Island Press
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Thundering Waters: The Toxic Legacy of Niagara Falls
$35.00 Add to cart“Masterful. . . . An absolutely essential story, infuriating, urgent, and indispensable.”–Caroline Fraser, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Murderland and Prairie Fires
How corporate kingpins built t- Author: Civiletto, Christen E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 1642834165
- Language: English
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An Even Better Way to Zone: Achieving More Affordable, Equitable, and Sustainable Communities
$58.33 Add to cartZoning is the tool that everyone loves to hate. It may also be the most important and least understood process affecting how US communities shape the lives of their residents. While almost every commu… [more below]
- Author: Elliott, Donald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1642834343
- Language: English
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Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
$46.67 Add to cartTransportation expert Jarrett Walker believes that transit can be simple, if we focus on the underlying geometry that all transit systems share. In Human Transit, Revised Edition, he provides the basi… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Jarrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833053
- Language: English
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A Healthy Union: How States Can Lead on Environmental Health
$60.00 Add to cartStates have tremendous power to protect their residents’ health. In the absence of adequate federal safeguards against pollution and toxic chemicals, state policies are the strongest tools available t… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 164283369X
- Language: English
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A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
$25.00 Read more“Informed, utterly blindsiding account.” – Booklist, starred review
It’s falling from the sky and in the air we breathe. It’s in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It’s microplastic and it’s every- Author: Simon, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833223
- Language: English
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Science with Impact: How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence Policy
$46.67 Add to cartWill you please just listen to me? If you are a scientist, or a fan of science, have you ever wondered why your fact-based explanation of ground-breaking scientific research falls flat with family, fr… [more below]
- Author: Toomey, Anne Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833282
- Language: English
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Preserving with Purpose: Reimagining Buildings for Community Benefit
$53.33 Add to cartWhile prominent buildings like Notre Dame in Paris rise from the ashes, historic buildings in disinvested communities are lost at an alarming rate. The resulting holes in the fabric of the community a… [more below]
- Author: Hetletvedt, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833487
- Language: English
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Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of Us Highway Construction
$46.67 Read moreThe world’s largest public works investment visible from space, the Interstate Highway System and the hundreds of thousands of miles of supporting roadways, are frequently hailed as a marvel and trium… [more below]
- Author: Guerra, Erick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833363
- Language: English
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Forest of the Sea: The Remarkable Life and Imperiled Future of Kelp
$30.00 Add to cartA powerful call to action that shows how science, culture, and hope can converge to restore one of Earth’s most vital marine habitats
In a matter of decades, a spectacular cold-water paradise thirty m- Author: Helvarg, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1642833827
- Language: English
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Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life
$49.33 Add to cartImagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and com… [more below]
- Author: Sim, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1642830186
- Language: English
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When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
$42.67 Add to cartOne third of people living in the United States do not have a driver license. Because the majority of involuntary nondrivers are disabled, lower income, unhoused, formerly incarcerated, undocumented i… [more below]
- Author: Zivarts, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833150
- Language: English
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Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System
$48.00 Add to cartIn the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse in recent years, yet we continue to accept these deaths as part of doing business…. [more below]
- Author: Marshall, Wes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833304
- Language: English
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If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy
$42.67 Add to cartYour transit and street safety dreams are within your reach. While challenging our dangerous car-centric systems can feel daunting, you can win, and this book is here to help. In If You Want to Win, Y… [more below]
- Author: Lavin, Carter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833738
- Language: English
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Meet Me at the Library: A Place to Foster Social Connection and Promote Democracy
$32.00 Add to cartAmerica is facing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation, with troubling effects on our mental and physical health. We live in one of the most divisive times in our history, one in which we tend to w… [more below]
- Author: Hallman, Shamichael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833193
- Language: English
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Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods
$35.00 Add to cartFrom buffalo prairies to urban orchards, an introduction to a diverse movement redefining how we grow, eat, and live with the land
Just four annual crops–corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans–account for- Author: Krug, Aubrey Streit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1642833886
- Language: English
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The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartConsider your surroundings. Maybe you’re in a house or in an apartment building. Maybe you’re at a desk in an office building, or in a caf? looking out on a lively main street. The urban landscape is
- Author: Schneider, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833533
- Language: English
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The Twilight Forest: An Elegy for Ponderosa in a Changing West
$30.00 Add to cartWith their towering, cinnamon-colored trunks and dusky green canopies, ponderosa pine has long been a charismatic icon of the American West. Yet a quiet unraveling has begun: in the past decade, in a … [more below]
- Author: Ferguson, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833428
- Language: English
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Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life
$32.00 Add to cartFree-flowing rivers in the United States are an endangered species. With more than 500,000 dams in place, we’ve dammed and diverted almost every major river, straightening curves and blocking passage … [more below]
- Author: Lohan, Tara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833347
- Language: English
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Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry
$24.99 Add to cartNow with a new chapter on the Distribution Barons!
Best Books of 2024: “Frerick’s prose throughout is both direct and masterfully controlled, with every point supported by extensive references and no- Author: Frerick, Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1642834440
- Language: English
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Squirrel: How a Backyard Forager Shapes Our World
$30.00 Add to cartSquirrels are a common sight, seemingly everywhere in wild and urban nature. Their chattering antics in city parks delight us while their raids on our backyard gardens and birdfeeders never fail to ex… [more below]
- Author: Castaldo, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833754
- Language: English
