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  • Humanity's Last Stand

    Confronting Global Catastrophe

    by Mark Schuller ...
    Are we as a species headed towards extinction? As our economic system renders our planet increasingly inhospitable to human life, powerful individuals fight over limited resources, and racist reaction to migration strains the social fabric of many countries. How can we retain our humanity in the midst of these life-and-death struggles?Humanity’s Last Stand dares to ask these big questions, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Cultures of Doing Good

    Anthropologists and NGOs

    by Steven Sampson, Christian Vannier, Erica Bornstein, Amanda Lashaw, Inderpal Grewal, David Lewis, Katherine Lemons, Victoria Bernal0, Nermeen Mouftah1, Theodora Vetta2, Aviva Sinervo3, Moshe Kornfeld4, Mark Schuller5, Amanda Woomer6, Hana Synková7, Karen Kapusta-Pofahl8 ...
    Series series NGOgraphies: Ethnographic Reflections on NGOs
    Anthropological field studies of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their unique cultural and political contexts.Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs serves as a foundational text to advance a growing subfield of social science inquiry: the anthropology of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Thorough introductory chapters provide a short history of NGO anthropology, address how ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti

    by Mark Schuller ...
    Winner of the 2016 Anthropology in Media Award from the American Anthropological AssociationThe 2010 earthquake in Haiti was one of the deadliest disasters in modern history, sparking an international aid response—with pledges and donations of $16 billion—that was exceedingly generous. But now, five years later, that generous aid has clearly failed. In Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence

    Global Responses, Local Practices

    by Jennifer R. Wies, Hillary J. Haldane, Kimberly Ashburn, Melissa Beske, Karin Friederic, Yasmina Katsulis, Lynn Kwiatkowski, Rebecka Lundgren, April DJ Petillo0, Elizabeth Wirtz1, Mark Schuller2, M. Gabriela Torres3 ...
    Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices addresses the gaps in theory, methods, and practices that are currently used to engage the problem of gender-based violence. This book complements the work carried out in the legal, human services, and health fields by demonstrating how a focus on local issues and responses can better inform a collaborative global ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Contextualizing Disaster

    Edited by Mark Schuller, Gregory V. Button ...
    Series Book 1 - Catastrophes in Context
    Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow-burning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a ... Read more

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    The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

    by Elinor Ostrom ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Extreme Cities

    The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change

    by Ashley Dawson ...
    A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisisHow will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion’s share of carbon to the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Break Through

    Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists

    by Michael Shellenberger, Ted Nordhaus ...
    Two of Time magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment” reject the status quo of liberal politics and offer a bold vision for addressing climate change.Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus triggered a firestorm of controversy with their self-published essay “The Death of Environmentalism,” which argued that the existing model of environmentalism cannot adequately address global warming and that a new ... Read more

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  • Building Resilience

    Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery

    by Daniel P. Aldrich ...
    The factor that makes some communities rebound quickly from disasters while others fall apart: "A fascinating book on an important topic."—E.L. Hirsch, in ChoiceEach year, natural disasters threaten the strength and stability of communities worldwide. Yet responses to the challenges of recovery vary greatly and in ways that aren't explained by the magnitude of the catastrophe or the amount of aid ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Asian American History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Madeline Y. Hsu ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center reported that Asian Americans are the best-educated, highest-income, and best-assimilated racial group in the United States. Before reaching this level of economic success and social assimilation, however, Asian immigrants' path was full of difficult, even demeaning, moments. This book provides a sweeping and nuanced history of Asian Americans, revealing ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Capitalism Papers

    Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System

    by Jerry Mander ...
    In the vein of his bestseller, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, nationally recognized social critic Jerry Mander researches, discusses, and exposes the momentous and unsolvable environmental and social problem of capitalism.Mander argues that capitalism is no longer a viable system: "What may have worked in 1900 is calamitous in 2010." Capitalism, utterly dependent on never–ending ... Read more

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  • The Solutions are Already Here

    Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below

    by Peter Gelderloos ...
    Are alternative energies and Green New Deals enough to deliver environmental justice? Peter Gelderloos argues that international governmental responses to the climate emergency are structurally incapable of solving the crisis. But there is hope.Across the world, grassroots networks of local communities are working to realise their visions of an alternative revolutionary response to planetary ... Read more

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