James Bruges Bücher

Das kompakte Brevier zu den virulenten Themen unserer Zeit Das kleine Buch zum Mitreden: Ist der Zusammenhang von globaler Erwärmung, Wirbelstürmen und Sturmfluten erwiesen? Was hat es auf sich mit den Protesten gegen die Globalisierung? Was macht die Welthandelsorganisation? Was bedeuten Tobin Tax, Bretton Woods, Schuldenfalle der Dritten Welt? Der Kosmopolit und Architekt James Bruges macht uns in kompakter Form mit den zentralen Problemen unserer klein gewordenen Erde vertraut. In 70 kurzen Artikeln greift er eine große Bandbreite scheinbar komplexer Fragen auf und bringt sie auf den Punkt.

We all know the Earth is in crisis. We should know that it is big enough to sustain us if we can only mobilise politicians and economists to change course now. This book explores environmental, economic and social ideas to save our planet. It helps us understand what is happening to the planet today, exposes the actions of corporations and the lack of action of governments, weighs up new technologies, and champions innovative and viable solutions. Tackling a huge range of subjects - it has the potential to become the seminal reference book on the state of the planet - the one and only environmental book you really need.

For this study of the fiction of Irish writer McGahern, one of the prominent writers to follow the generation of James Joyce, White (Presentation College, UK) talked extensively with McGahern and studied all of his published novels and short stories. White finds a variety of themes in McGahern's work, including a sense of social fragmentation, the role of ritual in sustaining the hope of transformation, and the hierarchical structure of the family. Running throughout McGahern's work is the hope for a possibility of transcendence to an ideal world. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Earth is now desperately vulnerable; so are we. This book presents original, stimulating mini-essays about what is going wrong with our planet, and about the greatest challenge of our century: how to save the Earth for us all.

Sharing for Survival recognises that official climate policy is dominated by states in thrall to fossil fuel and financial lobbies. It offers a realistic radical way to rapidly reduce emissions through stabilising the economy and ensuring social justice. Its authors explore climate policy in a way that ensures social justice and equity matter, and... * Recognise that the UNFCCC process is going nowhere; * Explore the impact of fossil fuel depletion on the climate crisis; * Take for granted that we are entering a period of economic and social upheaval; * Challenge the idea that the climate crisis can be resolved in a growth economy; * Propose no-nonsense approaches to controlling fossil fuel emissions that are upstream; * Look at the packages of measures that are necessary without the loopholes and slippage that render so many policies futile; * Explain how climate governance would be best developed through civil society organisations working together globally - with states then legitimising what they develop; * Explore different ideas as to where the carbon revenue should go - to the people or communities; * Explain why supporting indigenous people, rather than trading in carbon, is the best strategy for reducing deforestation emissions; * Look at climate policy from the point of view of the countries of the south (particularly India and Africa) in addition to the viewpoint of 'developed' countries.