Environment – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

What’s Sex Got to Do with It?

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:11 +0000

How better than to mark the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s book on human evolution than by challenging his theory with an updated version which instead places the female species at the centre of the theory. Sexual selection may have created us, but by refusing to take a good hard look at ourselves and our impact on the planet, we may be granting natural selection the power to eliminate us.

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Globalisation for the Common Good

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:04:00 +0000

Today, despite many significant achievements in science, technology, medicine, transportation and communications, and a vast increase in world trade, the globalized world economy is facing serious socio-economic, political, cultural and environmental problems, of potentially catastrophic proportions. Although many attempts have been made by international organizations like the World Bank and IMF…

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Eradicating Ecocide – 2nd Edition

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 03:17:20 +0000

The winner of Non-Fiction Category of THE PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE (2010/2011). In Eradicating Ecocide, international environment lawyer and Ecocide law expert Polly Higgins sets out to demonstrate how our planet is fast being destroyed by the activities of corporations and governments, facilitated by ‘compromise’ laws that offer insufficient deterrence. She offers a solution that is radical yet…

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Earth is our Business

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 23:28:39 +0000

Earth is our Business takes forward the argument of Polly Higgins’ first book, Eradicating Ecocide. This book proposes new Earth law, but it is also about something more than law: it advocates a new form of leadership which places the health and well-being of people and planet first. Polly Higgins shows how law can provide the tools and be a bridge to a new way of doing business. She argues…

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The Gilgamesh Gene Revisited

SheaFowb429Aslf — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 08:41:06 +0000

How it is that humanity has brought itself, along with most other species, to the brink of extinction? In the Gilgamesh Gene Revisited, Russell-Jones provides a time-line analysis of man’s relationship with the natural world that stretches back deep into pre-history and illuminates the origins of many of our most cherished fables, myths and religious creeds, which provide our belief systems…

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