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Object Lessons eBook Series

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  • Oil

    by Dr. Michael Tondre ...
    Series series Object Lessons
    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the ur-commodity of our global era, having been distilled from ancient algae and marine life to turn modernity's wheels. Wars are fought over it. Some communities are displaced by its extraction, so that others may reap its benefits. But ... Read more

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  • No Straight Road Takes You There

    Essays for Uneven Terrain

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
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  • The Environmentalist's Dilemma

    Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis

    by Arno Kopecky ...
    Honorable Award Mention, The Rachel Carson Environment Book Award“Timely and relevant, this offers plenty to think about.” — Publishers WeeklyFrom the winner of the 2014 Edna Staebler Award comes a lively, intelligent and nuanced discussion of climate change — a hopeful take on how to live knowing disaster is imminentA compelling inquiry into our relationship with humanity’s latest and greatest ... Read more

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  • Deep Economy

    The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

    by Bill McKibben ...
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  • Learning to Die in the Anthropocene

    Reflections on the End of a Civilization

    by Roy Scranton ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
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  • The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction, brings the same dazzling writing to the essays in Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit’s concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical style she combines commentary on history, justice, war and peace, and explorations of place, art, and ... Read more

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  • Eaarth

    Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

    by Bill McKibben ...
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  • The Madhouse Effect

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    by Michael Mann, Tom Toles ...
    The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize–winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and the unconscionable play to partisanship on issues that affect the well-being of billions. The lessons ... Read more

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  • What's Left

    Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis

    by Malcolm Harris ...
    A vital guide for collective political action against the climate apocalypse, from bestselling progressive intellectual Malcolm Harris—“a brilliant thinker and writer capable of making the intricacies of economic conditions supremely readable” (Vulture).Climate change is the unifying crisis of our time. But the scale of the problem can be paralyzing, especially when corporations are actively ... Read more

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  • Hinterland

    America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict

    by Phil A. Neel ...
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  • Technology Matters

    Questions to Live With

    by David E. Nye ...
    Discusses in nontechnical language ten central questions about technology that illuminate what technology is and why it matters.Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central purpose has not always been to provide necessities. People excel at using old tools to solve new problems and at inventing ... Read more

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