Search results for “[Subject: climatic-temperate]”

• Author(s): Stephen Ansolabehere | David M. Konisky • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: EnergyHow Americans make energy choices, why they think locally (not globally), and how this ...

• Author(s): Theresa M. Crimmins • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: SeasonsOn the timing of seasonal activity in plants and animals, the impact of climate change, and what each of us, as everyday phenologists, can do t...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Peter Cebon | Urs Dahinden | Huw Davies • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: WeatherFocusing on the Alpine region to look at climate change's regional manifestations.Although climate change is a global probl...

• Author(s): David W. Orr • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Global Warming & Climate ChangeThe first major book to deal with the dual crises of democracy and climate change as one interrelated threat to the human ...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Christof Koch • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Bio-Science and Agriculture • BISAC: Life Sciences - NeuroscienceA thought-provoking argument that consciousness--more widespread than previously assumed--is the ...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Eileen Crist | H. Bruce Rinker | Bill McKibben • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Essays link Gaian science to such global environmental quandaries...

• Author(s): J. Mijin Cha • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyWhy the energy transition must be more than a fuel source replacement, and how we can seize the opportunity of the transi...

• Author(s): James Meese • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyAn examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational fra...

• Author(s): Saul Griffith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: EnergyAn optimistic--but realistic and feasible--action plan for fighting climate change while creating new jobs and a healthier environment: electrify ever...

• Author(s): Daniel B. Poneman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyMaking the case that we can use nuclear power to combat climate change even as we reduce the risks of nuclear terror...

• Author(s): Guy Edwards | J. Timmons Roberts | Ricardo Lagos • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyHow Latin American countries became leading voices and innovators on addressing clima...

• Author(s): William G. Lycan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this book, William Lycan defends an original theory of mind that he calls "homuncular functionalism." What is consciousn...

• Author(s): Aron Vinegar • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsA theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions. Subj...

• Author(s): Kian Goh • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Sustainability & Green DesignAn examination of urban climate change response strategies and the resistance to them by grassroots activists and social movemen...

• Author(s): Jonathan Strahan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Science Fiction - Collections & AnthologiesTwelve visions of living in a climate-changed world. We are living in the Anthropocene--an era of dramatic...

• Author(s): Peter Friederici • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyThe importance of telling new climate stories--stories that center the persistence of life itself, that embrace comed...