Cet ouvrage propose des solutions concrètes pour parvenir à une société plus juste et respectueuse de l'environnement. Depuis le début des années 2000 a émergé un nouveau mouvement de pensée autour du slogan provocateur « Décroissance ». À travers la critique radicale de la société de croissance et de son impasse, cet OVNI politique a su enrichir les débats et les discussions. Les réflexions du Parti pour la Décroissance, partie...

"An award-winning science journalist explains what Earth's frozen waters tell us about the past, present, and future of humanity. "The Kingdom of Frost," or what scientists call the cryosphere, refers to all of Earth's frozen waters. Glaciers, ice caps, and fields of Arctic snow--the cryosphere is vital to our survival. It supplies us with water and helps cool cities from Bangladesh to Bangkok, Los Angeles to Oslo. In this captivating, eye-opening...

"A triumphant journey about losing yourself, finding yourself and coming home again. Hitch yourself to their ride: you'll embark on a transformative journey of your own."  - Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author of The One That I Want and Time of My Life Three friends, each on the brink of a quarter-life crisis, make a pact to quit their high pressure New York City media jobs and leave behind their friends, boyfriends, and...

The renowned author explores the violent and corrupt history of America. “Blood Orchid” is the first volume in Charles Bowden's Unnatural History of America sextet. It is a deeply personal and bracingly sharp chronicle of his quest to unearth our ugly truths. Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Bowden presents a dizzying excavation of the systemic violence and corruption at the roots of American society. Bowden visits dying...

Why couldn't I occupy the world as those model-looking women did, with their flowing hair, pulling their tiny bright suitcases as if to say, I just arrived from elsewhere, and I already belong here, and this sidewalk belongs to me? When her marriage suddenly ends, and a diary documenting her beloved Opa's escape from the Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the summer of 1942 is discovered, Naomi Lewis decides to retrace his route to freedom. Travelling...

Have you experienced a deeply painful setback? Or do you know someone? Are you feeling stuck with negative emotions, unsure of how to express them? Based on a true story, Metaphors: An Emotional Journey-by award-winning author Gabriela Casineanu-takes you on a visual journey to understand how to make peace with these feelings. And when you're ready, how to let go of what's holding you back. With over a decade of experience in professional coaching,...

The author surveys the traces we will leave for peoples in the very distant future. He shows that modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, including the plastic polluting the oceans, the nuclear waste entombed within the earth, and the thirty million miles of paved roads spanning the planet. This is his meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene, and an urgent search for fossils--industrial,...

In myriad ways, each narrator's life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience-and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take all that is Indigenous. Hear from Jasilyn Charger, one of the first five people to set up camp at Standing Rock, which kick started a movement of Water Protectors that roused the world; Gladys Radek, a survivor of sexual violence whose niece disappeared along Canada's...

Témoignages de femmes actives Une douzaine de femmes dirigeantes ou entrepreneuses, toutes membres du réseau Pink Innov' dédié à l'innovation au féminin, explorent ce que les femmes apportent au monde en général et à l'entreprise en particulier : solidarité, volontarisme, audace, optimisme, indépendance d'esprit, autant de qualités féminines, trop peu valorisées dans un monde « homme made », et que ces femmes brandissent fièrement...

The world as we know it is undergoing a sudden and violent transformation, unlike anything the planet has experienced since the Cretaceous Extinction. The evidence is all around us: vast droughts that last decades, super-storms and floods that destroy cities, dwindling aquifers, vanishing glaciers, toxic water supplies, raging wildfires, obscure new diseases, vanishing species and indigenous communities. Our planet is changing faster than evolution...