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Lulu.com Prelude for a Tick
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Penguin Random House LLC A Vast Machine
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Penguin Random House LLC The Code of the City
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Penguin Random House LLC Cities and Complexity Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata AgentBased Models and Fractals
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Penguin Random House LLC Platos Revenge
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Penguin Random House LLC CodeSpace
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MIT Press Ltd Open for Business
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MIT Press Ending the Fossil Fuel Era The MIT Press
Book SynopsisA provocative call for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than accommodating them, accompanied by case studies from Ecuador to Appalachia and from Germany to Norway.Not so long ago, people North and South had little reason to believe that wealth from oil, gas, and coal brought anything but great prosperity. But the presumption of net benefits from fossil fuels is eroding as widening circles of people rich and poor experience the downside.A positive transition to a post-fossil fuel era cannot wait for global agreement, a swap-in of renewables, a miracle technology, a carbon market, or lifestyle change. This book shows that it is now possible to take the first step toward the post-fossil fuel era, by resisting the slow violence of extreme extraction and combustion, exiting the industry, and imagining a good life after fossil fuels. It shows how an environmental politics of transition might occur, arguing for going to the source rather than managing byproducts, for delegi
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Penguin Random House LLC Artificial Love A Story of Machines and Architecture
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MIT Press Thinking like a Mall Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature
Book SynopsisA provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the built environment.Environmentalism, in theory and practice, is concerned with protecting nature. But if we have now reached “the end of nature,” as Bill McKibben and other environmental thinkers have declared, what is there left to protect? In Thinking like a Mall, Steven Vogel argues that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of “nature” altogether and spoke instead of the “environment”—that is, the world that actually surrounds us, which is always a built world, the only one that we inhabit. We need to think not so much like a mountain (as Aldo Leopold urged) as like a mall. Shopping malls, too, are part of the environment and deserve as much serious consideration from environmental thinkers as do mountains. Vogel argues provoc
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Penguin Random House LLC Identity and the Natural Environment
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Penguin Random House LLC Winning Together The Natural Resource Negotiation Playbook The MIT Press
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MIT Press Living Well Now and in the Future MIT Press Why Sustainability Matters
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Penguin Random House LLC Faster Smarter Greener The Future of the Car and Urban Mobility The MIT Press
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Penguin Random House LLC A First Course in Turbulence The MIT Press
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MIT Press The New American Farmer Immigration Race and the Struggle for Sustainability Food Health and the Environment
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MIT Press Installing Automobility Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities Urban and Industrial Environments
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MIT Press Ltd Recycling Class
Book SynopsisAn ethnographic and community-engaged study of the class, caste, and gender politics of environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru, India’s discards.In Recycling Class, Manisha Anantharaman examines the ideas, flows, and relationships around unmanaged discards in Bengaluru, India, itself a massive environmental problem of planetary proportions, to help us understand what types of coalitions deliver social justice within sustainability initiatives. Recycling Class links middle-class, sustainable consumption with the environmental labor of the working poor to offer a relational analysis of urban sustainability politics and practice. Through ethnographic, community-based research, Anantharaman shows how diverse social groups adopt, contest, and modify neoliberal sustainability’s emphasis on market-based solutions, behavior change, and the aesthetic conflation of “clean” with “green.” Tracing garbage politics in Bengaluru for over a decade, Anantharaman argues that middle class “communal sustainability” efforts create new avenues for waste picker organizations to make claims for infrastructural inclusion. Coproduced “DIY infrastructures” serve as sites of citizenship and political negotiation, challenging the technocratic and growth-based logics of dominant sustainability policies. Yet, these configurations reproduce class, caste, and gender-based divisions of labor, demonstrating that inclusion without social reform can reproduce unjust distributions of risk and responsibility. Revealing the “win-win” fallacy of sustainability and foregrounding the agency of communities excluded from environmental policy, Recycling Class will appeal to scholars and activists alike who want to create a future with more transformative sustainability.
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MIT Press Navigating the Polycrisis
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MIT Press Ltd Liquid Power
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MIT Press Ltd Metabolism of the Anthroposphere second edition
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Penguin Random House LLC Rock Bone and Ruin
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MIT Press Ltd Modeling Cities and Regions as Complex Systems
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Penguin Random House LLC Geography and Trade Gaston Eyskens Lectures
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MIT Press Ltd Diamond
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Penguin Random House LLC Warming the World Economic Models of Global Warming The MIT Press
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Penguin Random House LLC The Logic of Sufficiency The MIT Press
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MIT Press Ornaments of the Metropolis Siegfried Kracauer and Modern Urban Culture The MIT Press
Book SynopsisVariations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's urban writings, suggesting ways in which the subjective can reappropraite urban life.For Siegfried Kracauer, the urban ornament was not just an aspect of design; it was the medium through which city dwellers interpreted the metropolis itself. In Ornaments of the Metropolis, Henrik Reeh traces variations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's writings on urbanism, from his early journalism in Germany between the wars to his sociobiography of Jacques Offenbach in Paris. Kracauer (1889-1966), often associated with the Frankfurt School and the intellectual milieu of Walter Benjamin, is best known for his writings on cinema and the philosophy of history. Reeh examines Kracauer's lesser-known early work, much of it written for the trendsetting newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung in the 1920s and early 1930s, and analyzes Kracauer's continuing reflections on modern urban life, through the pivotal idea of ornament. Kracauer d
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Pennsylvania State University Press Fragments from the History of Loss The Nature
Book SynopsisExamines the theoretical framing of “nature” in South Africa and beyond. Analyzes myths and fantasies that have brought the world to a point of climate catastrophe and continue to shape the narratives through which it is understood.Trade Review“Louise Green has compiled an important collection of analyses, focusing on the problem of nature in the age of climate change, and relating this to cultural circumstances in colonial and postcolonial Africa. These fascinating, well-researched, and surprisingly original studies show how nature is produced as a cultural relic in late capitalist society. Her book is an important contribution to the fields of Anthropocene studies, African studies, and cultural studies.”—John Noyes,author of Herder: Aesthetics Against Imperialism“What if the Anthropocene means the end of Third World futures, a shift from freedom to responsibility? In Fragments from the History of Loss, Louise Green shows how nature is produced as concept, commodity, and alibi for exploitation. With bracing nuance and salutary attention to inequality and immiseration, this scintillating book sifts through slices of time and fragments of nature in order to assemble shards of wisdom for living—lightly, with less—in the Anthropocene. An indispensable rejoinder to depoliticizing, universalist accounts of environmental crisis.”—Jennifer Wenzel,author of The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature“This brief but thought-provoking study challenges readers to view nature through a broad "constellation" . . . of historical and contemporary elements that illustrate the ways humans created a nature industry to reflect their interests rather than as something objectively natural.”—A. S. MacKinnon Choice“This book is an extraordinary curation of the relationship between the global nature industry and the postcolony. It embroiders seemingly unrelated moments and places them into a compelling whole, from the extinction of the mammoth and the ironies of a shopping bag promoting the plight of Africa’s wild dogs, to personal observations of queuing for water at Cape Town’s public fountain and the history of the Land Rover in South Africa.”—Jasmin Kirkbride Green Letters: Studies in EcocriticismTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. The Nature Industry2. Nature in Fragments3. Living in the Subjunctive4. The Primitive Accumulation of Nature5. The Cult of the Wild6. Privatizing Nature7. Living at the End of NatureNotesReferencesIndex
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Wildly Successful Farming Sustainability and the New Agricultural Land Ethic
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Yale University Press Four Neotropical Rainforests
Book SynopsisThe disappearance of tropical forests is a problem for the world environment. In this book, experts on four rainforest sights in Central and South America - Manaus, Brazil; Manu Park, Peru; Barro Colorado Island, Panama; and La Selva, Costa Rica - compare the characteristics of these systems.
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Yale University Press Natures Government
Book SynopsisThis attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science and imperialism argues that expansion led to increasing knowledge. Science was fed by information culled from around the globe, aiding imperialism by guiding the exploitation of exotic climes and making conquest seem beneficial.
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Yale University Press The Ecology and Biogeography of Nothofagus Forests
Book SynopsisNothofagus - southern beeches - is a genus which grows in southern temperate zone regions separated by large oceans. This work focuses on the distribution, history and ecology of Nothofagus, seeking thereby to provide a clearer understanding of modern vegetation patterns in the southern hemisphere.
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Yale University Press A Primer for Environmental Literacy
Book SynopsisThis text presents the key concepts of environmental science for those who are not natural scientists. It offers a way to improve environmental literacy - the capacity to understand the connections between humans and their environment. There are reading lists for each topic covered.
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Yale University Press Saving Natures Legacy Origins of the Idea of Biological Diversity
Book SynopsisBiological diversity is considered one of the most urgent environmental concerns. This book explores the historical roots of biological diversity, tracing the evolution of the term as well as the history of the conservation traditions that contributed to its rapid acceptance and popularity.Trade Review“In examining an idea that is now driving conservation worldwide, Tim Farnham gets the story right in a way that no one else has. His book is richly detailed, yet catches the large themes beautifully.”—Elliott Norse, president, Marine Conservation Biology Institute -- Elliott Norse"This book contributes something unique to the literature of what might be called the history and philosophy of conservation. It treats the term and concept of biodiversity itself as its subject and provides an analytic and historical study of it."—J. Baird Callicott, University of North Texas -- J. Baird Callicott
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Yale University Press Enlightenments Frontier
Book SynopsisLooks at the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment - which gave birth to modern-day environmentalism - and sheds new light on Scottish thinkers such as Carl Linneaus, David Hume and Adam Smith. In this book, the author argues that Smith's defence of free markets was actually based on idealized notions of self-regulating natural systems.Trade Review “Enlightenment’s Frontier is a wonderful work of environmental, intellectual and social history, which will change historical understanding of eighteenth-century Scotland and illuminate contemporary choices about energy and sustainability.”—Emma Rothschild, Harvard University -- Emma Rothschild “A lively work, written with subtlety, some considerable humor, and always conscious of its contemporary relevance . . . this volume should be read by those with an interest in the history of enlightenment thought, empire and science, development ideology, and environmentalism.”—Paul Warde, University of East Anglia -- Paul Warde “An important and interesting book and one that should speak to different historical scholars—of Enlightenment, of intellectual history, of British and Scottish history.”—Charles W. J. Withers, University of Edinburgh -- Charles W J Withers“This nuanced study is a model of intellectual and environmental history.”—Environmental History * Environmental History *“[Jonsson’s] learned and lucidly written book will draw other scholars’ attention to the period when enlightened Scots looked northward with a mixture of nostalgia, puzzlement, and trepidation.”—Journal of British Studies * Journal of British Studies *“One of the most interesting books published on the Scottish Enlightenment in some time . . . For those interested in the Enlightenment, environmentalism, and eighteenth-century Scotland, this is a book to be read.”—American Historical Review * American Historical Review *“An insightful interpretation of how the Highlands served as a focal point for the environmental reflections of naturalists and politicians.”—Eighteenth-Century Studies * Eighteenth-Century Studies *
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Yale University Press Columbuss Outpost among the Taínos
Trade Review"Thanks to the superlative efforts of Kathleen Deagan and José Maria Cruxent, the archaeology of La Isabela—one of America’s most important sites—is now accessible to the world. Columbus’s Outpost among the Taínos is destined to become a classic in the field of historical archaeology."—David Hurst Thomas, American Museum of Natural History “La Isabela, founded by Columbus during his second voyage, was the first Spanish settlement in the New World. Kathleen Deagan and J.M. Cruxent are uniquely qualified to discuss this important event. Their book is based on sound scholarship and its style is clear and readable.”—Irving Rouse, author of The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus
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Yale University Press Climate Cultures Anthropological Perspectives on Climate Change
Trade Review“A brilliant overview of this emerging area of study. Barnes and Dove have provided an accessible volume that will shape the social study of climate and climate change from here on.”—Jesse Ribot, University of Illinois -- Jesse Ribot“Climate Cultures offers major insights, makes significant contributions, and illustrates the impressive scope of current anthropological perspectives applied to understanding climate change in new and original ways. It is extremely important scholarship.”—Karl Zimmerer, Pennsylvania State University -- Karl Zimmerer“From the meetings of the IPCC to the perambulations of herders in India, these essays do the crucial work of mapping the origins and impacts of circulating, global, and power-laden climate change cultures.”—Paul Robbins, author of Political Ecology: A Critical Introduction -- Paul Robbins
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Yale University Press Birthright
Book SynopsisHuman health and wellbeing is inextricably linked to nature; our connection to the natural world is part of our biological inheritance. In this book, a pioneer in the field of biophilia - the study of human beings' inherent affinity for nature - sets forth the first full account of nature's powerful influence on the quality of our lives.Trade Review"'Kellert challenges our 'adversarial' approach to nature with an exploration of eight ways in which we derive meaning from it, from attraction to exploitation... This is a nuanced analysis punctuated with insightful personal narratives.' (Nature) 'This is a very thought-provoking book... Kellert draws both on his personal opinions/observations as well as published peer-review literature. And it's his personal interjections that infuse this book with a sense of wonderment and respect for the natural world.' (T. DeLene Beeland, Wild Muse)"
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Springer Ball Lightning and Bead Lightning Extreme Forms of Atmospheric Electricity
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Springer RiskBenefit Analysis in Water Resources Planning and Management
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Springer Electroanalytical Methods in Chemical and Environmental Analysis
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Springer Appropriate Waste Management for Developing Countries
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Springer Nearshore Sediment Transport
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Springer History and Precedent in Environmental Design
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Springer Petrology of Lamproites
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Springer Surface and Colloid Chemistry in Natural Waters and Water Treatment
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