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Marx's Das Kapital

A Biography

A critical study of Karl Marx's landmark work, Das Kapital, details the author's two-decade struggle to complete his work and its seminal influence on philosophers, writers, revolutionaries, and others, as well as its impact on the course of twentieth-century history. Reprint.

A critical study of Karl Marx's landmark work, Das Kapital, details the author's two-decade struggle to complete his work and its seminal influence on philosophers, writers, revolutionaries, and others, as well as its impact on the course ...

The Ages of Gaia

A Biography of Our Living Earth

In his first book, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, James Lovelock proposed a startling new theory of life: the Earth, its rocks, oceans, atmosphere, and all living things are part of one great organism, evolving over the vast span of geological time. Much scientific work has since confirmed his theory and in The Ages of Gaia he examines environmental and scientific issues in detail, including the greenhouse effect, acid rain, the depletion of the ozone layer, and the destruction of tropical forests. For this second edition he has updated thetext throughout and added a new chapter on recent advances in our scientific knowledge. He sounds a warning of the damage man is doing to the health of the planet. 'We have already changed the atmosphere to an extent unprecedented in recent geological history. We seem to be driving ourselvesheedlessly down a slope into a sea that is rising to drown us.'

In his book Timescale: An Atlas of the Fourth Dimension, Nigel Calder illustrates
the Earth's history in this way. He reminds us how easily this logarithmic sense of
time can prevent us from recognizing how long life has occupied the Earth; ...

The Ages of Gaia

A Biography of Our Living Earth

In his first book, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, Jim Lovelock proposed a startling new theory of life: the Earth, its rocks, oceans, atmosphere and all living things, are part of one great organism, evolving over the vast span of geological time. In this sequel, he examines environmental and scientific issues in detail, including the greenhouse effect, acid rain, the depletion of the ozone layer, and the destruction of tropical forests.

In his first book, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, Jim Lovelock proposed a startling new theory of life: the Earth, its rocks, oceans, atmosphere and all living things, are part of one great organism, evolving over the vast span of ...

The Empty Sleeve

A Biography of Lucius Fairchild

... and Wisconsin State Journal, Weekly, February 18, April 22, 29, June 10, 17,
1887. "Diary, June 8-16; and Fairchild to his wife, June 8, 13, 15, [n.d.], 1887. "
New York Daily Tribune, June 15; Diary, June 17; William C. Reddy to Fairchild, ...