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Brent Sohngen, Douglas Southgate
Reversing Deforestation

"Dire reports of surging deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon appear often in international headlines, with commentators decrying the destruction of tree-covered habitats as an act of environmental vanda…

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Nancy Matsumoto
Reaping What She Sows

A James Beard Award winner celebrates the women heroes who are fighting against the Big Food system—and asks the question: How should we eat? When the Covid-19 pandemic ripped through global food supply …

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Sara Martucci
There Was Nothing There

"There Was Nothing There: Williamsburg, The Gentrification of a Brooklyn Neighborhood explores the daily, lived-effects of gentrification for neighborhood residents- those who are newcomers and those who …

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Julie Guthman
The Problem with Solutions

"I can't think of a more essential book to read right now--whether you're a college student, NGO director, or Bill Gates. It's full of brilliant and wonderfully written insights about why 'solutions' that…

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Geoff Isaac
Rethinking Plastics in Product Design

"This book addresses the urgent need to reduce our use of plastics. Tracing the historical use of plastics through to today, and combining the latest theories and methods from sustainable transition desig…

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Thomas E Nelson
Political Persuasion

This book examines the tactics of value recruitment through case studies in educational and environmental politics. By presenting interviews with activists and policymakers and numerous novel experiments,…

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Ronda L Brulotte
Mezcal in Oaxaca

An ethnography of mezcal and how it has become a global, "artisanal" good.

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Prakash Kashwan, Aseem Hasnain
Decolonizing Environmentalism

Recent debates emphasize the urgency of making environmental movements more inclusive, yet they do so without deeper scrutiny of the core tenets of environmentalism. Despite efforts by some groups, there …

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Andrea Freeman
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground

The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era In 1779, to subjugate Indigeno…

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Jacqueline Vaughn,
Water in the West

Water use and conservation in the American West have long been shaped by a host of geographic, environmental, political and economic factors. Today, though, serious questions are being raised about how we…

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The Economy of Saudi Arabia in the 21st Century

This book is about Saudi Arabia's efforts to overhaul its economy and the numerous prospects and challenges it faces in doing so. As one of the world's leading oil producers, the outcomes of the most ambi…

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William Leiss
Deep Disposal

High-level nuclear waste is the most hazardous byproduct of a useful energy source that is increasingly in demand. Finding the ideal place to store it permanently is an urgent policy crisis facing our cou…

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Virpi Timonen
Social Policy

Concepts like freedom, equality and justice have many uses - and even more misuses. In seeking to manage an increasingly complex world, it is more important than ever to think carefully about the meaning …

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Andrew F Puzder
A Tyranny for the Good of Its Victims

Former CEO of CKE Restaurants, Inc. Andrew F. Puzder exposes how the secretive consolidation of financial power under the guise of "ESG" represents a new collectivist threat to the free market. Over the …

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National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment
Practices and Standards for Plugging Orphaned and Abandoned Hydrocarbon Wells

When oil and gas production began in the 19th century in North America, standards and regulations for the drilling and plugging of wells had not yet been developed. Over time, many of these and other well…

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Jennifer Pahlka
Recoding America

Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2023 Named one of Ezra Klein's "Books That Explain Where We Are in 2023," The New York Times Learn more about Jennifer Pahlka's work at recodingamerica.us. "The book I w…

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Anton Hemerijck, Manos Matsaganis
Who's Afraid of the Welfare State Now?

This book primarily explores the welfare-policy responses to the Great Recession, reform trajectories that swept across Europe over the last decade, with a final chapter that focuses on Covid-19 welfare m…

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Anton Hemerijck, Manos Matsaganis
Who's Afraid of the Welfare State Now?

This book primarily explores the welfare-policy responses to the Great Recession, reform trajectories that swept across Europe over the last decade, with a final chapter that focuses on Covid-19 welfare m…

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Andrea Louise Campbell
Taxation and Resentment

Why Americans favor progressive taxation in principle but not in practice Most Americans support progressive taxation in principle, and want the rich to pay more. But the specific tax policies that most …

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Alexis Lerner
Post-Soviet Graffiti

Post-Soviet Graffiti is an empirically grounded ethnographic study of how graffiti and street art can be used as a political tool to circumvent censorship, express grievances, and control public discourse…

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