Originally published in 1995, after decades of steady growth, this book was written at a time when the worlds food supply was no longer keeping up with population increases. This book examines the causes of the imbalance in the food/population eq...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Oct-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226827858)
A bizarre and compelling biography of a scientist and his work, using rodent cities to question the potential catastrophes of human overpopulation. It was the strangest of experiments. What began as a utopian environment, where mice...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Jul-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Melville House Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781685890995)
How a landmark experiment in rat behavior changed the way we think about cities.To study the effects of social density on antisocial behavior, one maverick scientist builds a simulated cityand populates it with rats . . ....Daugiau...
Originally published in 1995, after decades of steady growth, this book was written at a time when the worlds food supply was no longer keeping up with population increases. This book examines the causes of the imbalance in the food/population eq...Daugiau...
A new sci-fi adventure full-color illustrated series in which a group of children are selected for a mission to save the mankind! Their astonishing journey brings them to the outer reaches of our solar system.Overpopulation has caused...Daugiau...
When the company behind Virtual Children creates a reality TV show called The Substitute, 10 couples compete to raise a Virtual Child from birth to age 18 in a nine-month period where the prize is the right to keep their virtual child or risk it al...Daugiau...
The Repugnant Conclusion is a controversial theorem about population size. It states that a sufficiently large population of lives that are barely worth living is better than a smaller population of high quality lives. This is highly counter-intui...Daugiau...
Linnér traces the development of an international discourse of crisis through the influence of such thinkers as William Vogt, Fairfield Osborn and Georg Börgström, labelled neo-Malthusians for their emphasis on an impending clash between population...Daugiau...
Humankind is facing three major challenges viz. human overpopulation, urbanisation, and climate change with the onset of the twenty-first century (Steiner 2014). Presently, about seven billion (expected to reach 8.2 and 9 billion by 2025 and 2050, r...Daugiau...
Across the twentieth century, Earths human population increased undeniably quickly, rising from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to 6.1 billion in 2000. As population grew, it also began to take the blame for some of the worlds most serious problems, fro...Daugiau...
The ever-increasing socioeconomic disparity between people on Earth has grown to the point that governments are now implementing a radical program: submit your life for Collection at a young age, and youll gain access to immediate wealthwith some...Daugiau...
Revelatory. Harry Harrisons novel about Earth on the edge of disaster is both bracing and cathartic ... impressively prescient Guardian The planets population has exploded and resources are stretched to breaking point. And, in a swelt...Daugiau...
An introduction to the worlds growing population and globalisation, covering topics such as population growth, migration and refugees, free movement, globalisation, food miles and international cooperation....Daugiau...
An American euthanasist and an Egyptian astrological farmer delve into the evolution of the collective soul . . . as an extremophile virus targets a selected few Cli-fi at its best, where the twisted scientific changes of our present-day lives cataly...Daugiau...
A savage satire reuniting the critically acclaimed team behind DCs The Flintstoneswriter Mark Russell (SECOND COMING) and artist Steve Pugh (Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass)in a new graphic novel. Welcome to Billionaire Island, where anything goes if...Daugiau...
