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Public Catastrophes, Private Losses

The essays in this collection expand the definition of catastrophe to include not only events like pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires but also slower-moving phenomena that have equally disastrous long-t…

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Dan Collyns
Blood Gold

A shocking exposé of the dirty trade of gold and how it is pushing the world's biggest rainforest to the brink of collapse.

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Urs Gasser, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Guardrails

How society can shape individual actions in times of uncertaintyWhen we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, "guardrails" that guide our decisions, like the laws and rules…

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Robert Garner
The Highs and Lows of Leicester City

This book explores the highs and lows of a remarkable last decade in the history of Leicester City. What was it like for a committed fan? How can it be explained? Along the way, among an array of topics, …

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Halo-Halo Ecologies

Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments behind Filipino Food is a recipe for a new storytelling tradition that combines critical studies of Filipino food and of the environment. It takes as its sta…

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Halo-Halo Ecologies

Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments behind Filipino Food is a recipe for a new storytelling tradition that combines critical studies of Filipino food and of the environment. It takes as its sta…

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Craig Fitzpatrick
Finding the Puck

Ice hockey has long been considered one of the most dangerous sports. It's full-contact, played at high speeds on freshly sharpened blades while chasing a small puck. Despite the physical and visual deman…

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Noah Theriault
A Forest of Dreams

"After the fall of the Marcos regime in 1986, the Philippines became the first country in Asia to codify Indigenous rights. This hard-fought reform aimed to protect the ancestral lands of the archipe…

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Adam S. Hayes
Irrational Together

A must-read that reshapes how we think about the social underpinnings of our financial choices.In Irrational Together, economic sociologist Adam S. Hayes takes readers on a fascinating journey to uncover …

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Amy Gamerman
The Crazies

"This is a story about a fight between neighbors when the folks next-door are on the Forbes 400 list and you're the guy fixing an irrigation ditch in a vest mended with duct-tape. Big Timber, Montana…

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Tim Kane
The Immigrant Superpower

In The Immigrant Superpower, Tim Kane argues that immigration has long been a source of American strength and that exceptional immigrants have been crucial to American exceptionalism. Deftly combining sto…

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Rose Korang-Okrah, Wendy Haight, Priscilla A Gibson
Supporting Women's Economic Enfranchisement

Access to property, homes, and natural resource-based assets is fundamental to women's adequate standard of living, economic independence, and political empowerment. Lack of direct access to property can …

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Luke Manget
Ginseng Diggers

The harvesting of wild American ginseng ( panax quinquefolium), the gnarled, aromatic herb known for its therapeutic and healing properties, is deeply rooted in North America, but nowhere has it played a …

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Sonja Trom Eayrs
Dodge County, Incorporated

Finalist for the 2025 Minnesota Book AwardIn 2014 Sonja Trom Eayrs's parents filed the first of three lawsuits against Dodge County officials and their neighbors, one of the few avenues available to them …

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Liza Grandia
Kernels of Resistance

The story of how Mesoamerican food activists faced down Monsanto . . . and wonRight before the 2014 World Cup, US trade interests pressured Guatemala's legislature into lifting its national ban on genetic…

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Pierre Bourdieu,
Economic Anthropology

Has the revolution that led from the economy of the gift, characteristic of most precapitalist societies, to the economy of modern societies been accomplished in all spheres of life, as tacitly assumed by…

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Jonathan Burkham
Migrant Midwest

The American heartland is poised for a demographic decline with very real consequences. Migrant Midwest tracks the history of population growth and its projected decline in the Midwest to highlight the ne…

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Pancho McFarland
Food Autonomy in Chicago

"Using ethnographic methods, the author explores important themes in the food justice/autonomy movement in Black Chicago. This autoethnography uses the author's 15+ years in the movement as data info…

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Dave Newhouse, Andy Dolich
Goodbye, Oakland

A fascinating tour of Oakland sports history and a look toward the future of professional sports in the East Bay.Oakland is a sports city like no other. It is the only city in America to be abandoned by t…

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Daniel Gunnar Kressel
Hispanic Technocracy

This book explores how the Cold War Latin American right sought to rescue the essence of Europe's fascist ideology after 1945 by reformulating it into novel authoritarian state models. It will interest st…

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