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  • Environmental Skepticism

    Ecology, Power and Public Life

    by Peter J. Jacques ...
    Series series Global Environmental Governance
    'Environmental skepticism' describes the viewpoint that major environmental problems are either unreal or unimportant. In other words, environmental skepticism holds that environmental problems, especially global ones, are inauthentic. Peter Jacques describes, both empirically and historically, how environmental skepticism has been organized by mostly US-based conservative think tanks as an anti ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Politics and Aesthetics

    by Jacques Rancière, Peter Engelmann ...
    Translated by Wieland Hoban ...
    In this book the influential philosopher Jacques Rancière, in discussion with Peter Engelmann, explores the enduring connection between politics and aesthetics, arguing that aesthetics forms the fundamental basis for social and political upheaval.Beginning from his rejection of structuralist Marxism, Rancière outlines the development of his thought from his early studies on workers’ emancipation ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Reveries of the Solitary Walker

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    Translated by Peter France ...
    After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life, he wrote his final work, the Reveries. In this eloquent masterpiece the great political thinker describes his sense of isolation from a society he felt had rejected his writings - and the manner ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Power of the Talking Stick

    Indigenous Politics and the World Ecological Crisis

    by Sharon J Ridgeway, Peter J Jacques ...
    The Power of the Talking Stick makes the case that, reaching back to the beginning of the nation-state and all through the current period of corporate-led globalisation, our governments and social institutions have been engaged in activities that will ultimately extinguish the world's ecological life support systems. This book offers an alternative, listening to indigenous leaders and others whose ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Sustainability: The Basics

    by Peter Jacques ...
    Series series The Basics
    Sustainability is a pressing concern for people and governments around the world, but it is also an essentially contested concept that requires an understanding of the stakes, trade-offs, and complex politics at play. Sustainability: The Basics offers an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to the concept, and discusses key questions such as:What are the core principles of sustainability ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Essential Writings of Rousseau

    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...
    Translated by Peter Constantine ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Newly translated by Peter ConstantineEdited and with an Introduction by Leo DamroschThe Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and persuasive critics. His extraordinarily original observations on ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Companion to Aeschylus

    Edited by Jacques A. Bromberg, Peter Burian ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A COMPANION TO AESCHYLUSIn A Companion to Aeschylus, a team of eminent Aeschyleans and brilliant younger scholars delivers an insightful and original multi-authored examination—the first comprehensive one in English—of the works of the earliest surviving Greek tragedian. This book explores Aeschylean drama, and its theatrical, historical, philosophical, religious, and socio-political contexts, as ... Read more

    $153.00 USD

  • The Taggerung

    The fourteenth book in the beloved, bestselling Redwall saga

    by Brian Jacques ...
    Illustrated by Peter Standley ...
    Series Book 14 - Redwall
    The nomad clan of Sawney Rath can feel their fortunes changing, much for the better. The Mighty One, the next great leader, has been born within the walls of Redwall Abbey and, at any cost, Sawney Rath is determined to harness the power of this magnificent beast - the deadly Taggerung!A baby otter is kidnapped from Redwall by Sawney's ruthless band of villains called the Juska. They believe he is ... Read more

    $2.53 USD

  • ReNEUAL Model Rules on EU Administrative Procedure

    Edited by Paul Craig, Herwig Hofmann, Jens-Peter Schneider, Jacques Ziller ...
    The Research Network on EU Administrative Law (ReNEUAL) was established in 2009 and now comprises well over one hundred scholars and practitioners active in the field of EU and comparative public law. The aim of the network is to contribute to the development of a legal framework in which the constitutional values of the EU can be embedded in the exercise of public authority. Drafted by four ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Political Representation and European Union Governance

    Edited by Peter Mair, Jacques Thomassen ...
    Series series Journal of European Public Policy Series
    This book confronts and discusses different conceptions of political representation with respect to their application to the system of multi-level governance in the European Union. Political representation is an essentially contested concept. Its meaning has evolved with the development of representative democracy at the level of the nation state, and normative theories of political representation ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Globalization and the World Ocean

    by Peter Jacques ...
    Series series Globalization and the Environment
    Jacques offers a unique analysis of the connections between global marine and atmospheric science to global political phenomena. He shows how human survival is intricately linked to the sustainability of the world ocean, a singular connected body of regional oceans that is by definition a global resource that touches all other ecosystems. Jacques warns that the world ocean now offers evidence of ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Crossing Borders

    Regional and Urban Perspectives on International Migration

    Edited by Cees Gorter, Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1998. Migration patterns at the global level have become more complex, affecting more countries, more people and for a greater variety of reasons. Consequently, international migration is receiving increasing attention throughout the world. Migration is an inherently spatial phenomenon. But while the spatial patterns themselves have been described in recent surveys of global ... Read more

    $51.99 USD