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Ecology

Chakrabarty Dipesh

ISBN: PB: 9780226732862, ISBN: HB: 9780226100500, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones

For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of Th...

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Ecology

Common Futures Social Transformation and Political Ecology

Tarinski Yavor, Schismenos Alexandros

ISBN: PB: 9781551647739, ISBN: HB: 9781551647753, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, November 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does the future hold? Is the desertification of the planet, driven by state and corporate authority, the final horizon of history? Is the dystopian future implied by the systemic degradation of nature and society inescapable? From marginal activ...

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Ecology

Philosophy

Cataclysms An Environmental History of Humanity

Testot Laurent

ISBN: HB: 9780226609126, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million years of existence, the human species has continuously modified nature and drained its resources. In Cataclys...

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Ecology

Climate in Motion Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226398822, ISBN: PB: 9780226752334, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 45 halftones

Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth's climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary".Climate in Motion" shows that this multiscalar, multicausa...

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Evolution

Catastrophic Thinking Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene

Sepkoski David

ISBN: HB: 9780226348612, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded – by scientists, by the media, by popular culture – of the looming threat of mass extinction. We're told that human activity is currently producing a sixth mass extinction, perhaps of even greater...

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Chemistry

Ecology

Chemical Age How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth

von Hippel Frank A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226697246, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

For thousands of years, we've found ways to scorch, scour, and sterilize our surroundings to make them safer. Sometimes these methods are wonderfully effective. Often, however, they come with vast unintended consequences – typically not truly underst...

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Political Science

Ecology

Climate Change from the Streets How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement

Mendez Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300232158, Yale University Press, February 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Although the science of climate change is clear, policy decisions about how to respond to its effects remain contentious. Even when such decisions claim to be guided by objective knowledge, they are made and implemented through political institutions...

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Ecology

Coast of Scenic Wonders Coastal Geology and Ecology of the Outer Coast of Oregon and Washington and the Strait of Juan de Fuca

Hayes Miles O., Michel Jacqueline

ISBN: PB: 9780981661858, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2020
229 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 166 colour plates, 25 halftones

This book will help you explore origins of the coastal features such as wave-cut rocks cliffs, sea stacks, wave cut rock platforms, and the amazing array of beaches, deltas, and tidal flats. It explains the processes that create the diverse coastal l...

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Ecology

Anthropology

Contesting Leviathan Activists, Hunters, and State Power in the Makah Whaling Conflict

Beldo Les

ISBN: PB: 9780226657400, ISBN: HB: 9780226657370, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

In 1999, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the first gray whale in seven decades was killed by Makah whalers. The hunt marked the return of a centuries-old tradition and, predictably, set off a fierce political and environmental debate. Whalers...

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America

Ecology

Culture of Feedback Ecological Thinking in Seventies America

Belgrad Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226652535, ISBN: HB: 9780226652368, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 13 halftones

When we want advice from others, we often casually speak of "getting some feedback". But how many of us give a thought to what this phrase means? The idea of feedback actually dates to World War II, when the term was developed to describe the dynamic...

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