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  • Jurassic West, Second Edition

    The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World

    by John Foster ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, formed one hundred and fifty million years ago and running from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American Southwest, have yielded one of the most complete pictures of any ancient vertebrate ecosystem in the world. Jurassic West, Second Edition tells the story of the life of this ancient world as scientists have so far been able to ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Cambrian Ocean World

    Ancient Sea Life of North America

    by John Foster ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Marxs Ecology

    Materialism and Nature

    Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis. Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines Marx's neglected writings on capitalist agriculture ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Cambrian Ocean World

    Ancient Sea Life of North America

    by John Foster ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    A comprehensive guide to the evolution of life during the Cambrian Period, and a story of one man's search for the world's oldest animal fossils."Told with a wry humor, the odd pop cultural/sci-fi reference, and personal anecdotes, Foster does a great job in making this an enjoyable read and bringing the Cambrian to us. An alien world is transformed before our eyes into one that is increasingly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Realism and the Climate Crisis

    Hope for Life

    by John Foster ...
    In the teeth of climate emergency, hope has to remain possible, because life insists on it. But hope also has to be realistic. And doesn’t realism about our plight point towards despair? Don’t the timid politicians, the failed summits and the locked-in consumerism all just mean that we have left things far too late to avoid catastrophe?There is a deeper realism of transformation which can keep ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Capitalism in the Anthropocene

    Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution

    Over the last 11,700 years, during which human civilization developed, the earth has existed within what geologists refer to as the Holocene Epoch. Now science is telling us that the Holocene Epoch in the geological time scale ended, replaced by the onset of a new, more dangerous Anthropocene Epoch, which began around 1950. The Anthropocene Epoch is characterized by an “anthropogenic rift” in the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Breaking the Bonds of Fate

    Epicurus and Marx

    The immanent dialectic of the ancient Greek materialist philosopher, Epicurus (341-270 BCE), helped inspire the nineteenth-century ideas of Karl Marx, forming the subject of his doctoral dissertation. Marx’s detailed study of Epicurus led him to develop his own materialist dialectic in distinction to the idealist philosophy of G. W.F. Hegel. Until now, however, there has been no full scholarly ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Beast Companions

    The Unsung Animals of the Dinosaurs' World

    by John Foster ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    Despite their fame and reputation, dinosaurs represent only half the story of the Mesozoic Era. In Beast Companions: The Unsung Animals of the Dinosaurs' World, paleontologist John Foster explores the often-overlooked animals that coexisted with them. These ancient species, often equally remarkable as their dinosaur neighbors, can provide valuable insights into the biotic history of our planet. In ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Egyptian Literature

    An Anthology

    A beautifully translated collection sampling all the major genres of ancient Egyptian literature.Poetry, stories, hymns, prayers, and wisdom texts found exquisite written expression in ancient Egypt while their literary counterparts were still being recited around hearth fires in ancient Greece and Israel. Yet, because of its very antiquity and the centuries during which the language was forgotten ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dialectics of Ecology

    Socalism and Nature

    Explores ecological socialism's potential against capitalist environmental degradationToday the fate of the earth as a home for humanity is in question—and yet, contends John Bellamy Foster, the reunification of humanity and the earth remains possible if we are prepared to make revolutionary changes. As with his prior books, The Dialectics of Ecology is grounded in the contention that we are now ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance

    by John Foster ...
    Foster's essay explores various causes of ignorance, including poor education systems, the lack of intellectual engagement among the lower classes, and the rise of shallow, superficial cultural trends. He also addresses the dangers of religious and political leaders exploiting popular ignorance for personal or institutional gain. The essay is both a call for educational reform and a critique of ... Read more

    $0.97 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Languages of Class Struggle

    Communication and Mass Mobilisation in Britain and Ireland 1842-1972

    by John Foster ...
    This is a study of five key moments in the history of the British and Irish working class movements. John Foster applies some of the key insights of Soviet Marxist thinkers on language to the 1842 General Strike, the Councils of Action 1920, the Glasgow and Belfast General Strikes of 1919 and the 1972 UCS work-in on Clydeside. ... Read more

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