Human Ecology, Anthropogeography
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the WorldWhy an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The...
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An Almost Zero Waste Life: Learning How to Embrace Less to Live MoreAuthor Megean Weldon, aka The Zero Waste Nerd, gently guides you on an attainable, inspirational, mindful, and completely realistic journey to a sustainable living lifestyle.Find tips, strategies, recipes, and DIY projects for reducing waste in this approachable, beautifully designed and illustrated guide.What is zero...
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Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present"This exciting saga crosses space and time to illustrate how humans, born of stardust, were shaped--and how they in turn shaped the world we know today." --Publishers Weekly This book offers "world history on a grand scale"--pulling back for a wider view and putting...
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Ways of Being AliveThe ecological crisis is a very real crisis for the many species that face extinction, but it is also a crisis of sensibility - that is, a crisis in our relationships with other living beings. We have grown accustomed to treating other living beings...
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Out of the Woods: Seeing Nature in the Everyday2018 Reading the West Book Awards Nonfiction Winner Have you ever wondered about society's desire to cultivate the perfect lawn, why we view some animals as "good" and some as "bad," or even thought about the bits of nature inside everyday items-toothbrushes, cell phones,...
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Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance EncountersModeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures In Eco Soma, Petra Kuppers asks readers to be alert to their own embodied responses to art practice and to pay attention to themselves as active participants in a shared sociocultural world....
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The Future of Nature: Writing on a Human Ecology from Orion MagazineThe western mindset is arguably one of the greatest threats to the world's ecological balance. Corporatism and globalization are two of the obvious villains here, but what part does human nature play in the problem? Since its inception in 1982, Orion magazine has been...
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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the ChthuluceneIn the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what...
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Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of NatureErudite, wide-ranging, a work of dazzling scholarship written with extraordinary flair, Civilizations redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization. To the author, Oxford historian Felipe Fern ndez-Armesto, a society's relationship to...
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Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern WorldThe most important discoveries of the 20th century exist not in the realm of science, medicine, or technology, but rather in the dawning awareness of the earth's limits and how those limits will affect human evolution. Humanity has reached a crossroad where various ecological...
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One Day in the Tropical Rain ForestToday is doomsday for a young Venezuelan Indian boy's beloved rain forest and its animal life--unless he and a visiting naturalist can save it. "George makes drama large and small out of the minute-by-minute events in an ecosystem . . . gripping ecological theater."...
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Altered Earth: Getting the Anthropocene RightAltered Earth aims to get the Anthropocene right in three senses. With essays by leading scientists, it highlights the growing consensus that our planet entered a dangerous new state in the mid-twentieth century. Second, it gets the Anthropocene right in human terms, bringing together...
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Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological RevolutionOver the last 11,700 years, during which human civilization developed, the earth has existed within what geologists refer to as the Holocene Epoch. Now science is telling us that the Holocene Epoch in the geological time scale ended, replaced by the onset of a...
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The Matter of History: How Things Create the PastNew insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and cognition are radically challenging our very idea of what it means to be 'human', while an explosion of neo-materialist thinking in the humanities has fostered a renewed appreciation of the formative powers of a dynamic material environment....
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Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the EarthOur Ecological Footprint presents an internationally-acclaimed tool for measuring and visualizing the resources required to sustain our households, communities, regions and nations, converting the seemingly complex concepts of carrying capacity, resource-use, waste-disposal and the like into a graphic form that everyone can grasp and...
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Social Formation and Symbolic LandscapeHailed as a landmark in its field since its first publication in 1984, Denis E. Cosgrove's Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape has been influential well beyond geography. It has continued to spark lively debate among historians, geographers, art historians, social theorists, landscape architects, and...
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Humans and the Hydrosphere: Protecting Earth's Water SourcesThe hydrosphere encompasses all water on Earth-from glaciers and ice to rivers and oceans. People use water every day. This title asks the question, how much do you use? Readers will learn how humans use water, how humans positively and negatively affect water, and...
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Dwellers in the LandImagine a world structured around ecological and cultural diversity, rather than national and political parameters. In response to present and impending ecological and economic crises, Kirkpatrick Sale offers a definitive introduction to the unique concept of bioregionalism, an alternative way of organizing society to...
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The Whole Wide World and MeA bold, joyful picture book for the very young shows that the natural world is full of wonders -- and each of us is a small part of that. Like a flower in a field . . .Like a cloud in the sky ....
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Mensch und Erde: Skizzen von den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen beidenMensch und Erde: Skizzen von den Wechselbeziehungen zwischen beidenIm Original finden sich Teile der Buchwerbung fr die Reihe Aus Natur und Geisteswelt sowohl am Anfang als auch am Ende des Buches. In der vorliegenden Fassung wurden vom Bearbeiter beide Teile vereinigt und an das...
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