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  • Debating Climate Ethics

    by Stephen M. Gardiner, David Weisbach ...
    Series series Debating Ethics
    In this volume, Stephen M. Gardiner and David A. Weisbach present arguments for and against the relevance of ethics to global climate policy. Gardiner argues that climate change is fundamentally an ethical issue, since it is an early instance of a distinctive challenge to ethical action (the perfect moral storm), and ethical concerns (such as with justice, rights, political legitimacy, community ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Climate Change Justice

    by Eric A. Posner, David Weisbach ...
    Climate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should--indeed, must--directly address both issues together. But, in fact, this would be a serious mistake, one that, by dooming effective international limits on greenhouse gases, would actually make the world's poor and developing nations far worse off. This is the provocative ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Afterburn

    Society Beyond Fossil Fuels

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    Essential, visionary essays about our post-carbon futureClimate change, along with the depletion of oil, coal, and gas dictate that we will inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels; but just how big a transformation will this be? While many policy-makers assume that renewable energy sources will provide an easy "plug-and-play" solution, author Richard Heinberg ... Read more

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  • Global Discontents

    Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy

    by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian ...
    Series series The American Empire Project
    In this compelling set of interviews, the intellectual discusses contemporary threats to democracy, from economic inequality to the Trump presidency.In wide-ranging discussions with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider "the world we are leaving to our grandchildren": one imperiled by climate change and the growing potential for nuclear war. If the current ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations

    Processes of Creative Self-Destruction

    by Christopher Wright, Daniel Nyberg ...
    Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The principal message of the book is that despite ... Read more

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  • Human Rights Approaches to Climate Change

    Challenges and Opportunities

    by Sumudu Atapattu ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
    Despite the clear link between climate change and human rights with the potential for virtually all protected rights to be undermined as a result of climate change, its catastrophic impact on human beings was not really understood as a human rights issue until recently.This book examines the link between climate change and human rights in a comprehensive manner. It looks at human rights approaches ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Climate Justice

    Vulnerability and Protection

    by Henry Shue ...
    The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the tangled questions of justice between nations and justice across generations confronting all attempts at international cooperation in controlling climate change sharply crystallize the central choices ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Can Science Fix Climate Change?

    A Case Against Climate Engineering

    by Mike Hulme ...
    Series series New Human Frontiers
    Climate change seems to be an insurmountable problem. Political solutions have so far had little impact. Some scientists are now advocating the so-called 'Plan B', a more direct way of reducing the rate of future warming by reflecting more sunlight back to space, creating a thermostat in the sky.In this book, Mike Hulme argues against this kind of hubristic techno-fix. Drawing upon a distinguished ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • How Can I Stop Climate Change

    What is it and how to help

    by Friends of the Earth ...
    Don’t just sit there, do something. But what? How Can I Stop Climate Change? explains what climate change is and what you can do to stop it. Written by the experts at Friends of the Earth, it gives you the facts and figures and offers practical advice and simple solutions.What is happening and why?Learn to distinguish myth from fact and find out what the future holds, based on the scientific ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Polanski and Perception

    The Psychology of Seeing and the Cinema of Roman Polanski

    by Davide Caputo ...
    A new approach to a director whose contribution to cinema is often overshadowed his personal life, Polanski and Perception focuses on Roman Polanski's interest in the nature of perception and how this is manifested in his films. The incorporation of cognitive research into film theory is becoming increasingly widespread, with novel cinematic technologies and recent developments in digital ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Next Pandemic

    On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers

    by Dr. Ali S Khan ...
    An inside account of the fight to contain the world's deadliest diseases -- and the panic and corruption that make them worse.Throughout history, humankind's biggest killers have been infectious diseases: the Black Death, the Spanish Flu, and AIDS alone account for over one hundred million deaths. We ignore this reality most of the time, but when a new threat -- Ebola, SARS, Zika, coronavirus -- ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Powerplay

    The Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia

    by Victor Cha ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    A close look at the evolution of American political alliances in Asia and their futureWhile the American alliance system in Asia has been fundamental to the region's security and prosperity for seven decades, today it encounters challenges from the growth of China-based regional organizations. How was the American alliance system originally established in Asia, and is it currently under threat? ... Read more

    $20.19 USD