Human Geography
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Between Light and Storm: How We Live with Other Species
$28.95 Read moreA landmark examination of the fraught relationship between humans and animals, taking the reader from Genesis to climate change.
Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pr- Author: Woolfson, Esther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362762
- Language: English
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The Pine Island Paradox: Making Connections in a Disconnected World
$18.00 Add to cartCan the love reserved for family and friends be extended to a place? In her latest book, acclaimed author Kathleen Dean Moore reflects on how deeply the environment is entrenched in the human spirit,
- Series: World as Home
- Author: Moore, Kathleen Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2005
- ISBN10: 1571312811
- Language: English
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Fire: A Brief History
$24.95 Add to cartOver vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. In this concise yet wide-ranging book, Stephen J. Pyne
- Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
- Author: Pyne, Stephen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0295746181
- Language: English
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The Space Between Us: Social Geography and Politics
$48.17 Add to cartThe Space between Us brings the connection between geography, psychology, and politics to life. By going into the neighborhoods of real cities, Enos shows how our perceptions of racial, ethnic, and re… [more below]
- Author: Enos, Ryan D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: January 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1108430716
- Language: English
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Ultrasocial: The Evolution of Human Nature and the Quest for a Sustainable Future
$24.00 Add to cartUltrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption of agriculture by our ancestors. Human economy has b… [more below]
- Author: Gowdy, John M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: August 26 2021
- ISBN10: 110883826X
- Language: English
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The Modern Crisis
$16.00 Read moreSix incisive essays from the father of social ecology.
Murray Bookchin’s frank assessment of the disaster we are heading toward at increasing speed is as much a work of ethics as it is of environmental… [more below]
- Author: Bookchin, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1849354464
- Language: English
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Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
$34.99 Add to cartAfter decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which today’s industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled clim
- Author: Greer, John Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0865718334
- Language: English
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Atlas of Unexpected Places: Haphazard Discoveries, Chance Places and Unimaginable Destinations
$15.00 Read moreTraverse the globe and explore the extraordinary. This is a unique, enigmatic collection of 45 meticulously crafted maps for wandering off the beaten track.
Embark on an armchair expedition across nat- Author: Elborough, Travis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0711290814
- Language: English
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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
$43.68 Add to cartNature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, govern… [more below]
- Author: Patel, Raj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 520293134
- Language: English
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Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective
$19.00 Read moreThis lucid and lively book, punctuated with witty, incisive examples, is addressed both to the layman who wants to know what sociology is all about and to students and sociologists who are concerned a… [more below]
- Author: Berger, Peter L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0385065299
- Language: English
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Why Cities Lose: The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide
$47.50 Read moreA prizewinning political scientist traces the origins of urban-rural political conflict and shows how geography shapes elections in America and beyond
Why is it so much easier for the Democratic Part- Author: Rodden, Jonathan a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1541644271
- Language: English
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Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World
$19.99 Read moreAn indispensable guide to seeing and understanding our planet through the divisions we make, find, or feel.
Our world has innumerable boundaries. They range from the obvious–an ocean, or a mountain
- Author: Samson, Maxim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1487012845
- Language: English
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The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
$18.99 Add to cartUPDATED 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH 2020 PREFACE
An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unr
- Author: Merchant, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 10 1990
- ISBN10: 0062505955
- Language: English
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The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
$44.99 Add to cartIn The Lure of the Local Lucy R. Lippard weaves together cultural studies, history, geography, and contemporary art to provide a fascinating examination of our multiple senses of place.
Divided into f
- Author: Lippard, Lucy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1565842480
- Language: English
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A Planet of 3 Billion: Mapping Humanity’s Long History of Ecological Destruction and Finding Our Way to a Resilient Future A Global Citizen’s
$29.99 Add to cartHow many people can the Earth support? Tucker makes the case that the Earth’s ‘carrying capacity’ is limited to 3 billion humans, and that humanity’s century long binge has incurred an unsustainable e
- Author: Tucker, Christopher Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: September 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0578491427
- Language: English
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Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders
$16.95 Add to cartIs it possible to create a borderless world? How might it be better equipped to solve the global emergencies threatening our collective survival? Build Bridges, Not Walls is an inspiring, impassioned
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Miller, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0872868346
- Language: English
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Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
$24.95 Read moreFeminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world.
We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies.- Author: Kern, Leslie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1788739817
- Language: English
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Journey Without End: Migration from the Global South Through the Americas
$24.95 Add to cartJourney without End chronicles the years-long journey of “extracontinentales”–African and South Asian migrants moving through Latin America toward the United States. Based on five years of collaborat… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 082650485X
- Language: English
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Rim to River: Looking Into the Heart of Arizona
$24.95 Add to cartTom Zoellner walked across the length of Arizona to come to terms with his home state. But the trip revealed more mountains behind the mountains.
Rim to River is the story of this extraordinary journ- Author: Zoellner, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0816553289
- Language: English
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Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834
$29.95 Add to cartWinner, 2020 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association
“I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods,” a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft a- Author: Milson, Andrew J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: April 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262324
- Language: English
