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  • Sociology And Nature

    Social Action In Context

    by Raymond Murphy ...
    Sociology as if nature did not matter has been the sociological expression of modern societies negligent of the processes of nature. In response to this ?ecological blindness,? Raymond Murphy examines the limitations of sociology that have resulted from this neglect.Humanity's success in manipulating nature destabilizes the natural support system of society on a planetary scale and, in turn, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Sociological Theory and the Environment

    Classical Foundations, Contemporary Insights

    by Ted Benton, Frederick Buttel, William R. Catton Jr., Riley Dunlap, Peter Grimes, Rosemary McKechnie, Elim Papadakis, Timmons Roberts, Ornulf Seippel, Elizabeth Shove, Alan Warde, Peter Wehling, Ian Welsh, Steve Yearley, John Hannigan, Raymond Murphy ...
    Sociological Theory and the Environment is a comprehensive survey and assessment of sociological theories of the relations between societies and their 'natural' biophysical environment. This book touches on and addresses virtually all of the major perspectives, focal points, and debates in environmental sociology today-classical and twentieth century social theories, macro-micro linkage issues, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Fossil-Fuelled Climate Crisis

    Foresight or Discounting Danger?

    by Raymond Murphy ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyses the threat posed by the continued use of fossil fuels. By utilizing Elizabeth Shove’s social practices approach and Murphy’s own social closure framework, the book examines the accelerating treadmill of carbon-polluting practices. It incorporates externalities theory to investigate how the full cost of fossil fuels is paid by others rather than users, and to demonstrate that the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Rationality And Nature

    A Sociological Inquiry Into A Changing Relationship

    by Raymond Murphy ...
    Divergent beliefs about humanity's relationship to nature collide as the second millenium ends. One belief emphasizes that a distinctive characteristic of humans—reason—enables them to reshape and master nature. Another insists that nature is not so plastic, hence humans must adapt to nature and render development sustainable, or even limit growth. "Social ecology" asserts that environmental ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Leadership in Disaster

    Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change

    by Raymond Murphy ...
    Murphy explores whether technological development inadvertently constructed new vulnerabilities, thereby manufacturing a natural disaster. As the extreme weather in the ice storm may foreshadow what will occur with global warming, Leadership in Disaster also explores the politics, economics, ethics, and cultural predispositions involved in climate change, investigating how modern societies create ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    The Busie Body (UNABRIDGED)

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    by Susanna Centlivre ...
    Narrated by Gregorio Kunze, Roger Zeiler, Raymond Murphy, Beverlee Perkins ...

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    2 hours 55 min

    A rich heiress pretending to be in love with her guardian, but with several other suitors. A jealous merchant from Spain with a beautiful but cloistered daughter. A Busy Body who tries to know everybody else's business. Conniving servants. Plot elements stolen - and improved - from Moliere, Johnson, and Dryden. Definitely comedy, and written by a very successful woman playwright. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Why We Disagree About Climate Change

    Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity

    by Mike Hulme ...
    Climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution'. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and humanity's place on Earth. Drawing upon twenty-five years of professional work as an international climate change scientist and public commentator, Mike Hulme provides a unique insider's account of the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Ecological Rift

    Capitalisms War on the Earth

    by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, Richard York ...
    Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts have been driven through the delicate fabric of the biosphere. The economy and the earth are headed ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics

    by Allen Thompson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth. Anthropogenic environmental changes are occurring on global scales at unprecedented rates. Despite a long history of environmental intervention, never before has the collective impact of human behaviors threatened all of the major bio-systems on the planet. Decisions we make today will have significant consequences for the basic conditions ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Capitalism in the Web of Life

    Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital

    by Jason W. Moore ...
    Integrating both social and historical factors, this radical analysis of the development of capitalism reveals the ever-deepening relationship between capital and ecologyFinance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today’s global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Radical Ecology

    The Search for a Livable World

    by Carolyn Merchant ...
    Series series Revolutionary Thought and Radical Movements
    This is a new edition of the classic examination of major philosophical, ethical, scientific and economic roots of environmental problems which examines the ways that radical ecologists can transform science and society in order to sustain life on this planet. It features a new Introduction from the author, a thorough updating of chapters, and two entirely new chapters on recent Global Movements ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Environmental Ethics

    An Overview for the Twenty-First Century

    by Robin Attfield ...
    In this clear, concise, comprehensively revised and up-to-date introduction to environmental ethics, Robin Attfield guides the student through the key issues and debates in this field in ways that will also be of interest to a wide range of scholars and researchers.The book introduces environmental problems and environmental ethics and surveys theories of the sources of the problems. Attfield also ... Read more

    $24.00 USD