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  • Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences

    Edited by Elena Aronova, David Sepkoski, Marco Tamborini ...
    Series series Reference Module Humanities
    This open access handbook aims to provide a definitive assessment of the historiography and the future of major themes and approaches within the history of the earth sciences, understood broadly. The volume is intended for a broad range of readers, including graduate students, other scholars, and scientists, both familiar with and new to the history of the earth and environmental sciences.Essays ... Read more

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  • Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

    Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Edited by Jason W. Moore ...
    Series series Kairos
    The Earth has reached a tipping point. Runaway climate change, the sixth great extinction of planetary life, the acidification of the oceans—all point toward an era of unprecedented turbulence in humanity’s relationship within the web of life. But just what is that relationship, and how do we make sense of this extraordinary transition?Anthropocene or Capitalocene? offers answers to these ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Know-It-All Anthropology

    The 50 Extraordinary Human Innovations and Events, Each Explained in Under a Minute

    Edited by Simon Underdown ...
    An informative reference containing concise explanations for the major anthropological discoveries in human physical, cultural, and social history.Who are we? What is it about our species that sets us apart from every other living creature, past and present, on this planet?These are perennially compelling questions about human evolution and development that continue to cudgel the best brains on ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

    by Dipesh Chakrabarty ...
    For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is to grapple with what this means and to confront humanities scholars with ideas they have been reluctant to ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Natura Urbana

    Ecological Constellations in Urban Space

    by Matthew Gandy ...
    A study of urban nature that draws together different strands of urban ecology as well as insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought.Postindustrial transitions and changing cultures of nature have produced an unprecedented degree of fascination with urban biodiversity. The “other nature” that flourishes in marginal urban spaces, at one remove from the controlled contours ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Shock of the Anthropocene

    The Earth, History and Us

    by Christophe Bonneuil, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz ...
    Translated by David Fernbach ...
    Dissecting the new theoretical buzzword of the “Anthropocene”The 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.How did we get to this point? Refuting the convenient view of a “human species” that upset the Earth ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • The Anthropology of Extinction

    Essays on Culture and Species Death

    Edited by Genese Marie Sodikoff ...
    Exploring the endings of species, languages, cultures, and ways of life, this collection "provocatively makes one think about extinction in novel ways." — Biological ConservationWe live in an era marked by an accelerating rate of species death, but since the early days of the discipline, anthropology has contemplated the death of languages, cultural groups, and ways of life. The essays in this ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Social History of Knowledge II

    From the Encyclopaedia to Wikipedia

    by Peter Burke ...
    Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclopédie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a social history (or a retrospective sociology of knowledge) in the sense that it focuses not on individuals but on groups, institutions, collective ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Imagining Extinction

    The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species

    by Ursula K. Heise ...
    We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim—the first one caused by humans. Activists, filmmakers, writers, and artists are seeking to bring the crisis to the public's attention through stories and images that use the strategies of elegy, tragedy, epic, and even comedy. Imagining Extinction is the first book to examine the cultural ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Weathered

    Cultures of Climate

    by Mike Hulme ...
    Climate is an enduring idea of the human mind and also a powerful one. Today, the idea of climate is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate-change and its scientific, political, economic, social, religious and ethical dimensions. However, to understand adequately the cultural politics of climate-change it is important to establish the different origins of the idea of climate itself ... Read more

    $78.39 CAD

  • The Dialectics of Ecology

    Socalism and Nature

    by John Bellamy Foster ...
    Explores ecological socialism's potential against capitalist environmental degradationToday the fate of the earth as a home for humanity is in question—and yet, contends John Bellamy Foster, the reunification of humanity and the earth remains possible if we are prepared to make revolutionary changes. As with his prior books, The Dialectics of Ecology is grounded in the contention that we are now ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Future of Nature

    Documents of Global Change

    Edited by Libby Robin, Sverker Sorlin, Paul Warde ...

    $32.59 CAD