{"product_id":"running-out-9780691212647","title":"Running Out","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Finalist for the National Book Award\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Finalist for the Outstanding Western Book Award, Center for the Study of the American West\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental History\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Kansas Notable Book of the Year\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the Bonney MacDonald Book Award, Center for the Study of the American West\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Winner of the Victor Turner Prize, Society for Humanistic Anthropology\"\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eRunning Out\u003c\/i\u003e] bursts with passages that linger after reading. . . . haunting.\"\u003cb\u003e---Christopher Flavelle, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A moving, melancholy, environment-focused memoir.\" * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *\u003cbr\u003e\"A short beauty of a book.\"\u003cb\u003e---M.J. Andersen, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cp\u003eAnthropologist Bessire (\u003ci\u003eBehold the Black Caiman\u003c\/i\u003e) combines ethnography and memoir in this deeply personal look at the depletion of the Ogallala aquifer. . . . A devastating portrait of how shortsighted decisions lead to devastating losses.\u003c\/p\u003e\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Lucas Bessire’s poignant critique of dramatic groundwater decline in southwest Kansas and resistance to addressing it offers perspective on our failure to confront climate change. . . . This tale on the ebbing of the Ogallala Aquifer is a valuable addition to the literature of aquifer depletion, compelling for its insider’s perspective and probing of contradictory human decisions that discount the future for immediate reward.\"\u003cb\u003e---Dennis Dimick, \u003ci\u003eCleveland Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"To try to get a grip on the cultural forces behind the [aquifer] depletion, [Bessire] began interviewing stakeholders in the vicinity of his family’s property and wrote this very personal account, which includes both analysis of complicity and elegiac passages about his homeland’s history and our dry future. . . . Stirring.\"\u003cb\u003e---Flora Taylor, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A profound and eloquent meditation on how and why societies behave in seemingly irrational ways in the face of dwindling resources, impoverished environments, and attenuated social relationships.\"\u003cb\u003e---Paul Sutter, \u003ci\u003eKansas History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Highly recommended . . . Bessire’s achievement in Running Out lies in his ability to open to the reader the water-consciousness of the people of the region. . . . Reading [Running Out] is time well spent.\"\u003cb\u003e---Michael J. Smith, \u003ci\u003eNebraska History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Running Out is a book for our times - it should have an impact on policy, and become a classic.\"\u003cb\u003e---John Miles, \u003ci\u003eNational Parks Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eminently readable. . . .The sense of loss that necessarily pervades \u003ci\u003eRunning Out\u003c\/i\u003e is balanced by Bessire’s lyrical prose, whose consistently crisp beauty serves as a welcome respite.\"\u003cb\u003e---Ed Meek, \u003ci\u003eThe Arts Fuse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Running Out] should be required reading for every environmental scientist.\"\u003cb\u003e---David Dent, \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Environmental Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865548468567,"sku":"9780691212647","price":19.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691212647.jpg?v=1722274504","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/running-out-9780691212647","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}