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Waste land : a world in permanent crisis / by Kaplan, Robert D.,1952-author.(CARDINAL)740442;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index.Weimar goes global -- The great powers in decline -- Crowds in chaos."We are entering a new era of global cataclysm in which the world faces a deadly mix of war, climate change, great power rivalry, rapid technological advancement, the end of both monarchy and empire, and countless other dangers. In Waste Land, Robert D. Kaplan, geopolitical expert and author of more than twenty books on world affairs, incisively explains how we got here and where we are going. Kaplan makes a novel argument that the current geopolitical landscape must be considered alongside contemporary social phenomena such as urbanization and digital news media, grounding his ideas in foundational modern works of philosophy, politics, and literature, including the poem from which the title is borrowed, and celebrating a canon of traditionally conservative thinkers, including Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Jeane Kirkpatrick, and many others. As in many of his books, Kaplan looks to history and literature to inform the present, drawing particular comparisons between today's challenges and the Weimar Republic, the post-World War I democratic German government that fell to Nazism in the 1930s. Just as in Weimar, which faced myriad crises inextricably bound up with global systems, the singular dilemmas of the twenty-first century-pandemic disease, recession, mass migration, the destabilizing effects of large-scale democracy and great power conflicts, and the intimate bonds created by technology--mean that every disaster in one country has the potential to become a global crisis, too. According to Kaplan, the solutions lie in prioritizing order in governing systems, arguing that stability and historic liberalism rather than mass democracy per se will save global populations from an anarchic future."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Geopolitics.; Power (Social sciences); Globalization; International relations;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 12
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It's not that radical : climate action to transform our world / by Loach, Mikaela,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236).Introduction -- What is climate justice? -- So who's responsible? -- Beyond white environmentalism -- Deconstructing capitalism -- In denial much? The fossil-fuel industry -- Too radical or not radical enough? -- You don't know what you don't know -- That's not the type of diversity we want -- Heroes won't save us, but community will -- Hope as an active stance."For too long, representations of climate action in the mainstream media have been white-washed, green-washed and diluted to be made compatible with capitalism. In It's Not That Radical, Loach addresses head-on the issues at the root of the climate crisis. As Loach shows, we are living in an economic system which pursues profit above all else; harmful, oppressive systems that heavily contribute to the climate crisis, and environmental consequences that have been toned down to the masses. Tackling the climate crisis requires us to visit the roots of poverty, capitalist exploitation, police brutality, and legal injustice. Climate justice offers the real possibility of huge leaps towards racial equality and collective liberation as it aims to dismantle the very foundations of these issues. Written with candor and hope, It's Not That Radical will galvanize readers to take action, offering a practical and transformative appraisal of our circumstances to help mobilize a majority for the future of our planet." --"We are living in an economic order that prioritizes profit above all else, a harmful, oppressive system that heavily contributes to the climate crisis while downplaying the consequences. As climate justice organizer Mikaela Loach argues, tackling this requires us to understand and confront the roots of poverty, capitalist exploitation, and racial inequality."--
Subjects: Climate justice.; Environmental responsibility.; Climate change mitigation.; Environmental justice.; Capitalism; Corporations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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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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Post-truth / by McIntyre, Lee C.,author.(CARDINAL)355433;
Includes bibliographical references and index.What is post-truth? -- Science denial as a road map for understanding post-truth -- The roots of cognitive bias -- The decline of traditional media -- The rise of social media and the problem of fake news -- Did post-modernism lead to post-truth? -- Fighting post-truth."Are we living in a post-truth world, where "alternative facts" replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of "fake news", from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into information silos. What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples?claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote?and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism?specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth?in its attacks on science and facts. McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it" -- publisher's website.
Subjects: Truth.; Truthfulness and falsehood.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The next great migration : the beauty and terror of life on the move / by Shah, Sonia,author.(CARDINAL)643574;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Exodus -- Panic -- Linnaeus's loathsome harlotry -- The deadly hybrid -- The suicidal zombie migrant -- Malthus's hideous blasphemy -- Homo migratio -- The wild alien -- The migrant formula -- The wall -- Coda: Safe passage."A prize-winning journalist upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting--predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. Wild species, too, are escaping warming seas and desiccated lands, creeping, swimming, and flying in a mass exodus from their past habitats. News media presents this scrambling of the planet's migration patterns as unprecedented, provoking fears of the spread of disease and conflict and waves of anxiety across the Western world. On both sides of the Atlantic, experts issue alarmed predictions of millions of invading aliens, unstoppable as an advancing tsunami, and countries respond by electing anti-immigration leaders who slam closed borders that were historically porous. But the science and history of migration in animals, plants, and humans tell a different story. Far from being a disruptive behavior to be quelled at any cost, migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change, a biological imperative as necessary as breathing. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. Unhampered by barbed wire, migration allowed our ancestors to people the planet, catapulting us into the highest reaches of the Himalayan mountains and the most remote islands of the Pacific, creating and disseminating the biological, cultural, and social diversity that ecosystems and societies depend upon. In other words, migration is not the crisis--it is the solution. Conclusively tracking the history of misinformation from the 18th century through today's anti-immigration policies, The Next Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear, but of hope"--
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Emigration and immigration; Immigrants; Refugees; Global environmental change;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 14
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Teaching when the world is on fire : authentic classroom advice, from climate justice to Black Lives Matter / by Delpit, Lisa,editor.(CARDINAL)190054;
Includes bibliographical references."Is it okay to discuss politics in class? What are constructive ways to help young people process the daily news coverage of sexual assault? How can educators engage students around Black Lives Matter? Climate change? Confederate statue controversies? Immigration? Hate speech? In Teaching When the World Is on Fire, Delpit turns to a host of crucial issues facing teachers in these tumultuous times. Delpit's master-teacher wisdom tees up guidance from beloved, well-known educators along with insight from dynamic principals and classroom teachers tackling difficult topics in K-12 schools every day. This cutting-edge collection brings together essential observations on safety from Pedro Noguera and Carla Shalaby; incisive ideas on traversing politics from William Ayers and Mica Pollock; Christopher Emdin's instructive views on respecting and connecting with black and brown students; Hazel Edwards's crucial insight about safe spaces for transgender and gender-nonconforming students; and James W. Loewen's sage suggestions about exploring symbols of the South; as well as timely thoughts from Bill Bigelow on teaching the climate crisis-and on the students and teachers fighting for environmental justice. Teachers everywhere will benefit from what Publishers Weekly called "an urgent and earnest collection [that] will resonate with educators looking to teach 'young people to engage across perspectives' as a means to 'creating a just and caring world.'"--Amazon.com viewed June 4, 2021.
Subjects: Education; Multicultural education; Popular culture; Teacher-student relationships.; Mass media and education.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Zimbabwe / by Sheehan, Sean,1951-(CARDINAL)340544; Spilling, Michael.(CARDINAL)351106;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Zimbabwe.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult literature.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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This is an uprising : how nonviolent revolt is shaping the twenty-first century / by Engler, Mark,author.(CARDINAL)488797; Engler, Paul,1978-author.(CARDINAL)625106;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-327) and index."Strategic nonviolent action has reasserted itself as a potent force in shaping public debate and forcing political change. Whether it is an explosive surge of protest calling for racial justice in the United States, a demand for democratic reform in Hong Kong or Mexico, a wave of uprisings against dictatorship in the Middle East, or a tent city on Wall Street that spreads throughout the country, when mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media portrays them as being as spontaneous and unpredictable. In This is an Uprising, political analysts Mark and Paul Engler uncover the organization and well-planned strategies behind such outbursts of protest, examining core principles that have been used to spark and guide moments of transformative unrest. This is an Uprising traces the evolution of civil resistance, providing new insights into the contributions of early experimenters such as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., groundbreaking theorists such as Gene Sharp and Frances Fox Piven, and contemporary practitioners who have toppled repressive regimes in countries such as South Africa, Serbia, and Egypt. Drawing from discussions with activists now working to defend human rights, challenge corporate corruption, and combat climate change, the Englers show how people with few resources and little influence in conventional politics can nevertheless engineer momentous upheavals. Although it continues to prove its importance in political life, the strategic use of nonviolent action is poorly understood. Nonviolence is usually studied as a philosophy or moral code, rather than as a method of political conflict, disruption, and escalation. This is an Uprising corrects this oversight. It argues that if we are always taken by surprise by dramatic outbreaks of revolt, and if we decline to incorporate them into our view of how societies progress, then we pass up the chance to fully grasp a critical phenomenon-and to harness its power to create lasting change. "--1290L
Subjects: Civil disobedience.; Nonviolence.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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The 2010s in America, by Rich, Mari,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references.Bob Odenkirk -- Olympic Games of the 2010s -- One Day at a Time reboot -- One World Trade Center -- Online misinformation -- Opioid crisis -- Orange Is the New Black -- Osama bin Laden killing -- #OscarsSoWhite -- Parasite -- Paris Agreement on climate change -- Parker Solar Probe -- Parks and Recreation -- Jordan Peele -- Mike Pence -- Katy Perry -- PewDiePie -- Pokemon Go -- Police shootings of black citizens -- Pope Francis -- Billy Porter -- Privacy breaches -- Pulse nightclub attacks.Volume 2 -- Gabby Giffords shooting -- Game of Thrones -- Gamergate controversy -- Roxane Gay -- Gender reveal parties -- Get Out -- Gig economy -- Girls -- Donald Glover -- Go Set a Watchman -- The Goldfinch -- Selena Gomez -- Emma Gonzalez -- The Good Place -- Sebastian Gorka -- Neil Gorsuch -- Ryan Gosling -- Ariana Grande -- The Great American Eclipse -- The Handmaid's Tale -- Sean Hannity -- The Hate U Give -- The Help -- Higgs boson -- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis -- Housing market in the United States -- Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal -- Hoverboards -- Sarah Huckabee Sanders -- Humans of New York -- Hurricane season of 2017 -- IBM "Summit" -- Ice Bucket Challenge -- Income and wages in the United States -- Influencer marketing -- Influencers and social media -- Instagram -- Internet dating -- Inventions -- Islamic State (IS) -- Caitlyn Jenner -- Jerry Sandusky scandal -- John Wick franchise -- Brett Kavanaugh -- Rei Kawakubo -- Keystone XL Pipeline debate -- Kilauea Eruption -- Joseph Kony -- K-pop -- Chris Kyle -- La La Land -- Kendrick Lamar -- Brie Larson -- Jennifer Lawrence -- Katie Ledecky -- Legalization of same-sex marriage -- Lemonade -- Lil Nas X -- Lincoln in the Bardo -- Lincoln Project -- Literature in the United States -- Lizzo -- Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 -- Chelsea Elizabeth Manning -- March for Science -- Mario -- Bruno Mars -- The Martian -- Marvel Cinematic Universe and the decade of the superhero movie -- Mass shootings -- Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -- Meal kit delivery services -- Medicine -- Mediterranean diet -- #MeToo sexual misconduct movement -- Stephen Miller -- Minecraft -- Minions -- Lin-Manuel Miranda -- Steven Mnuchin -- Moonlight -- Mr. Robot -- Ryan Murphy -- Music industry in the United States -- Elon Musk -- NAACP travel advisory -- Nanotechnology -- National anthem protests -- National Climate Assessment -- Native Americans -- Net neutrality -- Viet Thanh Nguyen -- Nobel Prizes -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- Occupy Wall Street.A three volume encyclopedic reference work covering the most important people, institutions, events and developments in the United States and Canada between the years 2000 and 2019.10-A.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Obama inheritance : fifteen stories of conspiracy noir / by Phillips, Gary,1955-editor,author.(CARDINAL)353871;
Noir meets diverse voices and transforms the genre into an over-the-top, transcendental psychedelic thriller ride of pulpy goodness in The Obama Inheritance, a collection of fifteen stories of conspiracy noir curated by editor and award-winning African-American crime novelist Gary Phillips. In the tradition of satirical works of Swift and Twain, with nods to the likes of William Burroughs, Asimov and Philip K. Dick, these tales contain vigilante First Ladies, Supreme Court judges who can clone themselves, gear-popping robots of doom, and races of ancient lizard people revealing their true master plan... and these are just the tame ones mashed up in the blender of fake news bots, climate change is but a hoax by the Chinese, and humans roamed with dinosaurs.In an era where the outlandish and fantastic has permeated our media 24/7, where mind-bending conspiracy theories shape our views, The Obama Inheritance writers riff on the numerous fictions spun about the 44th president of the U.S. Although Obama himself does not appear in most of these stories, contributors spin deliberately outlandish and fantastic twists on many of the dozens of screwball, bizarro conspiracy theories floated about the president during his years in office and turn them on their heads. Contributors include famed crime-detective author and essayist Walter Mosley , professor and former Department of Justice attorney Christopher Chambers, noir raconteur Andrew Nette , actor and novelist Danny Gardner, former Maine assistant attorney general Kate Flora, award-winning playwright and novelist Désirée Zamorano , and the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Robert Silverberg.
Subjects: Political fiction.; Noir fiction.; Satirical literature.; Short stories.; Obama, Barack; Conspiracies; White supremacy movements;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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