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Die Menschheit ist zu einer der zentralen Naturgewalten geworden. Ihre kollektiven Eingriffe sind so ausgeprägt, dass von einem neuen erdgeschichtlichen Zeitalter die Rede ist: dem Anthropozän. Julia Adeney Thomas, Mark Williams und Jan Zalasiewicz gehen der Frage nach, was dieses für die Menschheit bedeutet und wie sie damit umgehen kann. Vom geologischen Konzept bis zu den Anthropozän-Studien der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften untersuchen...

In ways anyone can understand, Altered Earth presents the growing scientific consensus on the Anthropocene and the challenges that planetary transformation poses to politics, economics, history, ethics, and imagination. Finally, this landmark collection envisions the mutualistic cities that could help stabilize our newly dangerous Earth System.

In ways anyone can understand, Altered Earth presents the growing scientific consensus on the Anthropocene and the challenges that planetary transformation poses to politics, economics, history, ethics, and imagination. Finally, this landmark collection envisions the mutualistic cities that could help stabilize our newly dangerous Earth System.

On the eve of the Nazi invasion of the island of Guernsey, terrified parents have a choice to make: send their children alone to England, or keep the family together and risk whatever may come to their villages. Ava and Joseph Simon reluctantly put their 9-year-old son, Henry, and four-year-old daughter, Catherine, in the care of their son's teacher, who will escort them on a boat to mainland England. Just as the ferry is about to leave, the t...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and wide-ranging impacts that our planet no longer functions as it did during the previous eleven millennia. So distinctive is this collective human intervention that a new geological interval has been proposed, it is called the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is intriguing sc...

Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and wide-ranging impacts that our planet no longer functions as it did during the previous eleven millennia. So distinctive is this collective human intervention that a new geological interval has been proposed, it is called the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is intriguing sc...

Can an eight-year-old girl really make a difference?See what happens when one girl sets her mind to help others. Children will learn that they can make a difference in their own community even if they're only eight.

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The contributors to Visualizing Fascism examine the imagery and visual rhetoric of interwar fascism in East Asia, southern Africa, and Europe to explore how fascism was visualized as a global and aesthetic phenomenon.

The contributors to Visualizing Fascism examine the imagery and visual rhetoric of interwar fascism in East Asia, southern Africa, and Europe to explore how fascism was visualized as a global and aesthetic phenomenon.

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