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Emergence of Ecosocialism Collected Essays by Joel Kovel
ISBN: PB: 9781940939957, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Emergence of Ecosocialism" is the first book by the author, activist and scholar Joel Kovel. Kovel led an expansive political and intellectual life from the mid-1960s until his death in the spring of 2018: in addition to being a foundational eco...
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£17,00
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Environmental Security Concepts, Challenges, and Case Studies
ISBN: PB: 9781944970413, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, November 2019
224 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 20 halftones, 10 maps
Security threats today are increasingly complex, dynamic, and asymmetric, and can affect environmental factors like energy, water, and food supply. As a result, it is becoming evident that the traditional model of nation-state based security is incom...
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£36,00
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Ecologies, Agents, Terrains
ISBN: PB: 9780300233162, Yale University Press, October 2018
300 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 150 colour illus.
The newest volume in the acclaimed Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, this collection of essays explores the intrinsic connection between art and the environment. The romance and rejection of "nature" have always occupied places at the heart of...
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£22,50
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Environmental Politics in the Middle East Local Struggles, Global Connections
ISBN: PB: 9781849049672, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book investigates how ecology and politics meet in the Middle East and how those interactions connect to the global political economy. Through region-wide analyses and case studies from the Arabian Peninsula, the Gulf of A...
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£25,00
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Extreme Conservation Life at the Edges of the World
ISBN: HB: 9780226366265, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 31 halftones
On the Tibetan Plateau, there are wild yaks with blood cells thinner than horses' by half, enabling the endangered yaks to survive at 40 below zero and in the lowest oxygen levels of the mountaintops. But climate change is causing the snow patterns h...
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Entangled People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay
ISBN: PB: 9781602233485, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2018
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 colour plate, 4 halftones
Chronicling her quest for wildness and home in Alaska, naturalist Marilyn Sigman writes lyrically about the history of natural abundance and human notions of wealth – from seals  to shellfish to sea otters to herring, halibut, and salmon – in Alaska'...
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£13,00
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Escaping the Dark, Gray City Fear and Hope in Progressive Era Conservation
ISBN: HB: 9780300115505, Yale University Press, May 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A compelling and long-overdue exploration of the Progressive-era conservation movement, and its lasting effects on American culture, politics, and contemporary environmentalism The turn of the twentieth century caught America at a crossroads, shakin...
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£30,00
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Extinction Market Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter It
ISBN: PB: 9781849046909, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The planet is experiencing alarming levels of species loss caused in large part by intensified poaching and wildlife trafficking driven by expanding demand, for medicines, for food, and for trophies. Affecting many more species...
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£20,00
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Ecological Urbanism
ISBN: HB: 9783037784679, Lars Muller Publishers, May 2016
656 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 1600 illus.
While climate change, sustainable architecture and green technologies have become increasingly topical issues, concerns regarding the sustainability of the city are rarely addressed. The premise of Ecological Urbanism is that an ecological approach i...
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£37,00
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