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A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth. This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmologies together, exploring many traditions, including Chinese, Pacific, Islamic, South and Southeast Asian conceptions of the earth’s origin and makeup. Together the chapters ask: How have different ideas about the sacred, animate, and earthly changed modern environmental sciences? How have different world traditions understood human and geological origins? How does the inclusion of multiple cosmologies change the meaning of the Anthropocene and the global climate crisis? By carefully examining these questions, New Earth Histories sets an ambitious agenda for how we t...
1,5 Grad Celsius. Dieser zunächst unscheinbare Wert zeigt, dass im Zuge der Klimakrise die Lebensbedingungen auf der Erde zu einer Frage der richtigen Temperatur werden. Mit der Krise verstärkt sich zugleich die Abhängigkeit von Techniken der Temperaturkontrolle, seien es Klimaanlagen, Thermostate oder Kühlinfrastrukturen für Lebensmittel, Daten und Zellen. Statt Wärme und Kälte wie üblich nur als Metaphern für Gesellschaft zu verstehen, konturiert dieser Band ein sozialwissenschaftliches Forschungsfeld, das sich konzeptuell und empirisch mit Praktiken der Temperaturkontrolle und -modulation auseinandersetzt. Dazu versammelt das Buch einerseits eine große Bandbreite thermischer Phänomene von heiß über lau bis kalt und bietet andererseits ein analytisches Instrumentarium, um »Temperatur« kritisch als Gegenstand sozialer (Macht-)Beziehungen zu erforschen. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Academic Writing has been widely acclaimed in all its editions as a superb textbook—and an important contribution to the pedagogy of introducing students to the conventions of academic writing. The book seeks to introduce student readers to the lively community of research and writing beyond the classroom, with its complex interactions, values, and goals. It presents writing from a range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, cultivating students’ awareness of the subtle differences in genre. This new edition has been revised throughout and contains many new exercises, updated examples, a new section on research proposals, and wider disciplinary coverage. The organization of the book has also been revised to better fit with the timeline of most teaching terms.
The entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power: how data and algorithms shape the world—and shape us within that world. With the emergence of a post-truth world, we have witnessed the dissolution of the common ground on which truth claims were negotiated, individual agency enacted, and public spheres shaped. What happens when, as Nietzsche claimed, there are no facts, but only interpretations? In this book, Mark Shepard examines the entanglements of people and data, code and space, knowledge and power that have produced an uncommon ground—a disaggregated public sphere where the extraction of behavioral data and their subsequent processing and sale have led to t...
Regional Geology and Tectonics: Principles of Geologic Analysis, 2nd edition is the first in a three-volume series covering Phanerozoic regional geology and tectonics. The new edition provides updates to the first edition's detailed overview of geologic processes, and includes new sections on plate tectonics, petroleum systems, and new methods of geological analysis. This book provides both professionals and students with the basic principles necessary to grasp the conceptual approaches to hydrocarbon exploration in a wide variety of geological settings globally. - Discusses in detail the principles of regional geological analysis and the main geological and geophysical tools - Captures and identifies the tectonics of the world in detail, through a series of unique geographic maps, allowing quick access to exact tectonic locations - Serves as the ideal introductory overview and complementary reference to the core concepts of regional geology and tectonics offered in volumes 2 and 3 in the series
This collection of essays offers a series of reflections on the specific literary and cultural forms that can be seen as the product of modernity’s spatial transformations, which have taken on new urgency in today’s world of ever increasing mobility and global networks. The book offers a broad perspective on the narrative and poetic dimensions of the modern discourses and imaginaries that have shaped our current geographical sensibilities. In the early twenty-first century, we are still grappling with the spatial effects of ‘early’ and ‘high’ modern developments, and the contemporary crises revolving around political boundaries and geopolitical orders in many parts of the world have intensified spatial anxieties. They call for a sustained analysis of individual perceptions, cultural constructions and political implications of spatial processes, movements and relations. The contributors of this book focus both on the spatial orders of modernity and on the various dynamic processes that have shaped our engagement with modern space.
About 12,500 years ago, an apocalyptic event struck Earth. A nearby supergiant planet, bigger than our sun, exploded with a catastrophic, supernova outburst. One of the huge fragments rampaged through the Earth’s celestial ramparts and, in due course, the blazing rock exploded over the thick ice sheet in the Pacific, shearing off this vast land that eventually submerged. The unprecedented high-intensity seismic waves shook the entire planet, leading to the terrible Global Deluge. This is a story where mainstream scientific observations and ancient religious texts and myths harmonize! The Siblings From The Sun is a thoroughly unique and gripping novel—based on science but filled with romance, adventure, and the horrors of nuclear war—as a small group of intrepid young adventurers fled from their moribund world, and seek a new habitable world…