Peter Jacques: 13 books

Prominent scholars and practitioners consider the role of global environmental politics in the face of increasing environmental stress. Humanity's collective impact on the Earth is vast. The rate and scale of human-driven environmental destruction is quickly outstripping our political and social...

Jacques offers a unique analysis of the connections between global marine and atmospheric science to global political phenomena. He shows how human survival is intricately linked to the sustainability of the world ocean, a singular connected body of regional oceans that is by definition a global resource...

Sustainability is concerned with the issues around the ongoing and mutual preservation of both society and the environment. It is a widely used term and supposed goal for many governments but it is also easily misunderstood. Sustainability: The Basics offers an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction...

The principal exponent of the Neoclassical reaction against the Rococo style, Jacques-Louis David won wide acclaim with his huge canvases on classical themes. The appointed painter to Napoleon, David developed his Empire style, notable for its use of warm Venetian colours, confirming his status as...

'Environmental skepticism' describes the viewpoint that major environmental problems are either unreal or unimportant. In other words, environmental skepticism holds that environmental problems, especially global ones, are inauthentic. Peter Jacques describes, both empirically and historically, how...

The Power of the Talking Stick makes the case that, reaching back to the beginning of the nation-state and all through the current period of corporate-led globalisation, our governments and social institutions have been engaged in activities that will ultimately extinguish the world's ecological life...

25 Jahre Grafit - Die Jubiläumsanthologie! Lesen, Schreiben, Bücher machen, mit Büchern handeln, über Bücher urteilen - das kann eine ganz schön emotionale und gefährliche Angelegenheit sein. Das wissen folgende Damen und Herren sehr gut, sorgen sie doch seit 25 Jahren für spannende Unterhaltung...

Across a spectrum of academic disciplines, the topic of globalization is at the forefront of contemporary efforts to understand a dynamically changing world society. How might critical social theory respond creatively to the challenge of thinking and theorizing globalization in its full complexity?...

This new book reflects Derrida's latest views on the role of education and international organizations in an era of globalization. In this book, Derrida develops a notion of the global citizen that is uniquely post-Kantian. He looks especially at the changing role of UNESCO and similar organizations...

This collection reflects on the theory and application of expressive arts today in therapy, education, research and social and ecological change. Bringing the understanding of expressive arts into its contemporary theoretical framework, the book reveals the expansion of the field from its initial...

Rheinland-Pfalz – eine Idylle? Das kommt ganz auf den Standpunkt an. Dass in der Eifel das Verbrechen zuhause ist, ist hinreichend bekannt. Aber auch in anderen Gegenden unseres beschaulichen Bundeslandes treiben Schreibtischtäter ihr Unwesen. Tatorte finden sich überall: Das Ahrufer birgt manch...

As a system administrator, you are justly concerned about the security of your infrastructure. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES 9) can lead the way to infrastructure security and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Administrator's Handbook is the authoritative source for information on this secure server....

Cette monographie, réunissant un certain nombre de contributions de référence, déjà publiées dans des numéros de la revue Adolescence aujourd'hui épuisés, rend compte d'une approche psychopathologique et psychanalytique du processus adolescent: le pubertaire provoque un effet de rupture concernant...