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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jonathan d oldfield”
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  • Soviet Climate Change Science

    Domestic Debates, International Collaboration and Future Climates

    by Jonathan D. Oldfield, Vladimir Jankovic, Katja Doose, Nina Kruglikova, Denis J.B. Shaw, Julia Lajus ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
    Soviet Climate Change Science explores the character and range of Soviet contributions to the emerging understanding of large-scale anthropogenic climate change during the post-1945 period. More specifically, it examines the role of Soviet scientists in helping to shape the debate, both domestically and on the international stage, and with a particular focus on the period 1960s to the 1980s.The ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Soviet Union and Global Environmental Change

    Modifying the Biosphere and Conceptualizing Society-Nature Interaction

    by Jonathan D. Oldfield ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
    This book argues that the Soviet Union was a highly influential actor in furthering understandings of society-nature interaction on the international stage and played a key role in helping to shape, conceptualize and assess the relationship between humankind and the Earth system. It considers how humankind’s capacity to affect physical and biological systems at a global scale was acknowledged and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Russian Nature

    Exploring the Environmental Consequences of Societal Change

    by Jonathan D. Oldfield ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice
    Jonathan D Oldfield provides a detailed assessment of the changing relationship between Russian society and the wider environment since the fall of the Soviet Union. Through this, he highlights the need to critically evaluate assumptions regarding the post-Soviet environment, in order to move beyond generalization and engage meaningfully with the particularities of Russia's contemporary ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System

    by Ian Angus ...
    Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun—the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and mass species extinctions. Humanity faces not just more pollution or warmer weather, but a crisis of the Earth System. If business as usual continues, this century will be marked by rapid deterioration of our physical, social, and ... Read more

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  • Earthmasters

    The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering

    by Dr. Clive Hamilton ...
    This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed, and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 million years. The question “can the crisis be avoided?” has been superseded by a more frightening one, “what can be done to prevent the devastation of ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Markets in the Name of Socialism

    The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism

    by Johanna Bockman ...
    The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. In conventional accounts, American and Western European economists, such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, sold neoliberalism by popularizing their free-market ideas and radical criticisms of the state. Rather than focusing on the agency of a few prominent, conservative economists, ... Read more

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  • Class Theory and History

    Capitalism and Communism in the USSR

    by Stephen A. Resnick, Richard D. Wolff ...
    Class Theory and History takes an ambitious and ground-breaking look at the entire history of the Soviet Union and presents a new kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth, evolution, and death in class terms. Utilizing the class analytics they have developed over the last three decades, resnick and Wolff formulate the most fully developed economic theory of communism now ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Old Gods, New Enigmas

    Marx's Lost Theory

    by Mike Davis ...
    Is revolution possible in the age of the Anthropocene?Marx has returned, but which Marx? Recent biographies have proclaimed him to be an emphatically nineteenth-century figure, but in this book, Mike Davis’s first directly about Marx and Marxism, a thinker comes to light who speaks to the present as much as the past. In a series of searching, propulsive essays, Davis, the bestselling author of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Tracing the Atom

    Nuclear Legacies in Russia and Central Asia

    Edited by Susanne Bauer, Tanja Penter ...
    Series series Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe
    This book is about nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia, focusing on selected sites of the Soviet atomic program, many of which have remained understudied. Nuclear operations, for energy or military purposes, demanded a vast infrastructure of production and supply chains that have transformed entire regions. In following the material traces of the atomic programs, contributors pay ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Karl Marx's Capital

    by Macat Team ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    A critical analysis of Karl Marx’s Capital, which is without question one of the most influential books to be published in the course of the past two centuries. Controversial in its politics, and arriving at conclusions that are passionately debated to this day, it is nonetheless a fine example of the creative combination of a philosophical method (the dialectic) with historical and economic ... Read more

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  • Capitalism in the Anthropocene

    Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution

    by John Bellamy Foster ...
    Over 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 new, more dangerous Anthropocene Epoch, which began around 1950. The Anthropocene Epoch is characterized by an “anthropogenic rift” in the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • From Pugwash to Putin

    A Critical History of US-Soviet Scientific Cooperation

    by Gerson S Sher ...
    These firsthand accounts of US and Soviet scientists communicating across the Iron Curtain offer "a stunning portrait of Cold War scientific cooperation" ( Physics Today).For sixty years, scientists from the United States and the Soviet Union participated in state-organized programs of collaboration. But what really happened in these programs? What did the participants and governments hope to ... Read more

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