A Brief Treatise on Market Ecologies, Vol. III
A Brief Treatise on Market Ecologies, Vol. III

Author: Andrew Van Wey

Publisher: Greywood Bay

Published: 2020-07-26

Total Pages: 41

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Gwendolyn doesn’t just pull herself up by her bootstraps, she cures the leather, sews the stitches, and cobbles the whole shoe. But Gwendolyn’s ambitious art can’t keep up with a world in transition. This is New Avalon in the age of disruption. Where photographs now come in color. Where steam carriages leave horse-drawn carriages behind. Where couriers race against telegrams and sea-mail sends entire letters through ocean-deep cables. In this bustling new age, a craftswoman must keep pace with innovation or risk falling behind. To sell her enchanted terrariums, Gwendolyn must choose. Will she stick to her principles and put art before commerce? Or will she embrace change brought on by Autochrome, a new social technology that’s making museums a thing of the past? A BRIEF TREATISE ON MARKET ECOLOGIES, VOL III, is a whimsical look at world not so different than our own. A place where everyone can be someone… if you’re willing to pay the price.

You Are Not a Metaphor
You Are Not a Metaphor

Author: Andrew Van Wey

Publisher: Andrew Van Wey

Published: 2020-07-25

Total Pages: 34

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On the sun-scalded highways of the American desert, a man flees with his child… and a demon opens her eyes. Racing against time and his crumbling mind, this father must push the accelerator to the floor… and his body past exhaustion. For what chases them does not sleep. His only goal: to save his child before a dark ritual is finished. Hot on their heels: a woman whose golden eyes scour the high desert. Who uses memory to track down her prey. Whose fingers can reach right into his mind. YOU ARE NOT A METAPHOR blows through the intersection of literary horror and weird fantasy. It’s a non-stop race for a father and child where a single mistake spells a fate worse than death.

Spinoza, Ecology and International Law
Spinoza, Ecology and International Law

Author: Moa De Lucia Dahlbeck

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-12

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1351709852

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This book addresses the use of Benedict Spinoza’s philosophy in current attempts to elaborate an ecological basis for international environmental law. Because the question of environmental protection has not been satisfactory resolved, the legal debate concerning our responsibility for the environment has – as evidenced in the recent UN report series Harmony with Nature – come to invite calls for a new eco-centric, rather than anthropocentric, legal paradigm. In this respect, Spinoza appears as a key figure. He is one of the few philosophers in the history of western philosophy who cares, and writes extensively, about the roots of anthropocentrism; the core issue of contemporary normative debates in ecology. And in response to the rapidly developing ecological crisis, his work has become central to a re-thinking of the human relationship with nature. Addressing the contention that Spinoza’s ethics might provide a useful source for developing a new, eco-centred framework for environmental law, this book elaborates a more nuanced understanding of Spinoza’s philosophy. Spinoza cannot, it is argued here, simply be reduced to an eco-ethicist. That is: his metaphysics cannot be used as basis of an essentially naturalised or extended human morality. At the same time, however, this book argues that the radicality of Spinoza’s naturalism nevertheless offers the possibility of developing a more adequate ecological basis for environmental law.

Complex Interactions in Lake Communities
Complex Interactions in Lake Communities

Author: Stephen R. Carpenter

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1461238382

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In its statutory authority (National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended), the NSF is directed to both initiate and support basic scientific research. In its Ecology Program, one mode of initiating research is to en courage the development of new ideas through advisory workshops. The NSF is specifically directed to strengthen our nation's research potential. In addition, stimulating new approaches to research will continue to be prominent in the coming years as federal attention is given to increasing the innovativeness and competitiveness of the U. S. in science and engineering. A decision to initiate a workshop does not arise de novo in the Ecology Program. Rather, it emerges from panel discussions, conversations with in vestigators at meetings or on the phone, and from discussions between pro gram officers in the Division of Biotic Systems and Resources. This workshop was developed to provide advice to the NSF and the lim nological community. Some NSF perceptions on future funding for ecolog ical research on lake communities are presented here. Researchers often mentioned a paucity of innovative lake ecology at the community level. This perception was accompanied by a certain frustration since lakes probably have the best empirical data base of any natural environment and should continue to lead in the development of ecological concepts. Members of NSF advisory panels sometimes expressed similar concerns during consid eration of proposals for lake research.