Gaia S Body

Author : Tyler Volk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461221906

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Gaia’s Body by Tyler Volk Pdf

If the biosphere really is a single coherent system, then it must have something like a physiology. It must have systems and processes that perform living functions. In Gaia's Body, Tyler Volk describes the environment that enables the biosphere to exist, various ways of looking at its "anatomy" and "physiology", the major biogeographical regions such as rainforests, deserts, and tundra, the major substances the biosphere is made of, and the chemical cycles that keep it in balance. He then looks at the question of whether there are any long-term trends in the earth's evolution, and examines the role of humanity in Gaia's past and future. Both adherents and sceptics have often been concerned that Gaia theory contains too much goddess and too few verifiable hypotheses. This is the book that describes, for scientists, students, and lay readers alike, the theory's firm basis in science.

Author : Tyler Volk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Gaia hypothesis
ISBN : OCLC:1280729666

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Author : Toni Carmine Salerno
Publisher : Blue Angel Gallery
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0980286549

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Gaia by Toni Carmine Salerno Pdf

In this beautifully presented, full-colour book in a deluxe padded hardcover, best-selling artist and author Toni Carmine Salerno offers reflections and meditations in honour of Mother Nature and the feminine spirit.Featuring illuminating illustrations and depictions of nature and the Goddess, 'Gaia: Body and Soul' is a book you will treasure and refer back to time and again.This new expanded edition of 'Gaia: Body and Soul' is presented in a larger size, including 12 extra pages with new paintings and writings and deluxe gold edging.

Author : James Lovelock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780198784883

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Gaia by James Lovelock Pdf

Gaia, in which James Lovelock puts forward his inspirational and controversial idea that the Earth functions as a single organism, with life influencing planetary processes to form a self-regulating system aiding its own survival, is now a classic work that continues to provoke heated scientific debate.

Author : Rohit Kale
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781684662227

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How the Homo sapiens blundered by Rohit Kale Pdf

Is Human extinction or even extinction of life upon us? Is global warming going to lead to Dooms Day? What will the “Dooms Day” be like? And how far is it from today? Can Humans make it till the next Century? Are you responsible for it? And am I? Is our children’s future secure? Is “CO2 emissions” from vehicles the only mistake of ours? Are there other mistakes? More serious ones? What will it be like if all the predictions of scientists come true? Is our government doing anything? Is it enough? Can we do anything about it? Why are we not doing it if we can? Are we seeing just the tail of this elephant and neglecting the rest of it? Is scientific community completely right when advising “complete decarbonisation?” Is it going to work? Answer to these and many more questions lies in this book. The author believes that time has come for us “Homo sapiens” to realize how majority of our choices are wrong and are contributing to “CO2 rise”. And it is time to take responsibility of the consequences of all our wrong choices and correct them. Not only our choices, we should be interested in choices of every other Homo sapiens walking on the planet. We have very little time left to act. If not done, we are pushing our children’s future into uncertainty. We cannot correct them if we don’t know which choices are the right ones. This book aims to answer all the above questions in a universally understandable language so that every “Homo sapiens” understands it, becomes “Green-aware” and is capable of making the right choices.

Author : Michael S Northcott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000816938

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God and Gaia by Michael S Northcott Pdf

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock. It argues that a Gaian approach to the ecological crisis involves rebalancing human and more-than-human influences on Earth by reviving the ecological agency of local and indigenous human communities, and of nonhuman beings. Present-day human ecological influences on Earth have been growing at pace since the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, when modern humans adopted a machine cosmology in which humans are the sole intelligent agency. The resultant imbalance between human and Earthly agencies is degrading the species diversity of ecosystems, causing local climate changes, and threatens to destabilise the Earth as a System. Across eight chapters this ambitious text engages with traditional cosmologies from the Indian Vedas and classical Greece to Medieval Christianity, with case material from Southeast Asia, Southern Africa and Great Britain. It discusses concepts such as deep time and ancestral time, the ethics of genetic engineering of foods and viruses, and holistic ecological management. Northcott argues that an ontological turn that honours the differential agency of indigenous humans and other kind, and that draws on sacred traditions, will make it is possible to repair the destabilising impacts of contemporary human activities on the Earth System and its constituent ecosystems. This book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, history, and cultural and religious studies.

Author : Sylvia Engdahl
Publisher : Sylvia Engdahl
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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From This Green Earth: Essays on Looking Outward by Sylvia Engdahl Pdf

Much has been said about the positive effect of the photos of Earth obtained by Apollo 8, which for the first time showed our planet as a globe, a fragile refuge amid barren surroundings, and thereby launched the environmental movement. The negative impact--the subconscious apprehension resulting from realization that space is an actual place containing little that's familiar to us and perhaps much that we'd rather not meet--is not spoken of. But it may be no less significant. Could this be one of the reasons why widespread interest in space died so soon after the first moon landing? For the past fifty years space advocates have been puzzled and frustrated by the slowness of progress in space and the failure of the public to grasp its importance not only to the future of humankind, but to the preservation of Earth's environment. But is it really cause for discouragement? In this book Sylvia Engdahl argues that in the light of history, it's not surprising that acceptance of a new outlook on the universe is slow. All past human advances have been made by visionary minorities without the support of their contemporaries, and our transformation into a spacefaring species will be no exception. This book also includes all of Engdahl's earlier essays about space, such as "Space and Human Survival," which has been popular on the Web for nearly twenty years, plus new ones about the priority of Mars and the question of whether we'll ever meet hostile aliens. In addition, an Epilogue contains the quotations from her Web page "Space Quotes to Ponder" about why a presence in space is vital to humankind. X-Ray is enabled and includes biographical information about all the quotation authors as well as the people mentioned in the essays.

Author : Toby Tyrrell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400847914

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On Gaia by Toby Tyrrell Pdf

A critical examination of James Lovelock's controversial Gaia hypothesis One of the enduring questions about our planet is how it has remained continuously habitable over vast stretches of geological time despite the fact that its atmosphere and climate are potentially unstable. James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis posits that life itself has intervened in the regulation of the planetary environment in order to keep it stable and favorable for life. First proposed in the 1970s, Lovelock's hypothesis remains highly controversial and continues to provoke fierce debate. On Gaia undertakes the first in-depth investigation of the arguments put forward by Lovelock and others—and concludes that the evidence doesn't stack up in support of Gaia. Toby Tyrrell draws on the latest findings in fields as diverse as climate science, oceanography, atmospheric science, geology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. He takes readers to obscure corners of the natural world, from southern Africa where ancient rocks reveal that icebergs were once present near the equator, to mimics of cleaner fish on Indonesian reefs, to blind fish deep in Mexican caves. Tyrrell weaves these and many other intriguing observations into a comprehensive analysis of the major assertions and lines of argument underpinning Gaia, and finds that it is not a credible picture of how life and Earth interact. On Gaia reflects on the scientific evidence indicating that life and environment mutually affect each other, and proposes that feedbacks on Earth do not provide robust protection against the environment becoming uninhabitable—or against poor stewardship by us.

Author : Brenda Rosen
Publisher : Godsfield Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Chakras
ISBN : 1856752747

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Gaia Busy Person's Guide to Chakras by Brenda Rosen Pdf

Chakras are the seven energy centres of the body that link your body' s energy to the main aspects of your life. "Busy Person's Guide: Chakras" offers a wide variety of methods for accessing and regulating your body' s energy throughout your busy day: as part of your morning routine, at work, while you are relaxing at home and as you prepare for sleep. You' ll also learn about the special qualities of each chakra and how to use its energy to enhance your life now.

Author : Eileen Crist,H. Bruce Rinker
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780262033756

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Gaia in Turmoil by Eileen Crist,H. Bruce Rinker Pdf

Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries as climate change and biodiversity destruction, providing perspectives from science, philosophy, politics, and technology.

Author : K. R. Moore
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000626193

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The Routledge Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality by K. R. Moore Pdf

This Companion covers a range of receptions of ancient Greek and Roman gender and sexuality. It explores ancient representations of these concepts as we define them today, as well as recent perspectives that have been projected back onto antiquity. Beginning in antiquity, the chapters examine how the ancient Greeks and Romans regarded concepts of what we would today call "gender" and "sexuality" based on the evidence available to us, and chart the varied interpretations and receptions of these concepts across time to the present day. In exploring how different cultures have "received" the classical past, the volume investigates these cultures’ different interpretations of Greek and Roman sexualities, and what these interpretations can reveal about their own attitudes. Through the contributions in this book, the reader gains a deeper understanding of this essential part of human existence, derived from influential sources. From ancient to modern and postmodern perspectives, from cinematic productions to TikTok videos, receptions of ancient gender and sexuality abound. This volume is of interest to students and scholars of ancient history, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, and ancient societies, as well as those working on popular culture and gender studies more broadly.

Author : Sita Gaia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736562029

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Knocking on the Body's Door by Sita Gaia Pdf

Knocking on the Body's Door-Poems to Read on the Bathroom Floor is a poetry chapbook by Sita Gaia. While continuing to face seizures into adulthood, this talented writer had to find a way to express from the soul. The honest portrayal of the life of this poet will keep the reader enthralled. Imagine what it would be like to believe you are going to have a simple cup of coffee only to end up with severe burns. At what point would some people find this to be too much? Gaia tells how it is not just for oneself, but to show others that they are not alone.

Author : Stephen Henry Schneider
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0262194988

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Scientists Debate Gaia by Stephen Henry Schneider Pdf

Leading scientists bring the controversy over Gaia up to date by exploring a broad range of recent thinking on Gaia theory.

Author : Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004378933

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New Age Religion and Western Culture by Wouter J. Hanegraaff Pdf

Recent years have seen a spectacular rise of the New Age movement and an ever-increasing interest in its beliefs and manifestations. This fascinating work presents the first-ever comprehensive analysis of New Age Religion and its historical backgrounds, thus providing the reader with a means of orientation in the bewildering variety of the movement. Making extensive use of primary sources, the author thematically analyses New Age beliefs from the perspective of the study of religions. While looking at the historical backgrounds of the movement, he convincingly argues that its foundations were laid by so-called western esoteric traditions during the Renaissance. Hanegraaff finally shows how the modern New Age movement emerged from the increasing secularization of those esoteric traditions during the 19th century. This ground-breaking publication is compulsive reading for all those involved or interested in the New Age movement.

Author : Jeremy Wood
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030281090

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The Dynamics of Small Solar System Bodies by Jeremy Wood Pdf

This SpringerBrief summarizes the latest relevant research and discoveries that have been made in the area of ringed small bodies and small body taxonomy, including those that lay the groundwork for future discoveries. Before 2013, ringed small bodies were only theoretical. Thus, there are very limited publications available on this relatively new subfield of astronomy. With the introduction of the GAIA catalogue, star positions are now known better than ever before. Since rings are discovered through the use of starlight occultation, we could very well be looking at an explosion of discoveries of ringed small bodies in the near future. Each chapter is accompanied by exercises, and an end-of-book answer key is provided. As such, this brief will benefit students and researchers alike who wish to have a single document and quick access to the latest information on ringed small bodies and small body taxonomy.