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    Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World

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    In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them, one synthetic chemical, radioactive isotope, and megastorm at a time. Visceral sensations, she finds, are vital to this process, which yields a new animism in which humans ... Leer más

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  • The Collapse of Western Civilization

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    The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from ... Leer más

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  • What Technology Wants

    de Kevin Kelly ...
    From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable— a sweeping vision oftechnology as a living force that can expand our individual potentialThis provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kevin Kelly looks out ... Leer más

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  • The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated Third Edition

    The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late

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  • The Great Work

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    de Thomas Berry ...
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  • The Bad Science and Bad Policy of Obama?s Global Warming Agenda

    Series series Encounter Broadsides
    As the U.N. moves closer to a new global warming treaty, it is time to examine the calls for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The health and welfare of humanity has benefited from access to fossil fuels, and any drastic move to limit that access must have extraordinary evidence to support it.While alternative energy technologies will increasingly be relied upon in the face of dwindling ... Leer más

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  • Emergence

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    In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKA VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARAN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARExplaining wh... ... Leer más

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  • The Ingenuity Gap

    As crises multiply, ingenuity lags. This prescient classic explains why societies falter when problems outpace solutions—and offers a roadmap to close the gap before risks from climate shocks, pandemics, inequality, and AI spiral beyond control.First published at the turn of the millennium, The Ingenuity Gap by Thomas Homer-Dixon anticipated the turbulent world we now inhabit: pandemics, climate ... Leer más

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  • Culture

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  • Learning to Die in the Anthropocene

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  • The End of the Long Summer

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  • What Are You Optimistic About?

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