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

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

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

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

The Eu and Crisis Response (Mac Ginty Roger)(Paperback)

A state-of-the-art consideration of the European Union's crisis response mechanisms based on comparative fieldwork in a number of

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

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

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

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

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

Controlling Climate Change (Metz Bert)(Paperback)

An unbiased and comprehensive overview, based on the findings of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Using no jargon, it looks at tackling and adapting to man-made climate change, and works through the often confusing potential solutions. Bert Metz is the former co-chair of the

Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know(r) (Chenoweth Erica)(Paperback)

A sweeping overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they are, how they work, why they are often effective, and why they can fail. Civil resistance is a method of conflict through which unarmed civilians use a variety of coordinated methods (strikes, protests,

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

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

Full Spectrum Resistance, Volume One: Building Movements and Fighting to Win (McBay Aric)(Paperback)

A guide to direct action for those disillusioned with the posturing of liberal 'activism.' The radical left is losing, but it doesn't have to be that way. Here is the radical's guide to activist work--the manual we need at this crucial moment to organize for universal human rights, a habitable

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

Making the Future - Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance (Chomsky Noam)(Paperback / softback)

Features articles that examine numerous topics, including the financial crisis, Obama's presidency, WikiLeaks and the conflicts in the Middle East. Restating and refining the author's commitment to democracy and finding inspiration in the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring, this book offers his

Village Dilemma (Shaw Rebecca)(Paperback / softback)

A dilemma divides the village...From the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Turnham Malpas and Barleybridge

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

The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change (Archer David)(Paperback)

An incredible wealth of scientific data on global warming has been collected in the last few decades. The history of the Earth's climate has been probed by drilling into polar ice sheets and sediment layers of the oceans' vast depths, and great advances have been made in computer modeling of our

Ghosts of Empire - A Ghost Novel (Mann George)(Paperback / softback)

In the aftermath of the events seen in Ghosts of Karnak, and with the political climate somewhat eased, Gabriel takes Ginny to London by airship to recuperate. But he isn't counting on coming face-to-face with a man who claims to embody the spirit of Albion itself, sinister forces gathering in the

Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism (Fuchs Christian)(Paperback)

The 'end of history' has not taken place. Ideological and economic crisis and the status quo of neoliberal capitalism since 2008 demand a renewed engagement with Marx. But if we are to effectively resist capitalism we must truly understand Marx: Marxism today must theorise how communication

Curious George and the Bunny (Rey H. A.)(Board Books)

Based on a vignette in the classic Curious George Flies a Kite, this story features George finding a hutch of adorable bunnies. He thinks it would be so much fun to play hide-and-seek with one of the baby bunnies, so he lifts it from its cage, sets it on the ground, and closes his eyes. But--oh,