Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“olivier hamant”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “olivier hamant”
Skip side bar filters

  • Tracts (N°50) - Antidote to the cult of performance. Robustness from nature

    by Olivier Hamant ...
    Translated by Olivier Hamant ...
    Socio-ecological disruption is no longer a prediction; it is a reality, punctuated by crises. In response, we produce sustainable development, a prescription for sobriety and rising levels of ecoanxiety. But what if we were on the wrong track? Scientific reports agree that the twenty-first century will be turbulent. Our only certainty is that uncertainty will persist and that it will increase. In ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Benefits of Imperfection

    Biology, Society, and Beyond

    by Olivier Hamant ...
    The cult of performance leads our society to emphasise the values of success and continuous optimisation in all areas. Slowness, redundancy and randomness are therefore negatively perceived. Olivier Hamant, in his book, reclaims them by his knowledge of biological processes.What can we learn from life sciences? While some biological mechanisms certainly boast formidable efficiency, recent advances ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Flourishing Within Limits to Growth

    Following nature's way

    by Sven Erik Jørgensen, Brian D. Fath, Søren Nors Nielsen, Federico M. Pulselli, Daniel A. Fiscus, Simone Bastianoni ...
    Decades of research and discussion have shown that the human population growth and our increased consumption of natural resources cannot continue – there are limits to growth. This volume demonstrates how we might modify and revise our economic systems using nature as a model.The book describes how nature uses three growth forms: biomass, information, and networks, resulting in improved overall ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Impossibilities of the Circular Economy

    Separating Aspirations from Reality

    Edited by Harry Lehmann, Christoph Hinske, Victoire de Margerie, Aneta Slaveikova Nikolova ...
    Series series Factor X: Studies in Sustainable Natural Resource Management
    The fifth Factor X publication from the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), The Impossibilities of the Circular Economy provides an overview of the limits to the circular economy, emphasising the relationship between integrated resource use and more systemic leadership-management approaches.On a European level, the book ties into the recent European Green Deal and aims to empower ... Read more

    Free

  • Scale

    The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies

    by Geoffrey West ...
    **"This is science writing as wonder and as inspiration." —The Wall Street JournalWall Street JournalFrom one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in.**Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Thinking in Systems

    International Bestseller

    by Donella Meadows ...
    The classic book on systems thinking—with more than half a million copies sold worldwide!“This is a fabulous book… This book opened my mind and reshaped the way I think about investing.”—Forbes“A modern classic”—The New YorkerIn the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth—the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a ... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Fossil Future

    Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less

    by Alex Epstein ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energyFor over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Design for a Better World

    Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered

    by Donald A. Norman ...
    How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us.The world is a mess. Our dire predicament, from collapsing social structures to the climate crisis, has been millennia in the making and can be traced back to the erroneous belief that the earth’s resources are infinite. The key to change, says Don Norman, is human behavior, covered in the book’s three major ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Systems View of Life

    A Unifying Vision

    by Pier Luigi Luisi, Fritjof Capra ...
    Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organisation, leading to a novel kind of 'systemic' thinking. This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework. Taking a broad sweep through history and ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • The Origin of Wealth

    The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society

    by Eric D. Beinhocker ...
    Over 6.4 billion people participate in a $36.5 trillion global economy, designed and overseen by no one. How did this marvel of self-organized complexity evolve? How is wealth created within this system? And how can wealth be increased for the benefit of individuals, businesses, and society? In The Origin of Wealth, Eric D. Beinhocker argues that modern science provides a radical perspective on ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Theory of Everyone

    The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going

    by Michael Muthukrishna ...
    **Get a science-based introduction to cultural and human evolution—and discover a blueprint for a better future—in this fascinating book for fans of Sapiens and Guns, Germs, and Steel.Who are we, and what makes us different from other species?**Playing on the phrase “a theory of everything” from physics, Michael Muthukrishna’s ambitious, original, and deeply hopeful book A Theory of Everyone draws ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Regenerative Economics

    Revolutionary Thinking for a World in Crisis

    by John Fullerton ...
    Transform how you see the economy—and what’s possible. Discover a science-based, hopeful path beyond crisis thinking with a regenerative model that works like a living system, helping leaders, communities, and citizens navigate climate chaos, inequality, and ecological breakdown with clarity and purpose.This groundbreaking book reveals why today's economic model is failing—and how a regenerative ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus