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  • Consequential Damages of Nuclear War

    The Rongelap Report

    by Barbara Rose Johnston, Holly M Barker ...
    The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and ethnographic ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Water, Culture, and Power

    Local Struggles In A Global Context

    Edited by John Donahue, Barbara Rose Johnston ...
    According to some estimates, at least 1.7 billion people do not have an adequate supply of drinking water and as many as 40% of the world's population face chronic shortages. Yet water scarcity is more than a matter of terrain, increased population, and climate. It can also be a byproduct or end result of water management, where the building of dams, canals, and complicated delivery systems ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Waging War, Making Peace

    Reparations and Human Rights

    Edited by Barbara Rose Johnston, Susan Slyomovics ...
    Humans are good at making war—and much less successful at making peace. Genocide, torture, slavery, and other crimes against humanity are gross violations of human rights that are frequently perpetrated and legitimized in the name of nationalism, militarism, and economic development. This book tackles the question of how to make peace by taking a critical look at the primary political mechanism ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Life and Death Matters

    Human Rights, Environment, and Social Justice, Second Edition

    Edited by Barbara Rose Johnston ...
    The first edition of Life and Death Matters was a breakthrough text, centralizing the experiences of those on the front lines of environmental crises and forging new paradigms for understanding how crises emerge and how different groups of actors respond to them. This second edition, fully updated with both expanded and new chapters, once again provides a benchmark for the field and opens ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Disappearing Peoples?

    Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia

    Edited by Barbara Brower, Barbara Rose Johnston ...
    South and Central Asia is a region of extraordinary cultural and environmental diversity and home to nearly one-quarter of the earth's population. Among these diverse peoples are some whose ways of life are threatened by the accelerating assault of forces of change including environmental degradation, population growth, land loss, warfare, disease, and the penetration of global markets. This ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • New Directions in Anthropology and Environment

    Intersections

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Luisa Maffi, Willett Kempton, Don D. Fowler, Michael R. Dove, Thomas L. Leatherman, Barbara Rose Johnston, J Peter Brosius, Leslie Sponsel, Kathryn R. Winthrop, Alice E. Ingerson, Bonnie J. McCay, Eric C. Poncelet, Donald L. Hardesty ...
    Carole L. Crumley has brought together top scholars from across anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Continually pursuing anthropology's persistent claim that both the physical and the mental world matter, these environmental scholars proceed from the holistic assumption that the physical ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Who Pays the Price?

    The Sociocultural Context Of Environmental Crisis

    by Jason Clay, Roy Rappaport, Gregory Button, William Derman, Debra Schindler, Susan Dawson, Susan Stonich, Margaret A. Byrne, Leslie Sponsel, John Bodley, Bruce Albert, Erling Berge, Daniel Jorgenson, Norman A. Chance ...
    Drawing from a Society for Applied Anthropology study on human rights and the environment, Who Pays the Price? provides a detailed look at the human experience of environmental crisis. The issues examined span the globe -- loss of land and access to critical resources; contamination of air, water and soil; exposure to radiation, toxic chemicals, and other hazardous wastes. Topics considered in ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

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  • The Environment in Anthropology, Second Edition

    A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living

    Edited by Nora Haenn, Allison Harnish, Richard Wilk ...
    Presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of viewThe Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation as well ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Merchants of Doubt

    How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming

    by Naomi Oreskes, Mr Erik M. Conway ...
    The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark studies on the dangers of DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and global warming. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers.Merchants ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • World on Fire

    How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability

    by Amy Chua ...
    The reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this revelatory investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Monsoon

    The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentieth century, but in the twenty-first century that focus will fundamentally change. In this pivotal examination of the countries known as “Monsoon Asia”—which include India, Pakistan, China, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Friction

    An Ethnography of Global Connection

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing ...
    What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick. It is the friction that produces movement, action, and effect. Anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing challenges the widespread view that globalization invariably signifies a clash of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD