“…The layout manager chapter, for example, is over 100 pages long and includes what readers have called the best explanation of GridBagLayout on the planet. A GridBagLab application on the CD lets you explore GridBagLayout on your own. …”

“…Le lecteur découvre le Soleil qui émet photons et particules, puis la Terre, notre planète, avec son environnement matériel (atmosphère neutre et ionisée) et immatériel (champ géomagnétique). …”

“…Capitalism is on the verge of destroying the planet and destabilizing society as wealth rushes to the top. …”

“…It challenges us to use our economic powers for good to design the new Responsible Economy in an effort to save the planet. If companies realize consumers "don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it," Wilson shows us how…”

“…The volume extends an invitation to readers and researchers in education and the social sciences to consider ways to foster education that realises transformed selves and transformed worlds: the good for each person, the good for humankind, and the good for the community of life on the planet. The book also includes theoretical chapters providing the background and rationale behind the notion of education as initiating people into ‘living well in a world worth living in'. …”

“…As a discipline, design is rightly concerned with bringing about positive change for the long-term flourishing of the planet. From atomic bomb fallouts to shampoo microplastics, the Earth's environmental woes are indelibly linked to modern societies overconsumption of resources and the mass-waste that this creates, particularly Global North countries across Europe and North America. …”

“…Environmental management and the preservation of biodiversity are widely considered a priority in the context of accelerating global changes affecting the physical and biological resources of our planet. This Special Issue of the journal will focus on "Coastal and Aquatic Ecosystems". …”

“…The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are part of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 17 goals form the core of the plan to create 'peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.' Learning Objectives Discover what the Sustainable Development Goals are Examine why we need sustainability goals Identify the key Sustainable Development Goals…”

“…This project must be accompanied by an exit from heteronormativity as a regime of relational scarcity, as well as from the metaphysics of private property which is at the heart of our economies and by extension of our social ecologies -- at odds with much of life on this planet. Queer Communal Kinship Now! examines the role of western normative family ideals in the mechanisms of the preservation and intensification of this status quo, as well as potential approaches to guide us out of this unsavory situation. …”

“…Using a rigorous, straightforward scorecard as a guide, this book shows business leaders and innovators how to create breakthrough sustainable products and processes that are good for the planet, human health, and profits.Natural resource inputs to business operations are getting scarcer and more expensive, while climate-change-related economic shocks pose a risk to seamless operations and, more importantly, threaten business continuity. …”

“… Capitalism’s addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced. …”

“…By contrast, we are told today that the universe began with a cosmic explosion called the Big Bang, that we live in an expanding universe with galaxies rushing away from us at an enormous rate, that we human beings are part of an evolutionary movement on the earth, and that we are intimately linked with the health of delicately balanced life-systems on our planet. Not only has modern science given this age a new cosmology, but contemporary historical studies have provided us with a new approach to the historical Jesus. …”

“…Coordinated by Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes, it explores the works projected, calculated or built under the influence of the teachings of that great architect and leaves aside those, better known, in which he intervened directly through a series of examples of shells designed and built by various architects and engineers, sometimes advised by Candela, sometimes not, but all raised under his influence, in the most remote places on the planet: from México, Guatemala, Cuba or United States, to almost anywhere in the rest of Latin America, Britain, Germany and in his homeland…”

“…Carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe, and understanding carbon chemistry under a variety of environmental conditions impacts all aspects of planetary sciences, including planet formation, the form and function of planetary interiors, and the origin and diversity of life. …”

“…For, if the US forces the rest of the world to choose between Iran and America, Iran has a trump card to play: some of the largest deposits of gas and petroleum on the planet. With global energy demands at an all-time high and supplies becoming increasingly inaccessible, Iran's oil and gas have already started to lure former US allies such as Pakistan and India away from American influence. …”

“…A total of 805 million people are undernourished worldwide and malnutrition affects nearly every country on the planet. Despite impressive productivity increases, there is growing evidence that conventional agricultural strategies fall short of eliminating global hunger, as well as having long-term ecological consequences. …”

“…À rebours, ce livre nous révèle les étonnantes capacités d’adaptation et de métamorphose de la tribu dans ces sociétés profondément fracturées ; stimulées par les contextes intérieurs, les tribus, toujours subordonnées, parviennent néanmoins à trouver place dans le jeu des acteurs économiques, politiques et militaires de la globalisation, conjuguant impact géopolitique et développement de ces logiques « glocales » dont la variété tisse désormais une partie de la planète…”

“…While environmental hazards caused by humans often inform public discussion of the Anthropocene, human impact on the planet is not always detrimental. This book discusses in detail the pioneering effort on Heimaey island to cool molten lava and to divert its flow, in order to save a fishing harbor and the community it has allowed to thrive. …”

“…According to The New York Times, Chomsky ‘may be the most widely read American voice on foreign policy on the planet today’. This book revisits ‘The Responsibility of Intellectuals’ half a century on. …”