Confronting Leviathan
Title | Confronting Leviathan PDF eBook |
Author | David Runciman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-07-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781788167833 |
Climate Leviathan
Title | Climate Leviathan PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Wainwright |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2018-02-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1786634317 |
**Winner of the 2019 Sussex International Theory Prize** -- How climate change will affect our political theory - for better and worse Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two degrees Celsius set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What are the likely political and economic outcomes of this? Where is the overheating world heading? To further the struggle for climate justice, we need to have some idea how the existing global order is likely to adjust to a rapidly changing environment. Climate Leviathan provides a radical way of thinking about the intensifying challenges to the global order. Drawing on a wide range of political thought, Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann argue that rapid climate change will transform the world's political economy and the fundamental political arrangements most people take for granted. The result will be a capitalist planetary sovereignty, a terrifying eventuality that makes the construction of viable, radical alternatives truly imperative.
Leviathan Wakes
Title | Leviathan Wakes PDF eBook |
Author | James S. A. Corey |
Publisher | Orbit |
Pages | 621 |
Release | 2011-06-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316134678 |
From a New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author comes a modern masterwork of science fiction, introducing a captain, his crew, and a detective as they unravel a horrifying solar system wide conspiracy that begins with a single missing girl. Now a Prime Original series. Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for—and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why. Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything. Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations—and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe. "Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written." —George R. R. Martin The Expanse Leviathan Wakes Caliban's War Abaddon's Gate Cibola Burn Nemesis Games Babylon's Ashes Persepolis Rising Tiamat's Wrath Leviathan Falls Memory's Legion The Expanse Short Fiction Drive The Butcher of Anderson Station Gods of Risk The Churn The Vital Abyss Strange Dogs Auberon The Sins of Our Fathers
In the Shadow of Leviathan
Title | In the Shadow of Leviathan PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey R. Collins |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 459 |
Release | 2020-02-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108478816 |
Revolutionises our understanding of Hobbes's influence over Locke and their roles within the history of religious freedom and liberalism.
The Spirit of Python
Title | The Spirit of Python PDF eBook |
Author | Jentezen Franklin |
Publisher | Charisma Media |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1621362205 |
New York Times best-selling author Jentezen Franklin is back with a message that will inspire you to break free and reclaim a life of passion, purpose, and praise.
Confronting Leviathan
Title | Confronting Leviathan PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Hall |
Publisher | C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781850651161 |
This volume has been written at a time when Mozambique is coming to the end of its second decade of independence and there are signs that the debilitating South African-backed rural insurgency may at last be on the wane. The bulk of the literature on the country has been concerned to promote causes rather than face realities. However, the much greater openness of Mozambican society and the Mozambican government in recent years, as well as the appearance of new research, makes it possible to attempt a reinterpretation of events.
State of Crisis
Title | State of Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Zygmunt Bauman |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 2014-07-17 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0745685293 |
Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that sets our current malaise apart from the 1930s: today we no longer trust in the capacity of the state to resolve the crisis and to chart a new way forward. In our increasingly globalized world, states have been stripped of much of their power to shape the course of events. Many of our problems are globally produced but the volume of power at the disposal of individual nation-states is simply not sufficient to cope with the problems they face. This divorce between power and politics produces a new kind of paralysis. It undermines the political agency that is needed to tackle the crisis and it saps citizens’ belief that governments can deliver on their promises. The impotence of governments goes hand in hand with the growing cynicism and distrust of citizens. Hence the current crisis is at once a crisis of agency, a crisis of representative democracy and a crisis of the sovereignty of the state. In this book the world-renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman and fellow traveller Carlo Bordoni explore the social and political dimensions of the current crisis. While this crisis has been greatly exacerbated by the turmoil following the financial crisis of 2007-8, Bauman and Bordoni argue that the crisis facing Western societies is rooted in a much more profound series of transformations that stretch back further in time and are producing long-lasting effects. This highly original analysis of our current predicament by two of the world’s leading social thinkers will be of interest to a wide readership.