| 書目名稱 | Codex Orféo | | 副標題 | A Novel | | 編輯 | Michael Charles Tobias | | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/229/228857/228857.mp4 | | 概述 | Provides an arresting meditation on what survival really means, through a deeply evocative novel.Explores the ethical limits of science through expertly written fiction.Encompasses themes from ecology | | 圖書封面 |  | | 描述 | Explore shattering ethical, political and practical quagmires in this gripping ecological thriller. A tense plot deals with devastating scientific, secret intelligence and geopolitical issues..?.“You alright, Professor?” Mal asked in a whisper..“Yeah, I’ll be alright.”.World renowned ecologist, UCLA Professor David Lev, aged 84, has just begun a contemporary odyssey. From delivering a plenary address on climate change at the Rio+20 UN Summit, he must prevail on a journey through sub-zero hurricane-force gales, impenetrable bogs and twelve foot drifts of ice in the forests of Belarus. Along the way, Lev’s journey directs us to consider such profound questions as: Are we our Brother’s Keeper? What are the ethical limits of science? And, finally, at what price, glory?.?.It is not only Lev’s story that is the key to this page-turner but also an account from the days of World War IIand the Holocaust, which hinges on survival. A constellation of richly nuanced, deeply drawn characters whose enmeshed lives and unique circumstances speak with resonance, melancholy, inspiration and unrelenting drama are all part of this complex and thought-provoking novel - including cutting-edge biochemist | | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | | 關鍵詞 | Holocaust; World War II; Ecodynamics; Nazis; Hitler; European Ecology; Biochemistry; Belarus; Climate Change | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30622-3 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-80853-6 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-30622-3 | | copyright | Michael Charles Tobias 2017 |
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