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No Impact Man
The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process
Colin Beavan
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"
No Impact Man
is a deeply honest and riveting account of the year in which Colin Beavan and his wife attempted to do what most of us would consider impossible. What might seem inconvenient to the point of absurdity instead teaches lessons that all of us need to learn. We as individuals can take action to address important social problems. One person can make a difference."—
Marion Nestle, author of
What to Eat
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Fixing Climate
What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How to Counter It
Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig
Hill and Wang
“A remarkably readable and compelling account of the important advances in our understanding of the complexity of global climate that have taken place over the past 40 years. The book is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand the unique nature of the climate change underway today.”—
Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard University
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Clearing Land
Legacies of the American Farm
Jane Brox
North Point Press
"A moving, graceful elegy for the American farm." --Larry Zuckerman, author of The Potato "Nonfiction literature of a high and lasting order . . . Clearing...
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Land of the Lost Souls
My Life on the Streets
Cadillac Man
Bloomsbury USA
A moving, funny, and unforgettable memoir of homeless life in New York For the past sixteen years, Cadillac Man has lived on the streets of New York City....
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Changes in the Land, Revised Edition
Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
20th-Anniversary Edition; William Cronon; With a Foreword by John Demos and an Afterword by the author
Hill and Wang
"Written with an elegant simplicity of style, this pioneering study has become an enduring classic in the field of American colonial and environmental history."—
Howard R. Lamar, Yale University
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People Before Profit
The New Globalization in an Age of Terror, Big Money, and Economic Crisis
Charles Derber; With a New Foreword by Noam Chomsky
Picador
"The 'basic principle' of this ambitious study is the task of 'reinventing globalization' by 'reinventing democracy.' Interweaving personal experiences around the world with careful analysis of global economic, political, and cultural trends, Derber makes a powerful case for the urgency of this task, and outlines constructive approaches to pursuing it successfully. A provocative and stimulating work, directed to issues of the highest significance."—
Noam Chomsky
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Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
North Point Press
“[This book offers] a clear-eyed, closely reasoned description by its founders of the most important movement in American architecture and city making of this generation: the New Urbanism, based not upon the ‘nostalgia’ for which it has been unjustly criticized but upon solid architectural, historical, and sociological analysis, and hard common sense.”
—Vincent Scully
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Sidewalk
Mitchell Duneier; Photographs by Ovie Carter; Foreword by Hakim Hasan
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
“A necessary book . . . A work of frontline reportage, an inquiry into the economic and political and moral forces that are busy reconfiguring the city, [and] an urgent plea for justice, however couched it is in the careful, procedural, understating style of fieldwork.”—
Luc Sante
, The Village Voice Literary Supplement
L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner - Current Interest
Society of Midland Authors Book Awards - Nominee - Adult Nonfiction
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Global Woman
Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
Edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild
A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
"This very interesting collection focuses on the multiple effects of globalization on women and their families. Among its subjects are the rise in female migration, the transfer of domestic services from low- to high-income countries, the care crisis left behind by transnational families, and the problems of international sex tourism. The different essays raise key questions and are important reading for our time."—
Lourdes Beneria, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Women's Studies at Cornell University
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Anne Fadiman
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"This is a captivating, riveting book—a must-read not only for medical professionals, anthropologists, and journalists, but for anyone interested in how to negotiate cultural difference in a shrinking world. Fadiman's ability to empathize with the resolutely independent Hmong as well as with the remarkable doctors, caseworkers, and officials of Merced County makes her narrative both richly textured and deeply illuminating. Sometimes the stakes here are multicultural harmony and understanding; sometimes they're literally life and death—whether in wartime Laos or in American emergency rooms. But whatever the stakes and wherever the setting, Fadiman's reporting is meticulous, and her prose is a delight. From start to finish, a truly impressive achievement."—
Michael Bérubé, author of
Life As We Know It
Boston Book Review - Winner - Nonfiction
L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner - Current Interest
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The Great Warming
Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Brian Fagan
Bloomsbury Press
“[A] fascinating account of shifting climatic conditions and their consequences from about A.D. 800 to 1300, often referred to as the Medieval Warm Period . . . Mr. Fagan, an anthropologist who has written on climate change in
The Long Summer
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The Little Ice Age,
proceeds methodically, working his way across the globe and reading the evidence provided by tree rings, deep-sea cores, coral samples, computer weather models and satellite photos. The picture that emerges remains blurry . . . but it has sharpened considerably over the past 40 years, enough for Mr. Fagan to present a coherent account of profound changes in human societies from the American Southwest to the Huang He River basin in China.”—
William Grimes,
The New York Times
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Forecast
The Surprising--and Immediate--Consequences of Climate Change
Stephan Faris
Holt Paperbacks
The revealing and highly praised portrayal of the surprising ways that climate change will affect the world in the very near future Climate change has already...
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Celebration, U.S.A.
Living in Disney's Brave New Town
Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins
Holt Paperbacks
"A journey that delves into social theory, the mechanics of new towns, the New Urbanism, and, most important, the struggle to create a democratic community."—
Bruce Stephenson, Environmental Studies Department, Rollins College
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Upside Down
A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
Eduardo Galeano; Translated by Mark Fried
Picador
"Galeano takes us on a dark tour through the rabbit hole at the End of History. Like the revolutionary printmaker Posada, he unmasks the belle epoque of the bourgeoisie as a danse macabre of the masses. No one has focused greater moral clarity on the inhuman conditions and radical inequalities that sustain the mirage of the New Economy."—
Mike Davis, author of
Ecology of Fear
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A Reenchanted World
The Quest for a New Kinship with Nature
James William Gibson
Metropolitan Books
A Reenchanted World
reveals the many ways in which our self-imposed exile from our original network of natural relationships is civilization’s most disorienting misstep. Fortunately for us, James William Gibson gives us a compass back to that very sane, very grounded place. This is a wisely haunting, soulful book.”—
Carl Safina, author of
Song for the Blue Ocean
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Voyage of the Turtle
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An Inconvenient Truth
The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Al Gore
Rodale Books
"As a user-friendly introduction to global warming and a succinct summary of many of the central arguments laid out in those other volumes,
An Inconvenient Truth
is lucid, harrowing and bluntly effective . . . Like Mr. Gore's 1992 book
Earth in the Balance
, this volume displays an earnest, teacherly tone, but it's largely free of the New Age psychobabble and A-student grandiosity that rumbled through that earlier book. The author's wonky fascination with policy minutiae has been tamed in these pages, and his love of charts and graphs has been put to good use . . . In this multimedia day of shorter attention spans and high-profile authors,
An Inconvenient Truth
could play a similar role in galvanizing public opinion about a real and present danger. It could goad the public into reading more scholarly books on the subject, and it might even push awareness of global warming to a real tipping point—and beyond."—
Michiko Kakutani,
The New York Times
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How We Can Save the Planet
Preventing Global Climate Catastrophe
Mayer Hillman with Tina Fawcett and Sudhir Chella Rajan
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
An outstanding overview on global warming---and what we can do about it---from a distinguished world-class authority Climate change is the single biggest...
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Trespass
Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
Amy Irvine
North Point Press
“As raw and stinging as a fresh burn . . . It’s hard to imagine a personal history more transporting than this one, with its rigorously original prose (not a single cliché in 300-plus pages), emotional detail and bibliophilic departures into the musty caverns of American history.”—
Los Angeles Times
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A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If...
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Resource Wars
The New Landscape of Global Conflict
Michael T. Klare
A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
"Brilliantly researched, ably argued . . .
Resource Wars
shows a new geography of conflict based on looming scarcities. Klare's analysis is indisputable."—
David Rieff,
Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Blood and Oil
The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum
American Empire Project
Michael T. Klare
A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
"A steady poli-sci elaboration of U.S. foreign policy of the past 60 years as viewed through the lens of oil . . . [
Blood and Oil
] is elaborately sourced [and] dismayingly convincing."—
Lisa Margonelli,
San Francisco Chronicle
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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet
The New Geopolitics of Energy
Michael T. Klare
Holt Paperbacks
“If you want to understand the future of international relations, worry less about ideology and more about oil reserves. Michael Klare's superb new book explains, in haunting detail, the trends that will lead us into a series of dangerous traps, unless we muster the will to transform the way we use energy in this country. As illuminating as it is unsettling.”—
Bill McKibben, author
The Bill McKibben Reader
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Fences and Windows
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
Naomi Klein
Picador
"Covering the period of late 1999 to 2002, the book collects Klein's in-the-trenches journalism about sweatshops, genetically modified foods, evolving police tactics for crowd control and more . . . Klein argues that globalization has only delivered its promised benefits to the world's wealthiest citizens and that its emphasis on privatization has eroded the availability of public services around the globe. Critics have suggested that the 'anti-globalization' movement (a term loathed, Klein notes, by many people actually involved) lacks a cohesive structure, but Klein generally sees this decentralization as a strength, likening the small groups' 'hub and spoke' organization to that of linked Web sites . . . Despite post-September 11 talk to the contrary, these dispatches indicate that the movement is far from over."—
Publishers Weekly
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No Logo
10th Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by the Author
Naomi Klein
Picador
"
No Logo
has been a pedagogical godsend. I used it to illustrate contemporary applications of complex cultural theories in an introductory social science sequence. It worked so beautifully, word about the book spread across campus, and other students were begging to read it in their sections of the course."—
Bruce Novak, Division of Social Sciences, The University of Chicago
Guardian First Book Award - Nominee - Nominee
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