Akeel Bilgrami is the Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and a professor on the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. His Columbia University Press books include
Who’s Afraid of Academic Freedom? (2014) and
Beyond the Secular West (2016).
23 Ebooks by Jan Zalasiewicz
Jan Zalasiewicz: Rocks: A Very Short Introduction
Rocks, more than anything else, underpin our lives. They make up the solid structure of the Earth and of other rocky planets, and are present at the cores of gas giant planets. We live on the rocky …
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Jan Zalasiewicz: Rocks: A Very Short Introduction
Rocks, more than anything else, underpin our lives. They make up the solid structure of the Earth and of other rocky planets, and are present at the cores of gas giant planets. We live on the rocky …
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€9.42
Jan Zalasiewicz: Earth After Us
What would alien visitors in the far future, piecing together the history of earth, find of our brief reign? What clues will we leave? What fossils? Just as we have gained knowledge of the past, of …
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€19.86
Jan Zalasiewicz: Planet in a Pebble
This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday – on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across …
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€11.51
Jan Zalasiewicz: Earth After Us
What would alien visitors in the far future, piecing together the history of earth, find of our brief reign? What clues will we leave? What fossils? Just as we have gained knowledge of the past, of …
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€19.86
Jan Zalasiewicz: Planet in a Pebble
This is the story of a single pebble. It is just a normal pebble, as you might pick up on holiday – on a beach in Wales, say. Its history, though, carries us into abyssal depths of time, and across …
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€11.53
Mark Williams & Jan Zalasiewicz: Goldilocks Planet
Climate change is a major topic of concern today, scientifically, socially, and politically. It will undoubtedly continue to be so for the foreseeable future, as predicted changes in global …
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€14.00
Mark Williams & Jan Zalasiewicz: Goldilocks Planet
Climate change is a major topic of concern today, scientifically, socially, and politically. It will undoubtedly continue to be so for the foreseeable future, as predicted changes in global …
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€12.47
Mark Williams & Jan Zalasiewicz: Ocean Worlds
Oceans make up most of the surface of our blue planet. They may form just a sliver on the outside of the Earth, but they are very important, not only in hosting life, including the fish and other …
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€13.60
Mark Williams & Jan Zalasiewicz: Ocean Worlds
Oceans make up most of the surface of our blue planet. They may form just a sliver on the outside of the Earth, but they are very important, not only in hosting life, including the fish and other …
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€13.60
Jan Zalasiewicz: Geology: A Very Short Introduction
Ranging across the 4.6 billion year history of the planet, geology is the subject that encompasses almost all that we see around us, in one way or another, and also much that we cannot see, beneath …
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€9.41
Jan Zalasiewicz: Geology: A Very Short Introduction
Ranging across the 4.6 billion year history of the planet, geology is the subject that encompasses almost all that we see around us, in one way or another, and also much that we cannot see, beneath …
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€9.42
Colin P. Summerhayes & Colin N. Waters: Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit
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Colin P. Summerhayes & Colin N. Waters: Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit
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€65.31
Akeel Bilgrami: Nature and Value
Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays t …
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€37.99
Mark Williams & Jan Zalasiewicz: Skeletons
Over half a billion years ago life on earth took an incredible step in evolution, when animals learned to build skeletons. Using many different materials, from calcium carbonate and phosphate, and …
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€22.03
Mark Williams & Jan Zalasiewicz: Skeletons
Over half a billion years ago life on earth took an incredible step in evolution, when animals learned to build skeletons. Using many different materials, from calcium carbonate and phosphate, and …
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€21.96
Julia Adeney Thomas & Mark Williams: The Anthropocene
Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and wide-ranging impacts that …
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€18.99
Michael J Branney & Jan Zalasiewicz: Volcanoes: A Very Short Introduction
Volcanoes are some of the most dramatic expressions of the powerful tectonic forces at work in the Earth beneath our feet. But volcanism, a profoundly important feature of Earth, and indeed of other …
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€9.41
Michael J Branney & Jan Zalasiewicz: Volcanoes: A Very Short Introduction
Volcanoes are some of the most dramatic expressions of the powerful tectonic forces at work in the Earth beneath our feet. But volcanism, a profoundly important feature of Earth, and indeed of other …
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€9.41
Mark Williams & Jan Zalasiewicz: Cosmic Oasis
Alone in the known universe the Earth glows bright with life, a unique cosmic oasis of biodiversity which is now under threat from our own actions. The Earth is a unique as a living planet, a cosmic …
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€22.52
Mark Williams & Jan Zalasiewicz: Cosmic Oasis
Alone in the known universe the Earth glows bright with life, a unique cosmic oasis of biodiversity which is now under threat from our own actions. The Earth is a unique as a living planet, a cosmic …
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€22.52
Julia Adeney Thomas & Mark Williams: Das Anthropozän – Eine multidisziplinäre Annäherung
Die Menschheit ist zu einer der zentralen Naturgewalten geworden. Ihre kollektiven Eingriffe sind so ausgeprägt, dass von einem neuen erdgeschichtlichen Zeitalter die Rede ist: dem Anthropozän. Julia …
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€22.50
