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  • Hydrocarbon Nation

    How Energy Security Made Our Nation Great and Climate Security Will Save Us

    by Thor Hogan ...
    Series Book 133 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Understanding the complex history of US fossil fuel use can help us build a sustainable future.In Hydrocarbon Nation, Thor Hogan looks at how four technological revolutions—industrial, agricultural, transportation, and electrification—drew upon the enormous hydrocarbon wealth of the United States, transforming the young country into a nation with unparalleled economic and military potential.Each ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • Closing the Urban-Rural Power Divide

    Envisioning a United City-States of America

    by Thor Hogan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book proposes a radical reorganization of political and electoral power to address the current political imbalance between urban and rural populations in the United States. Hogan argues that, despite being smaller in population, a “financialist-ruralist coalition” has effectively used the Constitution—especially equal representation in the Senate—to create an anti-urban “vetocracy.” This ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The View from Space

    NASA's Evolving Struggle to Understand Our Home Planet

    by Richard Leshner, Thor Hogan ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    In 1990, NASA began developing Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE), an initiative aimed at using satellites to study the planet’s environment from space. With the Earth Observing System (EOS) as its technological cornerstone, MTPE’s main goal was to better understand fundamental processes such as climate change. The View from Space tells the remarkable story of this unprecedented convergence of science ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Right of the People

    Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding

    by Osita Nwanevu ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bold case for reimagining the American project and making American democracy real—from a formidable new voice in political journalism“The first thing I’ve read that provides a rigorous vision of how to refound this nation if we manage to survive the current threats to these core values.”—Chris Hayes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sirens’ CallFrustrated with ... Read more

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  • The Quest

    Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

    by Daniel Yergin ...
    **“A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes . . .” —Wall Street Journal“It is a cause for celebration that Yergin has returned with his perspective on a very different landscape . . . [I]t is impossible to think of a better introduction to the essentials of energy in the 21st century. The Quest is . . . the definitive guide to how we got here.” ... Read more

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  • Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop

    The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America

    by Lee Drutman ...
    American democracy is at an impasse. After years of zero-sum partisan trench warfare, our political institutions are deteriorating. Our norms are collapsing. Democrats and Republicans no longer merely argue; they cut off contact with each other. In short, the two-party system is breaking our democracy, and driving us all crazy. Deftly weaving together history, democratic theory, and cutting edge ... Read more

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  • Climate Of Corruption : Politics And Power Behind The Global Warming Hoax

    by Larry Bell ...
    New revelations demonstrate how politics and powerful special-interest agendas have warped the most important scientific debate of the 21st century. Melting glaciers suffering polar bears rising oceansthese are just a few of the climate change crisis myths debunked by noted aerospace expert Larry Bell in this explosive new book. With meticulous research Bell deflates these and other climate ... Read more

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  • Abolishing Fossil Fuels

    Lessons from Movements That Won

    by Kevin A. Young ...
    Series series Spectre
    Climate destruction is a problem of political power.We have the resources for a green transition, but how can we neutralize the influence of Exxon and Shell? Abolishing Fossil Fuels argues that the climate movement has started to turn the tide against fossil fuels, just too gradually. The movement’s partial victories show us how the industry can be further undermined and eventually abolished. ... Read more

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  • The Energy of Slaves

    Oil and the New Servitude

    by Andrew Nikiforuk ...
    "A robustly researched and smoothly written overview of the many challenges confronting our devotion to fossil fuels" from the author of Tar Sands ( Quill & Quire).Ancient civilizations relied on shackled human muscle. It took the energy of slaves to plant crops, clothe emperors, and build cities. Nineteenth-century slaveholders viewed critics as hostilely as oil companies and governments now ... Read more

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  • Who's Afraid of Frances Fox Piven?

    The Essential Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate

    by Frances Fox Piven ...
    The sociologist and political scientist Frances Fox Piven and her late husband Richard Cloward have been famously credited by Glenn Beck with devising the “Cloward/Piven Strategy,” a world view responsible, according to Beck, for everything from creating a “culture of poverty” and fomenting “violent revolution” to causing global warming and the recent financial crisis. Called an “enemy of the ... Read more

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  • The Long Emergency

    Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century

    by James Howard Kunstler ...
    A "frightening and important" look at our unsustainable future ( Time Out Chicago).A controversial hit that has sparked debate among business leaders, environmentalists, and others, The Long Emergency is an eye-opening look at the unprecedented challenges we face in the years ahead, as oil runs out and the global systems built on it are forced to change radically.From the author of The Geography ... Read more

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