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  • Reactivating Elements

    Chemistry, Ecology, Practice

    Modifié par Dimitris Papadopoulos, María Puig de la Bellacasa, Natasha Myers ...
    Collections series Elements
    The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air, water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all their ambivalences as chemical categories, material substances, social forms, forces and energies, cosmological entities, and epistemic objects. Engaging with the nonlinear historical significance of elemental thought ... En savoir plus

    $31.49 CAD

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  • The Systems View of Life

    A Unifying Vision

    par Pier Luigi Luisi, Fritjof Capra ...
    Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation, leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking. This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework. Taking a broad sweep through history and ... En savoir plus

    $34.39 CAD

  • SuperCooperators

    Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed

    par Martin Nowak, Roger Highfield ...
    EVOLUTION IS OFTEN PRESENTED AS A STRICTLY COMPETITIVE ENDEAVOR. This point of view has had serious implications for the way we see the mechanics of both science and culture. But scientists have long wondered how societies could have evolved without some measure of cooperation. And if there was cooperation involved, how could it have arisen from nature “red in tooth and claw”?Martin Nowak, one of ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

    Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Modifié par Jason W. Moore ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The End of the Long Summer

    Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth

    par Dianne Dumanoski ...
    For the past twelve thousand years, Earth’s stable climate has allowed human civilization to flourish. But this long benign summer is an anomaly in the Earth’s history and one that is rapidly coming to a close. The radical experiment of our modern industrial civilization is now disrupting our planet’s very metabolism; our future hinges in large part on how Earth responds. Climate change is already ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Biology Under the Influence

    Dialectical Essays on the Coevolution of Nature and Society

    par Richard Lewontin, Richard Levins ...
    How do we understand the world? While some look to the heavens for intelligent design, others argue that it is determined by information encoded in DNA. Science serves as an important activity for uncovering the processes and operations of nature, but it is also immersed in a social context where ideology influences the questions we ask and how we approach the material world. Biology Under the ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight

    The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984-2019

    par David C. Krakauer ...
    Collections series Compass
    Over the last three decades, the Santa Fe Institute and its network of researchers have been pursuing a revolution in science.Ignoring the boundaries of disciplines and schools and searching for novel fundamental ideas, theories, and practices, this international community integrates the full range of scientific inquiries that will help us to understand and survive on a complex planet.This volume ... En savoir plus

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  • The Anthrobscene

    par Jussi Parikka ...
    Collections series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and e-readers all at one time held the promise of a more environmentally healthy world not dependent on paper and deforestation. The result of our ubiquitous digital lives is, as we see in The Anthrobscene, actually quite the opposite: not ecological health but an environmental wasteland, where media never die. Jussi Parikka critiques corporate and human desires as a ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Earthy Realism

    The Meaning of Gaia

    par Mary Midgley ...
    Collections Livre 30 - Societas
    GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. By its use of personification it attacks the view that the physical world is inert and lifeless. It has a scientific side, as shown by the new university departments of earth science which bring biology and geology together to study the continuity of the cycle ... En savoir plus

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  • Geontologies

    A Requiem to Late Liberalism

    par Elizabeth A. Povinelli ...
    In Geontologies Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization of power. Finding Foucauldian biopolitics unable to adequately reveal contemporary mechanisms of power and governance, Povinelli describes a mode of power she calls geontopower, which operates through the regulation of the distinction between Life and ... En savoir plus

    $29.29 CAD

  • The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis

    Rethinking modernity in a new epoch

    Modifié par Clive Hamilton, François Gemenne, Christophe Bonneuil ...
    Collections series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the natural and social worlds on which sociology, political science, history, law, economics and philosophy rest are called into question.The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis captures some of the radical new thinking prompted by the arrival ... En savoir plus

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  • Bodily Natures

    Science, Environment, and the Material Self

    par Stacy Alaimo ...
    How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are inextricably interconnected with our physical world? Bodily Natures considers these questions by grappling with powerful and pervasive material forces and their increasingly harmful effects on the human body. Drawing on ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD