Beyond Collapse
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Beyond Collapse
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Author : Ronald K. Faulseit
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2016
Beyond Collapse written by Ronald K. Faulseit and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
This book interprets how ancient civilizations responded to various stresses, including environmental change, warfare, and the fragmentation of political institutions. It focuses on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful regimes, and posits that they experienced social resilience and transformation instead of collapse.
Beyond The Limits
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Author : Donella H. Meadows
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Beyond The Limits written by Donella H. Meadows and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with Conservation of natural resources categories.
Beyond the Limits presents a warning and a choice: a rapid and uncontrolled decline in food production, industrial capacity, population and life expectancy, or a sustainable future. By using their system dynamics computer model as a unique tool to project the future, and by varying the basic policy assumptions, the authors are able to show a range of possible outcomes.
Beyond The Nasca Lines
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Author : Conlee, Christina A
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2016-09-20
Beyond The Nasca Lines written by Conlee, Christina A and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-20 with Social Science categories.
Inhabited for over 5,000 years before European colonization, the site of La Tiza in Peru’s Nasca Desert provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine the dynamics of ancient complex societies. This volume takes a long temporal perspective on La Tiza from the Preceramic through the Inca era, studying the site within the context of broader developments such as the rise of Nasca culture, subsequent conquest by the Wari Empire, collapse, abandonment, and the reformation of a new society. Christina Conlee synthesizes data she obtained while directing a multi-year excavation at the site with data from other investigations to reconstruct the development of social complexity over time. She includes detailed descriptions of the stratigraphy and artifacts, carefully separating materials from each period. Exploring how political integration, religious practices, economics, and the environment shaped societal transformations at La Tiza, Conlee offers patterns that can be found in other areas and can be used to understand the development of other long-lasting civilizations.
Beyond The Usability Lab
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Author : Bill Albert
language : en
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Release Date : 2009-12-21
Beyond The Usability Lab written by Bill Albert and has been published by Morgan Kaufmann this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-21 with Computers categories.
Usability testing and user experience research typically take place in a controlled lab with small groups. While this type of testing is essential to user experience design, more companies are also looking to test large sample sizes to be able compare data according to specific user populations and see how their experiences differ across user groups. But few usability professionals have experience in setting up these studies, analyzing the data, and presenting it in effective ways. Online usability testing offers the solution by allowing testers to elicit feedback simultaneously from 1,000s of users. Beyond the Usability Lab offers tried and tested methodologies for conducting online usability studies. It gives practitioners the guidance they need to collect a wealth of data through cost-effective, efficient, and reliable practices. The reader will develop a solid understanding of the capabilities of online usability testing, when it's appropriate to use and not use, and will learn about the various types of online usability testing techniques. - The first guide for conducting large-scale user experience research using the internet - Presents how-to conduct online tests with 1000s of participants – from start to finish - Outlines essential tips for online studies to ensure cost-efficient and reliable results
After Collapse
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Author : Glenn M. Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2010-08-15
After Collapse written by Glenn M. Schwartz and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-15 with Social Science categories.
From the Euphrates Valley to the southern Peruvian Andes, early complex societies have risen and fallen, but in some cases they have also been reborn. Prior archaeological investigation of these societies has focused primarily on emergence and collapse. This is the first book-length work to examine the question of how and why early complex urban societies have reappeared after periods of decentralization and collapse. Ranging widely across the Near East, the Aegean, East Asia, Mesoamerica, and the Andes, these cross-cultural studies expand our understanding of social evolution by examining how societies were transformed during the period of radical change now termed “collapse.” They seek to discover how societal complexity reemerged, how second-generation states formed, and how these re-emergent states resembled or differed from the complex societies that preceded them. The contributors draw on material culture as well as textual and ethnohistoric data to consider such factors as preexistent institutions, structures, and ideologies that are influential in regeneration; economic and political resilience; the role of social mobility, marginal groups, and peripheries; and ethnic change. In addition to presenting a number of theoretical viewpoints, the contributors also propose reasons why regeneration sometimes does not occur after collapse. A concluding contribution by Norman Yoffee provides a critical exegesis of “collapse” and highlights important patterns found in the case histories related to peripheral regions and secondary elites, and to the ideology of statecraft. After Collapse blazes new research trails in both archaeology and the study of social change, demonstrating that the archaeological record often offers more clues to the “dark ages” that precede regeneration than do text-based studies. It opens up a new window on the past by shifting the focus away from the rise and fall of ancient civilizations to their often more telling fall and rise. CONTRIBUTORS Bennet Bronson Arlen F. Chase Diane Z. Chase Christina A. Conlee Lisa Cooper Timothy S. Hare Alan L. Kolata Marilyn A. Masson Gordon F. McEwan Ellen Morris Ian Morris Carlos Peraza Lope Kenny Sims Miriam T. Stark Jill A. Weber Norman Yoffee
Impasse
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Author : Roy Scranton
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2025-08-05
Impasse written by Roy Scranton and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-08-05 with Science categories.
A Next Big Idea Club "Must Read" for August 2025! We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe. Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet instead of serious responses from world leaders, we get increasing emissions, divisive politics, and ersatz solutions that offer more of the same: more capitalism, more complexity, more "progress." The impasse we face is not only political and institutional, but cognitive, existential, and narrative. We're incapable of grasping the scale, speed, and impact of global warming. Our brains can't make sense of how radically our world is changing. And we optimistically cling to a civilizational narrative that promises a better tomorrow if we just keep doing what we're doing. It's well past time, Roy Scranton argues, to free ourselves from our dangerous and dogmatic faith in progress. Such unwarranted optimism will only accelerate our collective disintegration. If we want to have any hope at all for the future, it must be grounded in a recognition of human limits—a view Scranton calls ethical pessimism. Drawing from psychology, philosophy, history, and politics, as well as film, literature, and personal experience, Scranton describes the challenges we face in making sense of our predicament, from problems in communication to questions of justice, from the inherent biases in human perception to the difficulties of empirical knowledge. What emerges is a challenging but ultimately hopeful proposition: if we have the courage to accept our limits, we may find a way to embrace our unknowable future.
The Philosophy Of Power
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Author : Sayed Hamid Fatimi
language : en
Publisher: Sayed Hamid Fatimi
Release Date : 2025-04-23
The Philosophy Of Power written by Sayed Hamid Fatimi and has been published by Sayed Hamid Fatimi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-23 with Philosophy categories.
The most dangerous kind of power is the kind that no longer needs to declare itself. In an age where kings wear no crowns and governance hides in code, The Philosophy of Power: The New Leviathan, Power Beyond Thrones and Borders is a piercing meditation on the silent systems that shape our world. From the collapse of traditional institutions to the algorithmic monarchs of the digital age, Sayed Hamid Fatimi traces how control has evolved—not disappeared. This is not a book about politics. It is a book about the architecture behind politics. It is about the illusions we inherit, the myths we defend, and the futures we unknowingly consent to. With poetic precision and philosophical depth, Fatimi reveals how modern power convinces before it coerces, seduces before it surveils, and governs not through force, but through familiarity. Chapters journey through decaying democracies, the commodification of dissent, the rise of soft tyranny, and the quiet suffocation of meaning in the age of speed and spectacle. This book is for those who feel something is off in the world—but can't quite name it. It doesn’t offer false hope. It offers clarity—and that may be the most subversive tool of all. If you’ve ever wondered why rebellion feels performative, why progress feels hollow, or why freedom feels like an interface—you’re not alone. This book doesn’t promise revolution. It promises that you’ll never see power the same way again.
Understanding Collapse
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Author : Guy D. Middleton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-26
Understanding Collapse written by Guy D. Middleton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-26 with History categories.
In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.
The Collapse Of The Eastern Mediterranean
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Author : Ronnie Ellenblum
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-02
The Collapse Of The Eastern Mediterranean written by Ronnie Ellenblum and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-02 with History categories.
As a 'Medieval Warm Period' prevailed in Western Europe during the tenth and eleventh centuries, the eastern Mediterranean region, from the Nile to the Oxus, was suffering from a series of climatic disasters which led to the decline of some of the most important civilizations and cultural centres of the time. This provocative study argues that many well-documented but apparently disparate events - such as recurrent drought and famine in Egypt, mass migrations in the steppes of central Asia, and the decline in population in urban centres such as Baghdad and Constantinople - are connected and should be understood within the broad context of climate change. Drawing on a wealth of textual and archaeological evidence, Ronnie Ellenblum explores the impact of climatic and ecological change across the eastern Mediterranean in this period, to offer a new perspective on why this was a turning point in the history of the Islamic world.
The Collapse Of Ancient States And Civilizations
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Author : Norman Yoffee
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 1991-07
The Collapse Of Ancient States And Civilizations written by Norman Yoffee and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-07 with History categories.
Publikacja prac seminarium "School of American Research" które odbyło się w Santa Fe, 22-26 marca 1982 r.