Moral Ground - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1595340858 ISBN 13 : 9781595340856

Editeur : Trinity University Press,U.S., 2011

Synopsis

Eighty groundbreaking essays on why it's wrong to wreck the world

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Kathleen Dean Moore, Distinguished Professor Emerita at Oregon State University, is a moral philosopher, activist, and award-winning author who writes about the moral urgency of climate action. Her most recent climate books are Great Tide Rising: Toward Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change, Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World, and Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change, coedited with Thomas A. Kerns.

A professor of of environmental ethics and philosophy, Michael P. Nelson holds the Ruth H. Spaniol Chair of Renewable Resources at Oregon State University and serves as the lead principal investigator for the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest Long-Term Ecological Research Program. He is a senior fellow with the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word and the philosopher in residence for the Isle Royale Wolf-Moose Project. He lives in Corvallis, Oregon.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has received the Nobel Peace Prize, the Gandhi Peace Prize, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, and the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1986 he was elected archbishop of Cape Town, the highest position in the Anglican Church in South Africa. In 1995, after the end of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela, Tutu was appointed chair of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He is currently chair of the Elders, an independent group of global leaders who offer their influence and experience to support peace building.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Trinity University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1595340858
• ISBN 13: 9781595340856
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 524
• Éditeur: Moore Kathleen Dean, Nelson Michael P.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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