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Classical Philosophy

A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 1

By: Peter Adamson

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Classical Philosophy

A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 1

By: Peter Adamson

Readership: Anyone interested in philosophy, the history of ideas, or the ancient Greek world

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369

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199674531

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9780199674534

The Road to Love Canal

Managing Industrial Waste before EPA

By: Craig E. Colten,Peter N. Skinner

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The Road to Love Canal

Managing Industrial Waste before EPA

By: Craig E. Colten,Peter N. Skinner

The toxic legacy of Love Canal vividly brought the crisis in industrial waste disposal to public awareness across the United States and led to the passage of the Superfund legislation in 1980. To discover why disasters like Love Canal have occurred and whether they could have been averted with knowledge available to waste managers of the time, this book examines industrial waste disposal before the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. Colten and Skinner build their study around three key questions. First, what was known before 1970 about the hazards of certain industrial wastes and their potential for causing public health problems? Second, what were the technical capabilities for treating or containing wastes during that time? And third, what factors other than technical knowledge guided the actions of waste managers before the enactment of explicit federal laws? The authors find that significant information about the hazards of industrial wastes existed before 1970. Their explanations of why this knowledge did not prevent the toxic legacy now facing us will be essential reading for environmental historians and lawyers, public health personnel, and concerned citizens.

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365

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University of Texas Press

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0292789734

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9780292789739

The Great Acceleration

An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945

By: J. R. McNeill,Peter Engelke

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The Great Acceleration

An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945

By: J. R. McNeill,Peter Engelke

The Earth has entered a new age—the Anthropocene—in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a massive uncontrolled experiment. The Great Acceleration explains its causes and consequences, highlighting the role of energy systems, as well as trends in climate change, urbanization, and environmentalism. More than any other factor, human dependence on fossil fuels inaugurated the Anthropocene. Before 1700, people used little in the way of fossil fuels, but over the next two hundred years coal became the most important energy source. When oil entered the picture, coal and oil soon accounted for seventy-five percent of human energy use. This allowed far more economic activity and produced a higher standard of living than people had ever known—but it created far more ecological disruption. We are now living in the Anthropocene. The period from 1945 to the present represents the most anomalous period in the history of humanity’s relationship with the biosphere. Three-quarters of the carbon dioxide humans have contributed to the atmosphere has accumulated since World War II ended, and the number of people on Earth has nearly tripled. So far, humans have dramatically altered the planet’s biogeochemical systems without consciously managing them. If we try to control these systems through geoengineering, we will inaugurate another stage of the Anthropocene. Where it might lead, no one can say for sure.

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Harvard University Press

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0674970748

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In The Grip Of The Distant Universe: The Science Of Inertia

By: Peter Graneau,Neal Graneau

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In The Grip Of The Distant Universe: The Science Of Inertia

By: Peter Graneau,Neal Graneau

This is a book about the history of the science of inertia. Nobody denies the existence of the forces of inertia, but they are branded as “fictitious” because they do not fit smoothly into modern physics. Named by Kepler and given mathematical form by Newton, the force of inertia remains aloof because it has no obvious local cause. At the end of the 19th century, Ernst Mach bravely claimed that the inertia of an object was the result of its instantaneous interaction with all matter in the universe.Many other well-known physicists, including Aristotle, Galileo, Descartes and Einstein, are shown to have tackled this difficult subject. The book also concentrates on inertia research in the 20th century, taking place under the shadow of general relativity, which is seen as uncomfortable with Mach's principle. A Newtonian paradigm, based on action-at-a-distance forces, is discussed throughout the book, allowing the revival of Mach's principle as the only coherent explanation of the inertia forces which play such an important role in the laboratory and in the cosmos.

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287

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World Scientific

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9814478164

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9789814478168

African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity

By: Peter Wagner

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African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity

By: Peter Wagner

African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity asks why, from some moment onwards, 'Europe' and 'the rest of the world' entered into a particular relationship: one of domination, conceived as a kind of superiority and as an 'advance' in historic

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256

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474405126

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9781474405126

The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century

A Social Justice Hall of Fame

By: Peter Dreier

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The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century

A Social Justice Hall of Fame

By: Peter Dreier

A chronological collection of brief biographies on important figures for social justice in American history, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Bob Dylan.

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Bold Type Books

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1568586817

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9781568586816

Book's by Peter J. Lear

Classical Philosophy

Classical Philosophy

The Road to Love Canal

The Road to Love Canal

The Great Acceleration

The Great Acceleration

In The Grip Of The Distant Universe: The Science Of Inertia

In The Grip Of The Distant Universe: The Science Of Inertia

African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity

African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity

The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century

The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century

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