{"product_id":"how-the-biosphere-works-fresh-views-discovered-while-growing-peppers-paperback","title":"How the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFred Spier\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow the Biosphere Works: Fresh Views Discovered While Growing Peppers\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a simple and novel theoretical approach to understanding the history of the biosphere, including humanity's place within it. It also helps to clarify what the possibilities and limitations are for future action. This is a subject of wide interest because today we are facing a great many environmental issues, many of which may appear unconnected. Yet all these issues are part of our biosphere. For making plans for the future and addressing our long-term survival and well-being, an integrated knowledge of our biosphere and its history is therefore indispensable.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKey Features\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDocuments what the biosphere is, and what our position as humans within it is today.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDescribes how the biosphere has become the way it is.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSummarizes the novel simple theoretical model proposed in the book, and thus, how the biosphere functions.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePredicts what the possibilities and limitations are for future human action\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmphasizes how simple but careful observations can lead to far-reaching theoretical implications.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFred Spier\u003c\/b\u003e is senior lecturer in big history emeritus at the University of Amsterdam. He holds a M.Sc. in chemistry (with distinction) as well as a M.A. and Ph.D. in cultural anthropology and social history (both \u003ci\u003ecum laude\u003c\/i\u003e, the highest distinction in the Netherlands). He has taught big history in various academic settings, while lecturing about it all around the world. He is the author of the highly-acclaimed books \u003ci\u003eReligious Regimes in Peru\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), for which Spier was awarded a Praemium Erasmianum Study Prize 1993; \u003ci\u003eThe Structure of Big History: From the Big Bang until Today\u003c\/i\u003e (1996); and \u003ci\u003eBig History and the Future of Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e (2010, 2015). Between 2011 and 2014, Spier was the founding vice president of the Intl. Big History Assn. (IBHA) and its president \u003ci\u003ede facto\u003c\/i\u003e, and between 2014 and 2016 its second president.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51783236190496,"sku":"9781032230405","price":165.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/29688a74d598812f2c0d3f0a1efadc77.webp?v=1780583616","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/how-the-biosphere-works-fresh-views-discovered-while-growing-peppers-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}