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Metanarrative and the Environment

A Story of Morality, Agency, and Governance

By: Stephen James Purdey

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Metanarrative and the Environment

A Story of Morality, Agency, and Governance

By: Stephen James Purdey

To meet the challenge of global environmental degradation activists have tackled clear and concrete problems such as carbon emissions and climate change, the ruination of ecosystems and habitat, the precipitous loss of biodiversity, and many other unhappy consequences of irresponsible human behaviour. However, all such efforts to manually correct the course of history have been dwarfed by the magnitude and heavy forward momentum of modern industrial society. In Metanarrative and the Environment, Stephen James Purdey argues that material approaches to the environmental crisis cannot succeed without the power of a legitimating discourse – a new metanarrative – which fundamentally changes the ideational landscape of human development. Dr. Purdey begins in Part I by establishing the pragmatics of our environmental predicament – its roots and responses to it. He focuses on the concept, definition, and key features of metanarrative, introducing the hegemonic story that now rules the contemporary global mindscape. Part II takes on the moral problematic more directly, encouraging the evolution of a new metanarrative by bringing our potential for agency in the face of danger into sharper relief. Metanarrative and the Environment is multidisciplinary, with a particular emphasis on the creative humanities. It will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students alike, as well as environmental activists and academics looking for a new way forward.

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106

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Taylor & Francis

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1003834523

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9781003834526

The Dalliance of Leopards

A Thriller

By: Stephen Alter

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The Dalliance of Leopards

A Thriller

By: Stephen Alter

A sweeping international thriller that explores the geopolitical faultlines of South Asia. Colonel Imtiaz Afridi, India's legendary spymaster, has zeroed in on a new threat emanating from the borderlands over which he keeps watch from his surveillance center in the Himalayan foothills. An elusive warlord—faceless, nameless, and known only by his nom de guerre Guldaar, meaning "leopard" in Urdu—has built an illicit empire throughout the lands that Alexander the Great once conquered, based on extortion, money laundering, corruption, and murder. His reach extends across national boundaries, and with support from elements in the CIA and Pakistan's ISI, he plays tribal factions and sovereign nations off each other and threatens to destabilize the entire, nuclear-armed region. Seizing on Guldaar's one vulnerability, his ex-lover living with their son under CIA control in the United States, Afridi calls on agent Annapurna "Anna" Tagore to spring her loose and return her to India, where he needs her help to lay a trap. Meanwhile, when an American journalist reporting from Pakistan comes too close to the inner workings of Guldaar's empire, he is kidnapped by the Taliban and traded to the warlord as a hostage. As Afridi closes in, the American will become a critical bargaining chip in Guldaar's ruthless battle for survival. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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382

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Skyhorse

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1628726539

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9781628726534

Birnbaum's Great Britain 1989

By: Stephen Birnbaum

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Birnbaum's Great Britain 1989

By: Stephen Birnbaum

The best guide to Great Britain is even better--revised and expanded to give more detail and more information.

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868

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0395481708

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9780395481707

Economic Growth, the Environment and International Relations

The Growth Paradigm

By: Stephen J. Purdey

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Economic Growth, the Environment and International Relations

The Growth Paradigm

By: Stephen J. Purdey

This book critically examines the deep origins and rise to prominence of the idea of economic growth and uses a neo-Gramscian approach to explore the environmental consequences of this paradigm.

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185

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Routledge

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1135179018

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9781135179014

The Late John Marquand

By: Stephen Birmingham

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The Late John Marquand

By: Stephen Birmingham

The acclaimed social historian and author of Our Crowd presents a colorful portrait of the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer. John Marquand, the great literary satirist and chronicler of New England elites, could have been a character in one of his own beloved novels. Here, Stephen Birmingham presents a lively narrative of Marquand’s life, drawing on personal interviews with friends and family. Raised in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Marquand was both an insider and outcast of the old money set. After attending Harvard and serving overseas in World War I, he began writing stories that captured the lives, manners, and morals of wealthy families confined by their own privilege. Marquand himself joined the ranks of these exclusive families by marrying into them—twice. In The Late John Marquand, Birmingham provides an intimate portrait of the man behind such works as H. M. Pulham, Esquire, and The Late George Apley, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938.

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457

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Open Road Media

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1504095642

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9781504095648

Royal Service

My Twelve Years as Valet to Prince Charles

By: Stephen P. Barry

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My Twelve Years as Valet to Prince Charles

By: Stephen P. Barry

The author, personal valet to Prince Charles for 12 years provides an intimate look at the responsibilities, relationships, and social life of the future king.

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Scribner

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0025074903

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9780025074903

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Metanarrative and the Environment

Metanarrative and the Environment

The Dalliance of Leopards

The Dalliance of Leopards

Birnbaum's Great Britain 1989

Birnbaum's Great Britain 1989

Economic Growth, the Environment and International Relations

Economic Growth, the Environment and International Relations

The Late John Marquand

The Late John Marquand

Royal Service

Royal Service

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