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Soft Cover. Condizione: Good. ORIGINAL PUBLICATION; Softcovers; ex-library; minor shelfwear w/ lightly bumped corners and light creasing of lower corner of pages; small chip removed from lower rear wrap; o/w in good condition.

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PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What if the modern world is not as digital, clean, and weightless as we were taught to believe Every morning, we touch a phone, step across concrete, eat food grown with nitrogen, move through steel, buy products wrapped in plastic, and trust hospitals, supermarkets, data centers, ports, roads, and grids to work as if they were natural facts of life. They are not. The Fossil Skeleton is a provocative nonfiction journey into the hidden material operating system of modern civilization. Beneath the cloud, AI, clean-energy promises, finance, cities, hospitals, food chains, and war machines lies a deeper body: steel, concrete, plastics, and ammonia. This is not an anti-fossil manifesto. It is not another simple climate book. It is an anatomy of dependency. Fossil fuels did not merely power the modern world. They helped feed it, build it, sterilize it, package it, transport it, defend it, and make it feel normal. That is the uncomfortable paradox at the center of this book: the same industrial system that wounded the planet also made modern abundance, medicine, shelter, food scale, and infrastructure possible. Through breakfast tables, hospital beds, supermarket aisles, apartment walls, data centers, furnaces, fertilizer plants, petrochemicals, geopolitics, and the energy transition, ROLFF P. exposes the civilization we live inside but rarely see. This book asks the question public debate often avoids: Can we rebuild the future without pretending we have escaped the materials that built the present For readers of sweeping nonfiction about energy, economics, climate, infrastructure, geopolitics, technology, and the hidden systems behind everyday life, The Fossil Skeleton offers a sharper lens: the digital age did not abolish the industrial age. It added software to it. After this book, you may never look at a phone, a city, a hospital, a grocery store, or the green transition the same way again. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What if the world is not ending loudly, but quietly entering your house A room that no longer cools at night. A child who begins to mistrust the sky. A river that forgets its old shape. A hospital ward where the air becomes heavier than the official alert. A packed bag by the door that a mother calls precaution, while her daughter calls it the leaving bag.HOME is not another ordinary book about the environment, politics, or the future. It is a haunting literary nonfiction work about the hidden war beneath modern life: the war between the civilization we built and the living world still forced to carry us.With a voice that is intimate, philosophical, disturbing, and sharply human, ROLFF P. leads the reader through houses, cities, rivers, hospitals, forests, screens, markets, coastlines, and children's questions to reveal a deeper wound: modern civilization has learned to call extraction progress, speed maturity, consumption freedom, and damage normal.This is not a book that begins with slogans. It begins with home.Across Europe, Brazil, Morocco, Tunisia, India, Singapore, Canada, Jordan, Bangladesh, Fiji, South Africa, Japan, Nigeria, Samoa, and beyond, HOME follows ordinary human moments where the crisis of the living world becomes impossible to keep abstract. A girl draws a tree from memory. A nurse reads the body before the report. A delivery rider becomes a servant of speed. A child sees noon turn orange. A grandmother teaches names before the names disappear.Through story, moral diagnosis, spiritual pressure, and civilizational critique, this book asks a question most modern people would rather avoid: What kind of civilization destroys the world that keeps it alive, then calls the destruction normal life HOME is for readers who sense that the crisis outside us is connected to the crisis inside us. It is for those who feel that modern life has become faster, richer, more connected, and somehow less human. It is for anyone who suspects that convenience has a shadow, progress has a cost, and comfort can become dangerous when it forgets the suffering that makes it possible.This book does not offer cheap optimism. It does not sell panic. It does not ask the reader to perform guilt as virtue.Instead, it asks for something harder.Attention.Responsibility.Reverence.A different imagination of what it means to live inside a common home.Elegant, urgent, poetic, and unsettling, HOME belongs to the tradition of books that do not merely explain a problem, but change the room in which the problem is felt.Because home was never just the place we return to.Home is the world that has been carrying us all along.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The next great collision may not begin with a missile.It may begin with a tanker route, a blocked payment, a sanctions cascade, a reserve shift, a liquidity shock, or a dominant power trying too hard to prove it is still untouchable.The Modern Thucydides Trap exposes the hidden mechanism behind one of the most dangerous questions of our time: what happens when a rising power confronts a reigning power in a world no longer held together by trust alone, but by oil flows, dollar dependence, payment rails, sanctions, and fear The modern Thucydides Trap no longer begins only with armies. It begins inside oil routes, reserve currencies, sanctions, payment systems, and the nervous psychology of powers that can still dominate, but no longer feel eternal.This is not another cheap prophecy about the 'end of the dollar.' It is not a generic story of America falling and China rising. It is a sharper map of a world where dominance survives materially while decaying psychologically.For decades, the petrodollar order gave the appearance of stability. Oil was priced in dollars. Gulf wealth flowed back into Western finance. American security power helped underwrite the architecture. The arrangement was never merely economic. It was strategic, psychological, and imperial.Now that center is becoming nervous.China has become a central energy buyer. Gulf states are widening their room to move. Sanctions have turned financial plumbing into geopolitical pressure. Payment systems are fragmenting. Shipping chokepoints are becoming macro tripwires. And beneath the official language of diplomacy, something older is waking up: the fear that dominance is becoming negotiable.Inside this book, you will discover: - how the petrodollar system was built and why it mattered far beyond oil- why the dollar still dominates, even as trust in its innocence thins- how sanctions, payment rails, and chokepoints are reshaping power- why U.S.-China rivalry cannot be understood through military logic alone- how Gulf hedging, BRICS rhetoric, and reserve diversification signal a colder world- why the real trap is not sudden replacement, but destabilizing overlapSharp, provocative, and deeply relevant, The Modern Thucydides Trap is for readers of geopolitics, economics, empire, energy, financial power, and the unstable psychology of global order.The world is not simply changing.It is becoming emotionally volatile at the level of empire.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if the world is not ending loudly, but quietly entering your house?A room that no longer cools at night. A child who begins to mistrust the sky. A river that forgets its old shape. A hospital ward where the air becomes heavier than the official alert. A packed bag by the door that a mother calls precaution, while her daughter calls it the leaving bag.HOME is not another ordinary book about the environment, politics, or the future. It is a haunting literary nonfiction work about the hidden war beneath modern life: the war between the civilization we built and the living world still forced to carry us.With a voice that is intimate, philosophical, disturbing, and sharply human, ROLFF P. leads the reader through houses, cities, rivers, hospitals, forests, screens, markets, coastlines, and children's questions to reveal a deeper wound: modern civilization has learned to call extraction progress, speed maturity, consumption freedom, and damage normal.This is not a book that begins with slogans. It begins with home.Across Europe, Brazil, Morocco, Tunisia, India, Singapore, Canada, Jordan, Bangladesh, Fiji, South Africa, Japan, Nigeria, Samoa, and beyond, HOME follows ordinary human moments where the crisis of the living world becomes impossible to keep abstract. A girl draws a tree from memory. A nurse reads the body before the report. A delivery rider becomes a servant of speed. A child sees noon turn orange. A grandmother teaches names before the names disappear.Through story, moral diagnosis, spiritual pressure, and civilizational critique, this book asks a question most modern people would rather avoid: What kind of civilization destroys the world that keeps it alive, then calls the destruction normal life?HOME is for readers who sense that the crisis outside us is connected to the crisis inside us. It is for those who feel that modern life has become faster, richer, more connected, and somehow less human. It is for anyone who suspects that convenience has a shadow, progress has a cost, and comfort can become dangerous when it forgets the suffering that makes it possible.This book does not offer cheap optimism. It does not sell panic. It does not ask the reader to perform guilt as virtue.Instead, it asks for something harder.Attention.Responsibility.Reverence.A different imagination of what it means to live inside a common home.Elegant, urgent, poetic, and unsettling, HOME belongs to the tradition of books that do not merely explain a problem, but change the room in which the problem is felt.Because home was never just the place we return to.Home is the world that has been carrying us all along. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if the modern world is not as digital, clean, and weightless as we were taught to believe? Every morning, we touch a phone, step across concrete, eat food grown with nitrogen, move through steel, buy products wrapped in plastic, and trust hospitals, supermarkets, data centers, ports, roads, and grids to work as if they were natural facts of life. They are not. The Fossil Skeleton is a provocative nonfiction journey into the hidden material operating system of modern civilization. Beneath the cloud, AI, clean-energy promises, finance, cities, hospitals, food chains, and war machines lies a deeper body: steel, concrete, plastics, and ammonia. This is not an anti-fossil manifesto. It is not another simple climate book. It is an anatomy of dependency. Fossil fuels did not merely power the modern world. They helped feed it, build it, sterilize it, package it, transport it, defend it, and make it feel normal. That is the uncomfortable paradox at the center of this book: the same industrial system that wounded the planet also made modern abundance, medicine, shelter, food scale, and infrastructure possible. Through breakfast tables, hospital beds, supermarket aisles, apartment walls, data centers, furnaces, fertilizer plants, petrochemicals, geopolitics, and the energy transition, ROLFF P. exposes the civilization we live inside but rarely see. This book asks the question public debate often avoids: Can we rebuild the future without pretending we have escaped the materials that built the present? For readers of sweeping nonfiction about energy, economics, climate, infrastructure, geopolitics, technology, and the hidden systems behind everyday life, The Fossil Skeleton offers a sharper lens: the digital age did not abolish the industrial age. It added software to it. After this book, you may never look at a phone, a city, a hospital, a grocery store, or the green transition the same way again. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The next great collision may not begin with a missile.It may begin with a tanker route, a blocked payment, a sanctions cascade, a reserve shift, a liquidity shock, or a dominant power trying too hard to prove it is still untouchable.The Modern Thucydides Trap exposes the hidden mechanism behind one of the most dangerous questions of our time: what happens when a rising power confronts a reigning power in a world no longer held together by trust alone, but by oil flows, dollar dependence, payment rails, sanctions, and fear?The modern Thucydides Trap no longer begins only with armies. It begins inside oil routes, reserve currencies, sanctions, payment systems, and the nervous psychology of powers that can still dominate, but no longer feel eternal.This is not another cheap prophecy about the "end of the dollar." It is not a generic story of America falling and China rising. It is a sharper map of a world where dominance survives materially while decaying psychologically.For decades, the petrodollar order gave the appearance of stability. Oil was priced in dollars. Gulf wealth flowed back into Western finance. American security power helped underwrite the architecture. The arrangement was never merely economic. It was strategic, psychological, and imperial.Now that center is becoming nervous.China has become a central energy buyer. Gulf states are widening their room to move. Sanctions have turned financial plumbing into geopolitical pressure. Payment systems are fragmenting. Shipping chokepoints are becoming macro tripwires. And beneath the official language of diplomacy, something older is waking up: the fear that dominance is becoming negotiable.Inside this book, you will discover: how the petrodollar system was built and why it mattered far beyond oilwhy the dollar still dominates, even as trust in its innocence thinshow sanctions, payment rails, and chokepoints are reshaping powerwhy U.S.-China rivalry cannot be understood through military logic alonehow Gulf hedging, BRICS rhetoric, and reserve diversification signal a colder worldwhy the real trap is not sudden replacement, but destabilizing overlapSharp, provocative, and deeply relevant, The Modern Thucydides Trap is for readers of geopolitics, economics, empire, energy, financial power, and the unstable psychology of global order.The world is not simply changing.It is becoming emotionally volatile at the level of empire. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

Condizione: New. Print on Demand.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Edition. 4 pages. Average wear. Pencil markings. A sound copy.

Wrappers. Condizione: Good copy. 8vo. 72 pp. Con mapas plegados en su interior. ills (illustratore).

Sin Encuadernar. Condizione: Excelente. NETWORK ABC OF PIGGYLLIC DICTION: 21 x 29,5 cm. 26 selos em papel perfurado rosa tendo como mote o porco. Dos 26 artistas, 2 são da América Latina: Paulo Bruscky e Clemente Padin; 5 da América do Norte: G. Helm, PH. Cairns, DR. D. R. Op., Abracadada, Radio Free D; 1 da Ásia: T. Watanabe; e 18 da Europa: J. Hackerova, B. Simon, Art-Naphro, E. Seifried, Mona Catbird, H. Nittendorf, M. Leigh, K. J. Zylla, Ch. Francios, L. Wohlrab, R. Maggi, L. Suel, Rolff Wanke, J. Kierspel.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The next great collision may not begin with a missile.It may begin with a tanker route, a blocked payment, a sanctions cascade, a reserve shift, a liquidity shock, or a dominant power trying too hard to prove it is still untouchable.The Modern Thucydides Trap exposes the hidden mechanism behind one of the most dangerous questions of our time: what happens when a rising power confronts a reigning power in a world no longer held together by trust alone, but by oil flows, dollar dependence, payment rails, sanctions, and fear?The modern Thucydides Trap no longer begins only with armies. It begins inside oil routes, reserve currencies, sanctions, payment systems, and the nervous psychology of powers that can still dominate, but no longer feel eternal.This is not another cheap prophecy about the "end of the dollar." It is not a generic story of America falling and China rising. It is a sharper map of a world where dominance survives materially while decaying psychologically.For decades, the petrodollar order gave the appearance of stability. Oil was priced in dollars. Gulf wealth flowed back into Western finance. American security power helped underwrite the architecture. The arrangement was never merely economic. It was strategic, psychological, and imperial.Now that center is becoming nervous.China has become a central energy buyer. Gulf states are widening their room to move. Sanctions have turned financial plumbing into geopolitical pressure. Payment systems are fragmenting. Shipping chokepoints are becoming macro tripwires. And beneath the official language of diplomacy, something older is waking up: the fear that dominance is becoming negotiable.Inside this book, you will discover: how the petrodollar system was built and why it mattered far beyond oilwhy the dollar still dominates, even as trust in its innocence thinshow sanctions, payment rails, and chokepoints are reshaping powerwhy U.S.-China rivalry cannot be understood through military logic alonehow Gulf hedging, BRICS rhetoric, and reserve diversification signal a colder worldwhy the real trap is not sudden replacement, but destabilizing overlapSharp, provocative, and deeply relevant, The Modern Thucydides Trap is for readers of geopolitics, economics, empire, energy, financial power, and the unstable psychology of global order.The world is not simply changing.It is becoming emotionally volatile at the level of empire. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if the modern world is not as digital, clean, and weightless as we were taught to believe? Every morning, we touch a phone, step across concrete, eat food grown with nitrogen, move through steel, buy products wrapped in plastic, and trust hospitals, supermarkets, data centers, ports, roads, and grids to work as if they were natural facts of life. They are not. The Fossil Skeleton is a provocative nonfiction journey into the hidden material operating system of modern civilization. Beneath the cloud, AI, clean-energy promises, finance, cities, hospitals, food chains, and war machines lies a deeper body: steel, concrete, plastics, and ammonia. This is not an anti-fossil manifesto. It is not another simple climate book. It is an anatomy of dependency. Fossil fuels did not merely power the modern world. They helped feed it, build it, sterilize it, package it, transport it, defend it, and make it feel normal. That is the uncomfortable paradox at the center of this book: the same industrial system that wounded the planet also made modern abundance, medicine, shelter, food scale, and infrastructure possible. Through breakfast tables, hospital beds, supermarket aisles, apartment walls, data centers, furnaces, fertilizer plants, petrochemicals, geopolitics, and the energy transition, ROLFF P. exposes the civilization we live inside but rarely see. This book asks the question public debate often avoids: Can we rebuild the future without pretending we have escaped the materials that built the present? For readers of sweeping nonfiction about energy, economics, climate, infrastructure, geopolitics, technology, and the hidden systems behind everyday life, The Fossil Skeleton offers a sharper lens: the digital age did not abolish the industrial age. It added software to it. After this book, you may never look at a phone, a city, a hospital, a grocery store, or the green transition the same way again. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What if the world is not ending loudly, but quietly entering your house?A room that no longer cools at night. A child who begins to mistrust the sky. A river that forgets its old shape. A hospital ward where the air becomes heavier than the official alert. A packed bag by the door that a mother calls precaution, while her daughter calls it the leaving bag.HOME is not another ordinary book about the environment, politics, or the future. It is a haunting literary nonfiction work about the hidden war beneath modern life: the war between the civilization we built and the living world still forced to carry us.With a voice that is intimate, philosophical, disturbing, and sharply human, ROLFF P. leads the reader through houses, cities, rivers, hospitals, forests, screens, markets, coastlines, and children's questions to reveal a deeper wound: modern civilization has learned to call extraction progress, speed maturity, consumption freedom, and damage normal.This is not a book that begins with slogans. It begins with home.Across Europe, Brazil, Morocco, Tunisia, India, Singapore, Canada, Jordan, Bangladesh, Fiji, South Africa, Japan, Nigeria, Samoa, and beyond, HOME follows ordinary human moments where the crisis of the living world becomes impossible to keep abstract. A girl draws a tree from memory. A nurse reads the body before the report. A delivery rider becomes a servant of speed. A child sees noon turn orange. A grandmother teaches names before the names disappear.Through story, moral diagnosis, spiritual pressure, and civilizational critique, this book asks a question most modern people would rather avoid: What kind of civilization destroys the world that keeps it alive, then calls the destruction normal life?HOME is for readers who sense that the crisis outside us is connected to the crisis inside us. It is for those who feel that modern life has become faster, richer, more connected, and somehow less human. It is for anyone who suspects that convenience has a shadow, progress has a cost, and comfort can become dangerous when it forgets the suffering that makes it possible.This book does not offer cheap optimism. It does not sell panic. It does not ask the reader to perform guilt as virtue.Instead, it asks for something harder.Attention.Responsibility.Reverence.A different imagination of what it means to live inside a common home.Elegant, urgent, poetic, and unsettling, HOME belongs to the tradition of books that do not merely explain a problem, but change the room in which the problem is felt.Because home was never just the place we return to.Home is the world that has been carrying us all along. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…