wyszukanych pozycji: 9
Half-Lives & Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War
ISBN: 9781930618824 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The long Cold War of the twentieth century has ended, but only now are the poisonous legacies of that "first nuclear age" coming to light. Activists and anthropologists, the authors of this volume reveal the devastating, complex, and long-term environmental health problems afflicting the people who worked in uranium mining and processing, lived in regions dedicated to the construction of nuclear weapons or participated, often unknowingly, in radiation experiments. The nations and individuals, many of them members of indigenous or ethnic minority communities, are now demanding information... The long Cold War of the twentieth century has ended, but only now are the poisonous legacies of that "first nuclear age" coming to light. Activist... |
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177,22 zł |
Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change: Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures?
ISBN: 9789400717732 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Co-published with UNESCO A product of the UNESCO-IHP project on Water and Cultural Diversity, this book represents an effort to examine the complex role water plays as a force in sustaining, maintaining, and threatening the viability of culturally diverse peoples. It is argued that water is a fundamental human need, a human right, and a core sustaining element in biodiversity and cultural diversity. The core concepts utilized in this book draw upon a larger trend in sustainability science, a recognition of the synergism and analytical potential in utilizing a coupled biological and... Co-published with UNESCO A product of the UNESCO-IHP project on Water and Cultural Diversity, this book represents an effort to examine the c... |
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586,33 zł |
Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report
ISBN: 9781598743456 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community within a unique collaborative framework. Their work helped produce a $1 billion award by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues of bioethics,...
The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose...
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813,27 zł |
Life and Death Matters: Human Rights, Environment, and Social Justice
ISBN: 9781598743395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 487 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The first edition of Life and Death Matters was a breakthrough text, centralizing the experiences of those on the front lines of environmental crises and forging new paradigms for understanding how crises emerge and how different groups of actors respond to them. This second edition, fully updated with both expanded and new chapters, once again provides a benchmark for the field and opens important pathways for further research. Authors reassess the state of scholarship and grassroots activism in a new century when social and environmental systems are being reconceptualised within post-9/11...
The first edition of Life and Death Matters was a breakthrough text, centralizing the experiences of those on the front lines of environmental crises ...
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230,81 zł |
Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change: Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures?
ISBN: 9789400718661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Co-published with UNESCO A product of the UNESCO-IHP project on Water and Cultural Diversity, this book represents an effort to examine the complex role water plays as a force in sustaining, maintaining, and threatening the viability of culturally diverse peoples. It is argued that water is a fundamental human need, a human right, and a core sustaining element in biodiversity and cultural diversity. The core concepts utilized in this book draw upon a larger trend in sustainability science, a recognition of the synergism and analytical potential in utilizing a coupled biological and... Co-published with UNESCO A product of the UNESCO-IHP project on Water and Cultural Diversity, this book represents an effort to examine the c... |
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586,33 zł |
Waging War, Making Peace: Reparations and Human Rights
ISBN: 9781598743449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Humans are good at making war--and much less successful at making peace. Genocide, torture, slavery, and other crimes against humanity are gross violations of human rights that are frequently perpetrated and legitimized in the name of nationalism, militarism, and economic development. This book tackles the question of how to make peace by taking a critical look at the primary political mechanism used to "repair" the many injuries suffered in war. With an explicit focus on reparations and human rights, it examines the broad array of abuses being perpetrated in the modern era, from genocide to...
Humans are good at making war--and much less successful at making peace. Genocide, torture, slavery, and other crimes against humanity are gross viola...
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194,08 zł |
Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report
ISBN: 9781598743463 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and ethnographic research, conducted with the Marshallese community within a unique collaborative framework. Their work helped produce a $1 billion award by the Nuclear Claims Tribunal and raises issues of bioethics,...
The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose...
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230,81 zł |
Life and Death Matters: Human Rights, Environment, and Social Justice, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781598743388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 487 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The first edition of Life and Death Matters was a breakthrough text, centralizing the experiences of those on the front lines of environmental crises and forging new paradigms for understanding how crises emerge and how different groups of actors respond to them. This second edition, fully updated with both expanded and new chapters, once again provides a benchmark for the field and opens important pathways for further research. Authors reassess the state of scholarship and grassroots activism in a new century when social and environmental systems are being reconceptualised within post-9/11...
The first edition of Life and Death Matters was a breakthrough text, centralizing the experiences of those on the front lines of environmental crises ...
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760,80 zł |
Waging War, Making Peace: Reparations and Human Rights
ISBN: 9781598743432 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Humans are good at making war--and much less successful at making peace. Genocide, torture, slavery, and other crimes against humanity are gross violations of human rights that are frequently perpetrated and legitimized in the name of nationalism, militarism, and economic development. This book tackles the question of how to make peace by taking a critical look at the primary political mechanism used to "repair" the many injuries suffered in war. With an explicit focus on reparations and human rights, it examines the broad array of abuses being perpetrated in the modern era, from genocide to...
Humans are good at making war--and much less successful at making peace. Genocide, torture, slavery, and other crimes against humanity are gross viola...
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760,80 zł |