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Gaboon Stories
J S Preston
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Discovery Miles 15 270
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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
The first fully comparative empirical analysis of the relationship
between education and social cohesion, this book develops a new
"distributional theory" of the effects of educational inequality on
social solidarity. Based on a wide-ranging theoretical critique,
and extensive analysis of data on inequality and social attitudes
for over 25 developed countries, the study shows how educational
inequality undermines social trust, civic co-operation and the rule
of law. It is not how much education a country has that matters for
social cohesion but how it is distributed and the co-operative
values that people learn.
It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous
troubling ethical issues. The pertinent question yet to be
addressed is how the ethical issues raised by climate engineering
compare to those raised by alternative proposals for tackling
climate change. This volume is the first to put the ethical issues
raised by climate engineering into a comprehensive, comparative
context so that the key ethical challenges of these technologies
can be better measured against those of alternative climate
policies . Addressing the topic specifically through the lens of
justice, contributors include both advocates of climate
intervention research and its sceptics. The volume includes a
helpful blend of the theoretical and the practical, with
contributions from authors in philosophy, engineering, public
policy, social science, geography, sustainable development studies,
economics, and climate studies. This cross-disciplinary collection
provides the start of an important and more contextualized "second
generation" analysis of climate engineering and the difficult
public policy decisions that lie ahead.
It is already clear that climate engineering raises numerous
troubling ethical issues. The pertinent question yet to be
addressed is how the ethical issues raised by climate engineering
compare to those raised by alternative proposals for tackling
climate change. This volume is the first to put the ethical issues
raised by climate engineering into a comprehensive, comparative
context so that the key ethical challenges of these technologies
can be better measured against those of alternative climate
policies . Addressing the topic specifically through the lens of
justice, contributors include both advocates of climate
intervention research and its sceptics. The volume includes a
helpful blend of the theoretical and the practical, with
contributions from authors in philosophy, engineering, public
policy, social science, geography, sustainable development studies,
economics, and climate studies. This cross-disciplinary collection
provides the start of an important and more contextualized "second
generation" analysis of climate engineering and the difficult
public policy decisions that lie ahead.
Pendergast has taken Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to
give her closure and a sense of the world that she's missed. They
head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts
and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a
rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for
generations has been mysteriously stolen. Pendergast agrees to take
up the search. The trail leads him and Constance to the maiden
voyage of the Queen Victoria, the world's largest and most
luxurious passenger liner--and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with
terror.
Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management
discusses the ethical issues associated with deliberately
engineering a cooler climate to combat global warming. Climate
engineering (also known as geoengineering) has recently experienced
a surge of interest given the growing likelihood that the global
community will fail to limit the temperature increases associated
with greenhouse gases to safe levels. Deliberate manipulation of
solar radiation to combat climate change is an exciting and hopeful
technical prospect, promising great benefits to those who are in
line to suffer most through climate change. At the same time, the
prospect of geoengineering creates huge controversy. Taking
intentional control of earth s climate would be an unprecedented
step in environmental management, raising a number of difficult
ethical questions. One particular form of geoengineering, solar
radiation management (SRM), is known to be relatively cheap and
capable of bringing down global temperatures very rapidly. However,
the complexity of the climate system creates considerable
uncertainty about the precise nature of SRM s effects in different
regions. The ethical issues raised by the prospect of SRM are both
complex and thorny. They include: 1) the uncertainty of SRM s
effects on precipitation patterns, 2) the challenge of proper
global participation in decision-making, 3) the legitimacy of
intentionally manipulating the global climate system in the first
place, 4) the potential to sidestep the issue of dealing with
greenhouse gas emissions, and, 5) the lasting effects on future
generations. It has been widely acknowledged that a sustained and
scholarly treatment of the ethics of SRM is necessary before it
will be possible to make fair and just decisions about whether (or
how) to proceed. This book, including essays by 13 experts in the
field of ethics of geoengineering, is intended to go some distance
towards providing that treatment."
This book presents general computer definitions and abbreviations
as well as application-specification terminology related to the
world of CAD/CAM in alphabetical order.
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Riptide (Hardcover)
Douglas J Preston, Lincoln Child
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R928
Discovery Miles 9 280
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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For generations, treasure hunters have tried to unlock the deadly
puzzle known as the Water Pit: a labyrinth of shafts and tunnels
that honeycombs the heart of a small island off the coast of Maine.
Reputed to be the hiding place of pirate treasure, the Water Pit
possesses an inexplicable ability to kill those who venture into
it, from professionals to innocent explorers. The most
comprehensive, high-tech expedition ever assembled has come to
Maine and to Dr. Malin Hatch, owner of the island. While the
treasure hunters have their reasons for mounting this assault - $2
billion in gold - Hatch has his own motives to join them. For
Hatch, whose brother died on Ragged Island thirty years before, the
only escape from the curse is through the black swirling waters and
bloodstained chambers of the Pit.
"No one working on Douglass should leave home without a copy of
this book."-from the foreword by David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize
winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Drawing on
previously untapped sources, Young Frederick Douglass recreates
with fidelity and in convincing detail the background and early
life of the man who was to become "the gadfly of America's
conscience" and the undisputed spokesman for nineteenth-century
black Americans. With a new foreword by renowned Douglass scholar
David W. Blight, Dickson J. Preston's highly regarded biography
traces the life and times of Frederick Douglass from his birth on
Maryland's Eastern Shore in 1818 until 1838, when he escaped from
slavery to emerge upon the national scene. Astounding his white
contemporaries with his oratorical brilliance and intellectual
capabilities, Douglass dared to challenge the doctrine of white
supremacy on its own grounds. At the time of Douglass's death in
1895, one eulogist wrote that he was probably the best-known
American throughout the world since Abraham Lincoln.
Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered,
Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not
simple. As he stalks his wife's betrayers--a chase that takes him
from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York
City and the darkest bayous of Louisiana--he is also forced to dig
further into Helen's past. And he is stunned to learn that Helen
may have been a collaborator in her own murder.
Peeling back the layers of deception, Pendergast realizes that the
conspiracy is deeper, goes back generations, and is more monstrous
than he could have ever imagined--and everything he's believed,
everything he's trusted, everything he's understood . . . may be a
horrific lie.
The book is an introduction to some of the 1967 1974 results and
techniques in classical lattice statistical mechanics. It is
written in the language of probability theory rather than that of
physics, and is thus aimed primarily at mathematicians who might
have little or no background in physics. This area of statistical
mechanics is presently enjoying a rapid growth and the book should
allow a graduate student or research mathematician to find out what
is happening in it. The book is self-contained except for some
basic concepts of probability theory, and can be read by any
undergraduate student in mathematics who has a reasonable
background in probability.
Gifford Lecturer and Templeton Prize winner Holmes Rolston, III
is widely known as the father of environmental ethics. From his
authorship of one of the first articles in professional
environmental philosophy ("Is there an Ecological Ethic?" 1975) to
his most recent article on the place of humanity in the cosmos
("Generating Life on Earth: Five Looming Questions" 2007) no author
has taken a more prominent role in mapping out the terrain in
environmental philosophy. His writings range between natural
philosophy and theology and include detailed presentations of an
interlocking position that includes aesthetics, value theory,
natural resource policy, wilderness advocacy, and sustainable
development.
"Nature Value and Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III"
is a collection of contemporary writings on the work of Holmes
Rolston, III. The authors contributing to this volume are a mixture
of senior scholars in environmental ethics and new voices in
philosophy and in literature. Together they provide an in depth
evaluation of many of the topics discussed by Rolston. They probe
the strengths and weaknesses of his work and suggest valuable
correctives. Rolston himself, in a detailed reply to each of his
critics at the end of the volume, reveals where some of these
criticisms sting him the most and in the process provides one of
the most detailed and articulate defenses of his position ever
offered.
The first fully comparative empirical analysis of the relationship
between education and social cohesion, this book develops a new
"distributional theory" of the effects of educational inequality on
social solidarity. Based on extensive analysis of data on
inequality and social attitudes for over 25 developed countries.
The ancient world served as an unconventional source of inspiration
for a generation of modernists. Drawing on examples from
literature, dance, photography, and film, Modernism's Mythic Pose
argues that a strain of antimodern-classicism permeates modernist
celebrations of novelty, shock, and technology.
The touchstone of Preston's study is Delsartism--the popular
transnational movement which promoted mythic statue--posing, poetic
recitation, and other hybrid solo performances for health and
spiritual development. Derived from nineteenth-century acting
theorist Francois Delsarte and largely organized by women,
Delsartism shaped modernist performances, genres, and ideas of
gender. Even Ezra Pound, a famous promoter of the "new," made
ancient figures speak in the "old" genre of the dramatic monologue
and performed public recitations. Recovering precedents in
nineteenth-century popular entertainments and Delsartism's hybrid
performances, this book considers the canonical modernists Pound
and T. S. Eliot, lesser-known poets like Charlotte Mew, the Russian
filmmaker Lev Kuleshov, Isadora Duncan the international dance
star, and H.D. as poet and film actor.
Preston's interdisciplinary engagement with performance, poetics,
modern dance, and silent film demonstrates that studies of
modernism often overemphasize breaks with the past. Modernism also
posed myth in an ambivalent relationship to modernity, a halt in
the march of progress that could function as escapism, skeptical
critique, or a figure for the death of gods and civilizations."
A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground.
Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy?
Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land?
Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil
in the blood of America's heartland.
No one is safe.
This volume discusses Wittgenstein's work, as well as his oeuvre in
general, and its implications for the nature of reason.Investigates
the nature of reason which has always been a topic at the very
heart of Western philosophyAnalyses how Wittgenstein raised crucial
questions about the subject - most notably in his critique of
Frazer's "Golden Bough," his discussions of various philosophical
aspects of religion, and the famous 'rule-following considerations'
from his "Philosophical Investigations"Contributors include
prominent Wittgenstein scholars from the UK and continental Europe
including Hanjo Glock, Genia Schonbaumsfeld, Severin Schroeder
Joachim Schulte and Crispin WrightContains a translation of an
important paper by the French Wittgenstein scholar Jacques
Bouveresse, alongside six new papers by other contributors
In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal
reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural
teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth
century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American
and European writers, dancers, and composers. The noh theater's
stylized choreography, poetic chant, spectacular costumes and
masks, and engagement with history inspired Western artists as they
reimagined new approaches to tradition and form. In Learning to
Kneel, Preston locates noh's important influence on such canonical
figures as Pound, Yeats, Brecht, Britten, and Beckett. These
writers learned about noh from an international cast of
collaborators, and Preston traces the ways in which Japanese and
Western artists influenced one another. Preston's critical work was
profoundly shaped by her own training in noh performance technique
under a professional actor in Tokyo, who taught her to kneel, bow,
chant, and submit to the teachings of a conservative tradition.
This encounter challenged Preston's assumptions about effective
teaching, particularly her inclinations to emphasize Western ideas
of innovation and subversion and to overlook the complex ranges of
agency experienced by teachers and students. It also inspired new
perspectives regarding the generative relationship between Western
writers and Japanese performers. Pound, Yeats, Brecht, and others
are often criticized for their orientalist tendencies and
misappropriation of noh, but Preston's analysis and her journey
reflect a more nuanced understanding of cultural exchange.
Winner of the de la Torre Bueno prize, Society of Dance History
Scholars The ancient world served as an unconventional source of
inspiration for a generation of modernists. Drawing on examples
from literature, dance, photography, and film, Modernism's Mythic
Pose argues that a strain of antimodern-classicism permeates
modernist celebrations of novelty, shock, and technology. The
touchstone of Preston's study is Delsartism-the popular
transnational movement which promoted mythic statue-posing, poetic
recitation, and other hybrid solo performances for health and
spiritual development. Derived from nineteenth-century acting
theorist Francois Delsarte and largely organized by women,
Delsartism shaped modernist performances, genres, and ideas of
gender. Even Ezra Pound, a famous promoter of the "new," made
ancient figures speak in the "old" genre of the dramatic monologue
and performed public recitations. Recovering precedents in
nineteenth-century popular entertainments and Delsartism's hybrid
performances, this book considers the canonical modernists Pound
and T. S. Eliot, lesser-known poets like Charlotte Mew, the Russian
filmmaker Lev Kuleshov, Isadora Duncan the international dance
star, and H.D. as poet and film actor. Preston's interdisciplinary
engagement with performance, poetics, modern dance, and silent film
demonstrates that studies of modernism often overemphasize breaks
with the past. Modernism also posed myth in an ambivalent
relationship to modernity, a halt in the march of progress that
could function as escapism, skeptical critique, or a figure for the
death of gods and civilizations.
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Gaboon Stories
J S Preston
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R1,103
Discovery Miles 11 030
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Nanotechnologie, synthetische Biologie, Wiedererweckung
ausgestorbener Arten und Geoengineering - werden Menschen die Natur
in Zukunft mit solchen Methoden grundlegend umgestalten? Man
koennte es sich vorstellen. Auf der Erde gibt es keinen von
Menschen unberuhrten Ort mehr - das hat wohl jeder schon einmal
gehoert. Aber die Bedeutung dieser Tatsache erschoepft sich nicht
in Statistiken, die Gletscherschmelze und Artensterben
dokumentieren. Vielmehr kennzeichnet sie den Beginn einer neuen
Epoche der Erdgeschichte. Und das Auffalligste an diesem
Synthetischen Zeitalter, so Christopher Preston, sind nicht nur die
Auswirkungen des Menschen als solche, sondern die Veranderungen,
die wir von nun an gezielt und absichtlich herbeifuhren werden.
Neue Technologien werden uns die Macht verleihen, viele
grundlegende Ablaufe der Natur selbst in die Hand zu nehmen. Damit
verlassen wir nicht nur das Holozan und treten ins Anthropozan ein;
wir lassen auch eine Zeit hinter uns, in der globaler Wandel nicht
nur die unbeabsichtigte Folge einer ungezugelten Industrialisierung
ist. Mit einer von Ingenieuren und Technikern gestalteten Welt
beginnt das erste Synthetische Zeitalter unseres Planeten. Preston
beschreibt eine Reihe von Technologien, die den "Stoffwechsel" der
Erde umgestalten werden: Nanotechnologie gibt den naturlichen
Formen der Materie eine neue Struktur; "molekulare Produktion"
eroeffnet unzahlige neue Anwendungsmoeglichkeiten; synthetische
Biologie erlaubt es uns, Genome nicht nur zu lesen, sondern auch
aufzubauen; "biologische Mini-Maschinen" uberflugeln die Evolution;
Arten werden umgesiedelt und wieder zum Leben erweckt; und mit
Geoengineering kann man die Sonnenstrahlung mit Vulkandunst
abschirmen, die Temperaturen auf der Erde durch hellere Wolken
senken und mit kunstlichen Baumen, die Kohlenstoff aus Wind
gewinnen, das CO2 aus der Atmosphare beseitigen. Was bedeutet es,
wenn Menschen die Erde nicht nur verwalten, sondern auch
grundlegend umgestalten? Und wem sollten wir vertrauen, wenn es
darum geht, uber die Umrisse unserer synthetischen Zukunft zu
entscheiden? Solche Fragen sind zu wichtig, als dass man sie den
Ingenieuren uberlassen sollte.
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