Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime
The book primarily covers religious, philosophical, and linguistic analyses of human reactions to nature and climate changes. It is heavily influenced by the Gaia theory, originally put forward by…
The Politics Of Truth
In 1784, the German newspaper Berlinische Monatsschrift asked its audience to reply to the question "What is Enlightenment?" Immanuel Kant took the opportunity to investigate the purported truths and…
Shocks, Consumption and Income Diversification in Rural Ethiopia
- C. Porter
- Economics
- 1 September 2012
Abstract We present new evidence that households are unable to protect themselves from rainfall failure that occurs on average every five years in rural Ethiopia. However, other less extreme rainfall…
The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of Its Pupils
- Jacques Derrida, C. Porter, E. Morris
- Education
- 23 January 1983
Today, how can we not speak of the university? I put my question in the negative, for two reasons. On the one hand, as we all know, it is impossible, now more than ever, to dissociate the work we do,…
Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy
Introduction: What Is to Be Done with Political Ecology? 1. Why Political Ecology Has to Let Go of Nature First, Get Out of the Cave Ecological Crisis or Crisis of Objectivity? The End of Nature The…
Social protection for all ages? Impacts of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program on child nutrition.
- C. Porter, Radhika Goyal
- EconomicsSocial Science & Medicine ()
- 1 June 2016
On human diversity : nationalism, racism, and exoticism in French thought
- T. Todorov, C. Porter
- Art
- 1993
How can we think about people and cultures unlike our own? In the early modern period, the fact of human diversity presented Europeans with little cause for anxiety: they simply assumed the…
Gender Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models
- C. Porter, Danila Serra
- EconomicsAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
- 1 July 2020
We conducted a field experiment aimed at increasing the percentage of women majoring in economics. We exposed students enrolled in introductory classes to successful and charismatic women who majored…
The Middle East under Rome
- M. Sartre, C. Porter, E. Rawlings, Jeannine Routier-Pucci
- History
- 22 April 2005
* Preface to the English-Language Edition * Acknowledgments * Translators' Note * Introduction 1. The Hellenistic Legacy * The Creation of New States * Syria between Parthians, Romans, and Armenians…
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