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This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- a damaged copy of Positive Tipping Points: How to Fix the Climate Crisis
- a second-hand copy of the 1982 classic Lamarck the Mythical Precursor: A Study of the Relations Between Science and Ideology published by @themitpress (there aren't that many books on Lamarck)
- a former library copy of The Environmental Consequences of War: Legal, Economic and Scientific Perspectives. This one came from the holdings of the JSCSC (Joint Services Command and Staff College)'s Hobson Library, one of the UK's largest military libraries (!), probably the most unusual provenance for any of the books I have.

#ClimateChange #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #History #EnvironmentalHistory #Warfare #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books, part of the beech-coloured laminate floor, and a red curtain hanging from a door.

On the left, Positive Tipping Points, showing a light blue hardback with an abstract graphic of a white cone with its tip facing upwards. Balanced on the tip is a white curved bar, curving upwards like a smile. At the top right, impossibly balanced, is a marble-sized miniature planet Earth.

In the middle, Lamarck the Mythical Precursor, showing a small moss-green hardback with several botanical line-drawings in darker green of flower and plant parts.

On the right, The Environmental Consequences of War, showing a photo of a large column of smoke rising from something that is on fire, though it is hard to make out what. The bottom half of the photo is rendered in a bright orange, the top half in grey. The whole photo is rendered hard to decipher by having been printed in coarse screentone (the pattern of dots you will recognise from how photos were printed in newspapers).

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#Trump suspended some sales to #China of critical US #tech, including those related to jet #engines, #semiconductors & certain #chemicals. The move is a response to China’s recent restrictions on exports of critical #minerals to the US, a decision by Beijing that has threatened to cripple #US #SupplyChains.
The new limits are pushing the world’s largest economies a step closer toward #SupplyChain #warfare, as the US & China flex their power.
#economy #inflation #recession
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/business/economy/jet-engine-chip-software-exports-to-china.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=7CCDCC0C-771C-410D-88B8-DE625C471B8D

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