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“stephen robert couch”

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  • The Real Disaster Is Above Ground

    A Mine Fire and Social Conflict

    by J. Stephen Kroll-Smith, Stephen Robert Couch ...
    In the 1950s Centralia was a small town, like many others in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. But since the 1960s, it has been consumed, outwardly and inwardly by a fire that has inexorably spread in the abandoned mines beneath it. The earth smokes, subsides, and breathes poisonous gases. No less destructive has been the spread of dissension and enmity among the townspeople. The Real ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • The Death of Common Sense

    How Law Is Suffocating America

    by Philip K. Howard ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice.” So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense. Here Howard offers nothing less than a fresh, lucid, practical operating system for modern democracy. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Life Without Lawyers

    Restoring Responsibility in America

    by Philip K. Howard ...
    How to restore the can-do spirit that made America great, from the author of the best-selling The Death of Common Sense.Americans are losing the freedom to make sense of daily choices—teachers can’t maintain order in the classroom, managers are trained to avoid candor, schools ban tag, and companies plaster inane warnings on everything: “Remove Baby Before Folding Stroller.”Philip K. Howard’s ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Rule of Nobody

    Saving America from Dead Laws and Broken Government

    by Philip K. Howard ...
    The secret to good government is a question no one in Washington is asking: “What’s the right thing to do?”What’s wrong in Washington is deeper than you think.Yes, there’s gridlock, polarization, and self-dealing. But hidden underneath is something bigger and more destructive. It’s a broken governing system. From that comes wasteful government, rising debt, failing schools, expensive health care, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas

    by Cass R. Sunstein ...
    The most controversial essays from the bestselling author once called the most dangerous man in America—collected for the first time.The nation’s most-cited legal scholar who for decades has been at the forefront of applied behavioral economics, and the bestselling author of Nudge and Simpler, Cass Sunstein is one of the world’s most innovative thinkers in the academy and the world of practical ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Another Turn of the Crank

    Essays

    by Wendell Berry ...
    "A Kentucky farmer and writer, and perhaps the great moral essayist of our day, Berry has produced one of his shortest but also most powerful volumes." —The New York Review of BooksFrom modern health care to the practice of forestry, from local focus to national resolve, Wendell Berry argues, there can never be a separation between global ecosystems and human communities—the two are intricately ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Bottleneck : Humanity's Impending Impasse

    Humanity's Impending Impasse

    by William R. Catton Jr. ...
    Ecological roots of our toubled time are deeper than its economic manifestations. Anguished posterity will look back on this 21st century as the bottleneck century. Bottleneck: Humanitys Impending Impasse was written to show how and why three converging trends have put humankind in much deeper peril than is generally acknowledged. First, there are many more of us inhabiting this planet than it can ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Domestic Revolutions

    A Social History Of American Family Life

    by Steven Mintz, Susan Kellogg ...
    An examination of how the concept of “family” has been transformed over the last three centuries in the U.S., from its function as primary social unit to today’s still-evolving model.Based on a wide reading of letters, diaries and other contemporary documents, Mintz, an historian, and Kellogg, an anthropologist, examine the changing definition of “family” in the United States over the course of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Kivalina

    A Climate Change Story

    by Christine Shearer ...
    The true story of an Alaska Native village destroyed by flooding and erosion caused by climate change—and how they fought for help.Warming Arctic temperatures have been making coastal areas of Alaska increasingly uninhabitable. In 2008, the small Alaska Native village of Kivalina filed a legal claim against some of the world's largest fossil fuel companies for damaging their homeland and creating ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Animal Rights/Human Rights

    Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation

    by David Nibert ...
    This accessible and cutting-edge work offers a new look at the history of western 'civilization,' one that brings into focus the interrelated suffering of oppressed humans and other animals. Nibert argues persuasively that throughout history the exploitation of other animals has gone hand in hand with the oppression of women, people of color, and other oppressed groups. He maintains that the ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Leadership Without Easy Answers

    by Ronald A. Heifetz ...
    The economy uncertain, education in decline, cities under siege, crime and poverty spiraling upward, international relations roiling: we look to leaders for solutions, and when they don’t deliver, we simply add their failure to our list of woes. In doing do, we do them and ourselves a grave disservice. We are indeed facing an unprecedented crisis of leadership, Ronald Heifetz avows, but it stems ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

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  • Down to the Wire

    Confronting Climate Collapse

    by David W. Orr ...
    "The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions." So writes David Orr in Down to the Wire, a sober and eloquent assessment of climate destabilization and an urgent call to action. Orr describes how political negligence ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook