Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Books

Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Platform Economy and the Smart City is an important reference work for practitioners and researchers interested in how technology platforms are reshaping cities and how city governments are responding to these challenges, either oppositionally or by embracing technology to become 'smart cities.' The book does an admirable job of highlighting the benefits, risks, and negative impacts of technological change and policy shifts." Zack Taylor, University of Western Ontario and author of Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Platform Economy and the Smart City is an important reference work for practitioners and researchers interested in how technology platforms are reshaping cities and how city governments are responding to these challenges, either oppositionally or by embracing technology to become 'smart cities.' The book does an admirable job of highlighting the benefits, risks, and negative impacts of technological change and policy shifts." Zack Taylor, University of Western Ontario and author of Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Ecoliberation makes an important contribution to the literature in a number of ways. First and foremost, studies of social movements routinely ignore anarchism, and Jennifer Grubbs describes tendencies within the anarchist movement and radical milieus in detail. A compelling work.” Deric Shannon, Emory University and editor of The End of the World as We Know It? Crisis, Resistance, and the Age of Austerity

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bay Lexicon is a beautiful, masterful story of landscapes and the processes that shape and make them. Through a compelling synergy of drawing and defining, revealing and relating, Jane Wolff builds a simple but powerfully legible language of landscape – a language urgently needed to build shared meaning and stewardship of place." Nina-Marie Lister, Toronto Metropolitan University"The toolkit Jane Wolff has devised can be, and should be, used as a template for understanding a large number of hybrid places that are threatened by sea-level rise and climate change." Mark L. Hineline, Michigan State University and author of Ground Truth: A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home“One of the major attractions of both Delta Primer and Bay Lexicon is that the reader is never lost. The maps and the texts mean that even a stranger to the bay and the delta soon knows her way around. Wolff’s love of beauty also goes a long way toward making friends and converting citizens to her undogmatic ways of looking at land and water, not as two alien places separated from one another, but interconnected, and in a sense twins and doubles of one another, two halves of a whole that make up our blue planet.” Counterpunch

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing over 100,000 industrial spills from Alberta, Saskatchewan, North Dakota, Montana, and the Northwest Territories, this book takes the reader behind the firewall of disinformation to uncover scientific truths about crude oil and saline water spills and the cumulative impacts of the fossil fuel industry on ecosystems and society.Trade Review"This is a remarkable investigation that should open many eyes, and perhaps many hearts." Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature"This book is bound to become a seminal work for anyone concerned with the impact of the fossil fuel industry on our land, health, and governments. Kevin Timoney reveals the environmental regulation of the oil industry as a national embarrassment." Kevin Taft, author of Oil's Deep State“A must-read for oil historians and environmental historians seeking to understand the ecological impacts of fossil fuel industry spills.” H-Environment

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Book SynopsisThrough an ethnographic exploration of Canada’s ten UNESCO Natural World Heritage sites, Inhabited reflects on the meanings of wildness, wilderness, and natural heritage. Presenting perspectives of local inhabitants, the authors ask us to reflect on the colonial and dualist assumptions behind the received meaning of wild.Trade Review"Artfully crafted and extremely accessible, Inhabited is informed by a spirit of modesty and generosity throughout its pages. Nothing compares to this book in its scope, contemporary relevance, and empirical depth, and its contemporary political and social importance can hardly be overstated in an era of global environmental change and anxiety." Tim Edensor, Manchester Metropolitan University"The range of people the authors speak to, and the respect with which they heed their words, is an impressive model of ethnographic fieldwork. The book is, admirably, not written from above, or below even, but somewhere in the messy middle where our everyday lives occur, matching the relational wildness for which the authors advocate." Gavin Van Horn, Center for Humans and Nature

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Book SynopsisMore than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, what we are witnessing is not a Second Nuclear Age there is no post-atomic but an uncanny, quiet return of the nuclear threat that so vividly animated the Cold War era. The renewed threat of nuclear proliferation, public complacency regarding weapons stockpiles, and the lack of a single functioning long-term repository after seventy years and thousands of tonnes of nuclear waste reveals the industry's capacity for self-reinvention abetted by an ever-present capacity to forget. More than fabulously textual, as Jacques Derrida described it, the protean, unbound, and unending materiality of the nuclear is here to stay: resistance is crucial.Toxic Immanence introduces contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives that resist and decolonize the nuclear. Contributors highlight the prevalence and irrationality of slow violence and colonial governance as elements of the contemporary nuclear age. They propose a reaTrade Review“The first major collection of scholarship on nuclear energy humanities, …Toxic Immanence succeeds in setting the contours for a precise sector of study, while also bridging it to the well-established academic disciplines of environmental humanities, gender and sexuality studies, and critical Anthropocene studies, to name only a few.” H-Environment“Toxic Immanence succeeds in setting the contours for a precise sector of study, while also bridging it to the well-established academic disciplines of environmental humanities, gender and sexuality studies, and critical Anthropocene studies, to name only a few.” H-Environment

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking, richly-illustrated study of how a sense of place was created on the battlefields of the Western Front by soldiers, veterans, and tourists during the First World War and in the interwar period, Postcards from the Western Front is compelling reading for the wide array of people interested in the history of war, and its aftereffects.Trade Review‘This highly engaging and timely study gives historical precedents to understand contemporary examples of remembrance and mourning. There is no other work that examines the travel literature and ephemera of the Western Front in the way that Connelly does here.’ Ross Wilson, University of Nottingham and author of Cultural Heritage of the Great War in Britain “This book is thought-provoking and impressive in its scope and its attention to detail and is a must read for anyone curious about the experiences of those early visitors to the sites so familiar to us today.” The Western Front Association"A meticulously researched and vividly detailed analysis of the impact of war on the landscape and society of the battlefields of the Western Front in France and Belgium. Connelly’s study provides valuable insights into the motivations and significance of visiting battlefields and the first mass tourism to former sites of war and violence, as well as the emergence of a whole new industry." Francia-Recensio

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking, richly-illustrated study of how a sense of place was created on the battlefields of the Western Front by soldiers, veterans, and tourists during the First World War and in the interwar period, Postcards from the Western Front is compelling reading for the wide array of people interested in the history of war, and its aftereffects.Trade Review‘This highly engaging and timely study gives historical precedents to understand contemporary examples of remembrance and mourning. There is no other work that examines the travel literature and ephemera of the Western Front in the way that Connelly does here.’ Ross Wilson, University of Nottingham and author of Cultural Heritage of the Great War in Britain “This book is thought-provoking and impressive in its scope and its attention to detail and is a must read for anyone curious about the experiences of those early visitors to the sites so familiar to us today.” The Western Front Association"A meticulously researched and vividly detailed analysis of the impact of war on the landscape and society of the battlefields of the Western Front in France and Belgium. Connelly’s study provides valuable insights into the motivations and significance of visiting battlefields and the first mass tourism to former sites of war and violence, as well as the emergence of a whole new industry." Francia-Recensio

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Book SynopsisThe catastrophic runaway wildfires advancing through North America and other parts of the world are not unprecedented. Fires loomed large once human activity began to warm the climate in the 1820s, leading to an aggressive firefighting strategy that has left many of the continent's forests too old and vulnerable to the fires that many tree species need to regenerate.Dark Days at Noon provides a broad history of wildfire in North America, from before European contact to the present, in the hopes that we may learn from how we managed fire in the past, and apply those lessons in the future. As people continue to move into forested landscapes to work, play, live, and ignite fires intentionally or unintentionally fire has begun to take its toll, burning entire towns, knocking out utilities, closing roads, and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. Fire management in North America requires attention and cooperation from both sides of the border, and manyTrade Review"A well-researched and spectacularly illustrated profile of historically significant wildfires in North America between 1780 and 2021. In his conclusion Struzik calls for cultural and political efforts devoted to actively living with wildfire rather than addressing it on an as-needed basis. The book is valuable for comparing the role of, and policies toward, wildfire in the US. Recommended. All readers." Choice“[Dark Days at Noon] is easily one of the most beautiful books on wildfire I have encountered, with dozens of rich illustrations from fire photography to newspaper cartoons, and from archival materials to Struzik’s own travel photography - not simply creating a more engaging reader experience but also providing complementary material that empowers the reader to really understand the subjects Struzik is writing about. It is a book that proves accessible and enjoyable for the casual reader, insightful for the already informed, and highly useful for the experts in the subject—all while finally linking the visual and textual dimensions of fire in a well-deserved way.” H-Environment

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Book SynopsisNorthern Getaway investigates the connections between film and tourism of the 1890s through the 1950s. Using evidence from archival sources and current scholarship in film history and tourism studies, Dominique Brégent-Heald demonstrates that Canada was an innovator in employing film to project a recognizable destination brand.Trade Review“Northern Getaway makes an extremely compelling case that pre-1939 Canadian cinema was part of the vanguard that harnessed the potential of motion pictures in the service of tourism promotion, subtly weaving a new narrative of relations between Canadian and American interests during the era in question. The result is frankly quite a profound reframing of Canadian film history, rescuing it from its common perception as a stunted branch-plant industry merely serving American interests.” Peter Lester, Brock University

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Book SynopsisNorthern Getaway investigates the connections between film and tourism of the 1890s through the 1950s. Using evidence from archival sources and current scholarship in film history and tourism studies, Dominique Brégent-Heald demonstrates that Canada was an innovator in employing film to project a recognizable destination brand.Trade Review“Northern Getaway makes an extremely compelling case that pre-1939 Canadian cinema was part of the vanguard that harnessed the potential of motion pictures in the service of tourism promotion, subtly weaving a new narrative of relations between Canadian and American interests during the era in question. The result is frankly quite a profound reframing of Canadian film history, rescuing it from its common perception as a stunted branch-plant industry merely serving American interests.” Peter Lester, Brock University

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Book SynopsisRivers are alive and impulsive, shaped by history and geology. Just One Rain Away provides a starting point for cross-cultural discussions about how expert knowledge and practice should inform egalitarian decision-making about flood control and decolonize current ways of thinking, being, and becoming with rivers.Trade Review“A fascinating, lively, and intimate portrait of a complex technical issue, Just One Rain Away evokes the complexity of flood control through a sprawling appreciation of geology, politics, technology, and metrology, as well as ethnography and literature. Ambitious and impressive, both the technical rigour and the imaginative scope of materials and descriptions makes this a major achievement.” Kregg Hetherington, author of The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops“This book provides an apt starting point for those who wish to better understand these pressing issues, and perhaps even move toward the decolonization of flood control itself.” International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy

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Book SynopsisRivers are alive and impulsive, shaped by history and geology. Just One Rain Away provides a starting point for cross-cultural discussions about how expert knowledge and practice should inform egalitarian decision-making about flood control and decolonize current ways of thinking, being, and becoming with rivers.Trade Review“A fascinating, lively, and intimate portrait of a complex technical issue, Just One Rain Away evokes the complexity of flood control through a sprawling appreciation of geology, politics, technology, and metrology, as well as ethnography and literature. Ambitious and impressive, both the technical rigour and the imaginative scope of materials and descriptions makes this a major achievement.” Kregg Hetherington, author of The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops“This book provides an apt starting point for those who wish to better understand these pressing issues, and perhaps even move toward the decolonization of flood control itself.” International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy

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Book SynopsisUnder the Weather explores the relationship between human mobility and severe weather exacerbated by the climate emergency. Offering an ecological approach to mobilities, Sodero argues that mobility can be reimagined to work with, rather than against, the climate in ways that also benefit the health, education, and economy of communities.Trade Review'This is a brilliantly written and articulate exploration of how communications, transportation and exchanges are affected in the era of climate change and how quickly we need to adapt our 'vital mobilities' to these challenges. This fascinating book brings the subject to life. Recommended reading for anyone interested in disasters, climate change and medical responses. " Bertrand Taithe, professor of cultural history and past director of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester"[Sodero]'s puts a name to the vexing complexities of a global circulation of people and things embedded in local, regional, and global ecosystems disrupted by those very movements. Climatic disruptions—in Canada and elsewhere—show no signs of abating any time soon, and an ecological mobilities approach that helps us learn productive lessons from those productions will certainly be an important part of an effective response." H-Environment

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Book SynopsisHumans and human mobility, including driving and flying, are entangled with the climate emergency. Fossil-fuelled mobility worsens severe weather, and in turn, severe weather disrupts human mobility. A shift to zero-emission vehicles is critical but insufficient to repair the damage or prepare communities for the coming disruptions severe weather will bring. In Under the Weather Stephanie Sodero explores the intersection between human mobility and severe weather. Anchored in two Atlantic Canadian hurricane case studies, Hurricane Juan in Mi''kma''ki/Nova Scotia in 2003 and Hurricane Igor in Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland in 2010, the book contributes to contemporary cultural and policy discussions by offering five practical recommendations revolutionize mobility, prioritize vital mobility of medical goods and services, embrace ecological mobilities, rebrand redundancy, and think flexibly for how mobility can be reimagined to work with, rather than against, the climate in ways Trade Review'This is a brilliantly written and articulate exploration of how communications, transportation and exchanges are affected in the era of climate change and how quickly we need to adapt our 'vital mobilities' to these challenges. This fascinating book brings the subject to life. Recommended reading for anyone interested in disasters, climate change and medical responses. " Bertrand Taithe, professor of cultural history and past director of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester"[Sodero]'s puts a name to the vexing complexities of a global circulation of people and things embedded in local, regional, and global ecosystems disrupted by those very movements. Climatic disruptions—in Canada and elsewhere—show no signs of abating any time soon, and an ecological mobilities approach that helps us learn productive lessons from those productions will certainly be an important part of an effective response." H-Environment

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Book SynopsisAround 1600, Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a compilation of every document he could find relating to English voyages beyond Europe’s boundaries. In a dazzling account of an editorial project seminal to England’s encounter with the world and the nation’s idea of itself, Fuller unlocks Hakluyt’s work for modern readers.Trade Review“Mary Fuller is one of the foremost scholars of early modern English travel writing, and Lines Drawn across the Globe is the result of a long career of nuanced assessment of writings on travel and encounter. Not just a textual study, this is also an investigation into early modern geography, European rivalries, and global expansion. It provides the most comprehensive guide to reading Hakluyt that is currently available.” Daniel Carey, University of Galway“Lines Drawn across the Globe is a magisterial work many years in the making, a personal reading of Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations of the English Nation by a scholar of literature that deploys real expertise, and an indispensable analytical guide to a text whose size and diversity can be daunting. While Hakluyt is often interpreted in the context of the history of early English colonialism in the Atlantic, emphasizing long-term historical consequences and the mythology of New World exceptionalism, Fuller offers a more nuanced exploration of the book’s rich and varied contents.” Joan-Pau Rubiés, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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Book SynopsisOver the past century and a half, no two nations have exchanged natural resources, produced transborder environmental agreements, or cooperatively altered ecosystems on the same scale as Canada and the United States. Natural Allies offers a reinterpretation of the history of US-Canada relations by focusing on the role of environment and energy.Trade Review“Natural Allies is a sweeping book that redefines our understanding of Canada-US relations since 1867 as well as environmental diplomacy more broadly. There is no other book like it, and it will provide a useful new perspective to anyone studying or interested in foreign policy or environmental issues in North America.” Kurk Dorsey, University of New Hampshire and author of The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: US-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era

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Book SynopsisOver the past century and a half, no two nations have exchanged natural resources, produced transborder environmental agreements, or cooperatively altered ecosystems on the same scale as Canada and the United States. Natural Allies offers a reinterpretation of the history of US-Canada relations by focusing on the role of environment and energy.Trade Review“Natural Allies is a sweeping book that redefines our understanding of Canada-US relations since 1867 as well as environmental diplomacy more broadly. There is no other book like it, and it will provide a useful new perspective to anyone studying or interested in foreign policy or environmental issues in North America.” Kurk Dorsey, University of New Hampshire and author of The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: US-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era

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Book SynopsisAs human actions erase habitats and raise the planet’s temperature, plant diversity is dropping and a growing list of pollinators faces decline or even extinction. Paths of Pollen chronicles pollen’s vital mission to spread plant genes, from the prehistoric past to the present, while looking towards an ecologically uncertain future.Trade Review“Stephen Humphrey is a highly accomplished, and engaging storyteller. In the manner of Carl Sagan or Aldo Leopold, he calls attention to little-known or misunderstood topics, and presents these to an often science-hostile public. Paths of Pollen advances the cause of pollinator and plant conservation for their benefits to all humankind and wildlife, now and in the future. I couldn’t put it down.” Stephen Buchmann, author of *What a Bee Knows: Exploring the Thoughts, Memories, and Personalities of Bees *“With Paths of Pollen, Humphrey has extended an accessible invitation to consider these relationships at multiple scales, from the wide view of global environmental activism to the microscopic perspective of a grain of pollen.” *Montreal Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisIn Orangutans, zoologist and conservationist Ronald Orenstein draws on the latest research to survey the natural and cultural history of these charismatic red apes as well as their present and future. Featuring over 160 full-color photographs, maps, a list of orangutan organizations to support and an extensive bibliography.

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Book SynopsisPATSY HEALEY is Professor Emeritus in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.She is fellow of the British Academy and her many original contributions to the field of planning include Collaborative Planning (2nd edn, 2005) also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental History as a distinct discipline is now over a generation old, with a large and diverse group of practitioners around the globe. This book provides a reflection on the achievements, diversity, and direction of environmental history in its varied national, international and continental contexts.Trade Review'Nature's End is both an adept explanation of the ways in which historians can make the environment a central theme, and a treasure trove packed with gems of essays by leading scholars who show how it is done. This book is a state-of-the-art guide to contemporary questions in global environmental history.' - J. Donald Hughes, University of Denver, USA 'This volume makes a contribution not only to the history of the environment, but also to its historiography and to the history of thought about the environment It contributes to bridge-building between disciplines and also to a dialogue with other kinds of historian, whether they work on politics or culture.' - Peter Burke, University of Cambridge, UK 'Leading scholars of environmental history clarify the discipline's epistemological context and offer compelling case studies. Nature's End is indispensable reading for all who seek to meld the various communities of knowledge of our world.' - Carole Crumley, University of North Carolina, USA 'Nature's End deserves a wide audience. Environmental historians of all sorts will find it useful, as few such collections can boast such a rich and diverse array of contributions, ranging widely in geographical and chronological scope and presenting several methodological and conceptual approaches.' - William Cavert, H-Environment '...thought-provoking...Hopefully, this volume will guide environmental and cultural historians towards fruitful interaction.' - European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Preface Introduction; S.Sörlin & P.Warde PART I: THE RISE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL Imperialism and Environmental Change: Unearthing the Origins and Evolution of Global Environmental History; R.Grove & V.Damodaran Habitat, Possession and Community: Reflections on the History of Conservation Ideas; B.Adams The Field of Action: Agriculture and the Defining of the Environment in Pre-Industrial Europe; P.Warde The Global Warming That Did Not Happen: Historicizing Glaciology and Climate Change; S.Sörlin Genealogies of the Ecological Moment: Planning, Complexity and the Emergence of 'the Environment' as Politics in West Germany, 1949-1982; H.Nehring PART II: HISTORY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES The Environmental History of Mountain Regions; R.Dodgshon Interdisciplinary Conversations: the Collective Model; A.Davies New Science for Sustainability in an Ancient Land; L.Robin PART III: MAKING SPACE: ENVIRONMENTS AND THEIR CONTEXTS Fifty-four, Forty, or Fight? Writing within and across Boundaries in North American Environmental History; M.Evenden & G.Wynn Modernity and the Politics of Waste in Britain; T.Cooper Why Intensity? Reflections on Long-Term Changes to Chinese Farming and the Institutional Steering of Modifications to the Environment; M.Elvin 'The pernicious calamities that occasion...hunger': Climate Variability and Social Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico; G.Endfield PART IV: 'THINGS HUMAN' Destiny and Decision: Taking the Lifeworld Seriously in Environmental History; K.Hastrup Afterword; P.Burke Index

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Book SynopsisEnvironmental History as a distinct discipline is now over a generation old, with a large and diverse group of practitioners around the globe. This book provides a reflection on the achievements, diversity, and direction of environmental history in its varied national, international and continental contexts.Trade Review'Nature's End is both an adept explanation of the ways in which historians can make the environment a central theme, and a treasure trove packed with gems of essays by leading scholars who show how it is done. This book is a state-of-the-art guide to contemporary questions in global environmental history.' - J. Donald Hughes, University of Denver, USA 'This volume makes a contribution not only to the history of the environment, but also to its historiography and to the history of thought about the environment It contributes to bridge-building between disciplines and also to a dialogue with other kinds of historian, whether they work on politics or culture.' - Peter Burke, University of Cambridge, UK 'Leading scholars of environmental history clarify the discipline's epistemological context and offer compelling case studies. Nature's End is indispensable reading for all who seek to meld the various communities of knowledge of our world.' - Carole Crumley, University of North Carolina, USA 'Nature's End deserves a wide audience. Environmental historians of all sorts will find it useful, as few such collections can boast such a rich and diverse array of contributions, ranging widely in geographical and chronological scope and presenting several methodological and conceptual approaches.' - William Cavert, H-Environment '...thought-provoking...Hopefully, this volume will guide environmental and cultural historians towards fruitful interaction.' - European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Preface Introduction; S.Sörlin & P.Warde PART I: THE RISE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL Imperialism and Environmental Change: Unearthing the Origins and Evolution of Global Environmental History; R.Grove & V.Damodaran Habitat, Possession and Community: Reflections on the History of Conservation Ideas; B.Adams The Field of Action: Agriculture and the Defining of the Environment in Pre-Industrial Europe; P.Warde The Global Warming That Did Not Happen: Historicizing Glaciology and Climate Change; S.Sörlin Genealogies of the Ecological Moment: Planning, Complexity and the Emergence of 'the Environment' as Politics in West Germany, 1949-1982; H.Nehring PART II: HISTORY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES The Environmental History of Mountain Regions; R.Dodgshon Interdisciplinary Conversations: the Collective Model; A.Davies New Science for Sustainability in an Ancient Land; L.Robin PART III: MAKING SPACE: ENVIRONMENTS AND THEIR CONTEXTS Fifty-four, Forty, or Fight? Writing within and across Boundaries in North American Environmental History; M.Evenden & G.Wynn Modernity and the Politics of Waste in Britain; T.Cooper Why Intensity? Reflections on Long-Term Changes to Chinese Farming and the Institutional Steering of Modifications to the Environment; M.Elvin 'The pernicious calamities that occasion...hunger': Climate Variability and Social Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico; G.Endfield PART IV: 'THINGS HUMAN' Destiny and Decision: Taking the Lifeworld Seriously in Environmental History; K.Hastrup Afterword; P.Burke Index

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Book SynopsisFélix Guattari: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography, by Franco Berardi 'Bifo', originates in the author's close personal acquaintance with Félix Guattari's writings and political engagement in the context of Berardi Bifo's activism in Italian autonomist politics and his ongoing collaboration with Guattari in the 1970s and 1980s.Trade Review'In these stirring pages Bifo produces a rhythmic map of Félix Guattari's thought that resonates with the contemporary discords of cognitive labour. Tones of intimacy and abstraction combine in haunting chords of unhappy politics and philosophical triumphs. Strains of oracularity take flight in political insights more Buddhist than Leninist. Immensely protective of Félix as both teacher and friend, Bifo ensures that the refrains of Guattari's processes of subjectivation do not petrify into academic givens but continue to sing their extraordinary singularity and make new becomings available for those engaged in tomorrow's struggles. Bifo invites his readers to share the intensities of conceptual and political creativity, productively despair of the fragility of the psyche and the environment, and rejoice in a philosophical friendship with the conviction to head straight into chaos. Bifo's Félix is a netizen before the letter; semio-chemist of molecular evolution; analyst of an unconscious redesigned for getting things done together; and a trusted fellow militant. In this remarkable book there is more than enough sharable affect available to counteract the attenuations of revolutionary desire under infocapital.' - Gary Genosko, Canada Research Chair in Technoculture, Lakehead University 'Félix Guattari was the bridge between French poststructuralism and Italian autonomism, the thinker and militant who, more than anyone else, made possible the synthesis of those currents that now looms so large in debates over globalization, network culture and cognitive capitalism. Franco 'Bifo' Berardi is a major Italian media theorist and activist, an agent provocateur who deserves to be as well known to Anglophone readers as Agamben, Negri or Vattimo. Bifo's book does many things at once: it introduces readers to the thought of Guattari (and Deleuze, who for once gets second billing) in a lively and agile manner; it offers a moving tribute to a departed friend and ally as well as a meditation on friendship as the necessary condition of thought and action; it creates new philosophical concepts of unhappiness and depression that are crucial for understanding the present; and much more. This book should be essential reading for everyone who is concerned with nihilism and deconstruction, biopower and the multitude, bare life and the state of exception in short, everyone who wants to confront the twenty-first century on its own terms.' - Timothy S. Murphy, University of OklahomaTable of ContentsPreface: Thought, Friendship, and Visionary Cartography; G.Mecchia & C.J.Stivale Introduction: Cartographies in Becoming PART I The Happy Depression Integrated World Capitalism Planetary Psychopathia Postmediatic Affect PART II User's Manual Deleuze and the Rhizomatic Machine Why is Anti-Oedipus the Book of the '68 Movement? Kafka, Hypertext and Assemblages The Tantric Egg Chaosmosis The Provisional Eternity of Friendship Interview with Franco Berardi 'Bifo', July 11 2005; G.Mecchia Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLES HAMILL is Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering, School of Marine Science and Engineering, University of Plymouth, UK.Trade Review'Excellent book for anyone needing to understand hydraulics and engineering hydrology. Invaluable. My favourite.' Amazon reviewer 'This book should be an example of how to write a book for students... Best text book I have used in my life!' Amazon reviewerTable of ContentsIntroduction Hydrostatics Pressure Measurement Stability of a Floating Body Fluids in Motion Flow Measurement Flow through Pipelines Flow under a Varying Head: Time Required to Empty a Reservoir Flow in Open Channels Hydraulic Structures Dimensional Analysis and Hydraulic Models Turbines and Pumps Introduction to Engineering Hydrology Applications of Engineering Hydrology Sustainable Drainage Systems Bibliography Appendix 1: Derivations of Equations Appendix 2: Solutions to Self Test Questions Appendix 3: Graph Paper.

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Sports Mega-Events, Sustainable Development, and Civil Societies; G.Hayes & J.Karamichas The Four 'Cs' of Sports Mega-Events: Capitalism, Connections, Citizenship and Contradictions; J.Horne Civilizing Beijing: Social Beautification, Civility and Citizenship at the 2008 Olympics; A.Broudehoux Istanbul's Olympic Challenge: A Passport for Europe?; J.Polo The Failed Bid for Lyon '68 and France's Winter Olympics from Grenoble '68 to Annecy 2018: French Politics, Civil Society and Olympic Mega-Events; H.Dauncey The Role of Environmental Issues in Mega-Events Planning and Management Processes: Which Factors Count?; P.Caratti & L.Ferraguto Sustainability as Global Norm: The Greening of Meag-Events in China; A.Mol & L.Zhang Olympic Games as an Opportunity for the Ecological Modernization of the Host Nation: The Cases of Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004; J.Karamichas What Happens When Olympic Bids Fail? Sustainable Development and Paris 2012; G.Hayes Olympic Games, Conflicts and Social Movements: The Case of Torino 2006; E.Dansero, B.Corpo, Al.Mela & I.Ropolo Vancouver 2010: The Saga of Eagleride Bluffs; D.Whitson Resisting the Torch; X.Renou Conclusion: Sports Mega-Events: Disputed Places, Structural Contradictions and Critical Moments; G.Hayes & J.Karamichas Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBringing together contributions from leading researchers, this volume reflects on the political, institutional and social factors that have shaped the recent expansion of wind energy, and to consider what lessons this experience may provide for the future expansion of other renewable technologies.Trade Review'What the book does well is to identify and disucss several barriers to making wind projects more acceptable for communities and environmental groups...Learning from Wind Power is an accessible and weighty contribution to the field.' - Ralitsa Hiteva, Sustainable Consumption Institute and School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, Environment and PlanningTable of ContentsWind Power: Towards a Sustainable Energy Future?; C.Warren , R.Cowell , G.Ellis , P.A.Strachan & J.Szarka PART I: GOVERNANCE AND POLICY LEARNING Wind Power: Opportunities, Limits and Challenges; D.Elliott Wind Power Policy in Germany and the UK; V.Lauber Wind Power and Spatial Planning in the UK; S.Power & R.Cowell From Laggard to World Leader: the United Kingdom's Adoption of MarineWind Energy; S.Jay Planning with the Missing Masses: Innovative Wind Power Planning in France; A.Nadai PART II: SOCIETAL ENGAGEMENT WITH WIND POWER The Misdirected Opposition to Wind Energy; M.J.Pasqualletti The Social Experience of Noise from Wind Farms; C.Haggett Navigating a Minefield? Wind Power and Local Community BenefitFunds; P.A.Strachan & D.Jones Fostering Public Engagement in Wind Energy Development: the Role of Intermediaries and Community Benefits; P.Devine-Wright Social Acceptance of Wind Energy Projects: Learning from Trans-national Experience; S.Huber , R.Hobarty & G.Ellis Drawing Lessons from Wind Power for Future Sustainable Energy; J.Szarka , G.Ellis , R.Cowell , P.A.Strachan & C.Warren

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Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary collection exploring the practices and cultures of mapping in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It features contributions from scholars in critical cartography, social anthropology, film and cultural studies, literary studies, art and visual culture, marketing, museum studies, architecture, and popular music studies. Trade Review"This collection gives a widely spread voice to the widening acknowledgement of what maps mean and do; how and where they occur. Comprising a series of related but distinctive, lively, well worked and critically engaging chapters, the book will find readers across a range of disciplines and subjects." - David Crouch, University of Derby, UK "Mapping Cultures offers a collection of innovative studies and theoretical essays, each confronting the diffusion of cartographic method and rhetoric throughout humanities and social science research over the past two decades. . . . [the book] is brimming with insight into the emergent mapping practices and vocabularies by which we might better resist authoritarian, anti-democratic practices, which themselves do work through mapping. And it helps clear a path by which researchers in the humanities and social sciences alike might better understand and express that ''it is not so much what people do with maps as it is what maps do with people'' (Wood, p. 300). For this alone, the book is an important bridge between the relatively recent innovations of critical cartography, in particular, and a host of other fields just as recently innovated by the methods and metaphors of cartography in general." - Cartographica 48 (2), 2013. "The book closes with a call for a more explicit critical reorientation towards mapping, and map use a project of the anthropology of cartography (D. Wood). This call seems to be still valid and one can admit that Mapping Cultures is a significant step towards achieving the goal. Readers from different disciplines will find valuable contributions both theoretical and empirical in the collection. For a tourism researcher or student, the book is thought-provoking for several reasons, not only because of the enhancing awareness of cartography in relation to areas such as cinema, music, travel..." - Tourism, Culture and Communication 12, 2013.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Mapping Cultures – a Spatial Anthropology; L.Roberts PART I: PLACE/TEXT/TOPOGRAPHY Critical Literary Cartography: Text, Maps and a Coleridge Notebook; D.Cooper Mapping Rohmer: Cinematic Cartography in Post-war Paris; R.Misek Cinematic Cartography: Projecting Place Through Film; L.Roberts Walking, Witnessing, Mapping: An Interview with Iain Sinclair; D.Cooper & L.Roberts Maps, Memories and Manchester: the Cartographic Imagination of the Hidden Networks of the Hydraulic City; M.Dodge & C.Perkins PART II: PERFORMANCE/MEMORY/LOCATION Urban Musicscapes: Mapping Music-making in Liverpool; S.Cohen Mapping the Soundscapes of Popular Music Heritage; P.Long & J.Collins Walking Through Time: Use of Locative Media to Explore Historical Maps; C.Speed Salford 7/ District Six. The Use of Participatory Mapping and Material Artefacts in Cultural Memory Projects; L.Cassidy PART III: PRACTICE/APPARATUS/CARTOGRAPHICS 'Spatial Stories': Maps and the Marketing of the Urban Experience; G.Warnaby Mapping My Way: Map-making and Analysis in Participant Observation; H.Andrews Mental Maps and Spatial Perceptions: The Fragmentation of Israel-Palestine; E.Ben Ze'ev Peripatetic Box and Personal Mapping: From Studio to Classroom to City; S.Moro The Anthropology of Cartography; D.Wood Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIain White is Professor of Environmental Planning at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.Table of Contents1. Introducing Environmental Planning 2. The Intellectual Legacies 3. Governance and Power 4. Politics and the Media 5. Framing Concepts 6. The Role of Science 7. Policy and Regulation 8. Decision Support Tools 9. Engaging with Stakeholders 10. The Question of Justice 11. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThese essays by leading figures from academia, architecture and the arts consider how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities. They take Berlin as a key case of a historically burdened metropolis, but also extend to other global cities: Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and New York.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I Monument and Melancholia; V.Burgin Sonnen-Insulaner : On a Berlin Island of Memory; T.Elsaesser Arrivals and Departures: Travelling to the Airports of Berlin; H.Reeh Global Building Sites – Between Past and Future; D.Libeskind PART II Spectral Ground in New Cities: Memorial Cartographies in Cape Town and Berlin; K.E.Till & J.Jonker Designing the Biblical Present in Jerusalem's 'City of David'; W.Pullan& M.Gwiazda Historical Tourism: Reading Berlin's Doubly Dictatorial Past; M.Fulbrook Sacralized Spaces and the Urban Remembrance of War; J.Ward Paradise for Provocation: Plotting Berlin's Political Underground; C.Scribner PART III Architecture as Scenography, the Building Site as Stage; S.Bürkle Buenos Aires 2010: Memory Machines and Cybercities in Two Argentine Science Fiction Films; G.Kantaris Perpetuated Transitions: Forms of Nightlife and the Buildings of Berlin in the Work of Isa Genzken and Wolfgang Tilmans; P.Ekardt On the Road with mnemonic nonstop ; L.Ruprecht with M.Nachbar& J.Roller Notes Index

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Book SynopsisIn Going to Extremes writer, presenter and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton visits Oymyakon in Siberia, where the average winter temperature is -47 degrees and 40% of the population have lost their fingers to frostbite while changing the car wheel. Next he travels to Arica Chile where there have been fourteen consecutive years without a drop of rain and so fog is people's only source of water. Going from the driest to the wettest, he visits Mawsynram in India which annually competes for the title with its neighbour Cherrapunji. However, Nick discovers even here, that during the dry season, there is water shortage and one entrepreneur has started selling it bottled.Finally his journey takes him to Dalol in Ethiopia known as the 'hell hole of creation' where the temperature remains at 94 degrees year round. Here Nick will join miners who work all day with no shade, limited water and no protective clothing.The book and series consider how a

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Book SynopsisDescribes the health hazards of radon, explains how to measure radon levels in the home, and offers advice on making one's home safe.

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Book SynopsisThis monograph attempts to unlock the mechanics of sedimentation, focusing on the production, accumulation and preservation of organic matter in marine and lacustrine sediments. The contributors cover a range of geological ages, as well as temperature and organic matter types.Table of ContentsContributors Acknowledgments Part I: Preliminaries 1. Introduction, by Jean K. Whelan and John W. Farrington 2. Reflections on the Career and Times of John M. Hunt, by Wallace G. Dow 3. Modeling Petroleum Generation in Sedimentary Basins, by John M. Hunt and R. J-C. Hennet Part II: Recent Sediments and Depositional Environments 4. Sources, Cycling, and Distribution of Water Column Particulate and Sedimentary Organic Matter in Northern Newfoundland Fjords and Bays: A Stable Isotope Study, by Nathaniel E. Ostrom and Stephen A. Macko 5. Organic Matter Accumulation, Remineralization, and Burial in an Anoxic Coastal Sediment, by C.S. Martens, Robert I. Haddad, and Jeffrey P. Chanton 6. Organic Carbon Remineralization and Preservation in Sediments of Skan Bay, Alaska, by Marc. J. Alperin, William S. Reeburgh, and Alan H. Devol 7. Preservation of Sargassum Under Anoxic Conditions: Molecular and Isotopic Evidence, by Mahlon c. Kennicutt II, Stephen A. Macko, H. Rodger Harvey, Robert R.Bidigare 8. Geochemical Features of Organic Matter in Sediment Cores from Lutzow-Holm Bay, Antarctica, by Genki I. Matsumoto, Eiji Matsumoto, Kiyotaka Sasaki, and Kunihiko Watanuki 9. Sedimentation and Preservation of Amino Compounds and Carbohydrates in Marine Sediments, by Jean K. Whelan and Kay-Christian Emeis 10. Hydrodynamic Controls of Anoxia in Shallow Lakes, by Paul W. Jewell Part III: Transition 11. Organic Carbon Accumulation and Preservation in Marine Sediments: How Important is Anoxia?, by Stephen E. Calvert and T.F. Pedersen 12. Early-Stage Incorporation of Sulfur Into Protokerogens and Possible Kerogen Precursors, by R.P. Philp, N. Suzuki, and A. Galvez-Sinibaldi 13. Bitumen Classification and Biomarker Correlation Studies Based on Organic Extracts from Neogene Gulf of California Sediments, by Paul A. Comet, J. McEvoy, and Mahlon C. Kennicutt II 14. Resolution of Sediment Hydrocarbon Sources: Multiparameter Approaches, by Mahlon C. Kennicutt II and Paul A. Comet 15. Biomarkers in Recent and Ancient Sediments: The Importance of the Diagenetic Continuum, by Simon C. Brassell 16. Natural Hydrous Pyrolysis: Petroleum Generation in Submarine Hhydrothermal Systems, by Bernd R.T. Simoneit 17. Stable Carbon Isotope Changes During the Maturation of Organic Matter, by Margarita E. Conkright and W.M. Sackett Part IV: Ancient Sediments 18. Source and Biomarker Composition Characteristics of Chinese Nonmarine Crude Oils, by Jiamo Fu and Guoying Sheng 19. Volatile Organic Compounds Associated with Oil Seepage Along the Northern Continental Slope of the Gulf of Mexico, by Thomas J. McDonald, Mahlon C. Kennicutt II, James M. Brooks, and Roger R. Fay 20. Maturity and Facies-Controlled Composition of the Organic Matter of Selected Oil Shales, by H. Wehner, H. Hufnagel, M. Teschner, and J. Koester 21. Organic Matter Response to Change of Depositional Environment in Kimmeridgian Shales, Dorset, U.K., by A.Y. Huc, E. Lallier-Verges, P. Bertrand, B. Carpentier, and D.J. Hollander 22. The Distribution and Generation of Hydrocarbons in Carbonate Source Rocks, by Kazuo Taguchi and Kazushi Mori Index

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Book SynopsisPresents the fundamental principles constructed from the nature of minerals and rocks to the plate tectonics.

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Book SynopsisExperts from both the natural and social sciences provide vital information for understanding the interactions of forest peoples and forest resources in the lowland tropics of Central and South America. They investigate patterns of traditional resource use, evaluate existing research, and explore new directions for furthering the conservationist agenda.Table of Contents1. Traditional Peoples and the Biosphere: Framing the Issues and Defining the Terms, by Marianne Schmink, Kent H. Redford, and Christine Padoch I. Indigenous Peoples: Introduction, by Kent H. Redford and Christine Padoch 2. Interpreting and Applying the "Reality" of Indigenous Concepts: What is Necessary to Learn from the Natives?, by Darrell Addison Posey 3. People of the Fallow: A Historical Ecology of Foraging in Lowland South America, by William Balee 4. Traditional Productive Systems of the Awa (Cuaiquer) Indians of Southwestern Colombia and Neighboring Ecuador, by Jorge E. Orejuela 5. Resource Use, Traditional Technology, and Change Among Native Peoples of Lowland South America, by Hillard Kaplan and Kate Kopischke 6. Neotropical Indigenous Hunters and Their Neighbors: Siriono, Chimane, and Yuqui Hunting on the Bolivian Fronteir, by Allyn MacLean Stearman II. Folk Societies: Introduction, by Kent H. Redford and Christine Padoch 7. Caboclo and Ribereno Resource Management in Amazonia: A Review, by Mario Hiraoka 8. Diversity, Variation, and Change in Ribereno Agriculture, by Christine Padoch and Wil De Jong 9. The Logic of Extraction: Resource Management and Income Generation by Extractive Producers in the Amazon Estuary, by Anthony B. Anderson and Edviges Marta Ioris III. Case Studies of Resource Management Projects in Protected and Unprotected Areas: Institutional Perspectives: Introduction, by Kent H. Redford and Christine Padoch 10. Xateros, Chicleros, and Pimenteros: Harvesting Renewable Tropical Forest Resources in the Guatemalan Peten, by James D. Nations 11. The Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area of Belize, by F. William Burley 12. The Chimane Conservation Program in Beni, Bolivia: An Effort for Local Participation, by Liliana C. Campos Dudley 13. The Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve: Human Needs and Natural Resource Conservation in the Ecuadorian Amazon, by Flavio Coello Hinojosa 14. The Wildlands and Human Needs Program: Putting Rural Development to Work for Conservation, by Dennis Glick and Michael Wright 15. Building Institutions for Sustainable Development in Acre, Brazil, by Marianne Schmink IV. New Directions in Research and Action: Introduction, by Kent H. Redford and Christine Padoch 16. Amuesha Forest Use and Management: An Integration of Indigenous Use and Natural Forest Management, by Jan Salick 17. Incorporation of Game Animals into Small-Scale Agroforestry Systems in the Neotropics, by Kent H. Redford, Bert Klein, and Carolina Murcia 18. Common Property Resources in the Neotropics: Theory, Management Progress, and an Action Agenda, by Peter H. May 19. Valuing Land Uses in Amazonia: Colonist Agriculture, Cattle, and Petty Extraction in Comparative Perspective, by Susanne B. Hecht 20. Buying in the Forests: A New Program to Market Sustainably Collected Tropical Forest Products Protects Forest and Forest Residents, by Jason Clay 21. Neotropical Moist Forests: Priorities for the Next Two Decades, by Robert J.A. Goodland

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Book SynopsisThe first book to clearly explain the science used by paleontologists and the new, cutting-edge techniques that led to the discovery of Seismosaurus, the longest dinosaur yet known----and possibly the largest land animal to have ever lived. The book also illustrates the exciting collaboration between Gillette, the chemists and physicists who helped to reconstruct Seismosaurus.Trade ReviewHere is a work destined to be of great historical importance in the field of paleontology...There have been no comparably detailed exegeses on the history of a single excavation. Earth Sciences History

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Book SynopsisAn eloquent introduction to the ethical and philosophical values at stake in biological conservation, this book familiarizes readers with the general issues and possible solutions to the problems societies face in simultaneously conserving nature and promoting culture.

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Book SynopsisThe biography of a man who came to occupy a major position in the history of North American palaeontology. Using personal letters, archives and accounts from those who knew Matthew, this volume presents a portrait of his excavations, travels, research and family life.

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Book SynopsisLeading chemists, geologists, palaeontologists and biologists contribute to this study of the most basic origins of life on Earth. They explore the origin of life during the Archean Eon, the maturation of life during the Proterozoic and the diversification of life that marks the Phanerozoic.

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Book SynopsisThe science editor of the New York Times issues a call to arms for beach lovers and environmentalists in a beautifully written book that covers the science as well as the hubris-filled history of Americans' efforts to hold back the sea.Trade ReviewAgainst the Tide flashes like a metaphorical lighthouse to warn scientists, policymakers, and the public about the state of the shoreline. -- Tom Drake Science Entertaining and thoroughly thought provoking. American Scientist Dean powerfully argues [that] America may face a future of beachless beach towns. Time Magazine Dean has done a first-rate job of making coastal conservation interesting. Against the Tide would be good beach reading. -- David Rains Wallace New York Times Book Review To anyone interested in the preservation of the nation's beaches this is the handbook-incredibly well researched and interestingly presented. And that 'anyone'should be all of us for our beaches are a national heritage and a precious resource that we owe our future generations. -- Walter Cronkite Engaging yet informative... Y[oung] A[dult]s interested in environmental careers and beach lovers of all ages will get caught up in this book. Logically arranged and written in a straightforward style, it enables readers to look at the familiar with new and knowledgeable eyes. School Library Journal Dean has written a workmanlike description of the ongoing struggle to turn back the tide on America's beaches by pinning down our shorelines-defying their essential nature, a continual dance of destruction and renewal. -- Heather Dewar The Japan Times Dean's thoughtful and eloquent plea to save America's beaches from overdevelopment and erosion is destined to be a classic of environmental writing. Library Journal Best Books of 1999 For anyone who has ever walked along a beach in that Zen-like state that only beach walks provide, do not miss this book. Especially if you're a taxpayer... I honestly think this could be one of those rare books that changes government policy-at local, state, and federal levels. -- Molly Ivins Against the Tide should be a potent weapon in the environmental effort to save what remains of our natural coastline. Everyone who reads it will be forcefully reminded that the Bible was right: it is not a good idea to build your house upon the sand. -- Kate Barnes The Amicus Journal An eloquent, forceful plea to save America's rapidly eroding beaches and coastline. Publisher's Weekly Dean knows that the best advocacy is to lay out the whole story, all sides, fairly and neutrally... She has made her case so clearly and cleanly, with such persuasive examples, and so much credit where it is due, that I'm convinced. -- Ann Finkbeiner New York Times An engaging overview of the powerful natural forces at work on the beach and why the various manmade strategies designed to alter them either don't work at all or don't work as intended. -- John Manuel The Raleigh News & Observer Beachgoers, coastal residents, planners, and anyone with a love of the sea will enjoy reading this fascinating book about historic coastal communities, the ravages of past winter storms and summer hurricanes, and our often futile attempts to protect oceanfront property while preserving the beach. -- Margaret Ann Aycock Library Journal Dean's opening chapter on the hurricane that flattened Galveston in 1900... is worth the price of the book. Discover Dean... covers considerable territory as she details the persistent efforts of developers and developer-prodded government agencies to 'armor' the coast against the action of wind and waves. But 'nature,' she notes, usually 'has the last word,' undercutting seawalls and toppling houses. -- Michael Kenney Boston Globe Dean tells a gripping tale, drawing on her knowledge of the coasts of Massachusetts and New York, and on the experts who have spent a generation learning the working of sea and sand. -- Jeff Hecht New ScientistTable of Contents1. September, Remember 2. The Great Beach 3. Armor 4. Unkind Cuts 5. Unnatural Appetite 6. Cause and Effect 7. The Big One 8. Clues 9. Constituency of Ignorance 10. For Sale Epilogue

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