Timely and provocative reflections on the future of the wild in an increasingly human worldThe Heart of the Wild brings together some of today’s leading scientists, humanists, and nature writers to offer a thought-provoking meditation on the urgency of learning about and experiencing our wild places in an age of rapidly expanding human impacts.These engaging essays present nuanced and often surprising perspectives on the meaning and value of “wildn...

Cet ouvrage d’une ambition exceptionnelle présente sous une forme accessible à un large public une histoire inédite de l’esclavage depuis la Préhistoire jusqu’au présent. Il paraît vingt ans après le vote de la loi Taubira, alors que la prise de conscience du passé esclavagiste est chaque jour plus aiguisée au sein de la société française. L’histoire de l’esclavage, trop longtemps tenue pour une forme de passé subalterne, est ici replacée au coeur de l’histoire mondiale. Le livre renouvell...

Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management discusses the ethical issues associated with deliberately engineering a cooler climate to combat global warming. Climate engineering (also known as geoengineering) has recently experienced a surge of interest given the growing likelihood that the global community will fail to limit the temperature increases associated with greenhouse gases to safe levels. Deliberate manipulation of solar radiation to combat climate change is...

Friis and Crease capture Postphenomenology, a new field that has attracted attention among scholars engaged in technology studies. Contributors to this edited collection seek to analyze, clarify, and develop postphenomenological language and concepts, expand the work of Don Ihde, the field's founder, and scout into fields that Ihde never tackled.Many of the contributors to this collection had especially close ties to Ihde and have benefited from close work with him. This combined w...

In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. McCartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and religion that address the ethical challenges raised by organ transplantation. Caplan's new lead essay explains the shortfalls of present policies. From there, book sections take an interdisciplinary approach to fundamental issues like the determination of death and the dead donor rule; the divis...

Arrachés violemment à leur terre et à leurs proches, ils furent des millions à se retrouver enchaînés, entassés comme des bêtes dans des bateaux, contraints à traverser à pied forêts ou déserts dans des conditions tellement inhumaines que presque la moitié d’entre eux en mouraient. Ce crime effroyable, qui a dévasté l’Afrique subsaharienne, a pris de nombreux visages au cours des siècles. Car ses exécuteurs et ses commanditaires sont issus de tous les horizons : de l’Afrique elle-même avec...