New Books in Environmental Studies
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Richard Breitman, "The Journal of Holocaust and...
"The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies" is turning twenty-five...
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J. Browning and T. Silver, "An Environmental Hi...
This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world....
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Daniel P. Aldrich, "Black Wave: How Networks an...
Aldrich illuminates two critical factors that had a direct influence on why survival rates varied so much across the Tōhoku region...
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Solomon Goldstein-Rose, "The 100% Solution: A P...
In this New Books Network interview, we speak about the political, industrial, and scientific changes that need to occur by 2050 to solve climate change, as well as the importance of focusing on real solutions rather than wallowing in fear....
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JoAnna Poblete, "Balancing the Tides: Marine Pr...
Poblete demonstrates how western-style economics, policy-making, and knowledge building imposed by the U.S. federal government have been infused into the daily lives of American Samoans...
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Sandra Postel, "Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle o...
To understand our past and provide hope for our future Sandra takes readers around the world to explore water projects....
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R. Sroufe and S. Melnyk, "Developing Sustainabl...
Sroufe and Melnyk provide a multi-perspective approach to sustainability and value chains to allow understanding from a variety of disciplines and professional backgrounds...
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Thaisa Way, "River Cities, City Rivers" (Dumbar...
Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history...
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Kregg Hetherington, "The Government of Beans: R...
Hetherington dives into the fate of Paraguay’s Pink Tide regime...
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Matto Mildenberger, "Carbon Captured: How Busin...
Why do some countries pass legislation regulating carbon or protecting the environment while others do not?
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Robert Sroufe, "Integrated Management: How Sust...
What can be done, then, by individuals, functions, organizations, value chains, and even whole cities to integrate and align sustainability?
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Rachel Mundy, "Animal Musicalities: Birds, Beas...
What makes song sparrows, Verdi, medieval monks, and minstrelsy part of the same taxonomy?
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Eric Holthaus, "The Future Earth: A Radical Vis...
Holthaus offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades...
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Thomas C. Rust, "Watching over Yellowstone: The...
When, in 1883, Congress charged the US Army with managing Yellowstone National Park, soldiers encountered a new sort of hostility...
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Lee McIntyre, "The Scientific Attitude: Defendi...
What can explain the success of science as an endeavor for getting closer to truth?
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Julia Obertreis, "Imperial Desert Dreams: Cotto...
Obertreis explores the infrastructural, technical, and environmental aspects of the history of cotton agriculture and irrigation in Soviet Central Asia...
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
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Jane Hutton, "Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of...
How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed?
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Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, "Landscape of Migration: Mo...
Nobbs-Thiessen traces the entwined histories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants to Amazonian Bolivia...
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Johan Elverskog, "The Buddha’s Footprint: An En...
Elverskog challenges the popular image of Buddhism as a religion intrinsically concerned with the environment...
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Adam M. Sowards, "An Open Pit Visible from the ...
With the Wilderness Act (1964) unable to protect this area of outstanding beauty, conservationists set out to apply moral rather than legal strategies of resistance...
30 min
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Toshihiro Higuchi, "Political Fallout: Nuclear ...
Higuchi presents a history of the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, by which the then-nuclear powers, US, USSR, and UK, agreed to cease, among other things, the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons...
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Betsy Gaines Quammen, "American Zion: Cliven Bu...
Quammen situates the Bundy standoff within the long and convoluted history of Mormon migration into the American West—and provides an exciting new take on religion in modern American politics...
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A. M. Barton and W. S. Keeton, "Ecology and Rec...
Old-growth forests captivate and inspire us. Walking through them can transport us to a time before human domination of the natural world....
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Robert Sroufe et al, "The Power of Existing Bui...
Your building has the potential to change the world...
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