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“robert david sack”

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  • Progress

    Geographical Essays

    Edited by Robert David Sack ...
    "The connection between geography and progress is fundamental," writes Robert Sack in the introduction to the present volume. Touching on both moral and material progress, six of the world's leading geographers and environmental historians explore differing aspects of this connection. Thomas Vale discusses whether progress is discernible in the natural realm; Kenneth Olwig examines fundamental ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Liquid Modernity

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • We Have Never Been Modern

    by Bruno Latour ...
    With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What difference does the ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • The Fatal Conceit

    The Errors of Socialism

    by F. A. Hayek ...
    A critique of socialism by the Nobel Prize–winning economist: "The energy and precision with which Mr. Hayek sweeps away his opposition is impressive." — The Wall Street JournalIn this work, F.A. Hayek—a pioneer in monetary theory and proponent of libertarian philosophy—gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that ... Read more

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  • Limits

    Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care

    by Giorgos Kallis ...
    Western culture is infatuated with the dream of going beyond, even as it is increasingly haunted by the specter of apocalypse: drought, famine, nuclear winter. How did we come to think of the planet and its limits as we do? This book reclaims, redefines, and makes an impassioned plea for limits—a notion central to environmentalism—clearing them from their association with Malthusianism and the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Invention of Good and Evil

    A World History of Morality

    by Hanno Sauer ...
    What makes us moral beings? How do we decide what is good and what is evil? In the vein of Sapiens comes a grand history of our universal moral values at the moment of their greatest crisis.How did we learn to distinguish good from evil? Have we always been capable of doing so? And will we still be in the world to come?In this breathtaking book, ethics expert Hanno Sauer offers a great universal ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • On Equilibrium

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    What does John Ralston Saul's influential philosophical trilogy Voltaire's Bastards, The Doubter's Companion and The Unconscious Civilization mean for the real lives of individuals? Is it possible to apply his groundbreaking theories to everyday life?On Equilibrium presents us with a virtual "how to" of the ways that ideas can translate into action. Saul explains how our different qualities give ... Read more

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  • Fundamentals of Sociology

    by P. Gisbert ...
    F"Fundamentals of Sociology is an introduction to the definition, methods and fundamental concepts of sociology. The book prepares the ground for the study of the origins and structures of society and social groups in correlation with other social sciences. In doing so the author looks into the most important facet of social structure—social institutions—which in their varied forms act as agents ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • The Green Halo

    A Bird's-Eye View of Ecological Ethics

    by Erazim Kohak ...
    The Green Halo is a highly readable introduction to the vast field of contemporary ecological thought. It is a basic education in environmental philosophy and a welcome propadeutic for understanding the most crucial problem facing humankind in the coming century: How can humans live on this earth so that they do not destroy the preconditions for their own existence? ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Myths We Live By

    by Mary Midgley ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    With a new Introduction by the author'An elegant and sane little book. – The New StatesmanMyths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as machines, which originates in the seventeenth century, ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Future Primitive Revisited

    by John Zerzan ...
    "Zerzan's writing is sharp, uncompromising, and tenacious." — Derrick Jensen"John Zerzan's importance does not only consist in his brilliant intelligence, his absolute clearness of analysis and his unequalled dialectical synthesis that clarifies even the most complicated questions, but also in the humanity that fills his thoughts of resistance. Future Primitive Revisited is one more precious gift ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Community

    Seeking Safety in an Insecure World

    by Zygmunt Bauman ...
    Series series Themes for the 21st Century
    'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of pleasures which we would like to experience but seem to miss.'Community' conveys the image of a warm and comfortable place, like a fireplace at ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD