Massive Swerve, Book One - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Massive Swerve, Book One write by Robert Valley. This book was released on 2008-06. Massive Swerve, Book One available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A full color collection of drawings, comics & stories by the Vancouver based animator, Robert Valley.
The Climate Swerve
The Climate Swerve - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Climate Swerve write by Robert Jay Lifton. This book was released on 2017-10-10. The Climate Swerve available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Longlisted for the PEN America/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing "Well worth the read. . . . [A] prescient handoff to the next generation of scholars." —The Washington Post From "one of the world’s foremost thinkers" (Bill Moyers), a profound, hopeful, and timely call for an emerging new collective consciousness to combat climate change Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, Lifton writes, "presents us with what may be the most demanding and unique psychological task ever required of humankind," what he describes as the task of mobilizing our imaginative resources toward climate sanity. Thanks to the power of corporate-funded climate denialists and the fact that "with its slower, incremental sequence, [climate change] lends itself less to the apocalyptic drama," a large swathe of humanity has numbed themselves to the reality of climate change. Yet Lifton draws a message of hope from the Paris climate meeting of 2015 where representatives of virtually all nations joined in the recognition that we are a single species in deep trouble. Here, Lifton suggests in this lucid and moving book that recalls Rachel Carson and Jonathan Schell, was evidence of how we might call upon the human mind—"our greatest evolutionary asset"—to translate a growing species awareness—or "climate swerve"—into action to sustain our habitat and civilization.
Tree of Smoke
Tree of Smoke - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tree of Smoke write by Denis Johnson. This book was released on 2007-09-04. Tree of Smoke available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
Massive Swerve
Massive Swerve - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Massive Swerve write by Robert Valley. This book was released on 2008. Massive Swerve available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Structure of Evolutionary Theory write by Stephen Jay Gould. This book was released on 2002-03-21. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world’s most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time—a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of classical Darwinism: that natural selection works on organisms, not genes or species; that it is almost exclusively the mechanism of adaptive evolutionary change; and that these changes are incremental, not drastic. Next, he examines the three critiques that currently challenge this classic Darwinian edifice: that selection operates on multiple levels, from the gene to the group; that evolution proceeds by a variety of mechanisms, not just natural selection; and that causes operating at broader scales, including catastrophes, have figured prominently in the course of evolution. Then, in a stunning tour de force that will likely stimulate discussion and debate for decades, Gould proposes his own system for integrating these classical commitments and contemporary critiques into a new structure of evolutionary thought. In 2001 the Library of Congress named Stephen Jay Gould one of America’s eighty-three Living Legends—people who embody the “quintessentially American ideal of individual creativity, conviction, dedication, and exuberance.” Each of these qualities finds full expression in this peerless work, the likes of which the scientific world has not seen—and may not see again—for well over a century.
