Bücher von Peter Newell

In seinem Kinderwagen saust Bobby die steile Straße hinterm Haus abwärts. Wem er bei der Abenteuertour begegnet, erleben wir in Vers und Bild in diesem Kinderbuchklassiker vonPeter Newell. Garantiert schräg in Englisch und Deutsch!

Climate for Change provides a challenging explanation of how non-state actors have shaped the international global warming debate. It will be of interest to all researchers and policy-makers associated with climate change, and will be used on university courses in international relations, politics and environmental studies.

The world of climate politics is increasingly no longer confined to the activities of national governments and international negotiations. Critical to this transformation of the politics of climate change has been the emergence of new forms of transnational governance that cut across traditional state-based jurisdictions and operate across public and private divides. This book provides the first comprehensive, cutting-edge account of the world of transnational climate change governance. Co-authored by a team of the world's leading experts in the field and based on a survey of sixty case studies, the book traces the emergence, nature and consequences of this phenomenon, and assesses the implications for the field of global environmental politics. It will prove invaluable for researchers, graduate students and policy makers in climate change, political science, international relations, human geography, sociology and ecological economics.

Confronting climate change is now understood as a problem of 'decarbonising' the global economy: ending our dependence on carbon-based fossil fuels. This book explores whether such a transformation is underway, how it might be accelerated, and the complex politics of this process. Given the dominance of global capitalism and free-market ideologies, decarbonisation is dependent on creating carbon markets and engaging powerful actors in the world of business and finance. Climate Capitalism assesses the huge political dilemmas this poses, and the need to challenge the entrenched power of many corporations, the culture of energy use, and global inequalities in energy consumption. Climate Capitalism is essential reading for anyone wanting to better understand the challenge we face. It will also inform a range of student courses in environmental studies, development studies, international relations, and business programmes.

"That's what I thought; and when you can't work ruin stares you in the face, eh? Now I have a manuscript-""Oh Lord!" I cried. "Don't. There are millions in the same fix. Even my cook writes."______________________________One perfect evening the author receives a ghostly phone call from none other than the Baron Munchausen himself , with a rich offer no sane living man could refuse. Proclaiming his devotion to the truth behind every one of the baron's tall tales, the author presented this book to the public with absolute faith that you would believe them as much as he does

'Topsys &Turvys' war bereits 1893 erschienen, neunzehn Jahre vor den Abenteuern der ausgebrochenen Rakete. Wegen des großen Erfolgs des witzigen Überraschungsbuchs für Kinder und Erwachsene erschienen bald Fortsetzungen. Die Bilder zweier Bände sind hier vereint. Mit Fug und Recht kann man in Newell wenn nicht den Erfinder, so doch den Popularisator des Ambigramms sehen, das, auf den Kopf gestellt, eine ganz andere Szene bietet, oft der ersten geradezu entgegengesetzt. Um die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert sollten sich solche Kopfsteher-Bilder dann auf Postkarten, Kunstdrucken oder auch als Zeitungsserie großer Beliebtheit erfreuen.