Herodotus in the anthropocene

Anthropocene

Perhaps no concept has become dominant in so many fields as rapidly as the Anthropocene. This collection provides truly innovative arguments regarding

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Anthropocene

In this book, Schw¤gerl explores the ways in which our relationship with nature has gone awry, and taking a step further than this, he suggests how h

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Surveying the Anthropocene:

Surveying the Anthropocene brings together a combination of visually powerful imagery and comment by some of the most influential artist-photographers

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Adventures in the Anthropocene

From artificial glaciers in the Himalayas to painted mountains in Peru, electrified reefs in the Maldives to garbage islands in the Caribbean, the aut

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Teaching in the Anthropocene

Presents perspectives on teaching and teacher education in the face of the global climate crisis, environmental degradation, and social injustice. The

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Capitalism in the Anthropocene

Explores capitalism's role in creating the current state of climate emergency. Over the last 11,700 years, during which human civilization developed,

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Cities in the Anthropocene

From Australia to North America, we need to rethink how our cities resist environmental change in the age of climate catastrophe

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Health in the Anthropocene

How will the ecological and economic crises of the 21st century transform health systems and human wellbeing?

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Marx in the Anthropocene

Facing global climate crisis, Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book reconstructs the

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Marx in the Anthropocene

Facing global climate crisis, Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book reconstructs the

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Wildlife in the Anthropocene

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Anthropocene Psychology

This book seeks to investigate the relations between human and more-than-human worlds against the backdrop of the Anthropocene, examining the way in w

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Herodotus: Histories Book IX

Book IX represents the conclusion and climax to Herodotus' Histories. This commentary, the first in English solely on Book IX in over a century, provi

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Herodotus: Histories Book I

An indispensable tool for teaching and reading Herodotus' first book in Greek. The Commentary provides considerable help with matters of language. It

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Cambridge Companion to Herodotus

In this Companion an international team of scholars discusses Herodotus' Histories, the first major surviving prose work from antiquity, and explores

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Herodotus: Histories Book I

An indispensable tool for teaching and reading Herodotus' first book in Greek. The Commentary provides considerable help with matters of language. It

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Travels with Herodotus

Records how the author set out on his first forays to India, China and Africa with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. The author sees

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Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene

Through various international case studies presented by both practitioners and scholars, Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene explores how an env

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Anthropocene (In)securities

This volume asks what security means in the Anthropocene era and what political innovations are needed to chart a more sustainable path for global dev

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Gibbon Conservation in the Anthropocene

Gibbons are the most speciose of the apes. Despite being highly threatened, they receive less research and conservation attention compared to the grea

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Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene

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Climate Change in the Anthropocene

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International Relations in the Anthropocene

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Politics of the Anthropocene

This is a book about how politics, government - and much else - needs to change in response to the transition from the Holocene to the Anthropocene, t

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Cosmologies of the Anthropocene

This book explores the misconception of nature in the West since the birth of modern philosophy and the devastating impact that this has had in practi

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Allegories of the Anthropocene

Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism a

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Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene

This open access edited volume invites transdisciplinary scholars to re-vision science education in the era of the Anthropocene.

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Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene

This open access edited volume invites transdisciplinary scholars to re-vision science education in the era of the Anthropocene.

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Transnational Environmental Law in the Anthropocene

This edited volume invites reflection on the meaning and role of law in light of changing planetary realties. Taking the concept of the Anthropocene a

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Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene

Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene is a timely collection of insightful contributions that negotiate how the genre of life writing, traditiona

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Learning to Die in the Anthropocene

An Iraq War vet's bracing, visionary response to the challenge posed by global warming and his hope in the humanities.

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Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene

The contributors chart the shifting conceptions of environment, infrastructure, and both human and nonhuman life in the face of widespread uncertainty

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Posthumanity in the Anthropocene Taylor & Francis Ltd

Itdiscusses the effects of climate change, at the individual level, and as a collective threat that can lead to a world without us. Further, the three interpretative chapters of the novels center on a generic approach that considers the novels as dystopias. By jettisoning certain subjects that are central in The Handmaid’s Tale—religious extremism—, or in MaddAddam—enviro...

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Art and Nature in the Anthropocene

This book examines how contemporary artists have engaged with histories of nature, geology, and extinction within the context of the changing planet.

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Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene

Bringing together scholars from English literature, geography, politics, the arts, environmental humanities and sociology, this book contributes to th

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Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene

This volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history, and literary, cultural and media studies

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Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene

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The Anthropocene Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book introduces the concept of the Anthropocene and examines its importance for environmental legal thinking, research, and practice. This book’s engagement with these questions will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students in law, politics, philosophy, or the ecological humanities. It will also be of interest to academics in these disciplines and libraries ...

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Anthropology, Islands, and the Search for Meaning in the Anthropocene

Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experi

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Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene

This book is for readers interested in how literature tackles climate change, 'petro-culture', extinction, and the proposed 'human' epoch of the Anthr

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Science and Technology Teacher Education in the Anthropocene

This unique book compares anthropogenic challenges in science and technology teacher education between the southern context of South Africa and the no

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One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene

It approaches the question whether animals can and should have human rights through a comprehensive review of contemporary human rights philosophy, di

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Criminal Justice, Wildlife Conservation and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene

This book addresses one of todayÂ’s most urgent issues: the loss of wildlife and habitat. Combining conservation studies with a focus on animal rights

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Animals in Our Midst: The Challenges of Co-existing with Animals in the Anthropocene

This book offers the reader insight into the different discussions that exist around the topics of how we should understand animal agency, how we coul

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How to Write History. The Dipsads. Saturnalia. Herodotus or Aetion. Zeuxis or Antiochus. A Slip of the Tongue in Greeting. Apology for the "Salaried P

Lucian (ca. AD 120–190), apprentice sculptor then traveling rhetorician, settled in Athens and developed an original brand of satire. Notable for the

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Herodotus: Histories, Books 5-9 (Herodoti Historiae: Libri V-IX)

In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published in 1

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The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene Taylor & Francis Ltd

This handbook provides a critical survey into the function of law and governance during a time period when humans have power to impact the Earth system. The Anthropocene is a ‘crisis of the earth system’. This book addresses its implications for law and legal thinking in the 21st century. Engaging such issues as the Capitalocene, Gaia theory, the rights of nature, posthum...

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Emerging Aquatic Contaminants, One Health Framework for Risk Assessment and Remediation in the Post COVID-19 Anthropocene Elsevier

Kniha poukazuje na různé zdroje a cesty nově se objevujících kontaminantů, včetně jejich distribuce, výskytu a osudu ve vodním prostředí. Kniha v anglickém jazyce....

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The Rise And Fall of Athens - Plutarch

Anotace: Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal workWhat makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine biographies, taken from his Parallel Lives, Plutarch illustrates the rise and fall of Athens through nine liv...

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The Earth

A unique perspective on how our living planet has evolved and adapted, from early organisms to life in the current Anthropocene.

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Staying with the Trouble

Donna J. Haraway refigures our current epoch, moving away from the Anthropocene toward the Chthulucene: an epoch in which we stay with the trouble of

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What Is a Classic in History?

Why do some historical works, such as those of Herodotus or Gibbon, capture the imaginations of readers across generations? This study explores the po

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The Persian Wars

Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BCE, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He travelled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Assuan), North Africa, Syria, the country north of the Black Sea, and many parts of the Aegean Sea and the mainland of Greece. He lived, it seems, for some time in Athens, and in...

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The Rise And Fall of Athens - Plutarch

<p>Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal workWhat makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine biographies, taken from his Parallel Lives, Plutarch illustrates the rise and fall of Athens through nine live...

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Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency Taylor & Francis Ltd

Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency considers the impact of the Anthropocene on history and memory, approaches to objects and agency, and the incommensurability of western and Indigenous ontologies. Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency theorises the potential of an expanded idea of the museum and will be of interest to scholars and students enga...

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Anthrobscene

Critiques the environmental destruction caused by media technologies in the anthropocene era

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James Lovelock et al. The Earth and I - James Lovelock

<p>A richly illustrated collection of essays on earth and human science from 12 of today’s leading thinkers. From stars to cells, quantum theory to capitalism, ancient fossils to Artificial Intelligence, this book delivers a holistic understanding of our planet and is a trusted tool kit for an informed and enlightened future.</p> <p> </p> <p>...

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Planet Earth III: Accompanies the Landmark Series Narrated by David Attenborough - Matt Brandon

<p>The official tie-in to the third instalment in the legendary Planet Earth franchiseFew places on Earth remain untouched by humans, creating challenges for the wildlife we share it with. We have entered a new age, and we must look at the splendour of the natural world through a different lens.From the depths of our oceans, to scorching deserts and the most remote ...

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Histories

The Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of the 5th century BC, is generally regarded as the first work of history and the first great

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Histories

Traditionally known as the Father of History, the Greek writer Herodotus(c. His subject is the war between the Persians and the Greeks but, in order t

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