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Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as a Sacred Community
ISBN: 9781619025318 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the contemporary voices for the Earth, none resonates like that of noted cultural historian Thomas Berry. His teaching and writings have inspired a generation's thinking about humankind's place in the Earth Community and the universe, engendering widespread critical acclaim and a documentary film on his life and work. This new collection of essays, from various years and occasions, expands and deepens ideas articulated in his earlier writings and also breaks new ground. Berry opens our eyes to the full dimensions of the ecological crisis, framing it as a crisis of spiritual vision....
Among the contemporary voices for the Earth, none resonates like that of noted cultural historian Thomas Berry. His teaching and writings have inspire...
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Apology to a Whale: Words to Mend a World
ISBN: 9781609404406 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Human beings are killing the planet and themselves in the process. Cecile Pineda asks a simple question: Why? An urgent reframing of current ecological thinking, Apology to a Whale addresses what the intersection of relative linguistics and archeology reveals about the present world's power relations, and what the extraordinary communication of plants and animals can teach us. This masterpiece of creative nonfiction is a wild ride on the frontiers of archeo-linguistics in search of the greatest killer on Earth--us.
Human beings are killing the planet and themselves in the process. Cecile Pineda asks a simple question: Why? An urgent reframing of current ecologica...
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Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders
ISBN: 9780872868342 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Explicaciones de Fronteras Inexplicables / Unjustifiable Borders, Justified ( Un Mundo Inmenso 2)
ISBN: 9786075699233 / Hiszpański Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
ISBN: 9781568587295 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An award-winning journalist combines on-the-ground reportage with incisive analysis to reveal the disturbing connection between climate change and increased social and political violence.
An award-winning journalist combines on-the-ground reportage with incisive analysis to reveal the disturbing connection between climate change and inc...
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Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space, and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted, and Afraid to Die
ISBN: 9780544570207 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A fascinating and daresay essential meditation on childhood, parenthood, and the importance of wild spaces for those wild creatures known as kids." Dave Eggers "A fascinating and daresay essential meditation on childhood, parenthood, and the importance of wild spaces for those wild creatures known as kids.... |
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A Journey to Happiness: Discovering Well-Being through Tourism
ISBN: 9781665765909 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Faith in Cities: How Better Places Make Better Neighbors
ISBN: 9780578630083 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Threads of Green: Weaving Sustainability into the Cultural Fabric
ISBN: 9781963443059 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life
ISBN: 9780679758655 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Country of Exiles, William Leach, whose Land of Desire was a finalist for the National Book Award, explores the troubling effects of our national love affair with mobility.He shows us how the impulse to pull up stakes and find a new frontier has always battled with the need to put down roots, and how a new cosmopolitanism has seized our national identity.
Leach takes us across a featureless America, where strip malls homogenize a once varied and majestic landscape, and where casinos displace the Native American spiritual connection to the land. He shows us a culture where... In Country of Exiles, William Leach, whose Land of Desire was a finalist for the National Book Award, explores the troubling effects of ...
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Cities of Power: The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global
ISBN: 9781784785451 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Walking on Thin Air: A Life’s Journey in 99 Steps
ISBN: 9781908906571 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Age of the City: -- A Financial Times Book of the Year -- Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together
ISBN: 9781399406154 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power
ISBN: 9781854109422 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is easy to feel helpless in the face of the torrent of information about environmental catastrophes taking place all over the world. It is easy to feel helpless in the face of the torrent of information about environmental catastrophes taking place all over the world. |
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Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
ISBN: 9781839761713 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, offering scholars and activists ways of seeing and doing to help navigate our turbulent present. Abolition Geography moves us away from explanations of mass incarceration and racist violence focused on uninterrupted histories of prejudice or the dull compulsion of neoliberal economics. Instead, Gilmore offers a geographical grasp of how contemporary racial capitalism operates through an "anti-state...
Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of aboli...
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Ancestral Future
ISBN: 9781509560738 / Angielski / Inna Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel
ISBN: 9781788730273 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "They demolish our houses while we build theirs." This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian "stone men", utilizing some of the best quality dolomitic limestone deposits in the world and drawing on generations of artisanal knowledge, have built almost every state in the Middle East except their own. Today the business of quarrying, cutting, fabrication, and dressing is Palestine's largest employer and generator of revenue, supplying the construction industry in Israel, along with other Middle...
"They demolish our houses while we build theirs." This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, describe...
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Glowing Still: A Woman's Life on the Road - 'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph
ISBN: 9780349145105 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Tender Maps: Travels in Search of the Emotions of Place
ISBN: 9781914613654 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Poetics of Land: A personal journey through the stories, ideas and images of land and people in Bengal, from Vedic times to Nandigram
ISBN: 9781900355841 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Poetics of Land is the result of Marc Hatzfeld's personal journey of discovery where West Bengal became a microcosm in his attempts to understand the mythic notions of land in the context of globalised development. It was first conceived in 2008 when Marc was living in Calcutta and became involved in the debates triggered by the dramatic events of Nandigram concerning landless peasants and sharecroppers who fought for their survival on the land where they had lived for centuries - a land coveted by industrial projects for the sake of development. Over the next six years, Marc interviewed...
The Poetics of Land is the result of Marc Hatzfeld's personal journey of discovery where West Bengal became a microcosm in his attempts to understand ...
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