Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos (Bendell Jem)(Paperback)

Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos (Bendell Jem)(Paperback)

'Deep adaptation' refers to the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for - and live with - a climate-influenced breakdown or collapse of our societies. It is a framework for responding to the terrifying realization of increasing disruption by committing ourselves to

Bangladesh I: Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Developing Countries (Islam MD Nazrul)(Pevná vazba)

An initial overview of the climate change impacts on key sectors, mitigation and adaptation strategies in BangladeshStep-by-step case study analysis helps the reader to learn the current climate change impacts and mitigation polices in BangladeshDiscusses the role of indigenous peoples for sharing

The Great Adaptation: Climate, Capitalism and Catastrophe (Felli Romain)(Pevná vazba)

When capitalism doesn't fight climate change but rather tries to make a buck out of it The Great Adaptation tells the story of how scientists, governments and corporations have tried to deal with the challenge that climate change poses to capitalism by promoting adaptation to the consequences of

A Theory of Adaptation (Hutcheon Linda)(Paperback)

A Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination. Linda Hutcheon develops a theory of adaptation through a range of media, from film and opera, to video games, pop music and theme

Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation (Kelly Sean)(Paperback)

We are living in end times. With climate chaos, an accelerating mass extinction, and signs of civilizational collapse, the Earth community is being drawn into a planetary near-death experience (NDE). These end times, however, also mark the threshold of new planetary identity in the making. Drawing

Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors (Fagan Brian)(Pevná vazba)

A thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive. Man-made climate change may have began in the last two hundred years, but humankind has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not

How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos (Pogue David)(Paperback)

A practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and technology correspondent David Pogue. You might not realize it, but we're already living through the beginnings of climate

Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation - Octavia E. Butlerová, Damian Duffy

The graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's groundbreaking dystopian novel, Parable of the Sower, the follow-up to Kindred, a #1 New York Times bestsellerIn this graphic-novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team

Weathered: Cultures of Climate (Hulme Mike)(Paperback)

Climate is an enduring idea of the human mind and also a powerful one. Today, the idea of climate is most commonly associated with the discourse of climate-change and its scientific, political, economic, social, religious and ethical dimensions. However, to understand adequately the cultural

The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies (Leitch Thomas)(Paperback)

This collection of forty new essays, written by the leading scholars in adaptation studies and distinguished contributors from outside the field, is the most comprehensive volume on adaptation ever published. Written to appeal alike to specialists in adaptation, scholars in allied fields, and

The Human Odyssey: Navigating the Twelve Stages of Life (Armstrong Thomas)(Paperback)

Deep Simplicity - Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life (Gribbin John)(Paperback / softback)

The world around us can be a complex, confusing place. Earthquakes happen without warning, stock markets fluctuate, weather forecasters seldom seem to get it right - even other people continue to baffle us. How do we make sense of it all? This title illuminates the harmony underlying our

The Politics of Climate Change (Giddens Anthony)(Paperback)

'A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it.'--Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of America Since it first appeared, this book has achieved a classic status. Reprinted many times since its publication, it

The Chaos of Longing (Robinson K. y.)(Paperback)

The Chaos of Longing is a brutally honest exploration of desire--physical, emotional, and spiritual. This revised and expanded edition contains over 50 pages of all-new material. Organized in four sections - Inception, Longing, Chaos, and Epiphany - K.Y. Robinson's debut poetry collection explores

Spiritual Klutz: Stories of Navigating the Self-Help World & the Law of Attraction (Speece Staci)(Paperback)

Climate Strike: The Practical Politics of the Climate Crisis (Wall Derek)(Paperback)

The climate crisis is here. Burning forests, melting glaciers, increasingly extreme weather patterns point to an unfolding catastrophe. Derek Wall looks at every aspect of the crisis: What can we do? How can we be effective and paractical? How can we build an ecological economy? This is a major

Mindfully Facing Climate Change (Analayo Bhikkhu)(Paperback)

In Mindfully Facing Climate Change, Bhikkhu Analayo offers a response to the challenges of climate change that is grounded in the teachings of early Buddhism and mindfulness meditation. Based on employing the teaching of the four noble truths as its main framework, it places facing climate change

The Essence of Chaos (Lorenz Edward N.)(Paperback)

Chaos surrounds us. Seemingly random events -- the flapping of a flag, a storm-driven wave striking the shore, a pinball's path -- often appear to have no order, no rational pattern. Explicating the theory of chaos and the consequences of its principal findings -- that actual, precise rules may

I Am the First Consciousness of Chaos: The Black Album (Redon Odilon)(Paperback)

I AM THE FIRST CONSCIOUSNESS OF CHAOS collects the key 'noirs' -- lithographs, etchings and charcoals -- of Odilon Redon, perhaps the most enigmatic and esoteric figure in the artistic lineage that leads directly from Symbolism to Surrealism. Never previously available in a single trade volume, the

Climate Emergency: How Societies Create the Crisis (Harvey Mark)(Paperback)

The recognition that climate change is now a climate emergency has been endorsed by a wide range of scientists and the United Nations. Natural scientists focus on the aggregate impacts of human activity resulting from burning fossil fuels and producing food, and hence speak of anthropogenic climate

Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic (Carroll Peter J.)(Paperback)

Condensed Chaos provides a practical introduction to Chaos Magic, one of the fastest growing areas of Western Occultism. Through it you can change your circumstances, live according to a developing sense of personal responsibility, effect change around you, and stop living as a helpless cog in some

The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science (Ball Tim)(Paperback)

Dr. Tim Ball exposes the malicious misuse of climate science as it was distorted by dishonest brokers to advance the political aspirations of the progressive

Dr Johnson's London (Picard Liza)(Paperback / softback)

The everyday realities of life in the city of Hogarth, Fielding and Dr Johnson, by the author of the bestselling Elizabeth's

Navigating Austerity: Currents of Debt Along a South Asian River (Bear Laura)(Paperback)

Navigating Austerity addresses a key policy question of our era: what happens to society and the environment when austerity dominates political and economic life? To get to the heart of this issue, Laura Bear tells the stories of boatmen, shipyard workers, hydrographers, port bureaucrats and river