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The Hypothetical Species : Variables of Human Evolution / / by Michael Charles Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison
| The Hypothetical Species : Variables of Human Evolution / / by Michael Charles Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison |
| Autore | Tobias Michael |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 pages) |
| Disciplina |
573.2
599.938 |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolutionary biology
Nature Environment Environmental sciences - Philosophy Biology - Philosophy Philosophy of nature Ecology Evolutionary Biology Popular Science in Nature and Environment Environmental Philosophy Philosophy of Biology Philosophy of Nature Ecology |
| ISBN | 3-030-11319-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introdution -- Between the Theoretical and the Hypothetical -- Taxonomic Uncertainties -- A Biosphere in Flux -- As Far as the Microscope Reveals -- Human Contradictions -- Varieties of Social Contracts -- Biological Consensus Mechanisms: The Future of Co-Existence. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910337952303321 |
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 | ||
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The maiden voyage of Petrus Van Stijn : a novel / / Michael Charles Tobias
| The maiden voyage of Petrus Van Stijn : a novel / / Michael Charles Tobias |
| Autore | Tobias Michael |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (187 pages) |
| Disciplina | 813.54 |
| Soggetto topico |
Magnetic storms
Science fiction |
| ISBN |
9783030976835
9783030976828 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910568244203321 |
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, , [2022] | ||
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On the nature of ecological paradox / / Michael Charles Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison
| On the nature of ecological paradox / / Michael Charles Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison |
| Autore | Tobias Michael |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXVIII, 894 p. 294 illus., 259 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 577.01 |
| Soggetto topico |
Ecology - Philosophy
Ecologia humana |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Llibres electrònics |
| ISBN | 3-030-64526-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Foreword -- Preface -- Part 1. Tractatus Ecologia Paradoxi -- Introduction -- On the Nature of Paradox -- Ecological Problems and Paradigmatic Solutions -- Protected Area Dilemmas -- The Paradox of Protection -- The Ecclesiastes Factor -- Pathologies of Self-Image -- Paradoxical Frontiers -- The Obsolescence of Presuppositions -- Ecological Contradiction, Antinomy and Counter-Intuition -- Heavy and Light Contingencies of Consciousness -- The Paradise Paradox -- Codex Sinaiticus -- Russell’s Paradox as Ecological Proxy -- The Evolution of Innocence and Strategy -- Tatters and Poignancies -- The Echoes of Malhazine -- A Cave at Taranga -- A Village in Prince Christian Sound -- The Grampians -- The Yasuní Effect -- Sakteng -- A River Somewhere in Georgia -- Jan Van Goyen’s Exquisite Obsession -- Paradox of the Lamb -- Botanical Equations for Paradox -- Part 2. Ecological Memories and Fractions -- The Metaphysics of Photography -- The Consolations of a Château -- Book of the Dead -- Ecological Double-Binds -- The Temptation of the Catastrophe: Deep Structures of Suicide -- Cave Paintings of the Mind -- Moral Choices in an Epoch of Angst -- The Dream of Don Quixote -- The Ratiocinations of Rakiura -- Human Evolution at a Glance within Ryoan-ji -- The Paradox of Light -- The Last Numbers of Emptiness -- Shelley’s Ecological Exile and His Utopia of Animal Rights -- The Zoosemiotic Paradox of Aesop -- The Conical Temple of Konawsh -- Does Natural Selection Select for Natural Selection? -- The Paradox of Solace -- Collodi’s Garden and the Misadventures of Pinocchio -- The Poetics of Biodiversity: Kazantzakis and Crete -- Famine in Bangladesh -- Sakya Coming Out of his Mountain Retreat -- The Mind of a Chicken -- The Christ Paradox -- Unthinkable Nullities, Negative Proofs -- Irrational Biomes -- The Extinction Probability Era -- Non-Linear Reciprocity -- The Unfettered Gaze -- No Equation for It: Numbers with No Attachment -- A Situational Animal Rights Ethic -- The Geography of Contradiction -- Metaphysical Landscapes -- Savery’s Castle of Secrets -- Human Cruelty and SARS-CoV-2 -- Part 3. A Natural History of Existentialism -- Strange Connectors -- The Synecological Conscience -- The Ecological Summons of Jain Mathematical Calculations -- Fundaments of Observation and Melancholy -- The Great Divergence -- Mismatches -- True Narcissism -- Caesuras of Certainty -- The Other -- Of Malignant Variables -- The Concept of Zero -- On the Nature of Equivalencies -- Metaphorical Realities -- Ecological Epistemology -- The Natural Selection of Indeterminacy -- Imagining Transitions -- The Finely-Honed Basis of Unknowing -- The Buddhist Obtuse and its Ecological Correlates -- Ecological Emptiness -- Temptational Obscurity That Brings Hope to Life -- Biological Proxies for the Individual -- Shifting Balance -- Comes Crashing Down Upon It -- Systems Paradox -- The Final Hermitage of Ideals -- The Paradox of Prayer -- Forgiveness -- Rebirth -- The Cycle of Alterities -- The Individual and the Circumference -- Non-Linear Ethics -- A Lost Species -- Ecological Idealism -- The Problem of Interdependency -- A Metaphysics of Naturalism -- The Phylogenetic Conundrum -- The Biosphere Beyond Humanity -- The Anthropic Syllogism -- The Last Island -- Coda: Liberation Ecosynthesis -- Index. |
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] | ||
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Why Life Matters : Fifty Ecosystems of the Heart and Mind / / by Michael Charles Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison
| Why Life Matters : Fifty Ecosystems of the Heart and Mind / / by Michael Charles Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison |
| Autore | Tobias Michael |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (404 p.) |
| Disciplina |
333.7
333.72 344.046 36370561 500 570 577 |
| Soggetto topico |
Ecology
Nature Adaptation (Biology) Environmental law Environmental policy Conservation biology Nature conservation Ecology Popular Science in Nature and Environment Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice Environment, general Conservation Biology/Ecology Nature Conservation |
| ISBN | 3-319-07860-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part One: Nature & Human Economics -- 1) “Technology, Business and Nature: An Economic Primer on Winners and Losers” -- 2) “Women, Wall Street and Mitigating Climate Change: The Critical Importance of WOCAN” -- 3) “The New Business of Business: Evolution of Culture and the Survival of Humankind”.-4) “Wall Street After Rio: A Discussion With Calvert Investments’ Senior Sustainability Research Analyst, Ms. Ellen Kennedy" -- 5) “Investing in the End-Game: An Earth Day Post-Mortem” -- 6) “Just When You Thought You Could Bank On It” -- Part Two: The Carbon-Negative Ideal -- 7) “Super Grid” -- 8) “Ecuador’s Imperiled Paradise: One of the World’s Most Important, If Least Known Battles – A Conversation with Dr. Ivonne Baki” -- 9) “Native American Tribes Get a Seat at the Climate Table” -- 10) “Climate Shock: UC-Berkeley Scientist Dr. John Harte Puts the World On Notice” -- Part Three: Human Health and a Living Earth -- 11) “Occupy Your Diet: A Discussion About Food, Health and Kindness With Dr. Neal Barnard" -- 12) “Eating You Alive: Environmental Cancer” -- 13) Food That Might Protect Your Brain and Save Your Life: A Discussion About the Ecology of Alzheimers With Dr. Neal Barnard” -- 14) “Biological Shock-Treatment: A Discussion With ‘Deadly Monopolies’ Author Harriet A. Washington” -- 15) “Bioeconomics: A New National Blueprint” -- Part Four: Ecology and the Human Population Explosion -- 16) “Six Billion or Fifteen Billion People: A Discussion With Environmental Scientist Leon Kolankiewicz” -- 17) “A King’s Speech That Could Help Save The World: A Discussion With UC-Berkeley’s Dr. Malcolm Potts” -- 18) “Planet Under Siege: Family Planning Critics Soon to See Global Population Reach 7,000,000,000” -- 19) “China’s Demographic and Ecological Conundrum” -- Part Five: Ecological Heroes -- 20) “One Woman’s Remarkable Quest to Save Africa’s White Lion” -- 21) “A Discussion With UNOPS Luminary Ms. Maria-Noel Vaeza” -- 22) “Down To Earth: The World According to Ted Turner” -- 23) “How the Life of a Chipmunk in Michigan Came to Save Elephants and a Million Acres in Cambodia” -- 24) “Helen Clark: UNDP’s Pragmatic Visionary” -- 25) “A Jain Leader Addresses the World” -- 26) “A Discussion With Jane Goodall” -- Part Six: The State of the World -- 27) “China Declares Global State of Emergency: An Urgent Telegram from Taihu” -- 28) “Japan’s Tragedy: Global Ecological Uncertainty” -- 29) “Before the Fall: Syria’s Ecosystems” -- 30) “Sir Simon Jenkins, England’s National Trust, and the Future of Conservation in Great Britain” -- 31) “Extinction: Poachers Test the Right to Life” -- Part Seven: Animal Rights -- 32) “Compassionate Conservation: A Discussion From the Frontlines with Dr. Marc Bekoff” -- 33) “Animal Rights in China” -- 35) “Why Insects Sing: A Discussion With David Rothenberg” -- 36) “Protecting Bambi With Drones: PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk on Hunters, Horsemeat and More” -- Part Eight: Why Your Neighbor Is Important: New Strategies for a Bright Future -- 37) “The Heart of Education: A Discussion With Zoe Weil” -- 38) “Journey to the Center of the World: An Interview With Dr. Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian" -- 39) “How A Single National Park Might Help Transform a Nation: Haiti’s Pic Macaya” -- 40) “Conservation International: Stemming the Tide of Environmental Crises” -- 41) “The Future of Life on Earth” -- 42) “On Parrots, Eagles and Fighting Species Extinction” -- Part Nine: Ecological Paradise? -- 43) “An Ecological Paradise in Southern India: A Discussion About the Todas With Dr. Tarun Chhabra” -- 44) “J. P. Morgan, Edward Curtis and Christopher Cardozo: An Inspired Collaboration” -- 45) “A New Natural History Blueprint for Universities: A Discussion With Graham Arader” -- 46) “God’s Country: The New Zealand Factor” -- 47) “New Territories: Artist Astrid Preston Celebrates the Earth in a Landmark Nature Exhibition” -- 48) “Lenin Moreno 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Reflects on Human Welfare and the Rights of Nature” -- 49) “Nigel Brown: A New Zealand Original” -- 50) “The Last Shangri-la? A Conversation With Bhutan’s Secretary of the National Environment Commission, Dr. Ugyen Tshewang”. 51) Afterword: "A Paris Declaration on Climate Change: Humanity's Last Chance for Meaningful Action to Combat Irreversible Global Biological Disaster". . |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910298351703321 |
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 | ||
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