San Antonio College Library

Series surveys science from flint tools to the theory of relativity.

This four-part series seeks to understand how enthusiasm for progress--particularly when shortsighted, misguided, or tainted by self-intrest--can ricochet, marring the global environment and the lives of millions.

People have always migrated in search of better climatic conditions or in response to environmental change. Today, this phenomenon takes a whole new dimension, as climate change progressively threatens traditional landscapes and livelihoods of entire communities. Increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather events, such as floods, hurricanes, and droughts lead to significant population displacement every year on every continent. Every day we...

Through a series of 144 short texts on twelve key subjects, this text introduces the reader to some of the central perplexities of human life. Along with those texts written by the author himself are selections from such sources as Genesis and Lao Tzu, Plato and the Upanishads, Hume and Wittgenstein, Augustine and Ecclesiastes, to name but a few. Topics range from the nature of language to pleasure and pain to life after death. Most of the classical...

20/20 visits the seven continents to show the environmental problems each place is facing and what we can do to solve the problems, which include increasing and decreasing water levels, deforestation, species extinction, and power usage.