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Ethics in the real world : 82 brief essays on things that matter / by Singer, Peter,1946-author.(CARDINAL)504124;
Includes index.Big questions -- Animals -- Beyond the ethic of the sanctity of life -- Bioethics and public health -- Sex and gender -- Doing good -- Happiness -- Politics -- Global governance -- Science and technology -- Living, playing, working.In Ethics in the Real World, Singer shows that he is also a master at dissecting important current events in a few hundred words. In this book of brief essays, he applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whether chimpanzees are people, smoking should be outlawed, or consensual sex between adult siblings should be decriminalized, and he reiterates his case against the idea that all human life is sacred, applying his arguments to some recent cases in the news.
Subjects: Essays.; Ethics.; Social ethics.; Self-interest.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The Hutchinson encyclopedia of the Renaissance / by Rundle, David.(CARDINAL)686496;
1280L
Subjects: Renaissance.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Dionne Lee : trap and lean-to. by Lee, Dionne,1988-photographer.(CARDINAL)855863; Hodgens, Mary Lee,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)783615; Light Work (Organization : Syracuse, N.Y.),organizer,host institution,issuing body.(CARDINAL)188261; Robert B. Menschel Media Center,host institution.(CARDINAL)313642;
"Oakland, California-based artist Dionne Lee employs video, collage, photography, and sculpture to explore American landscape and her place within its complex history. As an African American woman, she sees the natural world as both a place of refuge and tranquility, but also the location of racial violence, danger, and vulnerability. More broadly, her work acknowledges the terror of climate change, mass migration, and humanity's ongoing drama of survival. Duality often surfaces in work where she notes that "two things can be true at once." Lee often manipulates found imagery in the darkroom in a process both organic and intuitive. The exhibition contains many fragments of photographs from her many wilderness survival manuals and vintage color magazines offering majestic views of "the great outdoors." The survival manuals offer detailed, step-by-step directions on building a lean-to or foraging for food and water. Lee has become adept at these skills herself, thus reclaiming her connection to the earth and salvaging nearly-lost ancestral skills and knowledge. As the earth continues to shift beneath our feet, Lee asks what determines survival: not just who has what, but who knows how. Lee's darkroom practice has the same sense of intervention and disruption. With a forceful irreverence for the sacred silver gelatin printing process, she deconstructs photography itself. Lee draws with graphite directly on prints before and after she exposes them. She pulls negatives across the scanning bed to create painterly abstractions. She tears, crumples, solarizes, and double-exposes fragments of information, challenging both photography's purpose and authorship along with any idealized and colonialist view of the earth."--Light Work description online at source URL: https://www.lightwork.org/archive/dionne-lee-trap-and-lean-to
Subjects: Lee, Dionne, 1988-; Photography, Artistic; Photography, Artistic; African Americans in art; African Americans in art; Racism in art; Racism in art; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in art;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The American revolution [videorecording]. : England's last chance. by Arts and Entertainment Network.(CARDINAL)225081; History Channel (Television network)(CARDINAL)330875;
"In the waning years of the Revolutionar War, the climate was turbulent and full of suspense. Once an American hero, Benedict Arnold is found guilty of treason and escapes to England. Privateers take on the fighting of the British Navy. America forges an alliance with France. Key battles are being won by both sides. But as American victories slowly accumulate, the tide begins to change. Here is the fascinating story brought to life with vivid re-enactments and expert commentary"--container.DVD.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Water wow! : an infographic exploration / by Banyard, Antonia,author.(CARDINAL)561818; Ayer, Paula,author.(CARDINAL)354624; Wuthrich, Belle,1989-illustrator.(CARDINAL)625200;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 54-57) and index.1070LAn infographic introduction to the essential role water plays in everyday life combines text, photographs, and diagrams that cover such topics as climate change, the symbolism of water in religion, and conservation.Water on Earth -- Ups & downs -- Water & life -- Water & people -- Water & energy -- Access to water -- Issues & solutions.
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Water; Water;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Snowpiercer : the prequel. by Matz,author.(CARDINAL)555840; Bowes, Lauren,letterer.(CARDINAL)814485; Lob, Jacques,1932-1990,creator.; McKenzie-Ray, Mark,translator.(CARDINAL)605677; Rochette,1956-author,artist.(CARDINAL)766697;
"The Snowpiercer saga continues with this brand new story by original artist Jean-Marc Rochette and Eisner nominated writer, Matz. Set before the extinction event that caused the new ice age in which the Snowpiercer travels perpetually around the globe, witness the terrifying events that led to the need for and creation of the eponymous train"--
Subjects: Apocalyptic fiction.; Comics (Graphic works); Dystopian fiction.; Graphic novels.; Science fiction.; Survival fiction.; Climatic changes; Climatic changes; Dystopias; Railroad trains; Railroad trains; Survival;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The coming global superstorm / by Bell, Art,1945-2018.(CARDINAL)678494; Strieber, Whitley.(CARDINAL)718250;
Subjects: Climatic changes.; Glacial epoch.; Severe storms.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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Global climate change : a primer / by Pilkey, Orrin H.,1934-(CARDINAL)141848; Pilkey, Keith C.,1965-(CARDINAL)324938; Fraser, Mary Edna.(CARDINAL)324937;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-137) and index.Preface -- 1: Global change and the greenhouse earth -- 2: Impact of global change -- 3: Doubts, uncertainties, and qualms -- 4: Manufacture of dissent: the global warming denial lobby -- 5: Future of ice -- 6: Global change in the oceans -- 7: Disappearing civilizations -- 8: Global change in the biosphere -- Plan B: Geoengineering to the rescue? -- About the art -- Bibliography -- Index.Overview: An internationally recognized expert on the geology of barrier islands, Orrin H. Pilkey is one of the rare academics who engage in public advocacy about science-related issues. He has written dozens of books and articles explaining coastal processes to lay readers, and he is a frequent and outspoken interviewee in the mainstream media. Here, the colorful scientist takes on climate change deniers in an outstanding and much-needed primer on the science of global change and its effects. After explaining the greenhouse effect, Pilkey, writing with son Keith, turns to the damage it is causing: sea level rise, ocean acidification, glacier and sea ice melting, changing habitats, desertification, and the threats to animals, humans, coral reefs, marshes, and mangroves. These explanations are accompanied by Mary Edna Fraser's stunning batiks depicting the large-scale arenas in which climate change plays out. The Pilkeys directly confront and rebut arguments typically advanced by global change deniers. Particularly valuable are their discussions of "Climategate," a manufactured scandal that undermined respect for the scientific community, and the denial campaigns by the fossil fuel industry, which they compare to the tactics used by the tobacco companies a generation ago to obfuscate findings on the harm caused by cigarettes.
Subjects: Climatic changes.; Global temperature changes.; Global warming.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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The deluge / by Markley, Stephen,author.(CARDINAL)356672;
"In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters--a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neurodivergent mathematician, a cunning eco-terrorist, an actor turned religious zealot, and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris, who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come. From the Gulf Coast to Los Angeles, the Midwest to Washington, DC, their intertwined odysseys unfold against a stark backdrop of accelerating chaos as they summon courage, galvanize a nation, fall to their own fear, and find wild hope in the face of staggering odds. As their stories hurtle toward a spectacular climax, each faces a reckoning: what will they sacrifice to salvage humanity's last chance at a future? A singular achievement, The Deluge is a once-in-a-generation novel that meets the moment as few works of art ever have."--
Subjects: Climate fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Science fiction.; Climate change mitigation; Environmental disasters; Political activists; Climatic changes; Scientists;
Available copies: 31 / Total copies: 36
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Dynamic planet [videorecording] / by Evers, Laura,screenwriter.; Lawrie, Ben,film producer.; Musgrove, Sophie,film director.; Curtis, Cliff,1968-narrator.(CARDINAL)848350; ARTE France,production company.(CARDINAL)326939; Blue Ant International (Firm),production company.; NHNZ Worldwide Ltd,production company.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher,distributor.(CARDINAL)309769; SKY NZ (Firm),production company.;
Disc 1: Ice -- Fire ; Disc 2: Water -- Earth.Director, Sophie Musgrove.Cliff Curtis, narrator.Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program in 2023.An epic new series, filmed over three years,that travels to the extremes on all seven continents to meet an extraordinary group of people and animals living and working on the front line of climate change. They reveal how science, nature and tradition can prepare us for the future.Rating: TV-PG.English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).DVD, region 1 NTSC; widescreen (16x9); 5.1 surround; [color].
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Science television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Climatic changes; Science; Climat; Sciences; climate change.;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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