Download or read book At Odds with Progress written by Bret Wallach and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Maine potato farmer struggles to stay in business while maintaining the productivity of his fields. . . . A forester in Tennessee oversees government land whose most important use today is for recreation. . . . Agribusiness reigns in Washington state's Columbia Basin where Franklin D. Roosevelt once envisioned a utopia of small farms. . . . The Texas chapter of the Sierra Club lobbies successfully against water importation to the Panhandle. . . .What do these vignettes have in common? All reveal American ambivalence toward progress.Geographer Bret Wallach here gives us a different view of conservation in the United States, one that sees it as a distinctively American expression of an almost universal uneasiness about the character of the modern world. Ranging from the turn of the century to the 1980s and from Maine to California, he demonstrates how the management of public and private lands has always expressed that uneasiness, even on the part of people who thought they were singleminded advocates of progress.At Odds With Progress is a highly readable work that combines a scholar's attention to fact with a fine writer's feel for language. Through it, we come to realize that environmental conservation has always struck far deeper than the technical concerns of specialists. For nearly a century, it has been the way that Americans could oppose what appears to be the unstoppable path of history.

Download or read book A Philosophy of Social Progress written by Edward Johns Urwick and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Time Progress Growth and Technology written by Filipe Duarte Santos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the current challenges of sustainable development, including its social, economic and environmental components. The author argues that we need to develop a new concept of time based on inter-generational solidarity, which focuses both on the long- and the short term. The evolution of man's notions of time are analyzed from prehistory to modern times, showing how these concepts shape our worldviews, our ecological paradigms and our equilibrium with our planet. Practical approaches to dealing with the major medium- and long term sustainability challenges of the 21st century are presented and discussed. This is a thought provoking and timely book that addresses the main global socioeconomic and environmental challenges facing the current and future generations, using science-based analysis and perspectives. It presents an historical narrative of the advent of progress, economic growth and technology, and discusses the structural changes needed to co-create sustainable pathways. It provides hope for our future on Earth, mankind’s common home. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations This is an amazing, almost mind-boggling book. The author takes a look at the true whole, i.e., the development of the human enterprise since its very beginning. This enterprise is evidently a possibility under the boundary conditions of cosmological dynamics and natural evolution, but evidently also a highly improbable one. It is all but a miracle that the Earth system in its present form exists and happens to support a technical civilization. Will this civilization last long, will it transform itself into something even more exceptional, or will it perish in disgrace? Santos dares to address these grandest of all questions, equipped with a unique transdisciplinary wisdom drawing on physics, cybernetics, geology, biology, economics, anthropology, history, and philosophy. And he dares to dive into the deepest abysses of thinking, where categorial monsters like time and progress lurk. Thereby, he takes us on fascinating journey, during which we perceive and grasp things we have never seen and understood before. One of the best essays I have ever read. John Schellnhuber, founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and former chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change

Download or read book Christianity 101 Progress Report Grade D written by Tim Ruggenberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has Christianity failed to inspire the world? What has gone wrong? What can be done to make it right? This book asks and answers these questions and more. Read common sense answers and observations based on the author's own journey from Christianity to Atheism and back. This book is a no-holds-barred gut check for anyone seeking spiritual truths.

Download or read book The Philosophical Progress of Hume s Essays written by Margaret Watkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the significance of Hume's Essays for philosophical questions about human life and its individual and social progress.

Download or read book The Collegian and Progress of India written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism written by C. Burdett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-01-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism explores two key areas: first, the debates taking place in England during the last two decades of the nineteenth century about the position of women; and, second, the volatile events of the 1890s in South Africa, which culminated in war between the British Empire and the Boer republics in 1899. Through a detailed reading of the fictional and non-fictional writing of one extraordinary woman, Olive Schreiner, it traces the complex relations between gender and empire in a modernizing world.

Download or read book The Dynamics of Racial Progress written by Antoine L. Joseph and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race relations in the United States have long been volatile - marked on the one hand by distrust and violence, but tempered on the other by periods of conciliation, integration and relative harmony. This path-breaking blend of history, sociology, political science and economics argues that the key factor determining the quality of race relations is economic: When economic equality spreads so do social and political equality. Conversely, economic downturns and widening income disparities promote political inequality, polarizing blacks and whites. To support this provocative thesis the author examines key events and eras in American history since the Reconstruction - particularly the black migration and the New Deal policies of the interwar years, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, and the rise and decline of affirmative action in the late twentieth century. He also analyzes the racial policies and politics of the major political parties and shows how they "played the race card" to win support.

Download or read book Oxford Assess and Progress Clinical Medicine written by Dan Furmedge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maximise your exam success with this essential revision guide. The third edition of Oxford Assess and Progress: Clinical Medicine features over 550 Single Best Answer questions. Packed with questions written by practicing clinicians and educators, this revision tool is an authoritative guide on core clinical topics and professional themes. Each question is accompanied by extensive feedback which explains not only the rationale of the correct answer, but why the other options are incorrect. Further reading resources and cross-references to the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine have been fully updated to expand your revision further. Progess to exam success with the third edition of Oxford Assess and Progress: Clinical Medicine.

Download or read book The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress critical edition Volume 7 written by George Santayana and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third of five books in one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Santayana's Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906, ranks as one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Acknowledging the natural material bases of human life, Santayana traces the development of the human capacity for appreciating and cultivating the ideal. It is a capacity he exhibits as he articulates a continuity running through animal impulse, practical intelligence, and ideal harmony in reason, society, art, religion, and science. The work is an exquisitely rendered vision of human life lived sanely. In this third book, Santayana offers a naturalistic interpretation of religion. He believes that religion is ignoble if regarded as a truthful depiction of real beings and events; but regarded as poetry, it might be the greatest source of wisdom. Santayana analyzes four characteristic religious concerns: piety, spirituality, charity, and immortality. He is at his most profound in his discussion of immortality, arguing for an ideal immortality that does not eradicate the fear of death but offers a way for mortal man to share in immortal things and live in a manner that will bestow on his successors the imprint of his soul. This critical edition, volume VII of The Works of George Santayana, includes notes, textual commentary, lists of variants and emendations, bibliography, and other tools useful to Santayana scholars. The other four books of the volume include Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Society, Reason in Art, and Reason in Science.

Download or read book The Innocents Abroad Or The New Pilgrims Progress written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Oxford Assess and Progress Situational Judgement Test written by David Metcalfe and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning for a second edition, Oxford Assess and Progress: Situational Judgement Test (SJT) is THE definitive guide for students preparing to sit the Situational Judgement Test for entry into the UK Foundation Programme. This authoritative book, mapped to the Foundation Programme curriculum and GMC guidance, includes over 250 practice questions to help you maximize your SJT score. Fully revised and updated in response to changes in the SJT and reader feedback, this second edition now represents true value-for-money with over 250 questions and high-quality feedback that has been developed to clarify the ranking of every answer option, not just the correct one. All scenarios are based on real experiences informed by practising doctors and medical students who have sat the SJT to ensure that the questions closely mirror the content of the real exam. Written by junior doctors and overseen by experts in medical assessment, this authoritative guide demystifies the SJT, allowing you to achieve the best possible score and take control of the first stage of your medical career.

Download or read book Defy the Odds written by E. Lawrence and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever found yourself questioning everything youd previously thought to be true? Have you ever wondered God, where are you? or God, did you intend for this to happen? Have you ever wrestled with being comfortable in your own skin? Has fearfully and wonderfully made ever seemed great for others, but not accurate when it comes to you? Have you ever wondered if youre too far gone? Or if Gods grace is enough for you? After all, how much can grace really cover? Grab a front-row seat and witness one womans struggle as she battles a fully unleashed devil. In the darkness of her doubt and fear, she searches for Gods will and questions the scope of His grace.

Download or read book The Cause and Extent of the Recent Industrial Progress of Germany written by Earl Dean Howard and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Account of the Rise Progress and Present State of the Magdalen Hospital written by William Dodd and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kant and the Possibility of Progress written by Paul T. Wilford and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a reexamination of Immanuel Kant and his philosophical legacy, this volume explores the philosophic presuppositions of the possibility of progress and our belief in reason's capacity not only to improve the material well-being of humanity but also to promote our true vocation as moral beings.

Download or read book Staging Decadence written by Adam Alston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is decadence being staged today – as a practice, issue, pejorative, and as a site of pleasure? Where might we find it, why might we look for it, and who is decadence for? This book is the first monographic study of decadence in theatre and performance. Adam Alston makes a passionate case for the contemporary relevance of decadence in the thick of a resurgent culture war by focusing on its antithetical relationship to capitalist-led growth, progress, and intensified productivity. He argues that the qualities used to disparage the study and practice of theatre and performance are the very things we should embrace in celebrating their value – namely, their spectacular uselessness, wastefulness, outmodedness, and abundant potential for producing forms of creativity that flow away from the ends and excesses of capitalism. Alston covers an eclectic range of examples by Julia Bardsley (UK), Hasard Le Sin (Finland), jaamil olawale kosoko (USA), Toco Nikaido (Japan), Martin O'Brien (UK), Toshiki Okada (Japan), Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca (Spain), Normandy Sherwood (USA), The Uhuruverse (USA), Nia O. Witherspoon (USA), and Wunderbaum (Netherlands). Expect ruminations on monstrous scenographies, catatonic choreographies, turbo-charged freneticism, visions of the apocalypse – and what might lie in its wake.