Concerns about the exploitation of limited resources, optimum development trajectories, and climate change draw attention to the temporal horizons of our environment - Environmental Futures is a curated collection of essays that explores different ways of knowing the future and how these futures shape contemporary social worlds.

• Includes a range of detailed case studies, from ice melting in Antarctica to coal mining in Bangladesh, flooding in Colombia to climate modelling in Egypt
• Approaches prognosis as a cultural, political, and material...

The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a politics anchored in the mundane yet vital acts of blocking, releasing, channeling, and diverting water. She examines the quotidian practices of farmers, government engineers, and international donors as they interact with the waters of the Nile flowing into and through Egypt. Situating these local practices in relation to broader processes that affect Nile waters, Barnes moves back and forth from farmer to government ministry, from irrigation...

The waters of the Nile are fundamental to life in Egypt. In this compelling ethnography, Jessica Barnes explores the everyday politics of water: a politics anchored in the mundane yet vital acts of blocking, releasing, channeling, and diverting water. She examines the quotidian practices of farmers, government engineers, and international donors as they interact with the waters of the Nile flowing into and through Egypt. Situating these local practices in relation to broader processes that affect Nile waters, Barnes moves back and forth from farmer to government ministry, from irrigation...

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our times, yet also seemingly intractable. This book offers novel insights on this contemporary challenge, drawing together the state-of-the-art thinking in anthropology. Approaching climate change as a nexus of nature, culture, science, politics, and belief, the book reveals nuanced ways of understanding the relationships between society and climate, science and the state, certainty and uncertainty, global and local that are manifested in climate change debates. The contributors address three major areas of inquiry: how climate change...

'Drowning the Paladin's calls, Where the serpent breaks the shield. To the north your wandering eye shall fall, In the land of the shadows, where the Healer's stone hides. Power enough to shatter the Crystal's hold over man.' Thus speaks Siribel, lost in a telling, the final hint Isaac needs to uncover a way back to Vanidriell. Corbin Walker wants nothing more than to return to his people, but to do so he must first gather power enough to defeat the Great Crystal, Baetylus. The companions find themselves pulled back to the cursed ruins of Ul'kor, in search of a mysterious ancient relic the...

Nani, an innocent little girl, faces a life of turmoil, chaos, and tragedy at the age of two. When her mother meets Calvin Smith, life as she knew it goes into a downward spiral. She is abused physically, mentally, and sexually. Nani is exposed to drugs and crime, and is told the father she never knew, is in prison. Nani finds a sense of peace when the Rogers family comes into her life. Mrs. Rogers, her kindergarten teacher, becomes the emulation of what a good mother is supposed to be, while Mr. Rogers, a pastor, becomes her version of a real father figure. Danny, the Rogers son, becomes the...