Horoscope 2020: Your Complete Forecast, Daruwalla Bejan

Автор: Bejan Adrian
Название: The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything
ISBN: 1250078822 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250078827
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 17160.00 T
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"The Physics of Life" explores the roots of the big question by examining the deepest urges and properties of living things, both animate and inanimate: how to live longer, with food, warmth, power, movement and free access to other people and surroundings. Bejan explores controversial and relevant issues such as sustainability, water and food supply, fuel, and economy, to critique the state in which the world understands positions of power and freedom. Breaking down concepts such as desire and power, sports health and culture, the state of economy, water and energy, politics and distribution, Bejan uses the language of physics to explain how each system works in order to clarify the meaning of evolution in its broadest scientific sense, moving the reader towards a better understanding of the world's systems and the natural evolution of cultural and political development.

"The Physics of Life "argues that the evolution phenomenon is much broader and older than the evolutionary designs that constitute the biosphere, empowering readers with a new view of the globe and the future, revealing that the urge to have better ideas has the same physical effect as the urge to have better laws and better government. This is evolution explained loudly but also elegantly, forging a path that flows sustainability.

Автор: Bejan Teresa M.
Название: Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration
ISBN: 0674241649 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674241640
Издательство: Harvard University Press
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A New Statesman Best Book of the Year
A Church Times Book of the Year

We are facing a crisis of civility, a war of words polluting our public sphere. In liberal democracies committed to tolerating active, often heated disagreement, the loss of this virtue appears critical.

Most modern appeals to civility follow arguments by Hobbes or Locke by proposing to suppress disagreement or exclude views we deem "uncivil" for the sake of social harmony. By comparison, mere civility--a grudging conformity to norms of respectful behavior--as defended by Rhode Island's founder, Roger Williams, might seem minimal and unappealing. Yet Teresa Bejan argues that Williams's outlook offers a promising path forward in confronting our own crisis, one that challenges our fundamental assumptions about what a tolerant--and civil--society should look like.

"Penetrating and sophisticated."
--James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review

"Would that more of us might learn to look into the past with such gravity and humility. We might end up with a more (or mere) civil society, yet."
--Los Angeles Review of Books

"A deeply admirable book: original, persuasive, witty, and eloquent."
--Jacob T. Levy, Review of Politics

"A terrific book--learned, vigorous, and challenging."
--Alison McQueen, Stanford University