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Jeremy Fox
The Ecology of Ecologists

A celebration of ecology's variety--as both subject and research endeavor--and a call for intradisciplinary understanding.Open any ecology textbook, and you will find a heterogeneous mix of material that …

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Tao Leigh Goffe
Dark Laboratory

A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that i…

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A C Grayling
The Challenge of the Future

In an era of instability, how do we build a better future?We live in a time of unprecedented technological change and uncertainty, from AI to transhumanism. Humankind is faced with the question of what th…

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Scott Burnett,
Analysing Environmental Discourse

The sheer scale of global ecosystem devastation and the crescendo of the climate crisis may serve as good reasons for scholars and commentators to welcome any social mobilization that tries to save the ea…

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Thomas A Bass
Return to Fukushima

Is it possible to live in a nuclear exclusion zone? Return to Fukushima captures the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear disaster, chronicling the resilience of people navigating life amid radioactivity.Fukushi…

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Henrietta Moore, Arthur Kay
Roadkill

Explore the financial, social, ethical, and environmental impacts of our obsession with, and dependency on, cars. Learn how to change the way we use them.Roadkill: Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Rel…

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Emmanuel Joseph
The Psychology of Progress, How Politics, Health, and Business Shape Social Change

"The Psychology of Progress: How Politics, Health, and Business Shape Social Change" delves into the intricate forces that drive societal advancement. This enlightening book explores the critica…

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Jon Gorman
Facing Climate Anxiety

Printed on wood-free paper with nontoxic ink.Ignoring climate change is no longer an option. Climate change is real--and so is the fear and anxiety building in its wake. This timely guide offers evidence-…

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Lily N Shapiro
Connective Tissue

An ethnography of factory accidents and their attendant reconstructive plastic surgeries in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Connective Tissue explores notions of risk, work and labor practices, and the way meanin…

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Robert Suits
The Hobo

A panoramic history of America's first climate migrantsFrom the mid-nineteenth century through the dustbowl years of the Great Depression, a new kind of migrant worker became a familiar sight in communiti…

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Planetary Portals Collective
Planetary Portals

A speculative theory for mapping the colonial afterlives of extractive industries across southern Africa.Planetary Portals focuses on the colonial afterlives of extraction in southern Africa and its colon…

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Partha Dasgupta
On Natural Capital

From the man that the New York Timescalls "the most important person you've never heard of," renowned Cambridge University economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, comes a paradigm shifting treatise, aski…

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Robert J Sampson
Marked by Time

A leading sociologist's groundbreaking three-decade study challenges outdated views of crime and character, revealing that traditional risk factors alone poorly predict children's futures.Between 1970 and…

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Gregory Claeys
Utopianism for a Dying Planet

How the utopian tradition offers answers to today's environmental crisesIn the face of Earth's environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won't save our planet. A more radica…

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Tao Leigh Goffe
Dark Laboratory

A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that i…

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J Paul Kelleher
The Social Cost of Carbon

The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a monetary measure of the lasting harm caused by emitting one additional ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. By examining the foundations and limitations of the c…

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Mikaela Loach
Climate Is Just the Start

"Climate is Just the Start is a hopeful and empowering guide for kids on how to STOP climate change and START building a better world--from rising-star activist Mikaela Loach. It's easy to see news a…

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Revolutionary Natures

How a mundane metal bound miners and officials to global capitalism and an emerging technocratic state This volume offers a groundbreaking reassessment of the environmental history of Mao-era China, a per…

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The Paradox of the Organism

The unity of the organism-an assembly of organs, tissues, cells, and genes working toward a common goal-has long been taken for granted. The essays in this collection pierce the organismal veil to conside…

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Caroline Peyton
Radioactive Dixie

How and why did the South's history, culture, and politics shape the region's nuclear and energy industries? And how is that history linked to broader developments in the nuclear and energy industries--na…

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