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  • Living Detroit

    Environmental Activism in an Age of Urban Crisis

    by Brandon M. Ward ...
    Series series Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series
    In Living Detroit, Brandon M. Ward argues that environmentalism in postwar Detroit responded to anxieties over the urban crisis, deindustrialization, and the fate of the city. Tying the diverse stories of environmental activism and politics together is the shared assumption environmental activism could improve their quality of life.Detroit, Michigan, was once the capital of industrial prosperity ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

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  • Becoming Canada

    Our Story, Our Politics, Our Future

    by Ken Dryden ...
    In this passionate, thought-provoking vision for Canada, Ken Dryden argues that we have paid a price for having the wrong sense of ourselves as a country. The old definition of Canada – genial but sometimes too self-deprecating and ambition-killing – is no longer the real story. Through recent global events such as Barack Obama’s election and first year in office; the climate conference in ... Read more

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  • The Next Hundred Million

    America in 2050

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper.In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Oil's Deep State

    How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa

    by Kevin Taft ...
    Why have democratic governments failed to take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions despite dire warnings and compelling evidence of the profound and growing threat posed by global warming?Most of the writing on global warming is by scientists, academics, environmentalists, and journalists. Kevin Taft, a former leader of the opposition in Alberta, brings a fresh perspective through the insight ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Resentment

    Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker

    by Katherine J. Cramer ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    "An important contribution to the literature on contemporary American politics. Both methodologically and substantively, it breaks new ground." — Journal of Sociology & Social WelfareWhen Scott Walker was elected Governor of Wisconsin, the state became the focus of debate about the appropriate role of government. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall, ... Read more

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  • Overheated

    How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back

    by Kate Aronoff ...
    This damning account of the forces that have hijacked progress on climate change shares a bold vision of what it will take, politically and economically, to face the existential threat of global warming head-on.In the past few years, it has become impossible (for most) to deny the effects of climate change and that the planet is warming, and to acknowledge that we must act. But a new kind of ... Read more

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  • Line in the Tar Sands

    Struggles for Environmental Justice

    Edited by Joshua Kahn, Stephen D'Arcy, Tony Weis, Toban Black ...
    Tar sands “development” comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. In the tar sands of Alberta, the oil industry is using vast quantities of water and natural gas to produce synthetic crude oil, creating drastically high levels of greenhouse gas emissions and air and water pollution. But tar sands opponents—fighting a powerful international industry—are likened to terrorists, government ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

    by Thomas J. Sugrue ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Whose Water Is It, Anyway?

    Taking Water Protection into Public Hands

    by Maude Barlow ...
    “Maude Barlow is one of our planet’s greatest water defenders.” — Naomi Klein, bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine“This book is a blueprint for communities around the world to take back that responsibility and maintain water as a human right.” — David Suzuki“This is a must-read.” — Jane FondaA call to action from former Senior Advisor on Water to the U.N., h... ... Read more

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  • Out of Sight

    The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe

    by Erik Loomis ...
    A provocative analysis of labor, globalization, and environmental harm by the award-winning historian and author of A History of America in Ten Strikes.In the current state of our globalized economy, corporations have no incentive to protect their workers or the environment. Jobs moves seamlessly across national borders while the laws that protect us from rapacious behavior remain bound by them. ... Read more

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  • The Bet

    Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future

    by Paul Sabin ...

    $32.99 CAD

  • Bird on Fire

    Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

    by Andrew Ross ...
    Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD