Signs on the Earth: Islam, Modernity and the Climate Crisis (Khalid Fazlun)(Paperback)

Signs on the Earth: Islam, Modernity and the Climate Crisis (Khalid Fazlun)(Paperback)

A major study of environmentalism and Islam in practice and theory, with an historical overview that sets out future challenges, including reformulating the fiqh or Islamic legal tradition to take the ecological dimension seriously. In addressing this book to the one billion Muslims in the world it

Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates (Khalid Masud Muhammad)(Paperback)

An introduction to and overview of the debates and questions emerging regarding Islam and modernity. Key issues are selected to give readers an understanding of the complexity of the phenomenon, an historical perspective, and access to several manifestations of modernity in Muslim

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

Reset Modernity! (LaTour Bruno)(Pevná vazba)

Texts and images document the disconnection between modernity and ecological crisis: do we need to reset modernity's operating system?Modernity has had so many meanings and tries to combine so many contradictory sets of attitudes and values that it has become impossible to use it to define the

Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy (Stephens Jennie C.)(Paperback)

The climate crisis is a crisis of leadership. Transformation to a renewable-based society requires leaders who connect social justice to climate and energy. During the Trump era, connections among white, male power; environmental destruction; and fossil fuel dependence have become more

Ecomodernism: Technology, Politics and the Climate Crisis (Symons Jonathan)(Paperback)

Is climate catastrophe inevitable? In a world of extreme inequality, rising nationalism and mounting carbon emissions, the future looks gloomy. Yet one group of environmentalists -- the 'ecomodernists' -- are optimistic. They argue that technological innovation and universal human development hold

Climate Change and Rising Temperatures (Kurtz Kevin)(Paperback)

What's the difference between climate and weather? What effect do rising temperatures have on Earth? Read on to learn the answers to these questions and more. You'll find out how scientists are responding to the issue of global warming and what you can do at home to combat its effects. Get ready to

Events and Sustainability (Holmes Kirsten)(Paperback)

Increasing concerns over climate and environmental change, the global economic and financial crisis and impacts on host communities, audiences, participants and destinations has reinforced the need for more sustainable approaches to events. Sustainability now features as part of the bid process for

Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation (Hawken Paul)(Paperback)

A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist Paul Hawken, creator of the New York Times bestseller Drawdown The dangers of climate change and a warming world have been in the public eye for fifty years. For three decades, scientists and the

The Qur'an: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Khalidi Tarif)(Paperback)

A landmark new translation of the sacred text of Islam in an elegant deluxe edition Literally the recitation, The Qur'an is considered within the Muslim faith to be the infallible word of God. Tarif Khalidi, the foremost scholar of Islamic history and faith, provides a fresh English translation

The Human Age: How We Caused the Climate Crisis (Palsson Gsli)(Pevná vazba)

Where natural occurrences once controlled climate, geology and the genesis and demise of species, humankind now holds the reins. The Human Age is an intrepid exploration of the new geological epoch in which we now find ourselves: the Anthropocene. Defined as the Age of Man, this is the epoch in

Atmosphere of Hope - Solutions to the Climate Crisis (Flannery Tim)(Paperback / softback)

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

The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking modernity in a new epoch (Hamilton Clive)(Paperback)

The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the natural and social worlds on which sociology, political science, history, law, economics and philosophy rest are called into question.The Anthropocene

Regeneration - Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation (Hawken Paul)(Paperback / softback)

The Resistance Dilemma: Place-Based Movements and the Climate Crisis (Hoberg George)(Paperback)

How organized resistance to new fossil fuel infrastructure became a political force, and how this might affect the transition to renewable energy. Organized resistance to new fossil fuel infrastructure, particularly conflicts over pipelines, has become a formidable political force in North America

Hot Planet - How climate change is harming Earth (and what you can do to help) (Claybourne Anna)(Paperback / softback)

A powerful look at the climate change

Climate Crisis Economics (Mackintosh Stuart P. M.)(Paperback)

Climate Crisis Economics draws on economics, political economy, scientific literature, and data to gauge the extent to which our various communities - political, economic, business - are making the essential leap to a new narrative and policy approach that will accelerate us towards the necessary

Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (Parker Geoffrey)(Paperback)

An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker's prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented calamities--revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars,

Justice and Penal Reform: Re-Shaping the Penal Landscape (Farrall Stephen)(Paperback)

In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, Western societies entered a climate of austerity which has limited the penal expansion experienced in the US, UK and elsewhere over recent decades. These altered conditions have led to introspection and new thinking on punishment even among those on

Letters to the Earth: Writing to a Planet in Crisis (Thompson Emma)(Paperback)

A profound, powerful and moving collection of 100 letters from around the world responding to the climate crisis, introduced by Emma Thompson and lovingly illustrated by CILIP award winner Jackie Morris.'All power to this amazing project.' JOANNE HARRIS'Makes sense of the climate crisis in a whole

Climate Crisis for Beginners (Prentice Andy)(Pevná vazba)

This book explains, in simple language and with clear illustrations, what the climate is, and how it is changing very rapidly at the moment, and the effects this is having on our planet. It tackles suggestions about what needs to change in the way people live, from power stations to farming, and

Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Asad Talal)(Paperback)

Opening with the provocative query 'what might an anthropology of the secular look like?' this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the

Islam and Modernity, 15: Transformation of an Intellectual Tradition (Rahman Fazlur)(Paperback)

'As Professor Fazlur Rahman shows in the latest of a series of important contributions to Islamic intellectual history, the characteristic problems of the Muslim modernists-the adaptation to the needs of the contemporary situation of a holy book which draws its specific examples from the conditions