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Gary Slutkin
The End of Violence

A paradigm-shifting new approach to ending the epidemic of violence in our lifetime, using the same epidemic control playbook that has rid the world of other contagious diseases.Violence is often describe…

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Tanzil Shafique
City of Desire

In this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South - informal settlem…

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Timo Bartholl, Christos Filippidis, Antonis Vradis, Minhocas Urbanas
Favela Resistance

Food is at the heart of well-being, peace, and health. But millions live without access to basic nutrition, and billions live without control or understanding of where their food will come from and how it…

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Clare Morell
The Tech Exit

"The Tech Exit is necessary reading for any parent who has felt stuck between an awareness of the dangers of tech for kids and the feeling that digital technology is inevitable and necessary. Morell'…

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Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Teresa M Mares
Will Work for Food

Examining the essential role--and exploitation--of frontline workers across the food chain.Consumers are demanding a healthier and more sustainable food system. Yet labor is rarely part of the discussion.…

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Dan Saladino
From the Sea (Picador Shorts)

"A captivating tour through some of our most cherished marine food traditions, and the danger of extinction that they increasingly face in today's world"--

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Elspeth Hay
Feed Us with Trees

What if the future of food grew on trees---and had been with us all along?From acorns to chestnuts, hazelnuts, and beyond, discover the ancient staple crops that could nourish people andheal the planet.Wh…

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Christina G Villegas
Poverty in America

"Timely and authoritative, this resource provides an accessible introduction to the issues, controversies, and debates surrounding poverty in America"--

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Lorece V Edwards
Redlining Childhood

"This work discusses the cost youths pay for trying to survive in under resourced communities"--

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James Dale
The Future of Bananas

The banana is the most eaten fruit in the world -- but its future is under threat. World expert Professor James Dale contemplates how we'll save the humble banana in this fascinating addition to the FUTUR…

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Katie J Wells, Kafui Attoh, Declan Cullen
Disrupting D.C.

A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was def…

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Omar G Encarnación
Framing Equality

The book explains why the struggle over gay marriage differed among democratic countries, especially in the severity of the conservative backlash and the legacy for LGBTQ equality.

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Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America

Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America brings together scholars and artists across regions, generations, disciplines, and modes of expression to decenter the US-Mexico border as …

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Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America

Unbordering Migration Studies in the Caribbean and Latin America brings together scholars and artists across regions, generations, disciplines, and modes of expression to decenter the US-Mexico border as …

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Dan Collyns
Blood Gold

A shocking exposé of the dirty trade of gold and how it is pushing the world's biggest rainforest to the brink of collapse.

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Catherine Coleman Flowers
Holy Ground

* TIME 2025 EARTH AWARD WINNER * Southern Environmental Law Center Phil Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist*An inspiring collection of essays, personal and political, from the leading environmental …

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AI and Assembly

"Artificial intelligence has moved from the lab into everyday life, and is now seemingly everywhere. Arguably, there are as many foci of concern about AI as there are implementations of it. AI and As…

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Benoit Daviron
Biomass, Capitalism, and Hegemony

"In this open access magnum opus, published here in English for the first time, world-renowned critical development scholar Benoit Daviron blends Braudelian history and a food systems approach to sho…

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Amber Husain
Tell Me How You Eat

Bustle's Most AnticipatedAn intimate and expansive exploration of how and why we eat, and the relationship between food and empowerment, through the historic feasts and fasts of radicals and tyrants.Inspi…

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Katrin B Anacker
Housing in New York City

Exploring all five boroughs, this volume shows how New York has been a national pioneer in developing affordable, equitable, and comprehensive housing policyIn Housing in New York City, Katrin B. Anacker …

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