wyszukanych pozycji: 10
Fire of His Genius, the
ISBN: 9780743223218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. None of the spectators who gathered on the Hudson River shore on August 17, 1808, could have known the importance of the object they had come to see and, mostly, deride: Robert Fulton's new steamboat. But as Kirkpatrick Sale shows in this remarkable biography, Fulton's "large, noisy, showy, fast, brash, exciting, powerful, and audacious" machine would -- for better or worse -- irrevocably transform nineteenth-century America.
Set against a brilliant portrait of a dynamic period in history, The Fire of His Genius tells the story of the fiercely driven man whose invention opened up... None of the spectators who gathered on the Hudson River shore on August 17, 1808, could have known the importance of the object they had come to see a...
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73,68 zł |
The Collapse of 2020
ISBN: 9781977221773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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43,14 zł |
Dwellers in the Land
ISBN: 9780820322056 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Imagine a world structured around ecological and cultural diversity, rather than national and political parameters. In response to present and impending ecological and economic crises, Kirkpatrick Sale offers a definitive introduction to the unique concept of bioregionalism, an alternative way of organizing society to create smaller scale, more ecologically sound, individually responsive communities with renewable economies and cultures. He emphasizes, among many other factors, the concept of regionalism through natural population division, settlement near and stewardship of watershed areas,...
Imagine a world structured around ecological and cultural diversity, rather than national and political parameters. In response to present and impendi...
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169,11 zł |
After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination
ISBN: 9780822339380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly increasing the likelihood of an ecological catastrophe. How did humankind come to rule nature to such an extent? To regard the planet's resources and creatures as ours for the taking? To find ourselves on a seemingly relentless path toward ecocide?
In "After Eden," Kirkpatrick Sale answers these questions in a radically new way. Integrating research... When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climat...
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103,69 zł |
Why the Sea is Salt: Poems of Love and Loss
ISBN: 9780595176403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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56,15 zł |
Rebels Against The Future: The Luddites And Their War On The Industrial Revolution: Lessons For The Computer Age
ISBN: 9780201407181 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Kirkpatrick Sale is at the tumultuous center of a technology backlash, actively challenging Bill Gates on the one hand and the Unabomber on the other. The subject of bets, barbs, and grudging praise in the pages of WIRED, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The New Yorker, Rebels Against the Future takes us back to the first technology backlash, the short-lived and fierce Luddite rebellion of 1811. Sale tells the compelling story of the Luddites' struggle to preserve their jobs and way of life by destroying the machines that threatened to replace them; he then invokes a...
Kirkpatrick Sale is at the tumultuous center of a technology backlash, actively challenging Bill Gates on the one hand and the Unabomber on the other....
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139,81 zł |
The Collapse of 2020
ISBN: 9781977222060 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,51 zł |
After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination
ISBN: 9780822338857 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly increasing the likelihood of an ecological catastrophe. How did humankind come to rule nature to such an extent? To regard the planet's resources and creatures as ours for the taking? To find ourselves on a seemingly relentless path toward ecocide?
In "After Eden," Kirkpatrick Sale answers these questions in a radically new way. Integrating research... When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climat...
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430,52 zł |
Emancipation Hell: The Tragedy Wrought by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
ISBN: 9780692592113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Emancipation-freeing the slaves-Hell? The Emancipation Proclamation-one of the sacred icons of American history-a tragedy? How can this be? That was the opinion of Frederick Douglass, the most important African American leader of the 19th century, who proclaimed, "I denounce the so-called Emancipation." Douglass wrote: "I admit that the Negro...has made little progress from barbarism to civilization, and that he is in a deplorable condition since his emancipation. That he is worse off in many respects, than when he was a slave, I am compelled to admit..." Indeed, social statistics of...
Emancipation-freeing the slaves-Hell? The Emancipation Proclamation-one of the sacred icons of American history-a tragedy? How can this be? Tha...
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46,44 zł |
The Green Revolution: The Environmental Movement 1962-1992
ISBN: 9780809015511 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. The Green Revolution documents the tremendous change in public awareness and attitudes since the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Sale assesses the growth of national environmental organizations and the influence of scientists and their theories about global warming, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, toxic waste, and biodiversity. And he shows how environmental concerns affect all levels of society and much of our government's... The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. The Gre... |
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69,38 zł |