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  • Spare Parts

    A Global History of a Modern Problem, 1940–1980

    de Philip Scranton ...
    Series series Hagley Library Studies in Business, Technology, and Politics
    How repair components of machines reconstructed the distribution networks that connected production to consumption globally.When machines break, entire systems are exposed. Spare Parts tells the global history of replacement components and shows how their absence—or abundance—has shaped warfare, industry, and everyday life in the twentieth century. Philip Scranton traces the production, ... Leer más

    $53.29 USD

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  • We're Doomed. Now What?

    Essays on War and Climate Change

    de Roy Scranton ...
    An American Orwell for the age of Trump, Roy Scranton faces the unpleasant facts of our day in 15 insightful, honest essays on war, climate change, and violence.Our moment is one of alarming and bewildering change—the breakup of the post-1945 global order, a multispecies mass extinction, and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. Not one of us is innocent, not one of us is safe. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • War Porn

    de Roy Scranton ...
    **"One of the best and most disturbing war novels in years."—The Wall Street Journal“War porn,” n. Videos, images, and narratives featuring graphic violence, often brought back from combat zones, viewed voyeuristically or for emotional gratification. Such media are often presented and circulated without context, though they may be used as evidence of war crimes.**War porn is also, in Roy Scranton ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Impasse

    Climate Change and the Limits of Progress

    de Roy Scranton ...
    A Next Big Idea Club "Must Read" for August 2025!We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe.Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet instead of serious responses from world leaders, we get increasing emissions, divisive politics, and ersatz solutions that offer more of the same: more capitalism, more complexity, more "progress."The impasse we ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Velikovsky Heresies

    Worlds in Collision and Ancient Catastrophes Revisited

    de Laird Scranton ...
    A reexamination of Immanuel Velikovsky’s controversial Venus theories in light of new astronomical and archaeological findings• Provides new evidence from recent space probe missions to support Velikovsky’s theories on the formation of Venus• Presents recently translated ancient texts from China, Korea, and Japan that uphold the cometlike descriptions of Venus cited by Velikovsky• Examines ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Mystery of Skara Brae

    Neolithic Scotland and the Origins of Ancient Egypt

    de Laird Scranton ...
    An investigation of the origins of the Neolithic farming village on Orkney Island• Reveals the striking similarities between Skara Brae and the traditions of pre-dynastic ancient Egypt as preserved by the Dogon people of Mali• Explains how megalithic stone sites near Skara Brae conform to Dogon cosmology• Examines the similarities between Skara Brae and Gobekli Tepe and how Skara Brae may have ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Learning to Die in the Anthropocene

    Reflections on the End of a Civilization

    de Roy Scranton ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    "In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book."--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History"Roy Scranton's Learning to Die in the Anthropocene presents, without extraneous bullshit, what we must do to survive on ... Leer más

    $10.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Science of the Dogon

    Decoding the African Mystery Tradition

    de Laird Scranton ...
    A look at the close resemblance between the creation and structure of matter in both Dogon mythology and modern science• Reveals striking similarities between Dogon symbols and those used in both the Egyptian and Hebrew religions• Demonstrates the parallels between Dogon mythical narratives and scientific concepts from atomic theory to quantum theory and string theoryThe Dogon people of Mali, West ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Guide to Earned Media

    How to Use PR Strategies to Enhance Your Brand

    de Annie Pace Scranton ...
    Harness the power of public relations and discover how you can secure meaningful press for your organization.It can be difficult to publicize a company or a product without formal training, yet it's more important than ever for successful marketing strategies to include media relations. In this book, media expert Annie Pace Scranton breaks down the most powerful and efficient PR tactics that ... Leer más

    $29.69 USD

  • Industrializing Organisms

    Introducing Evolutionary History

    Edición de Susan Schrepfer, Philip Scranton ...
    Series series Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
    Scientists have developed a featherless chicken designed to make industrial chicken production more efficient, while specially trained Pacific bottlenose dolphins are being deployed in the Persian Gulf to disarm mines and protect our Navy. Everyone knows Darwin's theory of natural selection, but what about his idea of artificial selection--how humans, not nature, rework natural organisms to meet ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • The Emergence of Routines

    Entrepreneurship, Organization, and Business History

    Edición de Daniel M.G. Raff, Philip Scranton ...
    This book is a collection of essays about the emergence of routines and, more generally, about getting things organized in firms and in industries in early stages and in transition. These are subjects of the greatest interest to students of entrepreneurship and organizations, as well as to business historians, but the academic literature is thin. The chronological settings of the book's eleven ... Leer más

    $100.79 USD

  • What Future

    The Year's Best Ideas to Reclaim, Reanimate & Reinvent Our Future

    Edición de Roy Scranton, Torie Bosch ...
    The future is here and, frankly, it sucks. Without doubt, our culture is at a crossroads. Political strife and economic crises are byproducts of a larger looming challenge, one in which we will have to ask ourselves what constitutes a meaningful life. We must do the hard work of imagining a different kind of reality for ourselves. It's work that anticipates the worst but sees hope on the other ... Leer más

    $13.69 USD