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  • Plastic Matter

    di Heather Davis ...
    Serie series Elements
    Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material—it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Plastic Matter Heather Davis traces plastic’s relations to geology, media, ... Altre info

    17,46 €

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  • Animal Rights

    A Very Short Introduction

    di David DeGrazia ...
    Serie series Very Short Introductions
    Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research. Animal Rights ... Altre info

    6,99 €

  • Pollution Is Colonialism

    di Max Liboiron ...
    In Pollution Is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research methods as practices that can align with or against colonialism. They point out that even when researchers are working toward benevolent goals, environmental science and activism are often premised on a colonial worldview and access to land. Focusing on plastic pollution, the book models an ... Altre info

    18,19 €

  • Against Purity

    Living Ethically in Compromised Times

    di Alexis Shotwell ...
    The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-righteousness in the scant moments we achieve it, but since it is ultimately impossible, individual purity will always disappoint. Might it be better to understand complexity and, indeed, our own complicity in much of what we think of as bad, ... Altre info

    18,92 €

  • Anthropocene or Capitalocene?

    Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

    Rivisto da Jason W. Moore ...
    The Earth has reached a tipping point and we are entering 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 questions. The contributors to this book diagnose the problems of Anthropocene thinking and propose an ... Altre info

    6,23 €

  • Biology As Ideology

    di Richard Lewontin ...
    Serie series The CBC Massey Lectures
    R. C. Lewontin is a prominent scientist -- a geneticist who teaches at Harvard -- yet he believes that we have placed science on a pedestal, treating it as an objective body of knowledge that transcends all other ways of knowing and all other endeavours.Lewontin writes in this collection of essays, which began their life as CBC Radio's Massey Lectures Series for 1990: "Scientists do not begin life ... Altre info

    9,56 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • The Progress of This Storm

    Nature and Society in a Warming World

    di Andreas Malm ...
    An attack on the idea that nature and society are impossible to distinguish from each otherIn a world careening towards climate chaos, nature is dead. It can no longer be separated from society. Everything is a blur of hybrids, where humans possess no exceptional agency to set them apart from dead matter. But is it really so? In this blistering polemic and theoretical manifesto, Andreas Malm ... Altre info

    8,10 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • Bodily Natures

    Science, Environment, and the Material Self

    di 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 ... Altre info

    9,35 €

  • Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty

    Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers

    di M. Murphy ...
    Before 1980, sick building syndrome did not exist. By the 1990s, it was among the most commonly investigated occupational health problems in the United States. Afflicted by headaches, rashes, and immune system disorders, office workers—mostly women—protested that their workplaces were filled with toxic hazards; yet federal investigators could detect no chemical cause. This richly detailed history ... Altre info

    19,65 €

  • Through the Lens of Anthropology

    An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture, Third Edition

    di Robert Muckle, Laura Tubelle de González, Stacey L. Camp ...
    Through the Lens of Anthropology is a concise introduction to anthropology that uses the twin themes of food and sustainability to connect evolution, biology, archaeology, history, language, and culture. The third edition remains a highly readable text that encourages students to think about current events and issues through an anthropological lens.Beautifully illustrated with over 100 full-color ... Altre info

    39,51 €

  • Ethics and Animals

    An Introduction

    di Lori Gruen ...
    Serie series Cambridge Applied Ethics
    In this comprehensive introduction to animal ethics, Lori Gruen weaves together poignant and provocative case studies with discussions of ethical theory, urging readers to engage critically and empathetically reflect on our treatment of other animals. In clear and accessible language, Gruen provides a survey of the issues central to human-animal relations and a reasoned new perspective on current ... Altre info

    23,81 €

  • Fueling Culture

    101 Words for Energy and Environment

    di Jennifer Wenzel, Patricia Yaeger ...
    How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and imagination? How have transitions from one energy source to another—from wood to coal, or from oil to solar to whatever comes next—transformed culture and society? What are the implications of uneven access to energy in the past, present, and future? Which concepts ... Altre info

    30,88 €