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Book SynopsisThis book examines the growing role and importance of 'Protection Gap Entities' (PGEs). The authors use practical examples from different countries to explain how PGEs step in to maintain disaster insurance and how their work can, but does not always, improve financial and physical resilience to disaster.Trade ReviewAs the rising frequency, severity and variety of catastrophic loss events challenge the efficacy - and perhaps even the relevance - of the traditional insurance model, the authors identify and analyze a diverse set of promising but ad hoc collaborative programs for managing catastrophe risks. From this survey emerges a practical framework through which governments, the private sector, and impacted communities may constructively engage to develop holistic and sustainable solutions to some of today's most difficult-to-insure risks. * Jason Schupp, Founder & Managing Member, Center for Better Insurance *How can individuals, cities and societies insure against increasingly extreme disasters? Protection Gap Entities, as organizational innovations created between market and state, are an answer. This important and superbly clear book shows how PGEs aim to correct insurance market disequilibrium and to re-imagine insurability in a riskier world. Based on immersion in PGEs across the globe, the authors demonstrate the varied operational challenges they face as they try to save insurance from its own paradoxes. But this is much more than a book about insurance; its subject matter is urgent and existential. For this reason, it should be read widely by social scientists and policymakers * Michael Power, Professor of Accounting, London School of Economics and Political Science *Who pays for our increasing global disasters? This brilliantly researched book highlights how this complex problem depends on a fine-tuned balancing of paradoxical tensions. Anyone that wants to make more transparent the hidden realities of disaster responses, financial markets and the paradoxical tensions that inform them must read this book * Wendy Smith. Dana J. Johnson Professor of Management, University of Delaware *This timely book is essential reading for anybody with a stake in insurability at a time of intensifying natural disasters: from risk specialists to those interested in building resilient systems in the face of climate change, such as governments, development and humanitarian organizations. The way the authors discuss Protection Gap Entities (PGEs) via interlinked paradoxes is illuminating. Readers will learn to appreciate the fine balance on which insurance is built, encompassing questions of knowledge, responsibility, and market structure. I would use the authors' conceptual framework not only to discuss specialist topics around disaster insurability, but also to teach insurance fundamentals to diverse audiences, from technical experts to policymakers. * Andreas Tsanakas, Professor of Risk Management, City, University of London *Many have observed the limitations of private insurance when it comes to financial protection from disasters. When people face disasters without insurance, harm and heartache multiplies. With this book, we finally have the tools to understand why those limitations exist and the critical role played by Protection Gap Entities (PGEs) when those limitations cannot be overcome by the private sector alone. This book is essential reading; not only for what it teaches us about the complex landscape of insurance today, but also for the ways it pushes us to think creatively about how to build more sustainable and humane forms of social protection in the future. A timely, stimulating, major contribution. * Rebecca Elliott, London School of Economics and Political Science *The frequency and intensity of weather extremes is increasing due to climate change. Most affected regions are well advised to establish new and strengthen already existing disaster risk pooling arrangements. The book provides strong evidence for the effectiveness of Protection Gap Entities (PGEs) in helping close the disaster loss gap, not least as they comprehensively convene risk owners and often incentivise prevention and preparedness. A must read for decision makers aiming to strengthen disaster resilience in a comprehensive and sustainable fashion * David N. Bresch, Professor for Weather and Climate Risks, ETH Zurich / MeteoSwiss *This book is essential and riveting reading for policymakers and risk professionals interested in how we build financial and physical resilience to disasters. It provides a ground-breaking exposition of the vital role public-private partnerships (Protection Gap Entities - PGEs) play in covering insurance protection gaps. It provides an insightful tour of developed and developing insurance markets confronting disasters from earthquake, flood, cyclone, and drought to terrorism. Based on an unprecedented multi-stakeholder dataset from 17 PGEs providing disaster insurance in 49 countries, Paula and her co-authors explain why PGEs are established, how they evolve, and imagine what future role they can play in enabling insurability in the face of escalating risk. * Julian Enoizi, Global Head of Public Sector Practice, Guy Carpenter *In face of extreme weather, terrorist attacks, seismological disasters, financial collapse, and other calamities, how can we do disaster insurance well? This timely and deeply researched book, based on hundreds of interviews and hours of fieldwork across multiple countries, provides essential learning lessons for academics and practitioners alike. An outstanding contribution to unveiling the complexities of the disaster insurance system, it also illuminates crucially how cross-sector collaborations can be leveraged to bring about economic stability and greater equity. * Nina Bandelj, Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Irvine *This book reimagines disaster insurance at times where the world is facing compounding crises that can further widen the protection gap. As the climate and disaster risk finance and insurance landscape is quickly evolving, especially in emerging markets and developing economies, this book provides the reader with the right tools to understand how protection gap entities can help governments, firms and households access disaster insurance solutions and reduce the protection gap. * Olivier Mahul, Global Lead and Program Manager, Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance Program, World Bank *Disaster Insurance Reimagined: Protection in a Time of Increasing Risk is a must-read book for all catastrophe insurance professionals and all others interested in the role insurance can play in dealing with the growing loss from both the rise in exposure and climate change. Clever and easy to read, this work provides framework, sets the issues at stake and makes explicit the underlying philosophy by which catastrophe insurance is provided in very different jurisdictions. * Francisco Espejo Gil, Consorcio de Compensacion de Seguros *Table of Contents1: Protection Gap Entities: Saving insurance from itself? 2: Paradoxes of origination: Between too little and too much knowledge 3: Shouldering the burden: Who controls the market and has responsibility for protection? 4: Problem solved? Between static remits and evolving environments 5: Limiting loss: Between financial and physical resilience 6: Reimagining disaster insurance: Towards a new equilibrium Appendix A: The disaster risk transfer process Appendix B: Methodology Glossary

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Book SynopsisBreathing with the Climate Crisis offers a hopeful narrative about the climate crisis, a new, different perspective that could unleash the courage to act. Young people and farmers from the East, South, North and West asked at a world biodynamic conference, How can we find our own breath? Do we need more facts? More head? More heart? Feeling? Poetry?' Theysuggest that you begin with your own inquiry process, ask yourself your burning questions'. Think further. Also, think with your head, heart and hands

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how Qatar became a major player in the global energy market. Part historical analysis, part in-the-room narrative, it is the definitive account of oil and gas development in Qatar.Trade ReviewFrom Black Gold to Frozen Gas is the definitive account of Qatar’s growth from a tiny backwater to a major force in global markets and regional politics. This book draws on Tusiani’s fifty years working in Qatar’s gas industry to provide a fascinating and well-told insider’s account, featuring both deep research and unique personal insight. -- Lisa Anderson, Columbia UniversityA unique historical account of Qatar’s energy industry. Tusiani and Johnson detail the country’s accomplishments as well as covering the challenges faced along the way. This book will be a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Qatar, global energy, and geopolitics. -- Talal Abdulla Al-Emadi, dean, Qatar University College of LawTable of ContentsForewordPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Qatar Before Oil: A Historical Perspective2. Qatar’s First Oil Concession: Twists and Turns3. Eureka! Oil Is Discovered at Qatar’s Dukhan Field4. Choppy Waters: Qatar’s First Marine Oil Concession5. Qatar’s Ruler Presses for Better Oil Terms6. Labor Strikes, Another Abdication, and an Industrial Project7. Independence, First Gas Liquids Project, and a Bloodless Coup8. The Early Khalifa Years: 1970s Resource Nationalism9. Explosion Destroys Qatar’s First NGL Plant10. Crunch Time Looms for North West Dome Gas Field11. Partners Selected for Major North Field Gas Project12. Qatar Embarks on First Stage of North Field Gas Project13. Rocky Road for Qatar’s First LNG Project14. Tough Launch for Mobil’s RasGas LNG Project15. Financial Difficulties Mount After 1995 CoupEpilogue: North Field Gas Transforms Qatar into Energy SuperpowerAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndexAbout the Authors

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Book SynopsisOil, like other fossil fuels, permeates every aspect of human existence. Yet it has been largely ignored by cultural critics, especially in the context of the Global South. Seeking to make visible not only the pervasiveness of oil in society and culture but also its power, Oil Fictions stages a critical intervention that aligns with the broader goals of the energy humanities. Exploring literature and film about petroleum as a genre of world literature, Oil Fictions focuses on the ubiquity of oil as well as the cultural response to petroleum in postcolonial states. The chapters engage with African, South American, South Asian, Iranian, and transnational petrofictions and cover topics such as the relationship of colonialism to the fossil fuel economy, issues of gender in the Thermocene epoch, and discussions of migration, precarious labor, and the petro-diaspora. This unique exploration includes testimonies of the oil encounterthrough memoirs, journals, and interviewsfrom a diverse geoTrade Review“This excellent collection not only provides an authoritative introduction to petrofiction’s key texts, conceptual debates, and critical methodologies but also extends the range and scope of that work. In their impressive expansion of the geographical ambit and theoretical concerns of oil fiction, particularly into the Global South, these essays offer new and hitherto underrealized perspectives. They are what the field has been waiting for.”—Graeme Macdonald,coauthor of Combined and Uneven Development: Toward a New Theory of World-Literature“Oil Fictions covers considerable ground in analyzing oil fiction as well as identifying new sensibilities associated with oil’s fantasy of progress and well-being.”—Sofia Ahlberg ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and EnvironmentTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Reading Our Contemporary PetrosphereStacey Balkan and Swaralipi Nandi1. Petrofiction, RevisitedAmitav Ghosh2. Energy and Autonomy: Worker Struggles and the Evolution of Energy SystemsAshley Dawson3. Gendering Petrofiction: Energy, Imperialism, and Social ReproductionSharae Deckard4. Petrofeminism: Love in the Age of OilHelen Kapstein5. “We Are Pipeline People”: Nnedi Okorafor’s Ecocritical SpeculationsWendy W. Walters6. Petro-drama in the Niger Delta: Ben Binebai’s My Life in the Burning Creeks and Oil’s “Refuse of History”Henry Obi Ajumeze7. Documenting “Cheap Nature” in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace: A Petro-aesthetic CritiqueStacey Balkan8. Aestheticizing Absurd Extraction: Petro-capitalism in Deepak Unnikrishnan’s “In Mussafah Grew People”Swaralipi Nandi9. Petro-cosmopolitics: Oil and the Indian Ocean in Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason Micheal Angelo Rumore10. Xerodrome Lube: Cyclonic Geopoetics and Petropolytical War MachinesSimon Ryle11. Oil Gets Everywhere: Critical Representations of the Petroleum Industry in Spanish American LiteratureScott DeVries12. Conjectures on World Energy LiteratureImre Szeman13. Petrofiction as Stasis in Abdelrahman Munif’s Cities of Salt and Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland Corbin HidayMemoirs and Interviews14. Assessing the Veracity of the Gulf Dreams: An Interview with Author BenyaminMaya Vinai15. Testimonies from the Permian BasinKristen Figgins, Rebecca Babcock, and Sheena StiefAfterwordContributorsIndex

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Book Synopsis''In this enlightening guide to container gardening, Ann Treneman comprehensively dispels the notion that growing plants in a pot is in any way a second-best option...the real strength of this book is the author''s enthusiasm for creating a container garden that will not only look beautiful but will also benefit nature.''Daily Mail***This complete primer on how to make an eco-friendly container garden is dedicated to showing that everyone can have a garden, no matter the size, that can benefit the planet.RHS Greener Gardening: Containers guides you through greener choices when it comes to creating a container garden including materials, design, plant choice and maintenance. A few pots on the patio or a window box can become a dynamic mini eco system. A balcony garden can attract wildlife. With the right plants to choose from, a patio can hold an orchard. It''s all a matter of ''thinking green'', using recycled materials when po

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Book SynopsisMapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock. With an impressive career spanning nearly half a century as an educator, researcher, artist, and practitioner, Sandercock is one of the leading figures in community planning, dedicating her life to pursuing social, cultural, and environmental justice through her work.In this book, Leonie Sandercock reflects on her past writings and films, which played an important role in redefining the field in more progressive directions, both in theory and practice. It includes previously published essays in conjunction with insightful commentaries prefacing each section, and four new essays, two discussing Sandercock's most recent work on a feature-film project with Indigenous partners. Innovative, visionary, and audacious, Leonie's community-based scholarship and practice in the fields of urban planning and community development have engaged some of the most intractable Trade Review“[This] book is not just an autobiographical review of one of the most thoughtful and inspiring writers in the planning field. It is also about how to open up possibilities for life enhancing futures in communities at the harsh margins of contemporary anglo-american social order. It is about a search for generating ‘purpose and hope’ in such communities and in doing so, learning about different ways of thinking and acting, and about how those of us trained to offer their ‘expertise’ should ourselves think and act. As a demonstration of what it takes to be a reflective practitioner looking back on her work, Mapping Possibility provides a fine introduction to the work a major scholar in our field and should be high on many a reading list.”Patsy Healey, Emeritus Professor of Town and Country Planning, Newcastle University, UK; an exerpt from a review in Planning Theory and Practice Journal. "In this book, one of community planning’s leading thinkers pulls back the curtain on the intellectual and personal journey that has shaped four decades of scholarship. This collection will inspire anew those of us familiar with her work and be a touchstone text for future thinkers and practitioners of community planning."Libby Porter, Professor, Centre for Urban Research, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia"In a book of imagination and wonder, Leonie Sandercock has interwoven politics and personal experience to surprise us all, to expand our senses of possibility, to give us an empowering vision of connection and responsibility, intimacy and critical politics too." John Forester, Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, USA"Sandercock provides an inside-out account of the ways of being, knowing, and acting that shaped her scholarship and practice, spanning the 1970s to the present. Her rich, reflective commentaries show how experience and academic insight co-evolve, so that the reader can deeply understand the fourteen seminal works included in the volume."Richard Willson, Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California, USA"Leonie brings to life forty years of debates in planning theory and practice before pointing to the next threshold: reimagining the soul of planning. Using her storytelling skills, this weaving of personal memoir and critical reflection on her own writings and film making is innovative, life affirming, and insightful, recognizing that we are not just talking heads." Patricia A. Wilson, Professor, Graduate Program in Community and Regional Planning, School of Architecture, University of Texas, Austin, USATable of ContentsIntroduction; PART I Diversifying Planning’s History, Theory, and Epistemology; Commentary: The Los Angeles Years: 1986–1996; 1 Rewriting Planning History: Official and Insurgent Stories (1998); 2 Who Knows?: Exploring Planning’s Knowledges (2003); 3 Voices from the Borderlands: A Meditation on a Metaphor (1995); PART II Imagining Cities of Difference; Commentary: The Cosmopolis Project: From Theory to Practice, 1992–2006; 4 Towards Cosmopolis: A Postmodern Utopia (1998); 5 When Strangers Become Neighbors: Managing Cities of Difference (2000); 6 Mongrel Cities of the 21st Century: Is Multiculturalism the Solution, or the Problem? (2006); PART III Expanding the Language of Planning; Commentary: The Storytelling Project: 1986–2022; 7 Out of the Closet: The Importance of Stories and Storytelling in Planning Practice (2003); 8 Digital Ethnography as Planning Praxis: An Experiment with Film as Social Research, Community Engagement, and Policy Dialogue (2010); 9 Changing the Lens: Film as Action Research and Therapeutic Planning Practice; 10 Edge of the Knife: Film as a Catalyst for Indigenous Cultural Revitalization? (2022); PART IV Navigating Indigenous Worlds: Praxis and Pedagogy; Commentary: The Inner Journey: 2007–2022; 11 Finding My Way: Emotions and Ethics in Community-Based Action Research with Indigenous Communities (2018); 12 Partnership Praxis in a ‘Reconciliation’ Context: What Is Mine to Do? (2022); 13 Beyond Cosmopolis: Dreaming Co-existence as Indigenous Justice (2019); Conclusion: Mapping Possibility: The View from 2022; Commentary: Beneath the Pavement, the Beach?; 14 Once Upon a Planet: Reimagining the Soul of Planning (2022)

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Book SynopsisGathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, offering scholars and activists ways of seeing and doing to help navigate our turbulent present.Abolition Geography moves us away from explanations of mass incarceration and racist violence focused on uninterrupted histories of prejudice or the dull compulsion of neoliberal economics. Instead, Gilmore offers a geographical grasp of how contemporary racial capitalism operates through an "anti-state state" that answers crises with the organized abandonment of people and environments deemed surplus to requirement. Gilmore escapes one-dimensional conceptions of what liberation demands, who demands liberation, or what indeed is to be abolished. Drawing on the lessons of grassroots organizing and internationalist imaginaries, Abolition Geography undoes the identification of abolition with mere decarceration, and reminds us that freedom is not a mere principle but a place.Edited with an introduction by Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano.Trade ReviewScholars like Ruthie Gilmore, filmmakers like Ava Duvernay, and formerly incarcerated people like Glenn Martin have all done work to expose the many injustices of the industry of our prison system. -- Jay-Z * Time *Ruth Gilmore lays bare the diabolical logic of neoliberal incarceration. She shows us that the prison is a symptom of the decline of our civilization, how the California Nightmare has produced its disposable population. Gilmore's depressingly hopeful analysis is a wake-up call for our somnolence. -- Vijay Prashad, author of Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, WorkfareRuth Gilmore, indefatigable activist-scholar, is one of our most dangerous and important minds. A radical geographer with roots in the Black liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, she pioneered the study of mass incarceration's catastrophic impacts on inner-city families and neighborhoods, and together with Angela Davis has played a catalytic role in the creation of today's movement for prison abolition. This powerful collection of essays is an indispensable conceptual armory for that struggle. -- Mike DavisRuthie's clarity and courage is a talisman for these monstrous times, and a guide out of them. -- Vijay Prashad, director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.Abolition Geography isn't shallow romanticism. It is a rigorous criticism of capitalist social relations, which foment premature death and needless suffering of the poor and destroy the planet. Abolition geography is a human necessity for there to be freedom and a livable earth. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, one of the foremost revolutionary thinkers on abolition, draws on real historical traditions of getting free, showing us what is possible and necessary. -- Nick Estes, author of Our History is the FutureThis well-crafted assemblage of thirty years worth of Ruthie Gilmore's countless, brilliant interventions is a tremendous gift to our movements. While tending to grounded practices and particularities, Ruthie's meticulous mapping of interconnected histories offers us prescient analyses across scale, geography, and time. At a time of incredible uncertainty and global upheaval, Abolition Geography illuminates a political vocabulary and vision that reorganizes even conventional left ideologies; a tour de force and absolute must read for our collective trajectories of freedom making as world making. -- Harsha Walia, author of Border and Rule and Undoing Border ImperialismThe leaderly wisdom of Ruth Wilson Gilmore infuses this hefty volume, making it an indispensible compendium of practical abolitionism. In her hands, reducing police powers and dismantling the prison industrial complex become immediate matters of political struggle. If you want to come to terms with the movement that shaped the "American Summer" of 2020, this is the best available starting point. -- Paul Gilroy, author of The Black AtlanticRuth Wilson Gilmore is one of the most impactful radical thinkers of our time. This compilation of thirty years' worth of essays, interviews, and co-written reflections, is evidence of the depth and breadth of her extraordinary political praxis. Powerful, provocative, inspiring and inciting, this edited collection offers a formidable indictment of racial capitalism and the carceral state, a deep, complex and multi-faceted portrait of abolitionist work, and a call to action. Readers concerned with freedom-making and liberation will read this brilliant body of work carefully and act decisively. -- Barbara Ransby, activist, historian and author of several books, including Making All Black Lives Matter and Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement.Abolition Geography is a collection of three decades of Ruth Wilson's Gilmore's brilliance in the form of essays and interviews on the politics of abolition as a theorist, researcher and organizer. The result is a precious gift that will be read, studied and cherished for years to come by those of us who believe her when she says to be green we must be red, and to be red our world building must be planetary. -- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of Noopiming: The Cure for White LadiesAn essential collection of writings from one of the most important thinkers on abolition, geography and racism of our time. -- Karla J. Strand * Ms.Magazine *Abolition Geography is the first collection of writing by this major thinker, activist, and writer in the fields of racism, geography, and incarceration. The book includes essays, articles, and interviews from the last two decades, covering topics such as the origin of mass incarceration and racial violence and the concept of the 'anti-state state'. * Autostraddle *Anyone with an interest in the critical theory of mass incarceration and social justice can't miss this first-ever compendium of writing by one of the most brilliant and radical minds in the field. [An] impactful guidebook for a whole new generation looking to join the movement. * The Chicago Review of Books *For over three decades, Gilmore's work has been crucial to the study of policing and prison abolition...Her newest anthology, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation, includes essays on policing, capitalism and organizing [that] are more critical than ever two years after the largest street mobilization in decades. Expertly assembled by scholars Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano, the anthology reproduces Gilmore's essays chronologically from 1991 to 2018. The only way to escape the cycles of police violence, protest and retrenchment will be to collectively build popular, abolitionist frameworks for relating to each other. Gilmore's work helps us move toward that goal. -- Andreas Petrossiants * AJ+ *A geographer by training, Gilmore has a sweeping understanding of prisons and policing, one that approaches the issue at scale. If you haven't read her yet, it's a good year to start. -- Lexi McMenamin * Teen Vogue *A scathing exploration of global systems of oppression through a lens of geography, in which [Gilmore] asserts that freedom and liberation are a physical, tangible place - they're material conditions, not platitudes and niceties from ultra-rich politicians. -- Kylie Cheung * Jezebel *Introduced by a stimulating essay by Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano, [Abolition Geography] ranges from theoretical chapters originally published in academic journals to public speeches and interviews conducted with other scholars. This anthology format allows the reader to see how Gilmore introduces, experiments with and then develops ideas in real time, taking us from the 1992 Los Angeles riots to the 2021 neo-fascist attack on the US Capitol building. -- Christopher McMichael * New Frame *Gilmore is clear as a bell: potent and factual on injustice, filled with sharp intelligence and even wit, but also somehow continuously surprising and emotional. With every page, Gilmore forces us to think of race, class, prisons, and the world in entirely new ways. -- Kamil Ahsan * NPR *Gilmore's work is enlightening and informative, a must-read for scholars and activists seeking a complex and interdisciplinary deep dive to effectively drive systemic change...Anyone committed to prison reform and social justice has much to learn from Gilmore's insights about the cognitive work and tactical organizing required to imagine and build an abolitionist future. -- Maileen Hamto * Seattle Book Review *Gilmore's prose is descriptive and direct; it describes a society whose economy has failed too many of its members and whose only solution is to create a police state. -- Ron Jacobs * Counterpunch *More than explaining or urging any single scalar change in social life, the purpose of Abolition Geography is to develop the ability of its readers to study the transformations of racial capitalism, figure out what to do about them, and follow through with enough patience to withstand the enormity of the task and enough urgency to get it done...Abolition Geography is written to be used. -- Kay Gabriel * Dissent *As Gilmore always reminds us, theory is a guide for action. This volume is a call to get on with the practice of getting free together. -- Orlando R. Serrano, Jr. * Smithsonian Magazine, Best Books of 2022 *Notable book, 2022 * Seminary Co-op *[Abolition Geography] is only the latest generous and supportive gift from Gilmore to liberation-minded abolitionist movements. This gift seems to be written as a call, an invitation to act and do...Abolition Geography contains fire, grit, and hope as well. -- Brit Schulte * The Avery Review *Gilmore highlights the role of social justice unionism and the ideological work of recognizing the continuum of exploitation and oppression and imperialism. Understanding the prison and policing system enables us to see how racist oppression and worker exploitation function to try to resolve the crisis of capitalism. Our people, our class, and our communities are the victims. * People's World *

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Book SynopsisCharles Maier offers a new narrative of the long twentieth century, focused on institutions that shaped politics and societies: project-states, driven by democratic or authoritarian ideologies; capital; and advocates of apolitical values, such as health, human rights, and international law. In this we discern the unfolding of our own troubled time.Trade ReviewMaier offers an alternative account of the last century, looking at how a wide range of actors tried to harness industrial modernity in the pursuit of power and material interests…[He] weaves a narrative about the explosive interplay of economic privilege and political grievance. -- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *Ambitious…It is Maier’s open worry about the fragility of our democratic order and about the considerable strength of the antidemocratic impulses in this third decade of the 21st century that makes The Project-State and Its Rivals a book that will last. -- Paul Kennedy * Wall Street Journal *Extraordinarily erudite and brimming with insight…[Maier] leaves open the question of whether the project-state will escape the dustbin of history and be revivified and redeployed, democratically, for the common good. -- Jonathan Ira Levy * Project Syndicate *Through his decades of scholarship and teaching on both sides of the Atlantic, Charles S. Maier has focused on one basic question, formulating and refining his answers with each successive book and monograph. His goal has been to understand and explain the ways in which advanced capitalist states evolved over the past century in response to world war, colonial war, cold war and economic globalisation. This…fascinating book provides a summation and updating of Maier’s lifelong work. -- David C. Unger * Survival *A very refreshing take on a history I thought I knew well. -- J. Bradford Delong * Harvard Magazine *[The] story of the exhaustion of the postwar political-economic order has now been told many times; what sets Maier’s account apart is the way he weaves together the work of capitalist activists and their allies in politics and think tanks with the work of governance activists in the same years. His wide-angle lens shows how the political and economic turbulence of that period led not only to the Volcker shock but to the rising prominence of NGOs and foundations seeking to restore order and stability at home and abroad. -- Jonathan S. Blake * Boston Review *An intriguing, sophisticated book about the relationships between the evolution of the modern nation-state and the concurrent forces of capitalism, popular politics, socialist responses, and bureaucratic governance. This is a deep and clever work, the culmination of an erudite historian's long grappling with humankind's mixed record of progress and failure. -- Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great PowersCharles Maier has produced a brilliantly innovative reconceptualization of twentieth-century history in terms of the interaction between states, resources, and markets. He sets a bold agenda for future thinking about the shape of the past one hundred years. -- Harold James, author of The War of Words: A Glossary of GlobalizationA true history of the present. The Project-State and Its Rivals is a powerful, insightful, and penetrating analysis of the major shifts in global order and social dynamics across the past century. There are few historians today who can venture to undertake such a tour d'horizon with equal confidence and expertise as Maier. -- Sebastian Conrad, author of What Is Global History?

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In George Meléndez Wright: The Fight for Wildlife and Wilderness in the National Parks, Emory grants Wright the well-deserved credit he is due. Part biography, part historical account, the book reads like a love letter to Wright." -- Lindsey Botts * Sierra, "5 Must-Read Books for Your Spring Reading List" *"Emory’s enumeration of Wright’s accomplishments—including a survey of wildlife in Western parks, the first of its kind—is nothing short of awe-inspiring. Emory, who is married to one of Wright’s granddaughters, has succeeded admirably in demonstrating the continuing relevance of Wright’s ideas and the value of his legacy. Highly recommended for nature lovers and park enthusiasts." * Library Journal *"Although Wright died in a car accident at age thirty-one, his fervor for our national parks and substantial achievements in furthering conservation biology left a lasting legacy and are a testament to how full and influential a short life can be." * Booklist *"Emory has in this book brought the remarkable story of George Meléndez Wright out of the shadows of national park history. It is a story of brilliance, vision, tragedy, and missed opportunity. . . . This book is an informative, thoroughly researched, and readable account of a remarkable man of historic importance." * National Parks Traveler *"Emory has in this book brought the remarkable story of George Meléndez Wright out of the shadows of national park history. It is a story of brilliance, vision, tragedy, and missed opportunity. . . . This book is an informative, thoroughly researched, and readable account of a remarkable man of historic importance." * Rewilding Earth *"Almost a century after his death, a dedicated young biologist remains a role model for conservationists." * Stanford Magazine *"The National Park Service has many unsung heroes, and George Meléndez Wright is in the top tier. In this book, conservation writer Emory documents how Wright was responsible for the first wildlife policy handbook developed for the NPS. . . . Emory's text is illustrated with black-and-white photos; interspersed throughout are short quotes primarily from Wright’s work but also from friends and others involved in the reformulation of wildlife policy. Anyone interested in the history and evolution of the national parks and the National Park Service will find this book a good read. Highly recommended." * Choice *“To those of us who have worked in conservation, and especially in the National Park Service, as I did for forty years, George Meléndez Wright is a hero, icon, and role model. His story deserves to be told, and Emory has done that well. It will inspire readers to lives in service to conservation of the planet upon which we all depend.” -- Jonathan B. Jarvis, eighteenth director of the National Park Service, coauthor of "The Future of Conservation in America" and "National Parks Forever"“George Meléndez Wright was a pivotal figure––pushing the vision of parks from scenic tourist spots to crucial sites for the preservation of the natural world. This remarkable, vibrant history fills a large gap in our understanding of––and appreciation for––a person who left a lasting legacy.” -- Dayton Duncan, writer/producer of "The National Parks: America’s Best Idea"“George Meléndez Wright cuts a remarkable figure in the history of American conservation: keen and patient observer of nature, acute scientist, skillful navigator of politics, passionate advocate for national parks, bilingual emissary to Spanish-speaking colleagues, poetic writer, and, above all, ecological visionary ahead of his time. He was also a generous and well-loved friend to many, which is why his accidental death at a young age was felt so acutely. Emory’s telling of Wright’s story superbly captures the full-to-the-brim life of this underappreciated pioneer of nature protection. Capitalizing on exclusive access to a trove of personal field journals and other papers, as well as archival research, Emory’s own prose sings with the spirit of George Meléndez Wright and leaves us inspired to carry on his work in our own time.” -- David Harmon, executive director of the George Wright SocietyTable of ContentsForeword Preface: Field Notes and Family Prologue: Serendipity Chapter 1. The Magic Window Chapter 2. University of California, Berkeley Chapter 3. Summers: Alaska and the West Chapter 4. Yosemite: Dream Achieved, 1927–29 Chapter 5. Am I Visionary, or Just Crazy? Chapter 6. Beginnings: The Wildlife Survey, 1930 Chapter 7. The Intangible Beauty of Nature, 1931–33 Chapter 8. New Deal, Old Problems Chapter 9. Outstanding Men Chapter 10. It Looks Like a Resurrection Chapter 11. Chapo Chapter 12. Legacy Epilogue: On a Good Day Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekMagnificent' GuardianRemarkable A compact classic!' Bill McKibbenI learned something new and found something amazing on every page' Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot SeeFens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources. Here, Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment, and their systemic destruction in the pursuit of profit. Travelling from the fens of sixteenth-century England to America's Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Fen, Bog and Swamp is both a revelatory history and an urgent plea for wetland reclamation, from one of our greatest prose stylists.A rousing call to action' EsquireSparklingly furious it has a profoundly positive message' Richard Mabey, TelegraphThis haunting tribute is a pleasure to read' Financial TimesTrade Review‘Proulx wants us to see the loss of wetlands – and to appreciate the beauty in these swampy and often stinking places. Boy, does she succeed. The prose is just magnificent, bringing to life hitherto overlooked habitats’ Guardian ‘Proulx’s book is truly peat-ish: layered, learned, feisty, wildly discursive, and most certainly “undulating, dreaming [and] philosophising”’ Richard Mabey, Telegraph ‘A haunting tribute to the world’s peatlands … Proulx’s poetic description of these places, and peat itself, is a pleasure to read’ Financial Times ‘This sobering history of our world’s rich wetlands explains the chilling ecological consequences of their destruction’ New York Times Book Review ‘An enchanting work of nature writing’ Esquire ‘Delves into the history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis … Proulx uses nimble prose to knit together scientific facts, personal experiences, and literary references while deciphering the nomenclature of these three subtly diverse wetlands which collectively hold the key to human history’ Vogue ‘A fierce declaration of peat’s importance to climate stability and human survival ’ New York Review of Books ‘[Proulx’s] astute and impassioned examinations of all kinds of wetlands … show a new side of the novelist we thought we knew’ Los Angeles Times ‘So often feared, dredged and drained, swamps, bogs and fens (it turns out) are just as vital to our species’ survival on this planet as healthy forests and oceans – perhaps more so. Proulx has written a moving elegy and cri de coeur for our world’s wetlands’ Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See ‘Annie Proulx is, as ever, remarkable – her mind, her heart and her learning take us on an unforgettable and unflinching tour of past and present’ Bill McKibben

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Book SynopsisFailing Forward documents the global rise of neoliberal conservation as a response to biodiversity loss and unpacks how this approach has managed to fail forward over time despite its ineffectiveness. At its core, neoliberal conservation promotes market-based instruments intended to reconcile environmental preservation and economic development by harnessing preservation itself as the source of both conservation finance and capital accumulation more generally. Robert Fletcher describes how this project has developed over the past several decades along with the expanding network of organizations and actors that have come together around its promotion. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, he explores why this strategy continues to captivate states, nongovernmental organizations, international financial institutions, and the private sector alike despite its significant deficiencies. Ultimately, Fletcher contends, neoliberal conservation should be understood as a failed attempt to render gloTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Capitalism on Trial 1 • Conceptualizing Neoliberal Biopower 2 • Conjuring Natural Capital 3 • Imagining the Market 4 • The Neoliberal Ecolaboratory 5 • The Anti-regulation Machine 6 • How to Fail Forward 7 • Neoliberal Conservation in Ruins? 8 • There Is No Alternative to Degrowth Conclusion: Traversing the Neoliberal Fantasy Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExploring Physical Geography promotes inquiry and science as an active process. It encourages student curiosity and aims to activate existing student knowledge. One way this is done is by employing a learning-cycle approach where students' exploration precedes the introduction of geographic terms and the application of knowledge to a new situation. Another method used is to ensure every concept is covered within two pages allowing students to complete a topic in a short interval of time. This text also contains a wealth of figures to take advantage of the visual and spatial nature of geography and the efficiency of conveying geographic concepts.

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Book SynopsisClimate change is a threat to humankind, which requires immediate action. The built environment has a vital role to play in responding to the climate and biodiversity emergencies. There is a pressing need for architects and industry professionals to acquire the requisite skills and knowledge to design buildings that deliver holistic sustainable outcomes, meeting the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge and mandatory competence in climate literacy. Equipping you with the key information that built environment professionals require to halt climate change and mitigate its impacts in your day-to-day work, this book is organised around six overarching topics: Human Factors Circular Economy Energy and Carbon Water Ecology and Biodiversity Connectivity and Transport Featuring images and original illustrations, each themed section will guide you through fundamental elements and competencies for creating an integrated sustainable design and delivery framework that can be implemented by you in your practice. Contextualising the climate emergency within the built environment landscape, the book maps out the essential background knowledge around climate science, international agreements, legislations, commitments and roadmaps. It explores shared themes of retrofit, disaster risk resilience and climate justice, among others. A collection of short, building- and urban-scale case studies present key takeaways, illustrating real-life applications of design strategies and industry-wide tools, as well as standards that are deployed in climate-conscious built environments all around the world.Table of ContentsAbout the Author Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Global and Built Environment Climate Fundamentals Climate Fundamentals International Legislations, Agreements, Frameworks, Roadmaps and Plans for Action Risks and Opportunities in a Net Zero Economy Sustainable Urbanism, Architecture and Engineering Built Environment Policy, Legislation, Regulations, Commitments, Frameworks, Benchmarks and Construction Industry Guidance 2. Sustainable Outcomes and Common Threads Outcome-based Briefing, Design, Delivery and Management of the Built Environment Retrofit (Adaptation and Reuse) Planning for (Climate) Extremes, Disaster Risk, Resilience/Robustness, Redundancy and Adaptation Climate Justice, Equitable and Inclusive Design Procurement, Process, Life Cycle Costing, Research and Innovation 3. Human Factors Health, Wellbeing and Comfort Biophilic and Sensory Design User Experience Design and Occupant Behaviour Communities, Interconnectivity and Inclusion Social Value 4. Circular Economy Resource Efficiency, Sufficiency and Geographic Implications Designing for Change (Flexibility and Adaptability) and Regeneration Waste as a 'Resource' Environmental and Health Impacts of Materials and Waste Responsible and Ethical Sourcing 5. Energy and Carbon Passive Design Active Design: Environmental Systems and Technologies Whole Life Carbon Impacts (for Retrofit and New Build) Offsetting and Carbon/Offset Credits Iterative and Integrated Design and Delivery Process 6. Water Water Cycles, Sources, Stresses, Quality and Management Water Recycling and Reuse Rainwater Harvesting, Stormwater Management and Sustainable Urban Drainage Water Pollution on Land and in Aquatic Habitats Impacts of Climate Change (Water-related Hazards and Disasters) 7. Ecology and Biodiversity Biodiversity and Net Gain Nature-based Solutions Land Use and Urban Density Bioregional Planning and Biophilic Urbanism Sustainable Food Production and Urban Food Systems 8. Connectivity and Transport Site Selection, Location and Urban Ecosystems Compact Development and Walkability Regional and Local Infrastructure and Planning Low Carbon Transport and Multimodal Transportation Networks Planning for Future of Transportation

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Book Synopsis(Edition revised in 2023), MICHELIN National Map Australia will give you an overall picture of your journey thanks to its clear and accurate mapping scale 1/4,500,000. Our National Map Series will help you easily plan your safe and enjoyable journey thanks to a comprehensive key, a complete name index as well a clever time & distance chart. Michelin's driving information will help you navigate safely in all circumstances. In addition, some MICHELIN National Maps are cross-referenced with the MICHELIN Green Guide highlighting destinations worth stopping for! With MICHELIN National Maps, find more than just your way! MICHELIN NATIONAL MAPS feature: * Up-to-date mapping * A scale adapted to the size of the country * A clear and comprehensive key * Distance and time chart * Place name index * Driving and road safety information * Tourist sights information Our maps are regularly updated even if the ISBN does not change.

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Book Synopsis(Edition updated in 2023) MICHELIN Wales, The Midlands, South West England Regional Map scale 1/400,000 will provide you with an extensive coverage of primary, secondary and scenic routes for this region. In addition to Michelin's clear and accurate mapping, this regional map includes all the practical information for a trouble free journey, including major town plans as well as tourism information to make the most of your journey. With MICHELIN Regional Maps, find more than just your way! MICHELIN REGIONAL MAPS include practical information for a trouble free journey and show primary & secondary road networks. * Administrative boundaries * Scenic routes and tourist sights * Place name index * Time and distance charts * Plans for a selection of major towns * Practical information: danger alerts, service stations, picnic areas

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Book SynopsisDana R. Fisher argues that there is a realistic path forward for climate action—but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events.Trade ReviewIn a crowded landscape of books about climate change, this one stands out by asking two key questions: Have we made enough progress? And what should we do going forward? The answer to the first question is clearly no. Despite three decades of climate negotiations, both the US and the world are far behind where we need to be on climate action, and going forward, we need to be much more organized. Taking a lesson from the history of the civil rights movement, Fisher suggests that we can create a stronger climate movement by building on existing community structures—such as churches and labor unions—and taking advantage of the climate shocks that are already occurring with increasing frequency to channel moral outrage into meaningful action. An important, original, and thought-provoking book. -- Naomi Oreskes, coauthor of The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free MarketFew questions could be more important than how to quickly build an effective resistance to the fossil fuel industry; this volume offers some vital clues and insights, and will be a help to many activists! -- Bill McKibben, author of The End of NatureSaving Ourselves is about the great awakening that is happening right now to the risks we face on a rapidly warming planet. Read it and you will understand the history of the climate fight, the forces that are shaping it today, and the challenges the movement will confront as it grows in size and urgency. Saving Ourselves will inspire you take to the streets and fight for a better world. -- Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched PlanetThere's a growing number of books addressing the climate crisis and we now have a good technical understanding of what we have to do, as a society, to avoid the worst impacts. But there has been much less focus on the—more urgent—question of how to make the required changes happen. Fisher's illuminating and insightful book helps fill this critical gap in our knowledge, and is a must-read for anyone with an interest in a safe future. -- Charlie Gardner, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of KentAt this dangerous climate emergency time, this book gives a path forward showing how necessary good quality social science is and how it can lead the climate activists and movements through the needed tricky and even thorny collective decision making. While living with heavy fossil fuel denial, scientists have stepped up to back up climate activists. Unfortunately, this book shows the complete failure of our institutions to also perform our democratically bestowed duty. For those of us living with the privilege of free press, (also established by civil disobedience), we have a moral responsibility to first listen to the science, acknowledge our public power and act! -- Janine O'Keeffe, Fridays for FutureDr. Fisher has written an informative and thought-provoking work based on her research on climate activism, politics, geopolitics, and the climate crisis. The work is written in a style that is appropriate for scholarly and general readers. A description is provided on the vested interest activities of the fossil fuel industry and the poor reactions to the climate crisis of corporations and politicians. I especially enjoyed the detailed analysis of climate activism and the different types. The work is inspiring to take action, especially climate activism. As her work concludes: “As unfair as it might seem, the future is up to us.” -- Gerald Kutney, Canada's National Observer... Useful insights into the increasingly disruptive climate campaigns spreading around the world. * Financial Times *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. No One Else Is Going to Save Us: Understanding the Social Side of the Climate Crisis2. Saving Ourselves Is a Long Game: Why Our Institutions Keep Failing to Act on Climate3. Saving Ourselves Involves Taking Power Back for the People4. Saving Ourselves Won’t Be Popular and Will Be Disruptive5. Saving Ourselves Will Take a Disaster (or Many)Methodological AppendixNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe classic text on coppicing and woodland crafts, redesigned for a new generation of woodspeople. If you’re lucky enough to have access to a patch of woodland, this book contains everything you need to set up, manage and profit from a thriving coppice. But even if you don’t, there’s plenty of information on traditional woodland crafts here for you: learn how to work with bought coppiced wood to make all manner of products, from the archetypal besom broom and humble tent pegs to sturdy gate hurdles. Woodland crafts expert Ray Tabor guides you through a range of heritage woodland conservation methods. He introduces the best tools for each job – the time-honoured woodsman’s billhook being the most important of all – and the devices you’ll need. He shows how to select wood for each purpose, from ash, traditionally used for tool handles, to chestnut for making perfect fences. There’s also an in-depth exploration of the essential art of riving (splitting wooden poles by hand). Full of invaluable advice, historical information, useful diagrams and evocative photography, this book will help you reconnect to nature and the environment, and gain immense pleasure from creating beautiful crafted products using heritage methods.Trade Review‘Tabor is to be congratulated on making it easier to start using green wood that other books seem to make out.’ Andy Hancock Green Woodworker

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Book SynopsisAdam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia's volcanoes, showing that the origin of the earth sciences emerged from a fusion of Western and non-Western cosmology, theology, anthropology, and geology.Trade Review“Adam Bobbette’s simultaneous making strange of Western science and making reasonable of animist thought give this book its charm and intellectual heft. I can’t think of any other book that is as balanced in its treatment of Western science and non-Western thought and as insistent on putting them on a level playing field. At once ethnographic and global in scope, The Pulse of the Earth boldly defines and owns the concept of political geology every bit as much as it is a book about Java or a political volcano.” -- Nigel Clark, coauthor of * Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences *“Adam Bobbette’s book is ambitious. To quote Goethe, it is ‘endowed with magnificent sensory perception’ and rubs against the patience of scholars who are more ‘successful at ordering phenomena and putting them under the proper rubrics.’ The Pulse of the Earth is a perilous and exciting book.” -- Rudolf Mrázek, author of * The Complete Lives of Camp People: Colonialism, Fascism, Concentrated Modernity *"Java is a worthy stage to host this intense combination of fiery volcanism, cosmology, and culture, and this work provides an accessible introduction to political geology in both concept and practice. . . . Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers." -- J. Brewer * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xix 1. Political Geology as Method 1 2. The Origins of Java in Four Maps: From an Island of Ruins to Youthful Throes 20 3. Intercalated: The Political and Spiritual Geographies of Plate Tectonics 52 4. AD 1006 Geodeterminism: Cultures of Catastrophe and the Story of a Date 80 5. Geopoetics: Joannes Umbgrove’s Cosmic and Aesthetic Science 114 6. Volcano Observatories: Proximity and Distance in Science and Mysticism 142 Conclusion 175 Notes 179 Bibliography 197 Index 215

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Book SynopsisRivers have been vitally important to human populations worldwide for millennia as highways for inland travel, and as sources of water for drinking, cooking, cleaning, manufacturing, irrigation, and power generation, as well as repositories for human, animal, and industrial wastes. This accessible textbook takes a broad approach to river ecology, covering the basics but going beyond by including topics that are often overlooked such as blackwater streams and rivers, tidal creek ecosystems, and reservoir limnology. Since most running water (lotic) systems have been altered or impacted by human activities, there is significant emphasis on anthropogenic impacts, including sedimentation, nutrient pollution and related eutrophication issues as well as the effects of dams and river fragmentation, power plant operations, chemical contamination, wastewater treatment discharges, industrial scale livestock production, invasive species, and rural and urban storm water runoff on river ecosystems. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: The Physical Nature of River Ecosystems 2: Nutrients and River Ecosystems 3: Lotic Primary Producers: Phytoplankton and Periphyton 4: Lotic Primary Producers: Macroalgae and Macrophytes 5: Stream and River Invertebrate Communities 6: Feeding the River: Unifying Concepts 7: Riverine Fishes and Other Vertebrate Communities 8: Blackwater Streams and Rivers 9: The Ecology of Tidal Creeks 10: Altering the Natural Flow: Dams and River Fragmentation 11: Reservoir Limnology 12: Industrial Pollution of Streams and Rivers 13: Human Wastewater Treatment and Industrial Livestock Production Wastes 14: Species Loss and Impacts of Invasive Species 15: Ecology and Pollution of Urban Streams 16: Protecting and Restoring Streams and Rivers 17: Floods, Hurricanes, and Climate Change

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Book SynopsisCollage and Architecture remains an invaluable resource for students and practitioners as the first book to cover collage as a tool for analysis and design in architecture.Since entering the contemporary art world over a century ago, collage has profoundly influenced artists and architects throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. In Collage and Architecture, Jennifer A. E. Shields explores its influence, using the artworks and built projects of leading artists and architects, such as Mies van der Rohe, Daniel Libeskind, and Teddy Cruz to illustrate the diversity of collage techniques. This new edition includes: A stronger focus on contemporary practices, including digital methods; New designers and architects, including Marshall Brown, WAI Architecture Think Tank, and Tatiana Bilbao, bringing their methods and work to life; An expanded global and diverse perspective of architecture as collagTable of ContentsPart 1. Collage Methodologies In Architectural Analysis + Design Speculation 1.1 Papier Collé and Found Materials - Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand / Bernhard Hoesli / Eduardo Chillida 1.2 Collage-drawing - Constructs Geometric Order / Mies van der Rohe / Daniel Libeskind / Ben Nicholson / James Corner / Mathur/da Cunha / Constructs: Narratives of social order / The Metabolists and Associates / Archigram / Superstudio / Rem Koolhaas / Time[scape]lab / Nathan Williams 1.3 Photomontage - Photo Fragments: Found Paper / Nils-Ole Lund / David Wild / Marshall Brown / Photo Pragments: Found Pixels / FELD studio / WAI Architecture Think Tank / Photo Fragments: Constructed / Gordon Matta-Clark / Mary Miss / Miralles Tagliabue (EMBT) Part 2. Contemporary Practice: Architecture as Collage 2.1 Introduction: Twentieth Century 2.2 Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman 2.3 WEISS/MANFREDI 2.4 Point Supreme 2.5 Tatiana Bilbao Estudio

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Book SynopsisThe book establishes the importance of environmental education by tracing its history and the developments that have taken place subsequently to date. It provides basic understanding about environmental education as well as valuable suggestions for its effective incorporation in the school curriculum. The strength of the book lies in its content as all major areas of environmental education have been addressed such as school curriculum, professional development, and policies, especially in the context of India, thus making it a unique and go-to resource for all stakeholders working in the field of environmental education. The well-balanced content will help readers appreciate the nature of environmental education and its distinctiveness from other subject disciplines as well as environmental studies and environmental science substantiated with several examples and illustrations. What is striking about the book is its proposed road map which is critical for successful implementation

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Book SynopsisThe Promise of Planning explores the experience of planning internationally since the global financial crisis, focusing on South Africa. The book is a response to a decade-plus in which state-led planning has re-emerged as a putative means for achieving developmental goals (as indicated in global initiatives such as the New Urban Agenda) and where planning in South Africa has consolidated in terms of its legal and policy basis. However, the return of planning is happening in an inauspicious context, with economic fragilities, technological shifts, political populism, institutional complexities, and more, threatening to upturn the new promise of planning. The book provides a careful analytical account of planning in South Africa and how and why its promises have been difficult to achieve. Building on the authors' previous book, Planning and Transformation, the book sheds light on planning as an increasingly complex and diverse governmental practice

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Book SynopsisThis book unveils forestry science and its policy and management that connect past and present understanding of forests. The aggregated knowledge is presented to cover the approaches adopted in studying forest structure, its growth, functioning, and degradation, especially in the context of the surrounding environment. The application of advance computation, instrumentation, and modelling has been elaborated in various chapters.Forest ecosystems are rapidly changing due to forest fires, deforestation, urbanization, climate change, and other natural and anthropogenic drivers. Understanding the dynamics of forest ecosystems requires contemporary methods and measures, utilizing modern tools and big data for developing effective conservation plans. The book also covers discussion on policies for sustainable forestry, agroforestry, environmental governance, socio-ecology, nature-based solutions, and management implication. It is suitable for a wide range of readers working in the field of scientific forestry, policy making, and forest management. In addition, it is a useful material for postgraduate and research students of forestry sciences.Table of ContentsAttached

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Book SynopsisThere are fewer grey seals in the world than endangered African elephants, but the British Isles host almost half of this global population. Every year these charismatic animals, with their expressive eyes and whiskers more sensitive than our fingertips, haul out on our shores to breed and raise their pups.Trade ReviewPraise for Susan Richardson 'Cut and precise, archaic and innovative, transcendent and in-the-moment, [Susan Richardson] sees the life of the sea as a mirror of ourselves, and vice versa: always changing, always the same … Vital, glorious and salutary ' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan ‘[Richardson] writes in prehensile language, capable of grasping something vast, ancient, chthonic: the Earth in must. Jay Griffiths, author of Wild ‘[Richardson] shows how art and writing can furnish both beautiful and challenging reflections on our relationship with animals … Precise and playful; rhapsodic and rebellious’ Andy Brown ‘Sparkling’ Margaret Elphinstone ‘Richardson’s voice swoops – passionate, ribald, funny, fierce – taking you up, on exhilarating flight, out from the cage of the everyday mind.’ Eleanor O’Hanlon, author of Eyes of the Wild ‘[Richardson] balances observation with “unseeing”, science with shamanism and myth’ Chris Kinsey ‘Susan Richardson beautifully marries the landscape of the polar regions with their – and her own – emotional topography.’ Sara Wheeler

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Book SynopsisThis under-documented expedition was a pivotal moment in the annals of polar exploration and was the starting point, in historical terms, of revealing the great unknown continent of Antarctica. It was the first time in nearly 70 years since Captain James Cook had circumnavigated Antarctica, that a Royal Naval voyage of discovery had ventured so far South. They set a new 'furthest south' record in the process beating the one set up by James Weddell in a whaling ship in 1823. The expedition set sail from Greenwich in 1839. It consisted of two wooden sailing ships commanded by Captain James Clark Ross and Commander Francis Crozier. The ships were manned exclusively by Royal Naval personnel and each ship had a complement of 64 men and officers. Their primary task was of a scientific nature to study the Earth's magnetic field and build up a set of results that could provide a greater understanding of the effects of magnetism on compasses and their use in navigating the world's oceans. This voyage had a set of planned targets and all were accomplished. In the process a vast amount of scientific information was collected. Many exotic places were visited during the voyage amongst them Madeira, St Helena, Cape Town, Kerguelen island, New Zealand, Australia and the Falkland Islands but the pinnacle was the discovery of the Ross Sea, The Ross Ice Shelf and the mighty volcanoes of Erebus and Terror (named after the two ships). The crews experienced the dangers of navigating in ice-strewn waters and narrowly escaping being crushed by icebergs. Illness was kept at bay although several lives were lost due to accidents. It would be another 60 years before the scenes of their greatest discoveries were visited again and then the Golden Age of Discovery was ushered in with the likes of Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen.Table of ContentsPart 1 - The Expedition. In the Beginning; Targets and instructions; James Clark Ross and Francis Crozier; Setting sail to Madeira and the Atlantic Islands; Cape Town and beyond; Next stop - Hobart, Tasmania; First taste of the ice; Amazing discoveries and wonders to behold; Turning North; South again to the Great Ice Barrier; Impending Disaster; Wild cattle hunt and a third winter away; Return to the Antarctic. Part 2 - The sailors' stories. Part 3 - The sailors' ships

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Book SynopsisExplore new places with handy pocket maps from Collins.Handy little full-colour map of the Isle of Wight. Detailed mapping and tourist information of the whole island.With its stunning sea views and beautiful beaches, the Isle of Wight has a distinct identity. Discover this unique area with this handy pocket map.Main features of this map include:Clear mapping at a scale of 2.3 miles to 1 inch / 1.5 km to 1 cmMain tourist attractions located and describedPlaces to stay, cafes/restaurants, golf courses are all highlighted on the mapEssential travel informationIndex to places of interest and place namesEssential for those planning a trip around the Isle of Wight.

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Book SynopsisOn 21 December 1872, HMS Challenger set sail from Portsmouth, England, to begin a global voyage of deep-sea exploration, unique for the scale of its ambition and scope. Made possible by technological and scientific developments, extensive international cooperation and supported by a team of researchers and naval officers, the expedition was part of a concerted nineteenth-century drive to map the ocean floors and search for life in the abyss. By the time the ship returned to Britain in 1876, the scientific team on board had amassed what was then the largest collection of examples of life from the deep sea. But their work was not finished and over the next two decades a global network of researchers prepared the results for publication, culminating in a 50-volume series that is considered the intellectual foundation of modern oceanography.

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Book SynopsisBest New Books on Space 2024 ? Forbes ?Rarely is a non-fiction book about science this engaging? ? ForbesWhy darkness is so important ? to plants, to animals, and to ourselves ? and why we must protect it all costs.Darkness is the first thing we know in our human existence. Safe and warm inside the bubble of the womb, we are comfortable in that embracing dark. But as soon as we are bought into the light, we learn to fear the dark. Why?This book is a celebration of all things that go bump in the night and the joy that can be found when the sun goes down. As a society we have closed our curtains to the darkness, now Dani Robertson urges you to cast those curtains wide, step out of your front door and let the darkness pull you in.Some 99 per cent of Western Europeans live under light polluted skies, but what is this doing to our health? Our wellbeing? Our connection to the cycles of nature?Our wildlife, too, has been cast into the harsh glare of our light addiction, with devastating impacts.In this book Dani shares with you the excitement and adventure she has found when everyone else is tucked up in bed. She explores constellations and cultures, enjoys environmental escapades, all whilst learning why we are addicted to light and why it is ruining our lives. She?ll show you why the darkness is so important and why we must protect it all costs. You?ll become a crusader of Darkness and an expert on what we can do to stop the onward march of light pollution (clue: it?s as easy as the flick of a switch).Her life depends on darkness, and yours does too.

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Book SynopsisProvides a new insight into the history of London Underground, from the viewpoint of its visual and cartographic heritage and against a backdrop of socio-political issues.

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Book SynopsisAfter years of existential crisis, Europe has found a new raison d’être: the European Green Deal and the energy transition that lies at its core. This green Europe represents a normative vision, an economic growth strategy, as well as a route to a political Union that would enhance EU integration and legitimacy. But it can only be realized if it addresses head-on the social, economic, political and geopolitical ramifications of this epochal change. In A Green and Global Europe, Nathalie Tocci explains how the unprecedented nature of the current energy transition represents both a unique opportunity and a huge challenge to Europe’s future prosperity. The EU, she argues, must not act in isolation or ignore the adverse effects of the transition on Member States and neighbours. It must also address the global cleavages that may arise with China, the transatlantic relationship and the Global South as a result of the EU’s green agenda. By adopting a truly global approach to the energy transition, Europe can deliver on its responsibilities to people and planet alike, and avoid unleashing social, economic and security problems that could come biting back at the Union.Trade Review"The European Union has moved into uncontested global leadership in its ambitious goals to green its economy. No one is better equipped than Nathalie Tocci to analyze in a balanced manner how the actions required will present both opportunities and challenges, a reality that is admirably assessed in this highly informative book."Robert N. Stavins, A. J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development, Harvard Kennedy School"Nathalie Tocci’s book is an extraordinary journey into the European Union vision and mission to become the global leader of the green agenda. Nathalie explores in a fascinating way the links between the Green Deal, domestic European dynamics, and the regional and worldwide geopolitical implications of today and tomorrow. It couldn’t be more timely, as it analyses the different ways in which the strategic autonomy of the European Union is intertwined with its green agenda and its energy transition. A precious contribution to the definition of a new horizon for our continent’s mission!"Federica Mogherini, Rector of the College of Europe and Former High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy"Nathalie Tocci unpacks the complex policy dilemmas facing Europe in its quest for climate leadership. Her invaluable guide to the democratic, foreign policy and geo-political challenges of the energy transition shows the all-of-government approach that the EU needs to take to succeed in its great leap forward in integration through the European Green Deal."Heather Grabbe, Director, Open Society Policy Institute"A Green and Global Europe offers a concise, up-to-date, authoritative and clearly written account of the trajectory of Europe’s energy and climate policies, also shedding light on the social, economic and political prerequisites for their sustainability and success. Importantly, it also provides a compelling analysis of the multiple ways in which these policies will reverberate across Europe’s troubled neighbourhood. General readers will obtain from this book a great overview of the European energy and climate policy architecture, while energy and climate specialists will gain new insights on the crucial, but still underexplored, social and political dimensions of this historical transformation."Simone Tagliapietra, Bruegel, the Catholic University of Milan, and the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe"The ecological challenge will be one of the most enduring and defining issues of the 21st century. In this timely book, Nathalie Tocci makes a compelling case for the EU to be decidedly green and global in confronting this challenge."Alexandros Yannis, senior official, European External Action Service (EEAS)"Nathalie Tocci’s deeply informed and compelling book makes an eloquent argument that for the EU’s ‘green’ policies to succeed they must also be incorporated and mainstreamed into its external relations. It’s a must read for all."Karen Smith, LSE"This is a powerful book from one of Europe’s most experienced analysts, rich with practical insights and a call to arms for the EU’s future development. An essential read for those looking to map out how the EU can engage with both its internal and external challenges."Simon Usherwood, The Open University"Nathalie Tocci fully understands that climate, geopolitics and social equity must be one conversation, not siloed. In A Green and Global Europe, she advances that vision as key to a rejuvenated and successful 'European project.'"Ernest Moniz, 13th United States Secretary of Energy“Amidst an unprecedented energy crisis and the need to address the existential challenge of climate change, Nathalie Tocci’s A Green an Global Europe charts a way for the EU to navigate these structural transformations. Worth reading.”Arancha Gonzales, Dean of PSIA at Sciences Po and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of SpainTable of ContentsAbbreviations Preface Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 A Green and Political Europe Chapter 3 A Green Europe and the Future of Liberal Democracy Chapter 4 A Green Europe in a Troubled Neighbourhood Chapter 5 A Green Europe Amidst Global Rivalry Chapter 6 Conclusion Bibliography Notes

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Book Synopsis*Shortlisted for the Lukas Prize Project*The tree was poached in a two-part operation. It was felled one night and taken another.Here was a murder mystery in the deep woods: who had taken the cedar, how had they done so, and - most importantly - why?__________A gripping account of the billion-dollar timber black market -- and how it intersects with environmentalism, class, and culture.In Tree Thieves, Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of the illegal timber market. As she traces three timber poaching cases, she introduces us to tree poachers, law enforcement, forensic wood specialists, the enigmatic residents of former logging communities, environmental activists, international timber cartels, and indigenous communities along the way.Old-growth trees are invaluable and irreplaceable for both humans and wildlife, and are the oldest living things on earth. But the morality of tree poaching is not as simple as we might think: stealing trees is a form of deeply rooted protest, and a side effect of environmental preservation and protection that doesn't include communities that have been uprooted or marginalized when park boundaries are drawn. As Bourgon discovers, failing to include working class and rural communities in the preservation of these awe-inducing ecosystems can lead to catastrophic results.Featuring excellent investigative reporting, fascinating characters, logging history, political analysis, and cutting-edge tree science, Tree Thieves takes readers on a thrilling journey into the intrigue, crime, and incredible complexity sheltered under the forest canopy.__________'Bourgon brilliantly shows that while following the scientific theory seems simple from a concrete jungle, for those educated under the shade of the trees it is obscure, often weaponized. Her unique insight in this book is that between the law and the science lies the chainsaw's edge.' -- London Review of BooksTrade Review'Tree Thieves is both an absorbing true-crime story and a fascinating examination of the deep and troubled relationship between people and forests. From Sherwood Forest to the California redwoods to the Peruvian Amazon, Lyndsie Bourgon illuminates the violent conflicts over power, class, and identity that continue to shape and scar the forests we depend on.' - Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction'Tree Thieves is a deeply researched examination of the past, present, and future of our forests, told through stories of timber poaching. Lyndsie Bourgon shows us that we must take into account all the complexities of human-nature relationships if we are to have any hope of keeping our standing giants alive.' - Gina Rae La Cerva, author of Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food'Tracking thieves, poachers, and capitalists, Lyndsie Bourgon masterfully takes on the role of detective shining a light on the complex and camouflaged world of the timber black market. The result is a meticulous investigation and a powerful testimony to the trees silently taken and the consequences of their fall that reverberate well beyond the forest.' - Harley Rustad, Author of Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas'A fascinating blend of history and boots-in-the-mud journalism, which manages to dig into ancient and thorny questions about who really owns wild land and who is allowed to live off it. To poach of course means to steal. But is wilderness preservation also a form of theft, only on a larger scale? This book does what all great books should: it leaves your mind broader, deeper, and more nuanced.' -Robert Moor, bestselling author of On Trails: An ExplorationBourgon brilliantly shows that while following the scientific theory seems simple from a concrete jungle, for those educated under the shade of the trees it is obscure, often weaponized. Her unique insight in this book is that between the law and the science lies the chainsaw's edge. * London Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisMastering ArcGIS Pro introduces the basic ideas behind GIS, teaching the concepts and skills needed to enter this rapidly evolving industry or use GIS in your current discipline. Based on the widely used ArcGIS software developed by Esri, Inc., this text integrates learning fundamental concepts with practicing software skills and is suitable for classroom use or for professionals studying independently.Table of ContentsPREFACEINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1. WHAT IS GIS?CHAPTER 2. MAPPING GIS DATACHAPTER 3. PRESENTING GIS DATACHAPTER 4. COORDINATE SYSTEMSCHAPTER 5. MANAGING VECTOR DATACHAPTER 6. MANAGING RASTER DATACHAPTER 7. ATTRIBUTE DATACHAPTER 8. EDITINGCHAPTER 9. QUERIESCHAPTER 10. JOINS AND OVERLAYCHAPTER 11. RASTER ANALYSISCHAPTER 12. SHARING GIS

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Book SynopsisWhat makes a garden good? For Chris McLaughlin, it’s about growing the healthiest, most scrumptious fruits and veggies possible, but it’s also about giving back. How can your little patch of Earth become a sanctuary for threatened wildlife, sequester carbon, and nurture native plants? McLaughlin gives you all the tricks and tips you need to grow the sustainable garden of your dreams. Drawing from established traditions, such as permaculture and French intensive gardening, and McLaughlin’s hard-earned experience, The Good Garden is a joyful guide for newbies and experienced gardeners alike. It will teach you the fundamentals, including how to choose the right plant varieties for your microclimate, and proven methods to fight pests without chemicals. You will also discover the nuances of developing a green thumb, from picking species to attract specific types of pollinators to composting techniques based on time available. Lovely four-colour photography will show you good gardening in action. Most importantly, The Good Garden will help you foster a sense of meaning in your garden. Maybe the goal is to reduce food miles and plastic waste by growing delicious berries. Maybe it’s to meet neighbours who also care about the planet through a seed-swap. Maybe it’s a quiet moment patting the bunny whose manure will replace toxic fertilisers in the soil. A good garden offers endless possibilities, and The Good Garden offers a wealth of knowledge and inspiration.Trade Review"Chris McLaughlin understands that your garden is more than just a plot of land - it's an ecosystem. In this positive, upbeat guide, she shows you how to nurture a thriving garden that includes native plants that support wildlife and how, in doing so, your own garden will reconnect to the greater ecosystem." --David Mizejewski, Naturalist, National Wildlife Federation "From rain barrels to planting choices, this book guides you to endless gardening possibilities and doing it in an all-natural way. Chris has made gardening simple and easy for all." --Lisa Mason Ziegler, author of Cool Flowers and Vegetables Love Flowers "This is the perfect guide to get you started in understanding how your garden functions as a part of the ecosystem. It can help you create a space for all to enjoy--from the tiniest insects to the domestic animal helpers--and for yourself!" --Jessi Bloom, ecological designer and author of Creating Sanctuary and Practical PermacultureTable of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction: What Makes a Good Garden? Chapter 1. Choose and Combine Sustainable Gardening Styles Chapter 2. Know Your Ecosystem Chapter 3. Welcome Pollinators and Wildlife Chapter 4. Control Weeds Naturally Chapter 5. Keep the Bad Bugs at Bay Chapter 6. Nourish Healthy Soil Chapter 7. Cultivate Healthy Food Chapter 8. Enlist Domestic Critters Chapter 9. Build Community Resources: Down the Sustainable Rabbit Hole Acknowledgements About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the last century humanity acquired the ability to destroy itself. The direct approach to destruction can be seen in such facts as the ever-present threat of nuclear war, but we have also developed the capacity to do indirect harm by altering conditions necessary for survival, including the looming cloud of climate change. How can we look forward and work past the dire position we now find ourselves in to achieve a sustainable future? This volume presents a new way of thinking about the future as it examines catastrophe and the human response. It examines different kinds of catastrophes that range from natural (e.g., earthquakes) to industrial (e.g., Chernobyl) and concludes that the traditional distinctions between them are only becoming blurrier by the day. This book aims to build a general theory of catastrophes—a new form of apocalyptic thinking that is grounded in science and philosophy. An ethics for the sake of the future is what is required, which in turn necessitates a new metaphysics of temporality. If a way out of the imminent danger in which we find ourselves is to be found, we must first look to radically alter our ethics.

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Book SynopsisWill dwindling elephant numbers be reversed? Will the forces of good triumph over the vicious looters? Can the annual trillion-dollar money laundering trade by brought to heel by a brave whistle blower? Peter Hain's gripping second thriller builds to a dramatic climax, the action switching from wildlife to politics, from bushveld to city, from high finance to poaching. A vivid and gripping journey into the competing worlds of activism and corruption.Trade Review'Masterful...A thrilling journey behind the frontlines of the battle to save Africa's wildlife' Julian Rademeyer, author Killing for Profit. 'Gripping, tense and timely' Alan Johnson MP. 'The Rhino Conspiracy is a true page-turner. A thriller that resonates with conscience, timeliness and deep knowledge of South African politics and wildlife.' LoveReading

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Book SynopsisForget fast fashion and cheap trends - Serena Baker is here to help you craft the sustainable wardrobe of your dreams!In 2021, Serena Baker became the youngest ever - and first Scottish - winner of The Great British Sewing Bee. She thrilled the judges with her incredible attention to detail and wowed viewers with her distinctive 'refashioning projects', putting sustainability at the heart of her creations. Whether you're brand new to sewing or already know the ropes but fancy trying something a little different, Serena will take you on a journey to reinvent your wardrobe.In Serena Sews, you'll learn how to:- master must-have skills - from zip insertion to pressing perfection - to boost your sewing confidence and give your garments a professional finish- work with basic pattern blocks to adapt and rework as you build your repertoire- 'refashion' existing items like an oversized shirt into a summer dress, or an old pair of jeans into a cute crop top- save money and work sustainably by choosing pre-loved garments and fabrics for your projectsSerena Sews breathes fresh life into the craft of sewing to make one-off, versatile, long-lasting items to cherish. The magic of this approach makes Serena Sews a book to come back to again and again. It's brimming full of sewing happiness - for you, your friends and family, and the planet.Trade Review‘Really, really talented sewers . . . have fairy dust they throw over the garment and it doesnt look like it has been touched by a human hand.’ -- Esme Young

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Book SynopsisA Guide on Climate Optimism and Environmental Sustainability Zahra Biabani, a climate activist focused on hope and action, wrote this book to help readers learn why we need to and how we can stay optimistic in the face of the climate crisis. People are doing good things for our planet all over the world…. it's time we highlight it!Change the way you think about the future. The fate of humanity can be daunting, but we don’t need to live in that space. First, we need to change our attitude in order to implement nature based solutions that help mitigate climate change. Good news: there are numerous encouraging environmental trends that will change the way you think about how we can protect the planet. Get to know Zahra Biabani, a climate activist, influencer, CEO, and writer. Zahra’s content focuses on climate hope, optimism, humor, and doing good things. After unexpectedly establishing a career as an online sustainability educator and influencer her junior year at Vanderbilt University, Zahra decided to jump head first into the waters of entrepreneurship and authorship. Climate Optimism is her way to spread hope in the world.Inside, you’ll find: A comprehensive review of the most promising climate solutions Practical advice to change the way you think and feel about climate change Two years worth of good news from the “Weekly Earth Wins” series Interviews with activists in the Global South working on projects that further environmental sustainability If you're looking for a sustainable living book or books for activists centered on environmentalism like A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety, The Intersectional Environmentalist, or Sustainable Badass, you’ll love Climate Optimism.Trade Review“Climate Optimism is an essential read with a beautiful reminder that hope is a much more sustainable motivator than doom and gloom ever could be. Zahra effectively explores the nuances and psychology of optimism, while grounding readers in an understanding of real, impactful, on-the-ground climate action that they can be a part of.” —Leah Thomas, founder of Intersectional Environmentalist“I don't know if we're going to be able to overcome the climate crisis—but I know that if we succumb to nihilism we have no chance. There's a good kick in the pants in these pages!” —Bill McKibben, author The Flag, the Cross and the Station Wagon“There are no rose-colored glasses here. Zahra does not ignore that climate change will cause great suffering. But rather than flounder in fear, she shares a guiding light. There can be abundance, circularity, and sustainability. The world can work better than it ever has with humans present. This book is filled with a fantastic balance of history, culture, hope, and tactical advice for what to do. If you want to be part of the solution, this book is for you.” —Kip Pastor, founder and CEO of Pique Action“What’s the point of pessimism? In this intensely researched and fascinating book, Zahra proves that optimism is the attitude that changes the world. The stories in Climate Optimism lifted my heart, and the insights I will use for years to come. For decades I’ve been a proud climate optimist myself—it’s the foundation of my work and genuinely saved my own life. Read this book for the (renewable) fuel for our work ahead.” —Solitaire Townsend, cofounder of global change agency Futerra and author of The Solutionists: How Business Can Fix The FutureTable of ContentsContents Introduction Chapter 1: Why Optimism and Why Now? Chapter 2: Reasons to be Hopeful…. The Last Decade in Review Chapter 3: Reflections from Around the World Chapter 4: The Way Forward Chapter 5: Community First Chapter 6: A Future Built for All Chapter 7: What You Can Do Acknowledgments About the Author

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