Civilization

Throughout the twentieth century in the lands of Yugoslavia, socialists embarked on multiple projects of supranational unification. Sensitive to the vulnerability of small nations in a world of great powers, …

protagonist arrive than his faith in European civilization is shaken. Spurned by the Europeans who mock … Comintern leaders to defend a shared European civilization from fascist barbarism. Inspired by the ideas … enter into the flow of European industry and civilization. If it does not do so, it will be sentenced … peasantry that they failed to see that European civilization had reached a developmental impasse. The revolutions …

WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD This punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction Living …

when that light is lost: death. Every — 9 —civilization has built its identity – its cosmology or Weltan- … end of Western civilization and imagine that the scattered dregs of this civilization live on as sprawling …

Meet the brilliant mavericks who invented the future of medicine and saved the lives of millions.The Essence of Invention tells the story of medical invention, from the development of anesthesia …

be no concern if the outward beauty of the civilization, even the elaboration of religious forms, should …

Leadership for the Great Transition—a changemaker’s toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilience The Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring …

of us must read at this crossroads of human civilization, it’s Don Hall’s The Regeneration Handbook. … wiser, more humble, and much more meaningful civilization awaits — for all of us who decide to go there … continued ever since, what we think of as modern civilization really only dates back about 260 years to the … a species: The ecological destruction modern civilization has spread to nearly every part of our planet … exponential growth that has underpinned modern civilization thus far, we could unleash a tidal wave of …

Before contact with white people, the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast traded amongst themselves and with other Indigenous groups farther inland, but by the end of the 1780s, when …

establish missions there for the conversion and civilization of its inhabitants. Captain William Shaler …

Summary This essay evaluates past carbon emission reduction and the feasibility of eliminating fossil fuels to achieve net-zero carbon by 2050. Despite international agreements, government spending and regulations, and technological …

we have been a predominantly fossil-fueled civilization (Smil, 2017). In mass terms, we will never run … warming. Their conversions have made modern civilization possible, but their production, processing, … the USA and Brazil. We remain a fossil-fueled civilization and this brief review demonstrates the high … Roger Revelle and Hans Suess concluded that civilization has embarked on a large-scale “geophysical … what I have called the four pillars of modern civilization—cement, primary iron, plastics, and ammonia—now …

We must cut carbon emissions to halt climate change. But they aren't just produced by driving a car or heating a home. Upfront carbon – all emissions involved in manufacturing …

as Vaclav Smil noted in his book Energy and Civilization: A History: By turning to these rich stores … inThe Lens of Upfront Carbon | 19 end times for civilization as we know it.... We are long past the point … energy is that access to it has made our modern civilization possible, but as Max Roser of Our World in … the same thing in his earlier book Energy and Civilization: Satisfying basic human needs obviously requires …

On called on Canadians to rename Victoria Day as this day the Party calls on members and support- Patriots’ Day and celebrate our patriots, not those ers across the country …

not a aires, are called scions of industry and civilization, monarch declared to be the supreme power. protectors …

Although he had a short career, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was a prolific writer, publishing seventeen books in the span of seventeen years. Convinced that “style must live,” he focused …

communication and debate, to continue and even improve civilization. By contrast, one who ascribes little or no …

Fate remains central to many cultural outlooks, and in our age of conflict, climate change, and pandemic, it features conspicuously in debates about the future. A careful examination of this …

provides one example. A very early cradle of civilization, Mesopotamia lay between the Tigris and Euphrates …