"More Voices of the Radium Age will showcase proto- and early sf stories by much-admired authors best known today for their non-sf work (E. Nesbit, author of Three Children and It and other popular children's fantasies, and Booth Tarkington, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Magnificent Ambersons); authors whose outsized success with readers would influence the subsequent development of the …
"This is a collection of stories about possible future communications platforms -- how those technologies might affect social and political structures, and how they play out differently in various geographies and social strata"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
An innovative, wide-ranging consideration of the global ecological crisis and its deep philosophical and theological roots. Global crises, from melting Arctic ice to ecosystem collapse and the sixth mass extinction, challenge our age-old belief in nature as a phoenix with an infinite ability to regenerate itself from the ashes of destruction. Moving from antiquity to the present and back, Micha…
How leaders can recast innovation's toughest trade-offs--efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose--as productive tensions. Why is leading innovation in today's dynamic business environment so distressingly hit-or-miss More than 90 percent of high-potential ventures don't reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80 percent of executives consider innovation c…
"First study to showcase the roots of ecological design in Scandinavia, arguing for the inherently connected and global nature of the environmental crisis and modern design culture, its confrontations with consumption-capitalism and the activism driving its reform"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"How contemporary artistic practice insists on and models coexistence in the face of the 21st century's monumental migration crises and its alienating and dehumanizing effects"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"The Anthropocene Cookbook is by far the most comprehensive collection of ideas about future food from the perspective of art, design, and science. The book is unique in the way it connects food, art, thinking, and science. It talks to the new generation of aesthetically aware environmentalists. It promotes ecological thinking from a radically different perspective: what happens if we embrace t…
"An overview of the science of plastics, what makes them a desired material choice, why they are harmful to humans, animals, and the environment, and how we can replace them"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"When war breaks out in Europe, British civilization collapses overnight. The ironically named protagonist must learn to survive by his wits in a new Britain"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Originally published: Imperfezione: Una storia naturale. Milano : Raffaello Cortina editore, 2019."A history of and a hymn to the diversities of living beings, to understand that imperfection is promise of change and fuel of creativity"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.