Future Remains

Author : Robert Jack
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-08
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 1976414415

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Future Remains by Robert Jack Pdf

A small team of paleontologists has just laid eyes upon an impossible discovery. Now, at the behest of a mysterious stranger and his robotic companion, the team is being drawn into a desperate quest: to rescue a child trapped in the most dangerous environment the earth has ever seen. For former paleontologist Tess Creegan, the stakes couldn't be higher. Finding the boy will mean more than seeing a world ruled by dinosaurs - it could also be her chance to set right one of the greatest wrongs a mother could ever know. Fans of Michael Crichton's fast-paced techno-thrillers won't want to miss Future Remains.

Author : Gregg Mitman,Marco Armiero,Robert S. Emmett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226508825

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Future Remains by Gregg Mitman,Marco Armiero,Robert S. Emmett Pdf

What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene—the age of humans? Just as paleontologists look to fossil remains to infer past conditions of life on earth, so might past and present-day objects offer clues to intertwined human and natural histories that shape our planetary futures. In this era of aggressive hydrocarbon extraction, extreme weather, and severe economic disparity, how might certain objects make visible the uneven interplay of economic, material, and social forces that shape relationships among human and nonhuman beings? Future Remains is a thoughtful and creative meditation on these questions. The fifteen objects gathered in this book resemble more the tarots of a fortuneteller than the archaeological finds of an expedition—they speak of planetary futures. Marco Armiero, Robert S. Emmett, and Gregg Mitman have assembled a cabinet of curiosities for the Anthropocene, bringing together a mix of lively essays, creatively chosen objects, and stunning photographs by acclaimed photographer Tim Flach. The result is a book that interrogates the origins, implications, and potential dangers of the Anthropocene and makes us wonder anew about what exactly human history is made of.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780226508795

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Author : Andrew Futter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442265745

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The United Kingdom and the Future of Nuclear Weapons by Andrew Futter Pdf

This volume provides a study of the current UK nuclear program and related issues that reflect the complexity of the Trident weapons system and the changing nature of deterrence. Presenting the political, cultural, technical, and strategic aspects of Trident it provides a thoughtful overview of the UK’s complex relationship with nuclear weapons.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000058168196

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Current and Future Worldwide Threats to the National Security of the United States by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : Patrick Parrinder
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815603320

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Shadows of the Future by Patrick Parrinder Pdf

Critical study of Wells' science fiction.

Author : George M. Newlands
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556359187

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Generosity and the Christian Future by George M. Newlands Pdf

Based on the 1995 Henson Lectures, delivered in the University of Oxford, this study takes as its theme the Christian future, and the development of a theology of generosity in response to the challenges likely to face Christian faith in the twenty-first century. In particular, Professor Newlands wishes to explore the suggestion that Christ represents the ultimate generosity of God for humankind. This leads him to concentrate on the contribution made by Christian doctrine to public issues, and especially the relationship between Christology and human rights. The author is centrally concerned that faith should remain in the public square, and that the circle of faith should always be outward facing. The result is a liberal, pluralistic theology, which regards the generous love of God, in incarnation and reconciliation, as a powerful stimulus to imaginative Christian thought and action. In its robust portrayal of what Christianity ought properly to look like, this book--which emerges from the pen of the leading Scottish liberal theologian of his generation--will be sure to stimulate and engage a wide variety of readers.

Author : Philippe de Brabanter,Mikhail Kissine,Saghie Sharifzadeh
Publisher : Oxford Studies of Time in Lang
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199679157

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Future Times, Future Tenses by Philippe de Brabanter,Mikhail Kissine,Saghie Sharifzadeh Pdf

This volume examines the expression of the future in a range of diverse languages and from a variety of theoretical perspectives. It reveals the value of linking linguistic considerations of tense and aspect to philosophical approaches to modality and time and will be a valuable resource for all those working on time, tense, and temporal reference.

Author : Amanda Bittner,Royce Koop
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774824101

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Parties, Elections, and the Future of Canadian Politics by Amanda Bittner,Royce Koop Pdf

On May 2, 2011, as Canadians watched the federal election results roll in and Stephen Harper’s Conservatives achieve a majority, it appeared that we were witnessing a major shift in the political landscape. In reality, Canadian politics had been changing for quite some time. This volume provides the first account of the political upheavals of the past two decades and speculates on the future of the country’s national party system. By documenting how parties and voters responded to new challenges between 1993 and 2011, this book sheds light on one of the most tumultuous periods in Canadian political history.

Author : David Shambaugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136729065

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Charting China's Future by David Shambaugh Pdf

Every day and everywhere, China figures prominently in global attention: companies and banks weigh billions in investments; hedge fund managers assess and speculate on downside risks; commodity traders and natural resource producers salivate over China’s energy appetite; intelligence agencies carefully track China’s growing global footprint; militaries monitor China’s growing military capabilities; diplomats grapple with a new assertiveness in China’s diplomatic posture; scholars try to understand the shifting dynamics and sources of China’s behaviour; while journalists track the latest changes in China’s economy, polity, and society. Charting China’s Future provides informed analysis on the complexities of today’s China, and where these complexities may lead, from some of the world’s leading Asia experts. The contributors have provided clear, intelligible, and forward-looking analyses, free of social science jargon and extensive footnotes. Probing into many of the key domestic and external issues facing China today from political, economic and social perspectives the book proffers a forward-looking analysis that will appeal to anyone with a professional, academic or personal interest in the big issues facing today's China and its interaction with the world. Readers will find much to contemplate about China’s future in this volume, and will gain a clearer sense of the key variables and possible trajectories of one of the most consequential countries on the planet.

Author : Richard Westra,Dennis Badeen,Robert Albritton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317935537

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The Future of Capitalism After the Financial Crisis by Richard Westra,Dennis Badeen,Robert Albritton Pdf

The Future of Capitalism After the Financial Crisis: The Varieties of Capitalism Debate in the Age of Austerity contains thirteen world leading political economists writing from within eight different countries who critically analyze the current crisis tendencies of capitalism both globally and in particular countries. Given the likelihood of an increasingly crisis prone future for capitalism, it is important not only to rethink capitalism in its current manifestations or varieties. It is also important to rethink research methods and conceptual frameworks in preparation for understanding an increasingly rocky future in which capitalism itself could go the way of the many species that in the past were endangered only to become extinct. More and more titles of books and articles are suggesting that capitalism or perhaps civilization itself is endangered if we do not make radical changes in the near future. This book breaks with academic path dependency and attempts to open new vistas of political economy and of multidisciplinary analysis that are crucially important if our thought processes are to be effective in a world in jeopardy. The varieties of capitalism (VoC) debate itself came into being as the Soviet Union unraveled. It drew in scholarship from a cross-section of Marxian and heterodox political economy. The key argument of VoC was that if capitalism was the only global option then those on the Left must get involved in policy discussions on how capitalist economies can be fashioned to become competitive as well as progressive. However, the financial crisis has seen policy across the advanced economies veer toward competitiveness coupled with austerity. The lesson for the Left is that alternatives to capitalism must be sought in the here and now.

Author : Barbara Adam,Chris Groves
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789047422594

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Future Matters by Barbara Adam,Chris Groves Pdf

Future Matters concerns contemporary approaches to the future – how the future is known, created and minded. In a social world whose pace continues to accelerate the future becomes an increasingly difficult terrain. While the focus of social life is narrowing down to the present, the futures we create on a daily basis cast ever longer shadows. Future Matters addresses this paradox and its deep ethical implications.

Author : Ivanche Dimitrievski
Publisher : Linköping University Electronic Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789176850596

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Accounting the Future by Ivanche Dimitrievski Pdf

The thesis investigates the social processes involved in the practices of futuring. It addresses the question of how social practices contribute to the production and maintenance of robust versions of the future. It asks how best we should study futurity, including expectations, imaginations, promises and visions. Existing research tells us rather little about how ordinary practices render the future as a particular, publicly available and accountable presence or absence. In what ways do people achieve situated performances of certainty about the future? The thesis addresses these questions by drawing upon recent theoretical themes in Science and Technology Studies (STS), notably accountability relations and mundane practices in science and technology. The empirical focus of the thesis is an extended ethnographic study of the European Spallation Source (ESS) – a major neutron-based science research facility currently under construction in Lund, Sweden. The methods used are a combination of participant observation, interviews, documentary analysis, and ethnomethodologically inflected textual analysis. The thesis reports findings in relation to each of four aspects of ESS work: 1) the textual practices rendering the future of the ESS in local newspaper coverage; 2) documentary analysis of a 2014/2015 Call for ESS Instrument Proposals; 3) observations from visits to ESS and participation in staged “future walks” and 4) the mundane laboratory practices of measuring thickness in an ESS Detector Coatings Workshop in Linköping. The results of these empirical analyses are used to argue for the importance of generating and sustaining accountability relations in futuring practices, for understanding how the future is imagined and made to come about. The thesis concludes that looking at practices in this way has political implications – among other things, it allows to see how agency and capability-to-affect the future is distributed, built, eroded and attributed.

Author : Edgar Morin
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789231037788

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Seven Complex Lessons in Education for the Future by Edgar Morin Pdf

Examines fundamental problems often overlooked or neglected in education. These problems are presented as "seven complex lessons" that should be covered in an education of the future in all societies in every culture, according to means and rules appropriate to those societies and cultures.

Author : Willis Jenkins
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781626160170

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The Future of Ethics by Willis Jenkins Pdf

The Future of Ethics interprets the big questions of sustainability and social justice through the practical problems arising from humanity’s increasing power over basic systems of life. What does climate change mean for our obligations to future generations? How can the sciences work with pluralist cultures in ways that will help societies learn from ecological change? Traditional religious ethics examines texts and traditions and highlights principles and virtuous behaviors that can apply to particular issues. Willis Jenkins develops lines of practical inquiry through "prophetic pragmatism," an approach to ethics that begins with concrete problems and adapts to changing circumstances. This brand of pragmatism takes its cues from liberationist theology, with its emphasis on how individuals and communities actually cope with overwhelming problems. Can religious communities make a difference when dealing with these issues? By integrating environmental sciences and theological ethics into problem-based engagements with philosophy, economics, and other disciplines, Jenkins illustrates the wide understanding and moral creativity needed to live well in the new conditions of human power. He shows the significance of religious thought to the development of interdisciplinary responses to sustainability issues and how this calls for a new style of religious ethics.