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"The third edition of The Beast Within has been updated throughout to include current scholarship, new discussion of definitions, and fresh perspectives on critical animal theory that places animals, rather than humans, at the center of the discourse. With an interdisciplinary a…
"In this wholly original study, Josep Corbi asks how one should relate to a certain kind of human suffering, namely, the harm that people cause one another. Relying upon real life examples of human suffering--including torture, genocide, and warfare--as opposed to thought experi…
Approaches the problems raised by the Holocaust from the standpoint of the theology of culture. The powerful narrative that dominates our technological civilization is the double myth of apocalypse and utopia, both of which can be achieved by unlimited and autonomous technology.…
Approaches the problems raised by the Holocaust from the standpoint of the theology of culture. The powerful narrative that dominates our technological civilization is the double myth of apocalypse and utopia, both of which can be achieved by unlimited and autonomous technology.…
The long summer: how climate changed civilization
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"Until very recently, we had no detailed record of climate changes during the Holocene. Now we do, and Brian Fagan shows us how climate functioned as what historian Paul Kennedy described as one of the "deeper transformations" of history - a more important factor than we have he…
"Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period--the long summer of the human species. Fagan illuminates the centu…
"Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period--the long summer of the human species. Fagan illuminates the centu…
"Until very recently, we had no detailed record of climate changes during the Holocene. Now we do, and Brian Fagan shows us how climate functioned as what historian Paul Kennedy described as one of the "deeper transformations" of history - a more important factor than we have he…