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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: David McDermott Hughes
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082237336X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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In Energy without Conscience David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He examines the forces that render the use of fossil fuels ordinary and therefore exempt from ethical evaluation. Hughes centers his analysis on Trinidad and Tobago, which is the world's oldest petro-state, having drilled the first continuously producing oil well in 1866. Marrying historical research with interviews with Trinidadian petroleum scientists, policymakers, technicians, and managers, he draws parallels between Trinidad's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century slave labor energy economy and its contemporary oil industry. Hughes shows how both forms of energy rely upon a complicity that absolves producers and consumers from acknowledging the immoral nature of each. He passionately argues that like slavery, producing oil is a moral choice and that oil is at its most dangerous when it is accepted as an ordinary part of everyday life. Only by rejecting arguments that oil is economically, politically, and technologically necessary, and by acknowledging our complicity in an immoral system, can we stem the damage being done to the planet.

Author: John D. Clemens
Publisher: Geological Society of America
ISBN: 0813724724
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: Rachel Laudan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226469508
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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"A fine treatment of this critical time in geology's history. Although it goes against our standard histories of the field, Laudan defends her views convincingly. Her style is direct, with carefully reasoned personal opinions and interpretations clearly defined."—Jere H. Lipps, The Scientist

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Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Languages : en
Pages : 908

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Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Languages : en
Pages : 850

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Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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Author: Stewart A. Factor, DO
Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing
ISBN: 1934559873
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 858

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Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease in the world. Still the only major text on the subject, the completely revised and updated second edition of Parkinson's Disease: Diagnosis and Clinical Management comes at a time when specialists have made important advances in our understanding of the etiology, pathogenesis, investigation, and management of Parkinson's disease. The book includes 23 completely new chapters, and has updated information on: Genetics Pathology Biomarkers Pathogenesis Impulse control disorders in Parkinson's disease Updated outcome measures Complementary and alternative medicine for the treatment of Parkinson's disease Together the chapters form a comprehensive review of the many issues facing PD physicians today. Lucid and easily readable from beginning to end, each chapter may also stand on its own as a scholarly review of the individual subject. Each one is concisely written and heavily referenced for this purpose. The second edition of Parkinson's Disease: Diagnosis and Clinical Management provides a state-of-the-art review of where we've been, where we are now, and where we are going in treating this disease.