A new way of measuring the health of a political system: by examining the health of its landscapes and ecosystems East Germany, its economy, and its society were in decline long before the country’s political collapse in the late 1980s. The clues were there in the natural landscape, Arvid Nelson argues in this groundbreaking book, but policy analysts were blind to them. Had they noted the record of the leadership’s values and goals manifest in the landscape, they wouldn’t have hailed East Germany as a Marxist-Leninist success story. Nelson sets East German history within the context of the landscape history of two centuries to underscore how forest and ecosystem change offered a reliable barometer to the health and stability of the political system that governed them. Cold War Ecology records how East German leaders’ indifference to human rights and their disregard for the landscape affected the rural economy, forests, and population. This lesson from history suggests new ways of thinking about the health of ecosystems and landscapes, Nelson shows, and he proposes assessing the stability of modern political systems based on the environment’s system qualities rather than on political leaders’ goals and beliefs.

Cold War Ecology: Forests, Farms, and People in the East German Landscape, 1945-1989 (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

History

Arvid Nelson

Europe

Yale University Press

In the year 2020, a demon invasion strikes several cities around the globe, including London, home to college Rugby champ John Fowler and his family, but before the climatic Battle of All Hallow's Eve, John and his sister Lindsey attempted to discover the story behind what seemed to be a series of bizarre portents: an exhumed skeleton, a haunting apparition, and a powerful sword that they find in their attic.

Hellgate: London Volume 1

J.M.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Tokyopop

When a medieval scroll disappears from a Paris church, Doctor Julien Sauniere investigates, uncovering a series of horrific ritual murders and an ancient secret society. Julien cannot let these shadowy figures retreat into the darkness, lest they take up their killing once again. His investigation turns into a one-man quest into the bizarre secrets of the Catholic Church.

Rex Mundi Volume 1: The Guardian of the Temple

Comics & Graphic Novels

Jeremy Cox

Graphic Novels

Dark Horse

Rex Mundi 04: Krone und Schwert

Rex Mundi 05

Ehapa Comic Collection

Rex Mundi 06

Egmont Comic Collection

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