When the Planet Rages describes some of the great events of environmental history, from natural calamities such as the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the ice ages, to man-made disasters such as Chernobyl, acid rain, and the depletion of the ozone layer. Officer and Page provide fascinating discussions of meteorites and comets; of the demise of mammoths, mastodons, and dinosaurs; and of great floods that have swept the earth. But they also show that human activity can make trouble for nature, from the depletion of natural resources to air and water pollution.
A harrowing, captivating firsthand history of the rise of the radical environmental movement the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). Since 1997, the ELF has inflicted over $100 million in damages on entities they believe to be causing environmental destruction, mostly through brazen arson attacks on timber companies, ski resorts, and car dealerships. Former ELF spokesperson Craig Rosebraugh charts the history and ideology of the ELF and explores its tactics, successes, and limitations. Rosebraugh examines the question of whether or not violence is justifiable, along with the short- and long-term political benefits and drawbacks of using violence. He also offers a primer on the tactics of state repression and strategies the US government uses to destroy activist movements.Whatever your view of direct action or violence, Burning Rage of a Dying Planet is an illuminating read for anyone seeking to understand radical environmental movements and the government's response to them.This revised and updated edition has a foreword by Extinction Rebellion co-founder Tamsin Omond.
For over the last sixty years, just a handful of certain elite higher up officials and scientists in our government have been harboring some very amazing secrets, deep down in the bowels of area 51. These secrets have been kept very highly classified from even all the military personnel their and all the US Presidents during this time period. Until finally the secrets have matured to a level of finely machined tools, to be turned lose on this planet, with an assortment of amazing weapons beyond today's reality. Wilds and Celia grow up almost as normal as others. Suddenly one day as they turn into young adults they find themselves very different from others. They had to learn very young and very fast to master the art of hiding who they have become. Are they thrill seekers, suicidal or just plain born on this planet as a half breed alien race? You will have to decide as the proof is in the RAGE! You could say they were planned out many years before conception, to be what they are today. Completely extraordinary, unite and superior, while being unmatched by any other in the world. Are they thrill seekers, suicidal or just plain bizarre? You will have to decide as Wilds Rage takes human life on this planet to another level. The human population of this planet is in turmoil today and we need to set it's people back on the right path. How do we do it in our lifetime? There is but one way. It's not sugar coated, it's not inhumane either, but its somewhere in-between. It's in that gray area between a rock and a hard place that most people close their mind and eyes too. Where does this book take you? It takes you to Florida, Italy, International Space Station, Russia, Phoenix Islands, Cambodia and Afghanistan. There's also a new revolutionary technical break threw in energy. Putting oil as we know it on the back burner. Even under strict military orders their missions are totally insane, but something or somebody has to do the impossible, to get this planet humanity back to normal. Its been to long and now it's way out of control. What is normal? Maybe normal is not the norm anymore! You decide as you follow a CIA's family adventures in space and around the world and back.
The question of God's relationship to evil is a long-running one in the history of Christianity, and the term often deployed for this task has been theodicy. The way theodicy has historically been pursued, however, has been problematic on a number of counts. Most significantly, these efforts have generally been insufficiently theological. This work hopes to subvert and reconfigure the theodical task in a way that can be accessible to nonspecialists. Overall, the book hopes to cast the "god" of theodicy as the triune God of Christian confession, a move that shapes and alters distinctly all that follows in what has traditionally been considered a philosophical matter.
The Fire Planets Saga: A thrilling intergalactic space opera adventure featuring deadly aliens, wisecracking robots, space pirates and more from Chris Ward, author of the acclaimed science fiction series The Tube Riders and Tales of Crow. The mighty Trill System has fallen to the Barelaon horde. Lianetta Jansen and her ragtag crew flee the deadly Raylan Climlee, now calling himself Overlord of Trill System. After a smuggling mission goes wrong, however, Lia and Caladan find themselves on board a prison ship heading for a remote asteroid. There they meet an incarcerated journalist from the secretive Cask System, who might hold the key to their escape. On the remote fire planet of Ergogate, Harlan5 is left in charge of the Matilda. When the ship is hijacked by three young freedom fighters, the droid is roped into a mission which will bring him face to face with some of the deadliest creatures in the galaxy. Giant creatures, outlawed tech. And a heartbreaking choice Lia must make if she is to give the Estron Quadrant a chance of survival. Books in this series: #1 Fire Fight #2 Fire Storm #3 Fire Rage #4 Fire Flare
Many progressive scholars, particularly in the social sciences, have increasingly come to acknowledge that anthropogenic climate change constitutes yet another contradiction of global capitalism. This book constitutes an effort to develop a critical social science of climate change, one that posits its roots in global capitalism with its emphasis on profit-making, a treadmill of production and consumption, heavy reliance on fossil fuels, and commitment to ongoing economic expansion. It explores the systemic changes necessary to create a more socially just and sustainable world system that would possibly start to move humanity toward a safer climate and discusses the role of a burgeoning climate movement in this effort.
Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame understandings of health, health-related behavior, and health care in light of social and health inequality as well as structural violence. It also examines how the exercise of power in the health arena and in society overall impacts human health and well-being. Medical Anthropology and the World System: Critical Perspectives, Third Edition includes updated and expanded information on medical anthropology, resulting in an even more comprehensive resource for undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers worldwide. As in the previous versions of this text, the authors provide insights from the perspective of critical medical anthropology, a well-established theoretical viewpoint from which faculty, researchers, and students study medical anthropology. It addresses the nature and scope of medical anthropology; the biosocial and political ecological origins of disease, health inequities, and social suffering; and the nature of medical systems in indigenous and pre-capitalist state societies and modern societies. The third edition also includes new material on the relationship between climate change and health. Finally, this textbook explores health praxis and the struggle for a healthy world.
With the increasing sensitivity of the equipment available to the home astronomer, and increasing interest in celestial bodies, this Springer series is a huge helping hand to skywatchers who want to hone their skills. Astronomers' observing guides provide up-to-date information for amateur astronomers who want to know all about what it is they are observing. This is the basis of the first part of the book. The second part details observation techniques for practical astronomers, working with a range of different instruments. The book reviews the latest findings and satellite observations of Jupiter, as well as presenting superb pictures of Jupiter taken by McAnally himself, who proceeds to explain to the reader how to arrive at such beautiful results.
