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Cover Leben zwischen Natur und Kultur E-BOOK -- Inhalt -- Prolog -- Das Rohe, das Gekochte und Rocky Balboas Eier als zeitweilige Referenz -- Technik- und Lebenswissenschaften: Grenzverschiebungen / Neuorientierungen -- Die kontrollierte Simulation der Unkontrollierbarkeit. Kontroll- und Wissensformen in der Technowissenschaftskultur -- Natur in der Krise. Die Technisierung der Lebenswelt und die Antiquiertheit biokonservativer Technikkritik -- Zur Funktion des 'nackten Lebens' als Außenseite des Sozialen für die Herstellung eines Akteurmodells für Cyborgs. Oder: Die kulturelle Leistung einer Naturalisierung sozialer Akteure als Menschen -- Technikwissenschaften: Nanotechnologie und synthetische Biologie -- Posthumanismus und Menschenwürde -- Natürlich Nano. Die argumentative Kraft von Naturkonzepten in Laiendiskussionen zu Nanotechnologie -- Die Nanotechnologie findet nicht statt -- Lebenswissenschaften: Medizin und Genetik -- Das Primat der 'Natur' im Gegensatz zur 'Künstlichkeit' in der Medizin der Aufklärung -- Kulturelle Monster beherrschen. Erkundungen zur Einführung prädiktiver Gentests -- Umweltkonzepte in der Epigenetik -- Autorinnen und Autoren.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction: And Still the World Burns -- Chapter 2: An Historical Perspective: From End of Pipe to All of Pipe -- Chapter 3: Responsible Parties: Who Makes the Economy Green? -- Chapter 4: Common Consumer Concerns -- Chapter 5: Our Moral Relationship with Nature -- Chapter 6: Now All Is Beautiful -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Moral and Aesthetic Imperative -- Appendix: A Green Platform -- About the Author

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Naturalism and the Invention of Identity -- Chapter 2. Between Two Truths -- Chapter 3. Natures of Naturalism -- Chapter 4. Raw Data -- Chapter 5. Methods for Multispecies Anthropology -- Chapter 6. A Theory of 'Animal Borders' -- Chapter 7. Delta Ontologies -- Chapter 8. The Ontological Turn -- Index.

This revised edition of Carolyn's Merchant's classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword.Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface to the Seventh Edition -- About the Companion Website -- Part I: The Past and Present -- 1: Introduction -- The development of ideas -- The development of human population and stages of cultural development -- Hunting and gathering -- Humans as cultivators, keepers and metal workers -- Modern industrial and urban civilizations -- 2: The Human Impact on Vegetation -- Introduction -- The use of fire -- Fires: natural and anthropogenic -- Some consequences of fire suppression -- Some effects of fire on vegetation -- The role of grazing -- Deforestation -- Secondary rain forest -- The human role in the creation and maintenance of savanna -- The spread of desert vegetation on desert margins -- The maquis of the Mediterranean lands -- The prairies and other mid-latitude and high-altitude grasslands -- Post-glacial vegetational change in Britain and Europe -- Lowland heaths -- Introduction, invasion and explosion -- Air pollution and its effects on plants -- Forest decline -- Miscellaneous causes of plant decline -- The change in genetic and species diversity -- Conclusion: threats to plant life -- 3: Human Influence on Animals -- Domestication of animals -- Dispersal and invasions of animals -- Human influence on the expansion of animal populations -- Causes of animal contractions and decline: pollution -- Habitat change and animal decline -- Other causes of animal decline -- Animal extinctions in prehistoric times -- Modern-day extinctions -- 4: The Human Impact on the Soil -- Introduction -- Salinity: natural sources -- Human agency and increased salinity -- Irrigation salinity -- Dryland salinity -- Urban salinity -- Interbasin water transfers -- Coastal zone salinity -- Consequences of salinity -- Reclamation of salt-affected lands -- Lateritization -- Accelerated podzolization and acidification.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- WAYS IN TO THE TEXT -- Who Are Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees? -- What Does Our Ecological Footprint Say? -- Why Does Our Ecological Footprint Matter? -- SECTION 1: INFLUENCES -- Module 1: The Authors and the Historical Context -- Module 2: Academic Context -- Module 3: The Problem -- Module 4: The Authors' Contribution -- SECTION 2: IDEAS -- Module 5: Main Ideas -- Module 6: Secondary Ideas -- Module 7: Achievement -- Module 8: Place in the Authors' Works -- SECTION 3: IMPACT -- Module 9: The First Responses -- Module 10: The Evolving Debate -- Module 11: Impact and Influence Today -- Module 12: Where Next? -- Glossary of Terms -- People Mentioned in the Text -- Works Cited

The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Concern about the environment is legitimate, but catastrophism transforms us into cowering children. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self-sacrifice to 'save the planet' and cultivation of fear: behind the carbon commissars, a dangerous and counterproductive ecological catastrophism is gaining ground. Bruckner locates the predecessors of today's ecological catastrophism in Catholicism's admonishment to give up joy in the present for the sake of eternal life and in Marxism's demand that individuals forsake personal needs for the sake of a brighter future. Modern society's susceptibility to this kind of catastrophism derives from what Bruckner calls the 'seductions of disaster', as exemplified by the popular appeal of disaster movies. But ecological catastrophism is harmful in that it draws attention away from other, more solvable problems and injustices in the world in order to focus on something that is portrayed as an Apocalypse. Rather than preaching catastrophe and pessimism, we need to develop a democratic and generous ecology that addresses specific problems in a practical way. This sharp and contrarian essay on one of the great issues of our time will be widely read and discussed.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface / Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, and Robert S. Emmett -- The Anthropocene: The Promise and Pitfalls of an Epochal Idea / Rob Nixon -- Hubris -- Anthropocene in a Jar / Tomas Matza and Nicole Heller -- Concretes Speak: A Play in One Act / Rachel Harkness, Cristián Simonetti, and Judith Winter -- The Age of (a) Man / Joseph Masco -- The Manual Pesticide Spray Pump / Michelle Mart and Cameron Muir -- Hubris or Humility? Genealogies of the Anthropocene / Gregg Mitman -- Living And Dying -- Huia Echoes / Julianne Lutz Warren -- Snarge / Gary Kroll -- Marine Animal Satellite Tags / Nils Hanwahr -- Artificial Coral Reef / Josh Wodak -- Cryogenic Freezer Box / Elizabeth Hennessy -- Racism and the Anthropocene / Laura Pulido -- Sabotaging the Anthropocene -- or, In Praise of Mutiny / Marco Armiero -- Laboring -- On Possibility -- or, The Monkey Wrench / Daegan Miller -- The Germantown Calico Quilt / Bethany Wiggin -- Anthropocene Aesthetics / Robert S. Emmett -- Making -- The Mirror- Testing the Counter- Anthropocene / Sverker Sörlin -- Objects from Anna Schwartz's Cabinet of Curiosities / Judit Hersko -- Technofossil / Jared Farmer -- Davies Creek Road / Trisha Carroll and Mandy Martin -- Anthropocene Cabinets of Curiosity: Objects of Strange Change / Libby Robin -- Contributors

Intro -- Join the Bloodless Revolution -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- In the Beginning -- Chapter 2 -- What Is Epigenetics -- Epigenetics and Our Survival -- Society as a Live Cell -- Humans Are Parasites -- How Might an Epigenetic Political System Operate? -- Money and Various Types of Cash Payment Systems -- Trickle-Down Economics - The Side Effects of Capitalism and Machiavellianism -- Chapter 3 -- Sociology and Its Effect on Government -- The Impact of Education -- The Impact of Culture -- Religion -- Socio-economic Background -- Parents and Their Impact on Their Children -- Communication -- Inferred Learning -- Experiential Learning -- Human Conditioning and Epigenetic Behaviour -- Pavlov's Theory of Classical Conditioning -- Maslow's Theory of the Hierarchy of Needs -- B F Skinner -- Sigmund Freud -- Milton Hyland Erikson -- Carl Gustav Jung -- Dr David Hawkins - Scale of Consciousness -- Governments -- Political Archetypes and Ideologies -- Chapter 5 -- The Australian Political System -- In the Beginning -- The Commonwealth of Australia -- The Australian Constitution -- The Process of Australian Elections -- Other Global Organisations Influencing Australia -- United Nations (UN) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) -- Global Competitive Index (GCI) -- A New System of Political Management -- The Global Competitiveness Index Report and the Quotient of Happiness -- A Paradigm Shift in Consciousness -- Staged Change Management of Governance -- The Proposed New System -- Where to from Here -- References.

This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Mark Maslin, Professor of Geography at University College London. The conversation explores Prof. Maslin's research on the Anthropocene which according to his definition began when human impacts on the planet irrevocably started to change the course of the Earth's biological and geographical trajectory, leading to climate change, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, and more.This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, On Being A Superpower, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter. Howard Burton was the Founding Director of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and an MA in philosophy. This book is part of an expanding series of 100+ Ideas Roadshow conversations, each one presenting a wealth of candid insights from a leading expert in a focused yet informal setting to provide a uniquely accessible window into frontline research and scholarship that wouldn't otherwise be encountered through standard lectures and textbooks.

We're all prone to excess, even in discussions of excess, observes biologist and science writer Marlene Zuk. This year has been marked by another rainfall of books about humans destroying the environment in which they evolved, a few about the a priori Darwinian mismatch between humans and their so-called "natural" environments, and a great many more about the even greater mismatch between humans and their constructed environments. This month's Digital Edition gathers some of the best essays and reviews from LARB's Science Section that deal with aspects of the mismatch, and how scientific disco

Intro -- The Environmental Alarmist -- The Environmental Alarmist -- PART ONE -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- PART TWO -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- PART THREE -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- Chapter Twenty -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author.