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  • Integral Ecology for a More Sustainable World

    Dialogues with Laudato Si'

    by Matthew Eaton, Anne Marie Dalton, Timothy Harvie, Christopher Hrynkow, Peter McGrail, Dennis O’Hara, Neil Ormerod, Michael Taylor Ross0, Stephen Scharper1, Nicholas Smith2, Laura Stivers3, Kate Ward4, Andrew Warmback5, Matthew Philipp Whelan6, Brianne Bell Jacobs7, Charles Camosy Charles Camosy, Fordham University8, Guy Consolmagno9, John F. Haught, Georgetown University0, Gerard Mannion1, Dawn M. Nothwehr2, Susan Rakoczy3, Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson4, Christopher P. Vogt5 ...
    Laudato Si’ insists on a revolutionary human response to the public challenges of our time concerning the ecological crisis. The volume takes up the revolutionary spirit of Pope Francis and speaks to the economic, technological, political, educational, and religious changes needed to overcome the fragile relationships between humans and Earth. This volume identifies various systemic factors that ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Languages in Africa

    Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education

    by Elizabeth C. Zsiga, One Tlale Boyer, Ruth Kramer, Barbara Trudell, Carolyn T. Adger, Lydiah K. Kiramba, Stephen L. Walter, Kingsley Arkorful0, Richard Beyogle1, Samson Seid2, Sheena Shah3, Eyovi Njwe4, Tolulope Odebunmi5, Leonard Muaka6, Anjali Pandey7, Eyamba Bokamba8 ...
    Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
    People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national indigenous language—written, widespread, sometimes used in school—surrounds it. An international language like French or English, a vestige of colonialism, carries prestige ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Natural City

    Re-envisioning the Built Environment

    Edited by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, Stephen Bede Scharper ...
    Urban and natural environments are often viewed as entirely separate entities - human settlements as the domain of architects and planners, and natural areas as untouched wilderness. This dichotomy continues to drive decision-making in subtle ways, but with the mounting pressures of global climate change and declining biodiversity, it is no longer viable. New technologies are promising to provide ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • Your Brain's Politics

    How the Science of Mind Explains the Political Divide

    by George Lakoff ...
    Series Book 59 - Societas
    At first glance, issues like economic inequality, healthcare, climate change, and abortion seem unrelated. However, when thinking and talking about them, people reliably fall into two camps: conservative and liberal. What explains this divide? Why do conservatives and liberals hold the positions they do? And what is the conceptual nature of those who decide elections, commonly called the ... Read more

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  • The Arrow Impossibility Theorem

    by Eric Maskin, Amartya Sen ...
    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    Kenneth J. Arrow's pathbreaking "impossibility theorem" was a watershed innovation in the history of welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice, demonstrating that there is no voting rule that satisfies the four desirable axioms of decisiveness, consensus, nondictatorship, and independence.In this book Eric Maskin and Amartya Sen explore the implications of Arrow's theorem. Sen ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Great Work

    Our Way into the Future

    by Thomas Berry ...
    Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work -- the most necessary and most ennobling work we will ever undertake. Berry's message is not one of doom but of hope. He reminds society of its function, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sociolinguistics

    The Study of Speakers' Choices

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Why do we speak the way we do? What are the social factors that influence our choices of expression? This best-selling introduction to the study of language and society encourages students to think about these fundamental questions, asking how and why we select from the vast range of different words, accents, varieties and languages available to us. In this new and updated edition, students are ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Environmental Ethics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robin Attfield ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of species and habitats, and climate change. As our environment faces evermore threats from human activities these core issues are becoming increasingly important. In this Very Short Introduction Robin Attfield traces the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Matters of Care

    Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds

    by María Puig de la Bellacasa ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Sociolinguistics of Globalization

    by Jan Blommaert ...
    Series series Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
    Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. The world has become a complex 'web' of villages, towns, neighbourhoods and settlements connected by material and symbolic ties in often unpredictable ways. This phenomenon requires us to revise our understanding of linguistic ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Grow Small, Think Beautiful

    Ideas for a Sustainable World from Schumacher College

    Edited by Stephen Harding ...
    Schumacher College, based near Totnes in Devon, England, opened its doors in the early 1990s and is now an internationally-renowned centre for transformative learning on all aspects of sustainable living. James Lovelock led the first course on Gaia theory. A host of visionary thinkers has followed, including mathematician and biologist Brian Goodwin, who died in 2009. This book is a realisation of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Water Ethics

    Foundational Readings for Students and Professionals

    Edited by Jeremy J. Schmidt, Peter G. Brown, Dr. ...
    Having manipulated water for irrigation, energy, and burgeoning urban centers, humans are facing the reality that although fresh water is renewable, it is as finite as any other resource. Countries, states, and cities are now scrambling to develop an intelligent, well-informed approach to mitigate the growing global water crisis. Water Ethics is based on the belief that responding to contemporary ... Read more

    $29.59 USD