Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, and shows how it in turn has shaped the modern perception of our place in nature. Our view of the living world is a product of culture, and the development of ecology since the eighteenth century has closely reflected society's changing concerns. Donald Worster focuses on these dramatic shifts in outlook and on the individuals whose work has expressed and influenced society's point of view. The book includes portraits of Linnaeus, Gilbert White, Darwin, Thoreau, and such key twentieth-century ecologists as Rachel Carson, Frederic Clements, Aldo Leopold, James Lovelock, and Eugene Odum.
It’s an insidious disease that is crippling companies, destroying our economy, and crushing potential. It’s infecting the very roots of business performance, and it’s spreading fast. It isn’t the rece
With the development of politics, economy, science and technology, culture, etc., new words and terms emerge, and new uses of existing words and terms evolve everyday. This makes a new dictionary that
In recent years, most of the economies of Eastern Asia have been absorbed into global capitalism. Capitalism has transformed these economies, but the process has not been one-way. The cultures of East
Robert Reiner has been one of the pioneers in the development of research on policing since the 1970s as well as a prolific writer on mass media and popular culture representations of crime and crimin
Anthropologists mostly from US and Canadian universities, many with experience in Spanish-language cultures, explore how the precepts of Marxism continue to illuminate and enhance the understanding of
An ordained Methodist elder and a professor of theological ethics discusses the effect of the global, postmodern economy on faith and desire and how it distorts human relationships with God and with o
Political economy is defined in this volume as collective state or corporate support for art and architecture in the public sphere intended to be accessible to the widest possible public, raising ques
Approaching the topic from the perspective of the political economy of communication, Fung (journalism and communication, Chinese U. of Hong Kong, China) explores the process of localization of transn
As China’s leading economic metropolis and ‘most western city’ Shanghai in the last twenty years has used culture as a major spur to its ambitions to become a global city. This book is the first syste
Recent economic development and the financial and economic crisis require a change in our approach to business and finance. This book combines theology, economy and philosophy in order to examine in d
The "new" in new economy means a more stable and longer growth, with more jobs, lowerinflation and interest rates, explosion of free markets worldwide, the unparalleled access toknowledge through the
How does culture impact economic life? Is culture like a ball and chain that actors must lug around as they pursue their material interests? Or, is culture like a tool-kit from which entrepreneurs can
