A Matter Of Survival
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Author | : Anita Gordon |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780674469709 |
We are facing ecological disasters that will affect our ability to survive and the crisis is forcing us to reexamine the entire value system that has governed our lives for the past two thousand years.
Author | : Ann Weil |
Publisher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781410919144 |
When fire turns wood to ashes, a chemical transformation has taken place. These changes happen everyday all over the world. Find out more about the various types in this title.
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Publisher | : Human Rights Watch |
Total Pages | : 39 |
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Author | : Theodore Carson Sabine |
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Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : Ron Hess |
Publisher | : The Fiction Works |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2004 |
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ISBN | : 9781581248517 |
Author | : Memad (Political party) |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Janna Levin |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2022-03-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1984899791 |
From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space—an authoritative and accessible guide to the most alluring and challenging phenomena of contemporary science. "[Levin will] take you on a safe black hole trip, an exciting travel story enjoyed from your chair’s event horizon.” —Boston Globe Through her writing, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused on making the science she studies not just comprehensible but also, and perhaps more important, intriguing to the nonscientist. In this book, she helps us to understand and find delight in the black hole—perhaps the most opaque theoretical construct ever imagined by physicists—illustrated with original artwork by American painter and photographer Lia Halloran. Levin takes us on an evocative exploration of black holes, provoking us to imagine the visceral experience of a black hole encounter. She reveals the influence of black holes as they populate the universe, sculpt galaxies, and even infuse the whole expanse of reality that we inhabit. Lively, engaging, and utterly unique, Black Hole Survival Guide is not just informative—it is, as well, a wonderful read from first to last.
Author | : Stefan Klein |
Publisher | : Scribe Publications |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2014-06-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1925113337 |
The phrase ‘survival of the fittest’ conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan Klein, author of the international bestseller The Science of Happiness, makes the startling assertion that the key to achieving lasting personal and societal success lies in helping others. Klein argues that altruism is in fact our defining characteristic: natural selection favoured those early humans who cooperated in groups. With their survival more assured, our altruistic ancestors were free to devote brainpower to developing intelligence, language, and culture — our very humanity. As Klein puts it, ‘We humans became first the friendliest and then the most intelligent apes.’ To build his persuasive case for how altruistic behaviour made us human — and why it pays to get along — Klein brings together an extraordinary array of material: current research on genetics and the brain, economics, social psychology, behavioural and anthropological experiments, history, and modern culture. Ultimately, his groundbreaking findings lead him to a vexing question: if we’re really hard-wired to act for one another’s benefit, why aren’t we all getting along? Klein believes we’ve learned to mistrust our generous instincts because success is so often attributed to selfish ambition. In Survival of the Nicest, he invites us to rethink what it means to be the ‘fittest’ as he shows how caring for others can protect us from loneliness and depression, make us happier and healthier, reward us economically, and even extend our lives.
Author | : Memad |
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Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Tamar Mayer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2020-07-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0429783922 |
This book explores the experiences, causes, and consequences of food insecurity in different geographical regions and historical eras. It highlights collective and political actions aimed at food sovereignty as solutions to mitigate suffering. Despite global efforts to end hunger, it persists and has even increased in some regions. This book provides interdisciplinary and historical perspectives on the manifestations of food insecurity, with case studies illustrating how people coped with violations of their rights during the war-time deprivation in France; the neoliberal incursions on food supply in Turkey, Greece, and Nicaragua; as well as the consequences of radioactive contamination of farmland in Japan. This edited collection adopts an analytical approach to understanding food insecurity by examining how the historical and political situations in different countries have resulted in an unfolding dialectic of food insecurity and resistance, with the most marginalized people—immigrants, those in refugee camps, poor peasants, and so forth—consistently suffering the worst effects, yet still maintaining agency to fight back. The book tackles food insecurity on a local as well as a global scale and will thus be useful for a broad range of audiences, including students, scholars, and the general public interested in studying food crises, globalization, and current global issues.