One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future

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"Here, between the covers of one book, you can find out about the major problems facing the world today, and how to fix them. It all comes sprinkled with the deliciously surprising examples, and wrapped in the alternately gripping and humorous prose, for which Paul and Anne Ehrlich have long been famous. This is a book to savor and from which to learn."-JARED DIAMOND, AUTHOR OF COLLAPSE: HOW SOCIETIES CHOOSE TO FAIL OR SUCCEED AND GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL

"Provocative and eminently readable...this is a direct and levelheaded presentation that should get, and deserves, wide readership."-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"The Ehrlichs have often been called the ultimate pessimists, but their book is, frankly, heartening. . . . The book is decidedly new and different."-NORMAN MYERS, NATURE

"If you simply want a great book, written by smart, forthright scientists, read One with Nineveh by Paul and Anne Ehrlich." -BOSTON GLOBE

"An urgent warning full of suggestions as to how things could be made better if individuals and businesses and nations cooperated."-THE WASHINGTON POST

"The Ehrlichs manage to be both meticulous and witty as they suggest reforms and remind us that ours is an astoundingly adaptive species capable of making radical change once we're motivated." -BOOKLIST

Named a Notable Book for 2005 by the American Library Association, One with Nineveh is a fresh synthesis of the major issues of our time, now brought up to date with an afterword for the paperback edition. Through lucid explanations, telling anecdotes, and incisive analysis, the book spotlights the three elephants in our global living room-rising consumption, still-growing world population, and unchecked political and economic inequity-that together are increasingly shaping today's politics and humankind's future. One with Nineveh brilliantly puts today's political and environmental debates in a larger context and offers some bold proposals for improving our future prospect.

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Come Nineveh, Come Tyre; Come "Hell and High Water".......2007-07-25

This is an outstandingly wide-ranging intro to every aspect of the subject. If that's what you seek, this is your book. If you feel fairly well-informed about the bad news, perhaps you want instead Joseph Romm's book, "Hell and High Water" (subtitled "Global Warming -- the solution and the politics -- and what we should do").

A scan of Romm's intro and chapter one will let you know what you're in for. While the Ehrlichs' book ends on a downer and resists hopeful prescriptions -- and I respect such pessimism -- "Hell and High Water" springs from the conviction that now is the time to act and that enough renewed minds can spur action that will make a difference, perhaps even leading to more drastic action that will make more of a difference.

But for a truly amazing reference list and research that won't quit -- including scores of sources that are gold mines in themselves -- Ehrlichs' is a trove of solid data.

We're In Deep Doo Doo.......2006-07-09

Wow. What a ride. This book had me on the edge of my seat. I can see why other reviewers might find fault in this grand overview of ecological,socio-economic and political problems as not offering enough new information or covering too much ground. However, I personaly am thankful for such a comprehesive collection of troubles. "High Noon: Twenty Global Problems and Twenty Years to Solve Them" by J.F. Rischard is another fine book with similar intensity. There seems to be anumber of "oh boy are we in trouble look at what global doom is looming" kinds of books these days. Fact is however, these are scientists and if we can get all excited about new science that can make a quick buck and promises booming new industries, then we ought to also get motivated when scientists tell us we have some problems least we become a society of hypocrits. Many scientists these days are comparing our present era to Europe in the early 1930's, soothing and waiting for a period of consequences. Can humanity be smart and avoid these catastrophies (in this case ecological meltdown as global warming is just one super-disaster in a world of desertification, gross overpopulation, disease, resource wars, militerized gated communities for the wealthy and so on and on) or do we have to learn the hard way and just see who and what other plants and animals are still alive by 2100? Stressful indeed as I haven't even payed $100 yet on my student loan. I try to see books like this as a battle cry. We fought slavery once, we fought fascism once and now we must fight unsustainable, polluting and ..dare I say ignorant social orders. Perhaps that really is the enemy of Nineveh...ignorance, narrow self interests...and....a reluctance to change because of vested interests in the status quo. The unsustainable status quo must go.
Excellent book.

One With Nineveh:More Bad News and Nothing Concrete to do about It.......2006-04-01

One With Nineveh would be a good read for someone who hasn't heard about global warming or other problems encompassing the planet. The first chapter was interesting...the comparison between the lost civilization of Nineveh with today's world, but there was really no new information that hasn't been talked about since the early 1970's.
The biggest disapointment was that there were no clear suggestions for people to do to live a simpler life, cut back on consumption, and in general quit being a pain in the back to the planet earth.
One very good chapter towards the end talked about economics.....why societies do not have to have growing economies (production increasing every year, consumption increasing every year ect.). That chapter needs to be explored in greater detail by the authors as it was the most compelling idea in the book.

An expert summarizes a critical subject in a humane manner.......2005-12-11

Paul Ehrlich has had more than 40 years of experience researching and writing about the environment. This experience is obvious in his latest book, which provides a concise summary of today's state of the environment. I don't understand how it could be labeled "alarmist" since it is backed by the author's experience and substantial academic research. This is a renown Stanford professor, not just a pundit perpetuating his personal views.

It is true that the information presented in the first half of the book may sound repetitive to those well-versed in environmental issues. However, the summary of issues like climate change, carrying capacity, and consumption was well written and flowed smoothly. The most substantial part of this book was Ehrlich's recommendations to help reverse or change trends that negatively affect the environment. These recommendations were realistic - integrating the social and political aspects to the science.

Readable, entertaining, and important is how I would describe this book. It belongs on the the required reading list for anyone who believes the environment is worth preserving.

No new information.......2005-05-30

This book offers nothing to someone remotely familiar with environmental issues. It might be a mediocre read for a beginner, but if you're already familiar with overpopulation, mismanagement of resources, etc, you will get NOTHING out of this book. It is incredibly repetitive and it lacks insight and depth. Don't waste your time.

Book Review: One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future [A book review from: Ecological Economics]

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Book Review: One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future [A book review from: Ecological Economics]
R.B. Norgaard
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One with nineveh: Politics, consumption and the human future [A book review from: Ecological Economics]

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One with nineveh: Politics, consumption and the human future [A book review from: Ecological Economics]
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A thrilling inside account of the building of the western section of the first transcontinental railroad.

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This title integrates basic science with clinical practice and also [revised case studies to help readers to take a problem-based approach treatment. Urology Handbook provides the simple but authoritative guidance medical students need to get them through the urology sections of their training. Throughout, evidence-based practice is highlighted to ensure the book is also a valuable reference for qualified staff.

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This book deals with the phenomenological theory of first-order structural phase transitions, with a special emphasis on reconstructive transformations in which a group-subgroup relationship between the symmetries of the phases is absent. It starts with a unified presentation of the current approach to first-order phase transitions, using the more recent results of the Landau theory of phase transitions and of the theory of singularities. A general theory of reconstructive phase transitions is then formulated, in which the structures surrounding a transition are expressed in terms of density-waves, providing a natural definition of the transition order-parameters, and a description of the corresponding phase diagrams and relevant physical properties. The applicability of the theory is illustrated by a large number of concrete examples pertaining to the various classes of reconstructive transitions: allotropic transformations of the elements, displacive and order-disorder transformations in metals, alloys and related structures, crystal-quasicrystal transformations.

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Excellent textbook !.......2004-11-20

This is an excellent book for people wanting to use the Landau theory formalism to model the properties associated with phase transitions in material science.

Landau theory is a phenomenological framework that was originally designed as a description of second-order (continuous) phase transformations. Although the conventional approach was developed only for continuous phase transformations, Landau theory was generalized to encompass first-order phase transformations, in particular displacive reconstructive transitions, which include martensitic phase transformations.

This book is a very comprehensive and self-consistent text in the field; it also discusses several examples in a very thorough way. The basic ingredients of a Landau model consist of an order parameter, which embodies the atomic configurations through the transformation, and the thermodynamic potential, which is a function of the order parameter. The Landau theory allows for inclusion of temperature and/or pressure-dependent properties of the different phases and it describes, for instance, typical stress-strain curves, hysteresis, ...

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Gabor analysis plays an essential role in the understanding and use of time-frequency analysis methods in applied mathematics, electrical engineering, and the physical sciences.

:Gabor Analysis and Algorithms" is a definitive survey of the subject, written by leading researchers, and showing the connections and interactions between theory, numerical algorithms, and applications. This resource provides a thoroughly accessible overview of the different aspects of Gabor analysis.

The first part of this book is devoted to the mathematical foundations of Gabor analysis, including Weyl-Heisenberg frames, duality conditions, the uncertainty principle, and the Balian-Low Theorem as well as a group theoretical approach. The second part presents numerical algorithms and selected applications in signal and image processing.

Topics and Features: * Self-contaied introduction to the essentials of Gabor analysis * Many new and previously unpublished results * Efficient numerical algorithms * Gabor expansion in signal and image processing * Applications in pattern recognition, filter banks, and optics * Comprehensive bibliography for the subject

This book provides an essential introduction for applied mathematicians and engineers needing to learn more about Gabor analysis and its applications. It is an excellent text/reference resource for graduates and professionals in harmonic analysis, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, electrical engineering, and signal processing.

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A fully revised collection of Poe's work

The first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945 presents a more complicated, perverse, and culturally engaged Poe. Along with the author's familiar masterworks in poetry and fiction, this new Portable Poe includes satirical tales that reflect his critique of American culture.

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The essential Poe.......2005-09-19

This volume contains the essential Poe, the stories and poems for which he is most well- known.
Like all American schoolchildren I had to read Poe when I was quite young. And I remember how his tales did not provide the kind of pleasure and insight I had found in other literature. "The Gold Bug" confounded me , and "The Tell- Tale Heart" frightened me, and the truth is even in adult years I have never taken much delight in the reading of the fictions of Poe.
The horror of real life has always seemed to me more than enough, and I have never particularly enjoyed the mood and tone of Poe's fictions.
I must admit too that Poe always seemed to me even when reading him as a child , 'extremely weird' to use a children's word. And ' weird' not simply with the connotation of ' strange' but of 'frighteningly so'.
In any case there is a Poe that I have treasured. It might not be in the whole of the poem, but in the rhythmn of 'Nevermore' there did strike a kind of fascinating note. And there are in the poetry of Poe great lines, 'the beauty that was Greece, the glory that was Rome'. And a sadness and a feeling of tragedy in some of the love- poetry.
Poe is of course much else to most other readers than to me, and the lovers of mystery stories, and detectives, of fictional conundrums tending toward horror, and of strange obsessions with beauty that dies young, will find more than they ask for in this anthology.

All the Poe You'll Ever Need.......2001-09-20

Unless you're a collector or completist, this volume compiles all the Poe you could possibly ask for. All the classic stories are here, and you can clearly see how Poe broke new ground and influenced all creative fiction that came after him. While most people are wary of "classics" that everybody talks about, but nobody seems to really like, Poe's classics will give you a true appreciation for his genius. You will truly be enthralled by such well-known tales like "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (in which Poe invents the detective story), and especially the immortal "The Raven".

The editor has included many of the surviving letters that Poe wrote to the various women he unsuccessfully tried to court, and especially to his cruel stepfather, which provide great insight into Poe's inner demons. If you ever wonder why most of Poe's stories are based on death and/or madness, these letters will show you why. The only problem with this particular book is that it is a little too exhaustive, and includes many items that are more of historical interest than they are readable. This is true of most of the entries in the Articles, Criticism, and Opinions sections of the book.

Annabel Lee.......2001-06-30

I think it was emotional and she was sick and really ill after catching a chill on a beach,the authoris mourning the death of his lover.

in my opinion it was sad,but a great book.there is alot of romance. It was kind of hard toread because i'm only 9 and I had to have someone explain the story to me.

Ahh Poe. . ........2000-07-23

Of all the writers you were forced to read in High School, Poe may be the most contemporary. After all, where would today's Alternative Goth culture be without the influence of Poe.

In this volume, fans of the strange genius are given a rare treat. Editor Philip Van Doren Stern has collected not only the all-time greats (e.g. "The Tell-Tale Heart" "The Pit and the Pendulum" "The Raven" etc.), but also some eccentric choices like "The Man of the Crowd". In addition, the book gives several non-fiction articles and literary reviews written by Poe showing that he was not without a practical side.

But perhaps the most fascinating thing is a section of letters Poe wrote, to among other people, his stepfather, his wife, his mother-in-law, and various members of the literary community. These paint a colorful picture of his often desperate existence. After reading these letters, you may think Poe tragic, pathetic, pretentious or maybe even egotistical, but you wll never think of him in quite the same way you previously did.

Read this book for a fresh look at one of American literature's greatest geniuses.

Edgar Allan Poe, (The Viking portable library)
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Edgar Allan Poe Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes (The Viking Portable Library)
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Edgar Allan Poe Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes (The Viking Portable Library)

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A book of selected and edited works of Edgar Allan Poe with and lengthy introduction and notes on his work.

Edgar Allan Poe, (The Viking portable library)

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Edgar Allan Poe,: Selected and edited with an introd. and notes, (The Viking portable library)

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The Portable Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (Viking Portable Library S.)

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The Portable Edgar Allan Poe (Viking Portable Library S.)
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THE PORTABLE EDGAR ALLAN POE. Selected and Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Philip Van Doren Stern.

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THE PORTABLE EDGAR ALLAN POE. Selected and Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Philip Van Doren Stern.
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The Viking Portable Library of Edgar Allan Poe

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