Tropic of Chaos
Title | Tropic of Chaos PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Parenti |
Publisher | Bold Type Books |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2011-06-28 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1568586620 |
From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. But he also reveals the unsettling presence of Western military forces and explains how they see an opportunity in the crisis to prepare for open-ended global counterinsurgency. Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism" -- a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies.
Tropic of Chaos
Title | Tropic of Chaos PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Parenti |
Publisher | Nation Books |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2011-06-28 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1568586000 |
An investigative journalist visits the economically and politically battered post-colonial nations around the earth's mid-latitudes and reveals how extreme weather in the era of climate change is breeding banditry, humanitarian crises and state failure.
The Soft Cage
Title | The Soft Cage PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Parenti |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2007-10-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0465009891 |
On a typical day, you might make a call on a cell phone, withdraw money at an ATM, visit the mall, and make a purchase with a credit card. Each of these routine transactions leaves a digital trail for government agencies and businesses to access. As cutting-edge historian and journalist Christian Parenti points out, these everyday intrusions on privacy, while harmless in themselves, are part of a relentless (and clandestine) expansion of routine surveillance in American life over the last two centuries-from controlling slaves in the old South to implementing early criminal justice and tracking immigrants. Parenti explores the role computers are playing in creating a whole new world of seemingly benign technologies-such as credit cards, website "cookies," and electronic toll collection-that have expanded this trend in the twenty-first century. The Soft Cage offers a compelling, vitally important history lesson for every American concerned about the expansion of surveillance into our public and private lives.
American Tropic
Title | American Tropic PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Sanchez |
Publisher | Knopf |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1400042321 |
A string of murders being committed by a mysterious voodoo assassin on the exotic island city of Key West pits a crusading environmental shock-jock and a homicide detective against a maelstrom of unscrupulous developers, scammers and everyday citizens. 25,000 first printing.
Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Title | Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Miller |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2012-01-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0007389469 |
Miller’s groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years.
Mortal Chaos: Speed Freaks
Title | Mortal Chaos: Speed Freaks PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Dickinson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press - Children |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2013-01-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0192757172 |
Butterfly effect: The scientific theory that a single occurence, no matter how small, can change the course of the universe forever. A father and son diving off the coast of Hawaii, with the sharks closing in. A scientist in a forest under attack from a savage bear. A young girl who has been kidnapped by drug dealers in Rio. The teenagers surfing on top of a speeding bullet train. For them, and many others, things will never be the same again. Some will live. Many will die. All are connected. The action is non-stop in this tense and compelling adventure.
Eco-Nihilism
Title | Eco-Nihilism PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Lynne Lee |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Total Pages | 471 |
Release | 2017-02-22 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0739176897 |
Eco-Nihilism: The Philosophical Geopolitics of the Climate Change Apocalypse argues that there are no versions of conquest capital compatible with the fact of a finite planet, and that the pursuit of growth is destined to not only exhaust our planetary resources, but generate profound social injustice and geopolitical violence in its pursuit.