a series of eruptions threaten most of Iceland’s population, she’s caught off her rational guard by the most terrible natural disaster of all—love. The world as she knows it is about to fall apart, and so is her heart.  Caught between the safety of a nation and her feelings for her children, her lover, and her past, Anna embarks on a dangerous journey to save the lives of the people she loves—and her soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This fiercely wrought thriller from Björnsdóttir perfectly balances science and psychology…Björnsdóttir smoothly integrates geological and historical information about Iceland’s volcanos into the action. This explosive tale of adulterous passion is not just for Scandi noir fans.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)  “[Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir] weaves together the hearts of men and the hearts of the earth and the magma of the earth and does it so wonderfully. The Fires is a huge success. 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And more often than not, it is not only hope that drowns.From the creator of The Island.","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48740952441175,"sku":"9781760634018","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781760634018.jpg?v=1720056122"},{"product_id":"the-shock-of-the-anthropocene-the-earth-history-and-us-9781784785031","title":"The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human origin. In two centuries, our planet has tipped into a state unknown for millions of years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a \"human species\" that upset the Earth system, unaware of what it was doing, this book proposes the first critical history of the Anthropocene, shaking up many accepted ideas: about our supposedly recent \"environmental awareness,\" about previous challenges to industrialism, about the manufacture of ignorance and consumerism, about so-called energy transitions, as well as about the role of the military in environmental destruction. In a dialogue between science and history, \u003ci\u003eThe Shock of the Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003e dissects a new theoretical buzzword and explores paths for living and acting politically in this rapidly developing geological epoch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt a time when the word 'Anthropocene' is becoming so fashionable, this well-documented and well-argued book will help readers sort out the various meanings of this most unstable label. The authors show the bewildering varieties of historical actors at work in what is called the 'environmental crisis'. -- Bruno Latour\u003cbr\u003eA very important book. In this historically rich and meticulously detailed work, Bonneuil and Fressoz show us how to keep our head without losing our heart to technocracy. -- Timothy Morton, author of Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World\u003cbr\u003eCleverly argued and extremely compelling, this book offers a remarkably timely analysis and critique of the very notion of the Anthropocene. It's widely held that modern industrial societies innocently and ignorantly generated the forces that have wrought such dramatic ecological effects on their world. It's also believed that only very recently, because of the heroic work of a few visionaries, has this ignorance been overcome and the truth of the Anthropocene at last revealed. Using an astonishing range of sources from climate sciences and economics, history and technology, Bonneuil and Fressoz brilliantly show the utter falsity of this story, and why it matters so much. -- Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge\u003cbr\u003eThis revelatory, lucid and daring book rejects the delusions of control implicit in conventional environmentalism, and outlines the enormity of the changes necessary for us to continue to live in the Anthropocene. -- David Edgerton, King’s College London\u003cbr\u003eA timely book which firmly grounds history in the stuff that the sciences now tell us about what commodified life does to the planet. This is an essential volume for the project of historical thought and action. -- McKenzie Wark, author of Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003eIn questioning the idea of an apolitical Anthropocene and raising the spectre of a new self-selecting scientific geocracy, their book should begin a vital discussion. We do need a new politics of the Anthropocene. -- Fred Pearce * New Scientist *\u003cbr\u003eA wide-ranging essay that combines elements of environmental history, history of science and technology, and economic and intellectual history, while covering an extensive geographic base including British, American, French, and German cases. * Public Books *\u003cbr\u003eThis bold, brilliantly argued history of the Anthropocene epoch is a corrective to cosy thinking about humanity's grave disruptions to Earth systems. Bonneuil and Fressoz call for a \"new environmental humanities\", and a shift away from market-based approaches that feed the beast. -- Barbara Kiser * Nature *\u003cbr\u003eThis is the first book to seriously come to terms-philosophically and psychologically as well as scientifically-with the overwhelming planetary transformation implied by the word 'Anthropocene.' Bonneuil and Fressoz have done humanity a great service by thinking through the startling issues raised by the fact that our species has launched the entire ecosphere onto a new and frightening trajectory. -- Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute\u003cbr\u003eThe Shock of the Anthropocene is a detailed, data-driven, and well-argued critique of conventional thought on enormity of the challenges and changes that lay ahead for humanity on an Earth that is irreparably damaged by our actions. It should be a central addition to readers' climate change libraries. * New York Journal of Books *\u003cbr\u003eThe book is very well written and highly readable. I recommend the book highly. It is currently the most lucid and comprehensive introduction to 'Anthropocene discourse'. -- Noel Castree * Antipode *\u003cbr\u003eThese two historians have undertaken to explain the entry into this new epoch and reveal its major determinants. * Le Monde *\u003cbr\u003eChallenges the certainties of our modernity, our mode of development and our view of the world. * Libération *\u003cbr\u003eThis book attacks such widespread ideas as 'sustainable development,' 'green growth,' or, still worse, 'geo-engineering'-the new manifestation of the blind faith in a technological process supposedly now capable of reducing global warming by various clever tricks. * La Vie *\u003cbr\u003eThis is no climate change doomsday book. 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About climate change?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA scintillating work of boisterous melancholy. -- China Miéville, author of \u003ci\u003eOctober\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Bould's provocation kicks off a thrill-ride roller coaster of ideas, speeding us from one savvy insight to another about culture in the era of climate change. An essential read for anyone wanting to better understand what we know and don't know about what comes next. -- Imre Szeman, author of \u003ci\u003eOn Petrocultures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf \u003ci\u003eThe Anthropocene Unconscious\u003c\/i\u003e weren't so fun to read, it might be too terrifying to think about. This is a book people will be quoting for the next twenty years. -- Gerry Canavan, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eGreen Planets\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrilliant. A sharp, original, irreverent, and deadly serious exploration of climate's pervasive presence in all modern culture. Bould's critical elicitation of climate change across a wide range of genres, places and texts offers a novel methodology for reading, categorizing, and interpreting Anthropocene culture and the banal monstrosities of its attendant carbon capitalism. The result is a highly prescient critique of its root causes and a better means to fully realize the past, present and future effects of its unfolding catastrophes. -- Graeme Macdonald, University of Warwick\u003cbr\u003eBould's work is as impactful in the twenty-first century as Jacques Derrida's landmark thesis of nuclear culture was three decades ago. -- Anindita Banerjee, author of \u003ci\u003eWe Modern People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA vision from the future, a retrospective analysis of our present situation, a requiem for a world we have already lost. 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Bould's eco-socialist commitments seem increasingly inescapable. -- Lola Seaton * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eA swift, wide sweep ... the book's central argument is vital: our culture is submerged in climate catastrophe -- Oscar Rickett * i newspaper *\u003cbr\u003eClimate change, to Bould, is always on the peripheries of art, even if we can't confront it face-on, even if we would like to forget it, even when we think we were safe -- Lauren Sneade * Economy, Land \u0026amp; Climate Insight *\u003cbr\u003eBould puts forward a compelling argument about what cultural criticism in the Anthropocene should be, and he does so with the hope of curtailing some of the slow violence and injustices of the many widely and unevenly distributed effects of climate change. -- Alison Sperling * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eA clear call to action, an attempt to awaken us from our slumber. * Science Fiction Studies *","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48742009504087,"sku":"9781839760471","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781839760471.jpg?v=1720059664"},{"product_id":"aberfan-government-and-disaster-9781860571336","title":"Aberfan: Government and Disaster","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 21 October 1966, 116 children and 28 adults died when a mountainside coal tip collapsed, engulfing homes and part of a school in the village of Aberfan below. It is a moment that will be forever etched in the memories of many people in Wales and beyond.  Aberfan - Government \u0026amp; Disaster is widely recognised as the definitive study of the disaster. Following meticulous research of public records - kept confidential by the UK Government’s 30-year rule - the authors, in this revised second edition, explain how and why the disaster happened and why nobody was held responsible.  Iain McLean and Martin Johnes reveal how the National Coal Board, civil servants, and government ministers, who should have protected the public interest, and specifically the interests of the people of Aberfan, failed to do so. The authors also consider what has been learned or  ignored from Aberfan such as the understanding of psychological trauma and the law concerning ‘corporate manslaughter’.   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