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  • Learning to Live in the Dark

    Essays in a Time of Catastrophe

    by Wen Stephenson ...
    In these hard-hitting and deeply personal essays, Nation writer and veteran activist Wen Stephenson traces his search for resolve in the face of our converging climate and political catastrophes.After three decades of failed international efforts to avoid catastrophic climate change, progressive visions of a better world are now increasingly circumscribed by ecological and social breakdown. The ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other

    Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate Justice

    by Wen Stephenson ...
    An urgent, on-the-ground look at some of the “new American radicals” who have laid everything on the line to build a stronger climate justice movementThe science is clear: catastrophic climate change, by any humane definition, is upon us. At the same time, the fossil-fuel industry has doubled down, economically and politically, on business as usual. We face an unprecedented situation—a radical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    by Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian ...
    An eye-opening introduction to the timelessly relevant ideas of Noam Chomsky, "arguably the most important intellectual alive" (The New York Times), this book is a penetrating, illusion-shattering look at how things really workOffering something not found anywhere else, How the World Works is pure Chomsky, but tailored for those who are new to his work. The book is made up of meticulously edited ... Read more

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  • They Can't Kill Us All

    Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement

    by Wesley Lowery ...
    A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery ... Read more

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  • Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg

    The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic 30

    by Ben Stewart ...
    The true story of Greenpeace activists imprisoned in Russia—and the fight to free them: "A gripping story of tremendous courage that reads like a thriller" (Naomi Klein)."The most important prison motto is hope for the better, but every moment, literally every moment, be prepared for the worst. Don't hope, don't fear, don't beg." —Roman Dolgov, one of the Arctic 30With rising temperatures, a ... Read more

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  • We Rise

    The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet

    by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez ...
    Challenge the status quo, change the face of activism, and confront climate change head on with the ultimate blueprint for taking action.Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is a 16-year-old climate activist, hip-hop artist, and powerful new voice on the frontlines of a global youth-led movement. He and his group the Earth Guardians believe that today’s youth will play an important role in shaping our future. ... Read more

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  • A Mother's Cry

    A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship

    by Lina Sattamini, Marcos P. S. Arruda ...
    Translated by Rex P. Nielson ...
    During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Brazil’s dictatorship arrested, tortured, and interrogated many people it suspected of subversion; hundreds of those arrested were killed in prison. In May 1970, Marcos P. S. Arruda, a young political activist, was seized in São Paulo, imprisoned, and tortured. A Mother’s Cry is the harrowing story of Marcos’s incarceration and his family’s efforts to locate ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Trial Justice

    The International Criminal Court and the Lord's Resistance Army

    by Tim Allen ...
    Series series African Arguments
    The International Criminal Court (ICC) has run into serious problems with its first big case -- the situation in northern Uganda.There is no doubt that appalling crimes have occurred here. Over a million people have been forced to live in overcrowded displacement camps under the control of the Ugandan army. Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army has abducted thousands, many of them children and has ... Read more

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  • Atoll Island States and International Law

    Climate Change Displacement and Sovereignty

    by Lilian Yamamoto, Miguel Esteban ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Atoll Island States exist on top of what is perceived to be one of the planet's most vulnerable ecosystems: atolls. It has been predicted that an increase in the pace of sea level rise brought about by increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere will cause them to disappear, forcing their inhabitants to migrate.The present book represents a multidisciplinary legal and engineering ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Carbon Offset Programs

    Trading Systems, Funds, Protocols and Standards

    by Anja Kollmuss, Michael Lazarus, Carrie Lee, Maurice LeFranc, Clifford Polycarp ...
    Series series Environmental Market Insights
    Greenhouse gas (GHG) offsets have long been promoted as an important element of a comprehensive climate policy approach. Offset programs can reduce the overall cost of achieving a given emission goal by enabling emission reductions to occur where costs are lower. Offsets have the potential to deliver sustainability co-benefits, through technology development and transfer. They can also develop ... Read more

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  • Disentangling Migration and Climate Change

    Methodologies, Political Discourses and Human Rights

    Edited by Thomas Faist, Jeanette Schade ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book addresses environmental and climate change induced migration from the vantage point of migration studies, offering a broad spectrum of approaches for considering the environment/climate/migration nexus. Research on the subject is still frequently narrowed down to climate change vulnerability and the environmental push factor. The book establishes the interconnections between societal and ... Read more

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  • Social Protection and Social Development

    International Initiatives

    by Julie L. Drolet ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The Social Protection Floor Initiative promotes universal access to essential social transfers and services. Presently 80% of the global population does not enjoy a set of social guarantees that allows them to deal with life’s risks such as unemployment, ill health, and natural disasters. This book explores the importance and necessity of social protection, including key concepts, universal ... Read more

    $53.99 USD