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“jo ellen force”

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  • The Structure and Dynamics of Human Ecosystems

    Toward a Model for Understanding and Action

    by William R. Burch, Gary E. Machlis, Jo Ellen Force ...
    A landmark book that strives to provide both grand theory and practical application, innovatively describing the structure and dynamics of human ecosystemsAs the world faces ever more complex and demanding environmental and social challenges, the need for interdisciplinary models and practical guidance becomes acute. The Human Ecosystem Model described in this landmark book provides an innovative ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

    by Charles Montgomery ...
    A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier peopleCharles Montgomery's Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life.After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Bird on Fire:Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

    Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

    by Andrew Ross ...
    Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Tales of Two Cities

    Stories of Inequality in a Divided New York

    Edited by John Freeman ...
    Thirty major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided New YorkIn a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while twenty-five thousand children are homeless, public discourse about our entrenched and worsening wealth gap has never been more sorely needed. This remarkable anthology is the literary world’s response, with leading lights including ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Battle for North Carolina's Coast

    Evolutionary History, Present Crisis, and Vision for the Future

    by Stanley R. Riggs, Stephen J. Culver, David J. Mallinson, Dorothea von der Porten Ames ...
    The North Carolina barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit in the United States. However, extensive barrier island segments and their associated wetlands are in jeopardy. In The Battle for North Carolina’s Coast, four experts on coastal dynamics examine issues that threaten this ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Our Better Nature

    Environment and the Making of San Francisco

    by Philip J. Dreyfus ...
    Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ecotopia 2121

    A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia?in 100 Cities

    by Alan Marshall ...
    **A 2016 Green Book Festival "Future Forecasts" WinnerA stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea.**Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the world when Thomas More published his book Utopia, about an island paradise far away from his troubled land. It was an instant hit, and the literati ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Urban Green

    Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago

    by Colin Fisher ...
    In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that working-class white immigrants and African Americans in rapidly industrializing Chicago also fled the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007

    Edited by John Potvin ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007 brings together art, design, fashion, and a much neglected concern for its spatial realities. The spaces and places of fashion have often been overlooked in the writing of fashion history and visual culture. More often than not, however, these environments mitigate, control, inform, and enhance how fashion is experienced, performed, consumed, seen, ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Slow Boil

    Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai

    by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many Mumbaikers appreciate the convenient bargains they offer. In The Slow Boil, Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria draws on his long-term fieldwork with these ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Common Space

    The City as Commons

    by Associate Professor Stavros Stavrides ...
    Series series In Common
    Space is both a product and a prerequisite of social relations, it has the potential to block and encourage certain forms of encounter. In Common Space, activist and architect Stavros Stavrides calls for us to conceive of space-as-commons – first, to think beyond the notions of public and private space, and then to understand common space not only as space that is governed by all and remains open ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Reflections on Communication, Education, Scholarship, and Life

    by Xin-An Lu ...
    Our actions in education, business, and government are no longer guided by conscious ideals, but by entrenched practices that are products of expediency, indolence, and even tyranny. Inveterate and ubiquitous problems abound. Students hate school. Employees dislike their jobs. Professors become disinclined toward teaching. Boredom and procrastination are everywhere. There are promotion ... Read more

    $3.99 USD