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  Wasted World - How Our...

  Rob Hengeveld

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  This biologist’s “monumental cri de Coeur” for our planet offers a holistic view of our species, the waste we produce, and a path toward sustainability (Nature).   In Wasted World, Rob Hengeveld traces the entwined histories of population growth and resource consumption to reveal how our global waste crises came about. As Hengeveld explains, human life depends on energy, which we first obtained through food. Later, we supplemented this with energy from water, wind, animals, and finally fossil fuels, as one source after another fell short of our ever-growing needs. Greater energy consumption has created greater waste, including the atmospheric waste that is driving climate change. As we face a web of interconnected problems, addressing them individually will not work. Instead, Hengeveld argues, we need to tackle their common cause: our staggering population growth.   A practical look at the sustainability of our planet from a biologist and expert in the abundances and distributions of species, Wasted World examines the whole process of using, wasting, and exhausting energy and material resources. And by elucidating the complexity of the causes of our current global state, Hengeveld offers us a way forward.

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  Physics

  Aristotle

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  For many centuries, Aristotle's Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciences. Aristotle deals with many abstract ideas in this book, examining the phenomenon of being, space, motion, matter, time, infinity, magnitude, and more. This book is basically an explanation on how the universe works--as Aristotle understood it. It's not so much a straight forward philosophical text as it is a sort of compendium of problems that philosophers have spent the past several millenniums trying to figure out. As a book of philosophy, it seems more concerned with creating a system where these sorts of questions can be fully articulated and worked on than it is in fully solving any of them.

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  Paleozoic Era The: The History...

  Charles River Editors

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  The current view of science is that Earth is around 4.6 billion years old, and the first 4 billion years of its development are known as the Precambrian period. For the first billion years or so, there was no life in Earth. Then the first single-celled life-forms, early bacteria and algae, began to emerge. It’s unclear where they came from or even if they originated on this planet at all, but this gradual development continued until around four billion years ago when suddenly (in geological terms) more complex forms of life began to emerge.  
  	Scientists call this time of an explosion of new forms of life the Paleozoic Era, and it stretched from around 541 to 250 million years ago. In the oceans and then on land, new creatures and plants began to appear in bewildering variety, and by the end of this period, life on Earth had diversified into a myriad of complex forms that filled virtually every habitat and niche available in the seas and on the planet’s only continent, Pangea. 
  	The Precambrian Period is divided into three eons: the Hadean, the Archaean, and the Proterozoic. One layer of carbon in rocks that date to the Archaean Eon, found on islands west of Greenland, seems to have fossilized tracks that may have been left by some form of organic life, but scientists simply are not certain. The oldest confirmed remains of life date from the same eon and were found in rocks in Western Australia, which were found to contain fossilized bacteria estimated to be 3.46 billion years old. It seems likely that there were thousands, perhaps even millions of forms of life in these early periods, and most seem to have been microscopic in size and very simple in developmental terms.

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  Timefulness - How Thinking Like...

  Marcia Bjornerud

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  Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of nine days, which is how long a drop of water typically stays in Earth's atmosphere, is something we can easily grasp. But spans of hundreds of years—the time a molecule of carbon dioxide resides in the atmosphere—approach the limits of our comprehension. Our everyday lives are shaped by processes that vastly predate us, and our habits will in turn have consequences that will outlast us by generations. Timefulness reveals how knowing the rhythms of Earth's deep past and conceiving of time as a geologist does can give us the perspective we need for a more sustainable future. 
  Marcia Bjornerud shows how geologists chart the planet's past, explaining how we can determine the pace of solid Earth processes such as mountain building and erosion and comparing them with the more unstable rhythms of the oceans and atmosphere. These overlapping rates of change in the Earth system—some fast, some slow—demand a poly-temporal worldview, one that Bjornerud calls "timefulness."

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  Logic Philosophy & Psychoanalysis

  J.M. Kuczynski

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  This volume contains monologues and dialogues in which the most basic questions of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and logic are given clear and cogent answers. Table of Contents: 30 Laws of LogicDifferent Kinds of Mathematical Functions: A DialogueFunctions, Bijections, and Mapping-relationsWhat is Logic?Outline of a Theory of KnowledgeDeterminism, Indeterminism, and Personal FreedomA DialogueNeurosis vs. PsychosisWhat determines whether one is happy?Compulsive WorkStutteringHow men and women are differentOne learns from adversity, not from failureDoes everybody want money?The #1 Rule of WritingLack of CoordinationMental Illness: The Ultimate Litmus TestThe #1 Rule of BusinessHonesty and IntegrityA DialogueAngerA DialogueWhat is Bullshit?A Short Treatise on CausalityPart 1: Causality and ContinuityPart 2 : Causation and ExplanationPart 3: Causation and Counterfactual TruthPart 4: Program-causationPart 5: The four different kinds of causes involved in the development of mental illnessPart 6: Singular CausationObsessions and CompulsionsA Dialogue concerning OCDWriting Animated Dialogues as Self-Analysis:A DialogueNeurotic Anxiety as Rational Fear:A DialogueAgencyAnalyticityAnomalous MonismBullshitTwo Kinds of InsanityIgnorance of the FutureJusticeProof that Time-Travel is ImpossibleRationality vs. Intelligence: A Dialogue

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  Light Rain in Deep Forest -...

  Greg Cetus

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  Gentle patter of rainfall in deep forest transports you immediately to another world with clean oxygen rich forest air and healing vibrations of water droplets. This recording will set a perfect background for relaxation, meditation or quiet office work.

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