Gaia S Body

If the biosphere really is a single coherent system, then it must have something like a physiology. It must have systems and processes that perform living functions. In Gaia's Body, Tyler Volk describes the environment that enables the biosphere to exist, various ways of looking at its "anatomy" and "physiology", the major biogeographical regions such as rainforests, deserts, and tundra, the major substances the biosphere is made of, and the chemical cycles that keep it in balance. He then looks at the question of whether there are any long-term trends in the earth's evolution, and examines the role of humanity in Gaia's past and future. Both adherents and sceptics have often been concerned that Gaia theory contains too much goddess and too few verifiable hypotheses. This is the book that describes, for scientists, students, and lay readers alike, the theory's firm basis in science.

In this beautifully presented, full-colour book in a deluxe padded hardcover, best-selling artist and author Toni Carmine Salerno offers reflections and meditations in honour of Mother Nature and the feminine spirit.Featuring illuminating illustrations and depictions of nature and the Goddess, 'Gaia: Body and Soul' is a book you will treasure and refer back to time and again.This new expanded edition of 'Gaia: Body and Soul' is presented in a larger size, including 12 extra pages with new paintings and writings and deluxe gold edging.

Gaia, in which James Lovelock puts forward his inspirational and controversial idea that the Earth functions as a single organism, with life influencing planetary processes to form a self-regulating system aiding its own survival, is now a classic work that continues to provoke heated scientific debate.

Is Human extinction or even extinction of life upon us? Is global warming going to lead to Dooms Day? What will the “Dooms Day” be like? And how far is it from today? Can Humans make it till the next Century? Are you responsible for it? And am I? Is our children’s future secure? Is “CO2 emissions” from vehicles the only mistake of ours? Are there other mistakes? More serious ones? What will it be like if all the predictions of scientists come true? Is our government doing anything? Is it enough? Can we do anything about it? Why are we not doing it if we can? Are we seeing just the tail of this elephant and neglecting the rest of it? Is scientific community completely right when advising “complete decarbonisation?” Is it going to work? Answer to these and many more questions lies in this book. The author believes that time has come for us “Homo sapiens” to realize how majority of our choices are wrong and are contributing to “CO2 rise”. And it is time to take responsibility of the consequences of all our wrong choices and correct them. Not only our choices, we should be interested in choices of every other Homo sapiens walking on the planet. We have very little time left to act. If not done, we are pushing our children’s future into uncertainty. We cannot correct them if we don’t know which choices are the right ones. This book aims to answer all the above questions in a universally understandable language so that every “Homo sapiens” understands it, becomes “Green-aware” and is capable of making the right choices.

God and Gaia explores the overlap between traditional religious cosmologies and the scientific Gaia theory of James Lovelock. It argues that a Gaian approach to the ecological crisis involves rebalancing human and more-than-human influences on Earth by reviving the ecological agency of local and indigenous human communities, and of nonhuman beings. Present-day human ecological influences on Earth have been growing at pace since the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, when modern humans adopted a machine cosmology in which humans are the sole intelligent agency. The resultant imbalance between human and Earthly agencies is degrading the species diversity of ecosystems, causing local climate changes, and threatens to destabilise the Earth as a System. Across eight chapters this ambitious text engages with traditional cosmologies from the Indian Vedas and classical Greece to Medieval Christianity, with case material from Southeast Asia, Southern Africa and Great Britain. It discusses concepts such as deep time and ancestral time, the ethics of genetic engineering of foods and viruses, and holistic ecological management. Northcott argues that an ontological turn that honours the differential agency of indigenous humans and other kind, and that draws on sacred traditions, will make it is possible to repair the destabilising impacts of contemporary human activities on the Earth System and its constituent ecosystems. This book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of the environmental humanities, history, and cultural and religious studies.

Much has been said about the positive effect of the photos of Earth obtained by Apollo 8, which for the first time showed our planet as a globe, a fragile refuge amid barren surroundings, and thereby launched the environmental movement. The negative impact--the subconscious apprehension resulting from realization that space is an actual place containing little that's familiar to us and perhaps much that we'd rather not meet--is not spoken of. But it may be no less significant. Could this be one of the reasons why widespread interest in space died so soon after the first moon landing? For the past fifty years space advocates have been puzzled and frustrated by the slowness of progress in space and the failure of the public to grasp its importance not only to the future of humankind, but to the preservation of Earth's environment. But is it really cause for discouragement? In this book Sylvia Engdahl argues that in the light of history, it's not surprising that acceptance of a new outlook on the universe is slow. All past human advances have been made by visionary minorities without the support of their contemporaries, and our transformation into a spacefaring species will be no exception. This book also includes all of Engdahl's earlier essays about space, such as "Space and Human Survival," which has been popular on the Web for nearly twenty years, plus new ones about the priority of Mars and the question of whether we'll ever meet hostile aliens. In addition, an Epilogue contains the quotations from her Web page "Space Quotes to Ponder" about why a presence in space is vital to humankind. X-Ray is enabled and includes biographical information about all the quotation authors as well as the people mentioned in the essays.

Chakras are the seven energy centres of the body that link your body' s energy to the main aspects of your life. "Busy Person's Guide: Chakras" offers a wide variety of methods for accessing and regulating your body' s energy throughout your busy day: as part of your morning routine, at work, while you are relaxing at home and as you prepare for sleep. You' ll also learn about the special qualities of each chakra and how to use its energy to enhance your life now.