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  • The Day the World Stops Shopping

    How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

    Consuming less is our best strategy for saving theplanet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book,journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world withoutshopping.We can’t stop shopping. And yet wemust. This is the consumer dilemma.Theeconomy says we must always consume more: even the slightest drop in spending leadsto widespread unemployment, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Once and Future World

    Nature as It Was, as It Is, as It Could Be

    An award-winning ecology writer goes looking for the wilderness we've forgotten.A Green Prize Winner for Sustainable LiteratureMany people believe that only an ecological catastrophe will change humanity's troubled relationship with the natural world. In fact, as J.B. MacKinnon argues in this unorthodox look at the disappearing wilderness, we are living in the midst of a disaster thousands of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plenty

    Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet: A Cookbook

    The remarkable, amusing and inspiring adventures of a Canadian couple who make a year-long attempt to eat foods grown and produced within a 100-mile radius of their apartment.When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a North American meal travels 1,500 miles from farm to plate, they decided to launch a simple experiment to reconnect with the people and places that ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • More and More and More

    An All-Consuming History of Energy

    The radical, paradigm-shifting international bestseller that destroys our delusions about energy consumption and will change the way we talk about climate change.We have long been taught that humanity’s relationship with energy is one of progress, with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear—until at some future point everything will be replaced by “green” energy. But the long-held ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Custodians of Wonder

    Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive

    by Eliot Stein ...
    Named one of the best travel books of the year by National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Afar"Eliot Stein’s quietly powerful new book celebrates the kind of singular, site-specific expertise that’s endangered by globalization and technology...smart, genial and occasionally astonishing...it’s a country mile from the news cycle, a winning collection of thoroughly un-current events." -SF ChronicleA ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Ideological Brain

    The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking

    by Leor Zmigrod ...
    Named a best book of the year by The Guardian and The TelegraphWhy do some people become radicalized?How do ideologies shape the human brain?And how can we unchain our minds from toxic dogmas?In The Ideological Brain, Leor Zmigrod reveals the deep connections between political beliefs and the biology of the brain. Drawing on her cutting-edge research, she exposes the... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • City Limits

    Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

    by Megan Kimble ...
    An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and fractured communities—and a call for a more just, sustainable path forward“Megan Kimble manages to turn a book about transportation and infrastructure into a fascinating human drama.”—Michael Harriot, New York Times bestselling author of Black AF HistoryEvery major American city has a highway tearing ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Murder the Truth

    Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful

    by David Enrich ...
    New York Times Bestseller"Authoritarian governments abroad have long used legal threats and lawsuits against journalists to cover up their disinformation, corruption, and violence. Now, as master investigative journalist David Enrich reveals, those tactics have arrived in America.” — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of StrongmenDavid Enrich, the New York Times Business Investigations Editor and the ... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Bootstrapped

    Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

    by Alissa Quart ...
    An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilledThe promise that you can “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is central to the story of the American Dream. It’s the belief that if you work hard and rely on your own resources, you will eventually succeed. However, time ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Shade

    The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource

    by Sam Bloch ...
    **An extraordinary investigation into shade, this “compelling . . . conversation-starter draws examples from history, city-planning and social policy” (NPR) to change the way we think about a critical natural resource that should be available to all.“Thought-provoking . . . Bloch, an environmental journalist, examines how shade is now a privilege, often denied to farmworkers, the homeless, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Horse

    A Galloping History of Humanity

    **THE NATIONAL BESTSELLERHigh Plains International Book Award FinalistShortlisted for the Reading the West Book AwardOne of The Economist's Best Books of the YearAn Amazon Best Book of the MonthA Next Big Idea Club Must-Read BookFrom New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito, the incredible story of how the horse shaped human history**Timothy C. Winegard’s The Horse is an epic history ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Stuck

    How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

    How did America cease to be the land of opportunity?LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARDWe take it for granted that good neighborhoods—with good schools and good housing—are only accessible to the wealthy. But in America, this wasn’t always the case.Though for most of world history, your prospects were tied to where you were born, Americans came up with a revolutionary idea: If you ... Read more

    $5.99 USD