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Rebecca Solnit
The Beginning Comes After the End

Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. In this sequel to her enduring be…

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Daniel Akech Thiong
Climate Shocks and Pastoralist Migration in South Sudan

A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary study of the relations between climate disaster, pastoralist migration, and intercommunal conflict in the experiences of the Dinka people of South Sudan

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Sybil Derrible
The Infrastructure Book

World-renown urban engineering expert Sybil Derrible reveals the behind-the-scenes machinations of the foundational systems that make our societies function. After reading The Infrastructure Book, readers…

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Todd May
Should We Go Extinct?

"Philosophical advisor to the hit NBC sitcom The Good Place contemplates the future of humanity-whether we should bring new humans into the world, or if the world would be better without us"--

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Rob Hopkins
How to Fall in Love with the Future

There are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of us---like threads stretching out into the distance. Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the international Transition Network movement, invites us t…

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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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Justin Raycraft
Conservation in Common

"Wildlife conservation in Tanzania is fraught with conflicts between the state, international organizations, private investors, and local communities over the rights to rangeland resources and the be…

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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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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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Allen Dieterich-Ward
Cradle of Conservation

"A survey of Pennsylvania's environmental history from pre-colonial and colonial eras through to the development of industrial and post-industrial society"--

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Arne Harms
Enduring Erosions

"Talking to people as we make our way around the village, we learn about the consequences of coastal erosion. We hear about, and see, the progress made by the sea and the rather futile efforts to sub…

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Michael Grunwald
We Are Eating the Earth

A groundbreaking piece of reportage concerning our vulnerable food system---and how we will eat in the near future.

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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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Grassroots Responses to Extractivism

"This volume aims to make visible the many innovative resistances, alternatives and cosmologies emanating from the Global South. Detailing case studies from Asia, Africa, and the Americas, the contri…

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Trent Preszler
Evergreen

A sweeping natural history of the most valuable trees on earth that have quietly transformed our economies, cultural traditions, and collective imagination for millennia. Every December, homes, offices, a…

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Julie Brugger
Public Land and Democracy in America

Julie Brugger explores what democracy means to ordinary Americans by analyzing conflict over public lands and the management of Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument in southern Utah.

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Sunil Amrith
The Burning Earth

In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on a…

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Incomputable Earth

Investigating the link between environmental breakdown and the increasing development of digital technologies, this is a vital intervention into what this means for our social, political, and planetary fu…

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Dan Rubinstein
Water Borne

"Dan Rubinstein's Water Borne is exhilarating, meditative, and funny --- but most of all, it's a paean to the power of blue space in our lives, our communities and our society. You won't be able to r…

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Richard Buttny
Unfracked

Since fracking emerged as a way of extracting natural gas, through intense deep drilling and the use of millions of gallons of water and chemicals to fracture shale, it has been controversial. It is perce…

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