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  • Ultrasocial

    The Evolution of Human Nature and the Quest for a Sustainable Future

    by John M. Gowdy ...
    Ultrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption of agriculture by our ancestors. Human economy has become an ultrasocial superorganism (similar to an ant or termite colony), with the requirements of superorganism taking precedence over the individuals within it. Human society is now an autonomous, ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Microeconomic Theory Old and New

    A Student's Guide

    by John M. Gowdy ...
    Microeconomic Theory Old and New: A Student's Guide has two main goals. The first is to give advanced undergraduate and graduate students an understanding of the core model of economics: Walrasian general equilibrium theory. The text presents in detail the three building blocks of Walrasian theory—establishing Pareto efficiency in a barter economy, establishing the efficiency of competitive ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • State of the World 2014

    Governing for Sustainability

    by The Worldwatch Institute, David W. Orr, Tom Prugh, Michael Renner, John Gowdy, Robert Engelman, Michael L. Weber, Conor Seyle, Matthew Wilburn King, Matt Leighninger, Diana Lind, Monty Hempel, Peter Brown, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Cormac Cullinan, Isabel Hilton, Sam Geall, Shakuntala Makhijani, Aaron Sachs, Inge Kaul, Maria Ivanova, Rick Worthington, Sean Sweeney, Dr., Thomas Palley, Gar Alperovitz, Colleen Cordes, David Bollier, Burns Weston, Petra Bartosiewicz, Marissa Miley, Evan Musolino, Katie Auth, Nina Netzer, Judith Gouverneur, Josephine Mitschke, Ian Johnson, Yu Hongyuan ...
    Series series State of the World
    Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Limited Wants, Unlimited Means

    A Reader On Hunter-Gatherer Economics And The Environment

    Edited by John Gowdy ...
    For roughly 99% of their existence on earth, Homo sapiens lived in small bands of semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, finding everything they needed to survive and thrive in the biological richness that surrounded them. Most if not all of the problems that threaten our own technologically advanced society -- from depletion of natural capital to the ever-present possibility of global annihilation -- ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Economic Theory for Environmentalists

    by John Gowdy ...
    Economic Theory for Environmentalists is a much-needed and heralded new book that examines the implications of neoclassical economic theory and how it relates to the environment and environmental activity. It addresses the ongoing conflict between market forces and environmental integrity and explains how neoclassical economic theory views the relationship between economic activity and the natural ... Read more

    $58.95 USD

  • Caring Is Sharing

    by Sharon Villapiano ...
    Illustrated by John Gowdy, Laura Cimador Gowdy ...
    S.J. thinks he’s very lucky when he finds a toy dump truck in a sandbox. The next day, he finds a boat at the pool! In both cases, other children want what he has, but S.J. won’t let them play with his newfound toys. He wants them all to himself.Then, one day at the beach, S.J. tries to build a sandcastle without any luck. When other kids come by to help, S.J. learns a very important lesson. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Oh Brother!

    by Sharon Villapiano ...
    Illustrated by John Gowdy, Laura Cimador Gowdy ...
    A new baby is on the way and this little girl, who was used to being the only child with all the attention, worries what will happen to life as she knows it. While her parents seem glad, she feels kind of sad and says to herself, “What will this do to me and our family of just us three?”At first, when her brother Cameron is born, she doesn’t want him to stay and keeps asking when he will go away. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD