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  • A Moderating Force

    Conserving Nature in National Parks in Patagonia and Amazonia

    by Emily Wakild ...
    Over the past century, landscapes across South American fundamentally changed. As forests were felled, cities and highways built, and agricultural land was managed, national governments set aside protected landscapes in certain charismatic places. These areas- which include some of the most iconic nature reserves on the planet, from Amazonian forests to Patagonian ice fields. -have direct bearing ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Revolutionary Parks

    Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks, 1910–1940

    by Emily Wakild ...
    Series series Latin American Landscapes
    Winner of the Alfred B. Thomas Award (Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies)Revolutionary Parks tells the surprising story of how forty national parks were created in Mexico during the latter stages of the first social revolution of the twentieth century. By 1940 Mexico had more national parks than any other country. Together they protected more than two million acres of land in fourteen ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • A Primer for Teaching Environmental History

    Ten Design Principles

    by Emily Wakild, Michelle K. Berry ...
    Series series Design Principles for Teaching History
    A Primer for Teaching Environmental History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching environmental history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses, for those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, and for teachers who want to incorporate environmental history into their world history courses. Emily Wakild ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Lost in the Long Transition

    Struggles for Social Justice in Neoliberal Chile

    by Jessica Budds, Joan E. Paluzzi, Angela Vergara, Anton Daughters, Emily Wakild, Margot Olavarría, Guadalupe Salazar, Deborah R. Altamirano ...
    In Lost in the Long Transition, a group of scholars who conducted fieldwork research in post-dictatorship Chile during the transition to democracy critically examine the effects of the country's adherence to neoliberal economic development and social policies. Shifting government responsibility for social services and public resources to the private sector, reducing restrictions on foreign ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • The Nature State

    Rethinking the History of Conservation

    Edited by Matthew Kelly, Claudia Leal, Emily Wakild, Wilko Hardenberg ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    This volume brings together case studies from around the globe (including China, Latin America, the Philippines, Namibia, India and Europe) to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century. It seeks to highlight the state, a central actor in these efforts, which is often taken for granted, and establishes a novel concept – the nature state – as a means for exploring the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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    Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

    by Jenny Odell ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ‘time is money.’ . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing.”—Esquire“One of the most important books I’ve read in my life.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense WorldA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit</... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • A Passion for This Earth

    Writers, Scientists, and Activists Explore Our Relationship with Nature and the Environment

    by Rick Bass, Alan Weisman, Richard Mabey, Helen Caldicott ...
    David Suzuki's lifelong work as an environmentalist, naturalist, and scientist have influenced countless others in their fight to save the planet, 20 such devotees of them have contributed to this inspiring collection. These journalists, scientists, writers and environmentalists have taken their enthusiasm for Suzuki's philosophy and funneled it into their own personal recollections, manifestos, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State

    by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich ...
    We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize ... Read more

    $10.41 CAD

  • Is Shame Necessary?

    New Uses for an Old Tool

    by Jennifer Jacquet ...
    An urgent, illuminating exploration of the social nature of shame and of how it might be used to promote large-scale political change and social reform.“[Jacquet] exposes the ways shame plays into collective ideas of punishment and reward, and the social mechanisms that dictate the ways we dictate our behavior.” —The Boston GlobeExamining how we can retrofit the art of shaming for the age of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Placing Animals

    An Introduction to the Geography of Human-Animal Relations

    by Julie Urbanik ...
    Series series Human Geography in the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Applications
    As Julie Urbanik vividly illustrates, non-human animals are central to our daily human lives. We eat them, wear them, live with them, work them, experiment on them, try to save them, spoil them, abuse them, fight them, hunt them, buy and sell them, love them, and hate them. Placing Animals is the first book to bring together the historical development of the field of animal geography with a ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Place-Based Education in the Global Age

    Local Diversity

    Edited by David A. Gruenewald, Gregory A. Smith ...
    "Polished, clear, insightful, and meaningful.... This volume amounts to nothing less than a complete rethinking of what progressive education can be at its best and how education can be reconceptualized as one of the central practices of a genuinely democratic and sustainable society.... It is the kind of book that has the potential to be transformative."Stephen Preskill, University of New Mexico ... Read more

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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

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