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Bench Ansfield
Born in Flames

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" Supposedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, the phrase encapsulated a chaotic era in US histo…

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W Puck Brecher
Loving and Loathing Wildlife in Japan

For over a century, Japan has vexed and disappointed its Western allies by resisting their efforts to protect biodiversity. Consequently, foreign critics have long derided Japan as "the world's bolde…

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Maria Jouste, Ravi Kanbur, Jukka Pirttilä, Pia Rattenhuber
Poor Protection

An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This b…

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Diane Coyle
The Measure of Progress

Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today's economy?The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were enti…

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Dilawar Hussain
The Senate of Pakistan and Regional Representation

In the first major book on the Senate of Pakistan since its creation in 1973, Dilawar Hussain explores its institutional history, membership, constitutional powers and key functions and how these have cha…

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No Island Is an Island

Despite Japan's long-held reputation as an ethnically homogeneous country largely closed to foreigners, the number of immigrants in Japan has been increasing, partially as a direct result of government po…

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Stephanie Gorton
The Icon and the Idealist

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHYWINNER OF THE ASJA AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY/HISTORYA riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that prof…

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Ugo Gentilini
Timely Cash

This book provides a historical overview of the 2,500-year history of cash transfers to better understand the roots of contemporary debates on whether and how such assistance should be provided.

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Anna Krome-Lukens
Strong State, Weak Links

In the early twentieth century, most US states established eugenics programs to "improve" the human race through selective breeding. North Carolina ran one of the nation's most aggressive progra…

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Christen E Civiletto
Thundering Waters

How corporate kingpins built their empires by poisoning a treasured natural wonderFew images from the natural world conjure the same awe, power, and amazement as Niagara Falls. Each year, millions flock f…

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Leah Penniman
Black Earth Wisdom

"Soulful, spirited, and often joyful, Black Earth Wisdom is sustained by a deep reverence for the Earth and its 'symbiotic living ecosystems.' The result is a potent look at the overlap between the e…

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Waiwai

For over a century, business interests and political insiders controlled waters across the Hawaiian Islands to benefit a privileged few at the expense of stream ecology, taro farmers, and our islands' fut…

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Waiwai

For over a century, business interests and political insiders controlled waters across the Hawaiian Islands to benefit a privileged few at the expense of stream ecology, taro farmers, and our islands' fut…

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Thomas A Krainz
A Great Many Refugees

Thomas A. Krainz examines how communities in the American West cared for refugees during the Progressive Era.

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Kate Marvel
Human Nature

A Scientific AmericanBest Book of the YearA captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planetScientis…

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Red Flag Warning

Two survivors of California fires compile a guide for living physically, mentally, and emotionally amid ecological destruction.When warm temperatures, low humidity, and strong winds combine they produce a…

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Zackary Vernon
Eating on a Mountain at the End of the World

When Zackary Vernon moved to the Appalachian town of Boone, North Carolina, he had a goal: to make more ethical food choices. Soon he was working on an organic farm; volunteering at a pay-what-you-can res…

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Lucy M Long
Sweet, Tart, and Golden

Whether Jonagolds or Ida Reds, the apple provides Midwesterners with both a versatile food and a powerful archetype of their culture and heritage. Lucy M. Long examines the ubiquitous fruit's place in reg…

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Ken Wells
Boudin

"Boudin is what the gods would eat if the gods were looking for the transcendent; a dish as satisfying to the soul as it is to the palate." So writes Ken Wells, Louisiana native and boudin hound…

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Bruno Carvalho
The Invention of the Future

A kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization---from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to LagosFor the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagine…

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