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100 _aPalmer, Joy A. (ed.)
245 0 _aFifty great thinkers on the environment/ edited by
260 _aLondon
260 _bRoutledge
260 _c2004
300 _a321p.
365 _b 295.00
365 _dRS
520 _aFifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer, herself an important and prolific author on environmental matters, has assembled a team of thirty-five expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating figures – from all over the world and from ancient times to the present day. Among those included are: * Philosophers such as Rousseau, Spinoza and Heidegger * Activists such as Chico Mendes * Literary giants such as Virgil, Goethe and Wordsworth Major religious and spiritual figures such as the Buddha and St Francis of Assisi. Lucid, scholarly and informative, these fifty essays offer a fascinating overview of mankind’s view and understanding of the physical world.
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