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Training Your Guinea Pig

Gerry Bucsis

Training Your Guinea Pig

B.E.S. <i>Training Your Pet</i> books are for inexperienced pet owners who seek detailed advice on how to get started in keeping and training caged pets. These books describe and illustrate the correct housing and equipment, and advise on getting all members of the household acquainted with the newly acquired pet. Guinea pigs are docile, easy to care for, and are capable of learning tricks. This book advises on keeping healthy and contented guinea pigs, and suggests activities that...

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Gerry Bucsis

Inequality, Democracy, and the Envi...

Liam Downey

Inequality, Democracy, and the Environment

Winner, American Sociological Association Section on Environment and Technology Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award The world currently faces several severe social and environmental crises, including economic under-development, widespread poverty and hunger, lack of safe drinking water for one-sixth of the world’s population, deforestation, rapidly increasing levels of pollution and waste, dramatic declines in soil fertility and biodiversity, and global warming. Inequality,...

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Liam Downey

Cloning Wild Life

Carrie Friese

Cloning Wild Life

The natural world is marked by an ever-increasing loss of varied habitats, a growing number of species extinctions, and a full range of new kinds of dilemmas posed by global warming. At the same time, humans are also working to actively shape this natural world through contemporary bioscience and biotechnology. In Cloning Wild Life, Carrie Friese posits that cloned endangered animals in zoos sit at the apex of these two trends, as humans seek a scientific solution to environmental crisis. Often...

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Carrie Friese

Catch and Release

Lisa Jean Moore

Catch and Release

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Lisa Jean Moore

Sustainable Communities and the Cha...

Julian Agyeman

Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice

Popularized in the movies Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action , “environmental justice” refers to any local response to a threat against community health. In this book, Julian Agyeman argues that environmental justice and the sustainable communities movement are compatible in practical ways. Yet sustainability, which focuses on meeting our needs today while not compromising the ability of our successors to meet their needs, has not always partnered with the challenges of...

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Julian Agyeman

Gowanus

Joseph Alexiou

Gowanus

The surprising history of the Gowanus Canal and its role in the building of Brooklyn For more than 150 years, Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal has been called a cesspool, an industrial dumping ground, and a blemish on the face of the populous borough—as well as one of the most important waterways in the history of New York harbor. Yet its true origins, man-made character, and importance to the city have been largely forgotten. Now, New York writer and guide Joseph Alexiou explores how the Gowanus...

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Joseph Alexiou

The Ecological Rift

Richard York

The Ecological Rift

Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts have been driven through the delicate fabric of the biosphere. The economy and the earth are headed for a fateful collision—if we don’t alter course.In The Ecological Rift:...

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Richard York

Environment and Society

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Environment and Society

Environment and Society connects the core themes of environmental studies to the urgent issues and debates of the twenty-first century. [/b][b] In an era marked by climate change, rapid urbanization, and resource scarcity, environmental studies has emerged as a crucial arena of study. Assembling canonical and contemporary texts, this volume presents a systematic survey of concepts and issues central to the environment in society, such as: social mobilization on behalf of environmental...

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A Redder Shade of Green

Ian Angus

A Redder Shade of Green

A socialist response to the looming ecological crisis [b][/b]As the Anthropocene advances, people across the red-green political spectrum seek to understand and halt our deepening ecological crisis. Environmentalists, scientists, and eco-socialists share concerns about the misuse and overuse of natural resources, but often differ on explanations and solutions. Some blame environmental disasters on overpopulation. Others wonder if Darwin’s evolutionary theories disprove...

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Ian Angus

Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism

Kohei Saito

Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism

Reveals the ideal of a sustainable ecosocialist world in Marx’s writings [b][/b]Karl Marx, author of what is perhaps the world’s most resounding and significant critique of bourgeois political economy, has frequently been described as a “Promethean.” According to critics, Marx held an inherent belief in the necessity of humans to dominate the natural world, in order to end material want and create a new world of fulfillment and abundance—a world...

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Kohei Saito

The Silicon Valley of Dreams

Lisa Sun-Hee Park

The Silicon Valley of Dreams

Next to the nuclear industry, the largest producer of contaminants in the air, land, and water is the electronics industry. Silicon Valley hosts the highest density of Superfund sites anywhere in the nation and leads the country in the number of temporary workers per capita and in workforce gender inequities. Silicon Valley offers a sobering illustration of environmental inequality and other problems that are increasingly linked to the globalization of the world's economies. In The Silicon...

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Lisa Sun-Hee Park

The Vulnerable Planet

John Bellamy Foster

The Vulnerable Planet

From reviews of the first edition (1994): "Extraordinarily well written . . . " –Contemporary Sociology "A readable chronicle aimed at a general audience . . . Graceful and accessible . . . " –Dollars and Sense «Has the potential to be a political bombshell in radical circles around the world.» –Environmental Action The Vulnerable Planet has won respect as the best single-volume introduction to the global economic crisis. With impressive historical and economic detail, ranging from the...

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John Bellamy Foster

Spirituality and the State

Kerry Mitchell

Spirituality and the State

An exploration of the production and reception of nature and spirituality in America’s national park system America’s national parks are some of the most powerful, beautiful, and inspiring spots on the earth. They are often considered “spiritual” places in which one can connect to oneself and to nature. But it takes a lot of work to make nature appear natural. To maintain the apparently pristine landscapes of our parks, the National Park Service must engage in traffic management, landscape...

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Kerry Mitchell

On Infertile Ground

Jade S. Sasser

On Infertile Ground

A critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 21st century Since the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that the global population crisis is “back”—and that the only way to avoid catastrophic climate change is to ensure women’s universal access to contraception. Did the population problem ever disappear? What is bringing it back—and...

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Jade S. Sasser

Brown Bodies, White Babies

Laura Harrison M.

Brown Bodies, White Babies

Brown Bodies, White Babies focuses on the practice of cross-racial gestational surrogacy, in which a woman – through in-vitro fertilization using the sperm and egg of intended parents or donors – carries a pregnancy for intended parents of a different race. Focusing on the racial differences between parents and surrogates, this book is interested in how reproductive technologies intersect with race, particularly when brown bodies produce white babies. While the potential of reproductive...

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Laura Harrison M.

Creating an Ecological Society

Chris Williams

Creating an Ecological Society

Sickened by the contamination of their water, their air, of the Earth itself, more and more people are coming to realize that it is capitalism that is, quite literally, killing them. It is now clearer than ever that capitalism is also degrading the Earth’s ability to support other forms of life. Capitalism’s imperative—to make profit at all costs and expand without end—is destabilizing Earth’s climate, while increasing human misery and inequality...

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Chris Williams

Polluted Promises

Melissa Checker

Polluted Promises

Association for Humanist Sociology 2007 Book Award co-winner Julian Steward Award 2006 Runner-Up Over the past two decades, environmental racism has become the rallying cry for many communities as they discover the contaminations of toxic chemicals and industrial waste in their own backyards.Living next door to factories and industrial sites for years, the people in these communities often have record health problems and debilitating medical conditions. Melissa Checker tells the story of one...

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Melissa Checker

Bodies in Protest

Steve Kroll-Smith

Bodies in Protest

Gulf War Syndrome: Is It a Real Disease? asks a recent headline in the New York Times . This questionare certain diseases real?lies at the heart of a simmering controversy in the United States, a debate that has raged, in different contexts, for centuries. In the early nineteenth century, the air of European cities, polluted by open sewers and industrial waste, was generally thought to be the source of infection and disease. Thus the term miasmaliterally deathlike...

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Steve Kroll-Smith

Horse Genetics

Ernest Bailey

Horse Genetics

Completely updated and revised, the third edition of this essential textbook describes the basic genetics of the horse including coat colour, parentage, medical and population genetics, cytogenetics, performance, breeding systems and genetic conservation, as well as the many recent advances in genomics. New for the third edition: – More information on genomics and biology have been included – There are two additional chapters on genetics with respect to infectious diseases and...

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Ernest Bailey

Elephant management

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Elephant management

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Peaceful Places San Francisco

Raynell Boeck

Peaceful Places San Francisco

The third book in a new series of city guides, Peaceful Places: San Francisco features over 100 unexpected sanctuaries, gardens, vistas, beaches, neighborhood strolls, and quiet cafés that can be found throughout The City by the Bay. It gently guides travelers who are searching for an escape from the bustle of city life. Within the book are helpful tips and an insider's perspective on the best time to find peace and quiet at a wide array of locales, from resplendent gardens to scenic...

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Raynell Boeck

Parrots For Dummies

Nikki Moustaki

Parrots For Dummies

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Nikki Moustaki

Dialogues in Climate and Environmen...

Innocent Chirisa

Dialogues in Climate and Environmental Research, Policy and Planning

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Innocent Chirisa

My Father's Kampung

Shawn Seah

My Father's Kampung

Written by author and speaker Shawn Seah, My Father's Kampung delves into the social history of Aukang and Punggol as it traces a son's journey to better understand and appreciate the kampung life his father lived. The book is rich in personal stories and oral histories of those who lived there from the 1940s to 1970s, brought to life by Seah's passionate narrative as well as illustrations and photos.This book is supported by the National Heritage Board, with Forewords by Robert...

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Shawn Seah

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