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2022
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These 24 stories are written by a variety of authors, with the aim to inspire readers with positive visions of what a sustainable society might look like and how we might get there.The stories are diverse in style, ranging from whodunnits to sci-fi, romance to family drama, comedy to tragedy, and cover a range of solution types from high-tech to nature-based solutions, to more systemic aspects relating to our culture and political economy.Reviews‘These tremendous an...
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Alaska Stories from the Salmon Project
2016
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All over the world, salmon populations are in trouble, as overfishing and habitat loss have combined to put the once-great Atlantic and Pacific Northwest runs at serious risk. Alaska, however, stands out as a rare success story: its salmon populations remain strong and healthy, the result of years of careful management and conservation programs that are rooted in a shared understanding of the importance of the fish to the life, culture, and history of the state.Made of Salmon
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Early Warming
Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North
2011
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In Shishmaref, Alaska, new seawalls are constructed while residents navigate the many practical and bureaucratic obstacles to moving their entire island village to higher ground. Farther south, inland hunters and fishermen set out to grow more of their own food—and to support the reintroduction of wood bison, an ancient species well suited to expected habitat changes. First Nations people in Canada team with conservationists to protect land for both local use and environmental resilience.
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Place of the Wild
A Wildlands Anthology
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- Max OelschlaegerJohn DavisKirkpatrick SaleMargaret Hayes YoungDavid AbramBill McKibbenMonique MillerDolores LachapelleTerry Tempest WilliamsJay VestJack TurnerAlison DeningGary Paul NabhanDave ForemanPaul FaulstitchChris ManesR. Edward GrumbineBill DevallGary SnyderMollie MattesonMitch FriedmanJohn HainesAlan DrengsonDavid JohnsPhyllis BurksGeorge WuerthnerJames MorrisonStephanie MillsNancy Lord
2013
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Where and what is the place of the wild? Is the goal of preserving biodiversity across the landscape of North America compatible with contemporary Western culture?Place of the Wild brings together original essays from an exceptional array of contemporary writers and activists to present in a single volume the most current thinking on the relationship between humans and wilderness. A common thread running through the volume is the conviction that everyone concerned with the...
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2023
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It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can’t let go?For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster relief, the mitigation of floods...
The Ministry for the Future
A Novel
2020
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ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR**“The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox)**The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how cl...
The Canadian Miracle
A Tor.Com Original
2023
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Short fiction from science fiction author, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow!A contentious election and radicalized locals interfere with Canadian recovery workers' efforts at the site of a catastrophic flood in near-future Mississippi. This story is set in the same future as Cory Doctorow's novel The Lost Cause.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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The Bezzle
A Martin Hench Novel
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- The Martin Hench Novels
2024
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New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s prisons are traded like stock shares.The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, im...
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A Quantum Love Story
A Novel
2024
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A cozy sci-fi novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: BrotherhoodThe only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them.Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda’s ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career—after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator.Except the strangest thing happens: a man stops ...
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2024
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Winner of the Hugo Award for Best NovellaWhen you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out again.Dr. Damira Khismatullina, an expert in elephant behavior, was brutally murdered trying to defend the world's last elephants from the brutal ivory trade. Now, her digitized consciousness has bee...
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2024
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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALTDubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dangerous Visions returns to print in a stunning new edition perfect for new and returning fans alike.A landmark short-story collection that put th...
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Goddesses in Greek Myth
2024
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New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar.Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the powerful Greek goddesses whose prowess, passions, jealousies, and desires rival those of their mal...











