0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 25 of 62 matches in All Departments

Gaboon Stories: J S Preston Gaboon Stories
J S Preston
R1,586 Discovery Miles 15 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Old Song and New (Hardcover): Margaret J. Preston Old Song and New (Hardcover)
Margaret J. Preston
R915 Discovery Miles 9 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Beechenbrook A Rhyme of the War (Hardcover): Margaret J. Preston Beechenbrook A Rhyme of the War (Hardcover)
Margaret J. Preston
R759 Discovery Miles 7 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Education, Equality and Social Cohesion - A Comparative Analysis (Hardcover, New): A. Green, J. Preston, J. Janmaat Education, Equality and Social Cohesion - A Comparative Analysis (Hardcover, New)
A. Green, J. Preston, J. Janmaat
R3,172 Discovery Miles 31 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Tenacious Beasts - Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals: Christopher J. Preston Tenacious Beasts - Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
Christopher J. Preston
R519 Discovery Miles 5 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Wheel of Darkness (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Douglas J Preston, Lincoln Child The Wheel of Darkness (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Douglas J Preston, Lincoln Child
R1,232 Discovery Miles 12 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Climate Justice and Geoengineering - Ethics and Policy in the Atmospheric Anthropocene (Hardcover): Christopher J. Preston Climate Justice and Geoengineering - Ethics and Policy in the Atmospheric Anthropocene (Hardcover)
Christopher J. Preston
R3,489 Discovery Miles 34 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Climate Justice and Geoengineering - Ethics and Policy in the Atmospheric Anthropocene (Paperback): Christopher J. Preston Climate Justice and Geoengineering - Ethics and Policy in the Atmospheric Anthropocene (Paperback)
Christopher J. Preston
R1,234 Discovery Miles 12 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Engineering the Climate - The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management (Paperback): Christopher J. Preston Engineering the Climate - The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management (Paperback)
Christopher J. Preston; Contributions by Albert Borgmann, Holly Jean Buck, Wylie Carr, Forrest Clingerman, …
R1,295 Discovery Miles 12 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Engineering the Climate - The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management (Hardcover): Christopher J. Preston Engineering the Climate - The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management (Hardcover)
Christopher J. Preston; Contributions by Albert Borgmann, Holly Jean Buck, Wylie Carr, Forrest Clingerman, …
R2,830 Discovery Miles 28 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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."

Riptide (Hardcover): Douglas J Preston, Lincoln Child Riptide (Hardcover)
Douglas J Preston, Lincoln Child
R1,005 Discovery Miles 10 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

CAD/CAM Dictionary (Hardcover): Edward J. Preston CAD/CAM Dictionary (Hardcover)
Edward J. Preston
R4,590 Discovery Miles 45 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents general computer definitions and abbreviations as well as application-specification terminology related to the world of CAD/CAM in alphabetical order.

Young Frederick Douglass (Paperback): Dickson J Preston Young Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
Dickson J Preston; Foreword by David W Blight
R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"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.

Nature, Value, Duty - Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007):... Nature, Value, Duty - Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007)
Christopher J. Preston, Wayne Ouderkirk
R4,299 Discovery Miles 42 990 Out of stock

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.

Dinosaurs in the Attic - An Excursion Into the American Museum of Natural History (Paperback): Douglas J Preston, Preston Dinosaurs in the Attic - An Excursion Into the American Museum of Natural History (Paperback)
Douglas J Preston, Preston
R504 R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Save R124 (25%) Out of stock

"Dinosaurs in the Attic "is a chronicle of the expeditions, discoveries, and scientists behind the greatest natural history collection every assembled. Written by former "Natural History "columnist Douglas Preston, who worked at the American Museum of Natural History for seven years, this is a celebration of the best-known and best-loved museum in the United States.

Education, Equality and Social Cohesion - A Comparative Analysis (Paperback): A. Green, J. Preston, J. Janmaat Education, Equality and Social Cohesion - A Comparative Analysis (Paperback)
A. Green, J. Preston, J. Janmaat
R780 Discovery Miles 7 800 Out of stock

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.

Cold Vengeance (Paperback): Douglas J Preston Cold Vengeance (Paperback)
Douglas J Preston
R310 Discovery Miles 3 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Gideon's Corpse (Paperback): Douglas J Preston Gideon's Corpse (Paperback)
Douglas J Preston
R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Tenacious Beasts - Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals (Hardcover): Christopher J. Preston Tenacious Beasts - Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals (Hardcover)
Christopher J. Preston
R613 Discovery Miles 6 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Wittgenstein and Reason (Paperback, Revised and Sec): J. Preston Wittgenstein and Reason (Paperback, Revised and Sec)
J. Preston
R657 Discovery Miles 6 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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

Learning to Kneel - Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching (Hardcover): Carrie J. Preston Learning to Kneel - Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching (Hardcover)
Carrie J. Preston
R934 R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Save R140 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Still Life with Crows (Paperback): Douglas J Preston, Lincoln Child Still Life with Crows (Paperback)
Douglas J Preston, Lincoln Child
R330 R266 Discovery Miles 2 660 Save R64 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Gaboon Stories: J S Preston Gaboon Stories
J S Preston
R1,186 Discovery Miles 11 860 Out of stock
Sind Wir Noch Zu Retten? - Wie Wir Mit Neuen Technologien Die Natur Verandern Koennen (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2019 ed.):... Sind Wir Noch Zu Retten? - Wie Wir Mit Neuen Technologien Die Natur Verandern Koennen (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2019 ed.)
Christopher J. Preston; Translated by Sebastian Vogel
R857 R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Save R219 (26%) Out of stock

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.

For Crying Out Loud (Paperback): J. Preston For Crying Out Loud (Paperback)
J. Preston
R646 Discovery Miles 6 460 Out of stock
Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Essential Elements for Strings - Book 1…
Michael Allen, Robert Gillespie, … Paperback R358 R295 Discovery Miles 2 950
Alfred's Basic Piano Library Lesson 2-3…
Willard A Palmer, Morton Manus, … Sheet music R360 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050
Suzuki Violin School, Volume 6 - Violin…
Shinichi Suzuki, Augustin Hadelich, … Paperback R618 R584 Discovery Miles 5 840
The People's Praise Book - or, Carmina…
Anonymous Hardcover R1,052 Discovery Miles 10 520
Failure to Fracture - Learning King…
Anthony Garone Hardcover R2,356 Discovery Miles 23 560
Victorian Hymns - English Sacred Songs…
Anonymous Hardcover R910 Discovery Miles 9 100
Observations on the Florid Song, or…
Pier Francesco Tosi Paperback R448 Discovery Miles 4 480
Alfred'S Kid's Guitar Course 2
Ron Manus, L. C Harnsberger Book R395 R296 Discovery Miles 2 960
Moveable Chords
James Sleigh Cards R128 Discovery Miles 1 280
Grieg and His Music
Henry Theophilus 1854-1926 Finck Hardcover R1,018 Discovery Miles 10 180

 

Partners