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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"One of the most stunning achievements of moral philosophy is something we take for granted: moral universalism, or the idea that every human has equal moral worth. In What We Owe the Future, Oxford philosopher William MacAskill demands that we go a step further, arguing that people not only have equal moral worth no matter where or how they live, but also no matter when they live. This idea has implications beyond the obvious (climate change) - including...
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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
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xiii, 322 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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It was the year of the microchip, the birth-control pill, the space race, and the computer revolution; the rise of Pop art, free jazz, "sick comics," the New Journalism, and indie films; the emergence of Castro, Malcolm X, and personal superpower diplomacy; the beginnings of Motown, Happenings, and the Generation Gap--all bursting against the backdrop of the Cold War, the fallout-shelter craze, and the first American casualties of the war in Vietnam....
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2002
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This film calls into question everything we think we know about contemporary society. By juxtaposing images of ancient cultures with those of modern life, Powaqqatsi masterfully portrays the human cost of progress.
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English
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Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness...
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English
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"In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere,...
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English
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For many, the thought of Scotland conjures up little more than kilts, bagpipes, and Scotch whiskey. In this lively and engrossing history, Arthur Herman--distinguished historian, author, and coordinator of the Smithsonian's Western Heritage Program--makes it clear that Scotland truly invented modern civilization
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Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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348 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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The time we've been thrown into is one of alarming and bewildering change -- the breakup of the post-1945 global order, a multispecies mass extinction, and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. Not one of us is innocent, not one of us is safe. Now what? We're doomed, now what? addresses the crisis that is our time through a series of brilliant, moving, and original essays on climate change, war, literature, and loss, from one of...
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Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2014
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8 audio discs (540 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The authors reveal that although civilization has rapidly evolved, our bodies stopped changing long ago, creating a disconnect between how we live and what is best for us. This disconnect affects every area of our lives, from our energy levels to our relationships to our general health. Only by using ancient evolutionary instructions to navigate modern life can we realize our true potential in everything including strength, health and well-being,...
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English
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One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what...
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English
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"The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this ... symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ... podcast, bestselling author John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale--from the QWERTY keyboard and sunsets to Canada geese and Penguins of Madagascar"--
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Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2018]
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xix, 372 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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How do computers and robots change the meaning of being human? How do we deal with the epidemic of fake news? Are nations and religions still relevant? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a probing and visionary investigation into today’s most urgent issues as we move into the uncharted territory of the future. As technology advances faster than our understanding of it, hacking becomes a tactic...
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Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xvi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of many modern woes is clear: the world is out of sync with humans' ancient brains and bodies. The authors cut through the disputes surrounding issues like sex, gender, diet, parenting, sleep, education, and more to outline a science-based worldview that will empower the reader to live a better, wiser life. They distill more than twenty years of research and first-hand accounts...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization...
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English
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We all sense it ― something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can’t miss it when you read the newspapers or watch the news. Our lives are being transformed in so many realms all at once ― and it is dizzying. In Thank You for Being Late, a work unlike anything he has attempted before, Thomas L. Friedman exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how...
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Series
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2018.
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398 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
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�C�omo podemos protegernos de las guerras nucleares, los cataclismos ecol�ogicos o las tecnolog�ias disruptivas? �Qu�e podemos hacer contra la propagaci�on de la posverdad o la amenaza del terrorismo? �Qu�e debemos ense�nar a nuestros hijos? Con la misma prosa inteligente, fresca y provocadora, Harari vuelve a librer�ias con un nuevo t�itulo, 21 lecciones para el siglo XXI, en el que examina algunas de las cuestiones m�as...
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Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In this cinematic concert (the concluding film of the Qatsi Trilogy preceded by critically acclaimed Koyaanisqatsi, life out of balance, and Powaqqatsi, life in transformation) images reanimated from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques, chronicle the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle,...
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Ironweed film club volume no. 78
Publisher
Iron Weed Film Club
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
The Crisis of Civilization: In this documentary, global warming, peek oil, terrorism, world food and drinkable water supply, political, economic, and military policy, are revealed as interrelated, and symptoms of a civilization that can not be sustained in it's present form.
Eye of the Future: five children -- all born to UN ambassadors -- join together to share their collective experiences in hopes of promoting green technologies and sustainable,...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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vii, 432 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world
Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth century, when naturalists embarked on a quest to locate and precisely date the oldest living things on earth. The new science of tree time prompted travelers to visit ancient specimens and conservationists...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world ― from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth century before leading us to the present. He shows that as the world became modern, those who...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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449 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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English
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Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style — thorough, yet riveting — famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from...
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