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Take the City Voices of Radical Municipalism

Toney Jason

ISBN: PB: 9781551647272, ISBN: HB: 9781551647296, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
180 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With rapid increases in urban populations, there is an urgent need to transform our world's cities in keeping with ecological imperatives and democratic principles. A growing worldwide citizen movement is attempting to challenge bureaucratic administ...

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Ecology

Common Futures Social Transformation and Political Ecology

Tarinski Yavor, Schismenos Alexandros

ISBN: PB: 9781551647739, ISBN: HB: 9781551647753, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, November 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What does the future hold? Is the desertification of the planet, driven by state and corporate authority, the final horizon of history? Is the dystopian future implied by the systemic degradation of nature and society inescapable? From marginal activ...

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Philosophy

Cataclysms An Environmental History of Humanity

Testot Laurent

ISBN: HB: 9780226609126, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table

Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million years of existence, the human species has continuously modified nature and drained its resources. In Cataclys...

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Ecology

Multiscale Convection-Coupled Systems in the Tropics A Tribute to Dr. Michio Yanai

Tung Wen-wen, Fovell Robert G.

ISBN: HB: 9781944970048, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, December 2018
50 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 10 colour plates, 10 halftones, 5 maps

This monograph was inspired by the life and work of Professor Michio Yanai, a seminal figure and dedicated mentor in tropical meteorology. Conceived initially at the AMS Michio Yanai Symposium as "lessons" organized around the principal research area...

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Ecology

Greening the Alliance The Diplomacy of NATO's Science and Environmental Initiatives

Turchetti Simone

ISBN: PB: 9780226595795, ISBN: HB: 9780226595658, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

Following the launch of Sputnik, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization became a prominent sponsor of scientific research in its member countries, a role it retained until the end of the Cold War. As NATO marks sixty years since the establishment of...

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Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program The First 20 Years

Turner D. D., Ellingson R. G.

ISBN: HB: 9781944970055, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, December 2018
100 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 10 colour plates, 10 halftones, 5 maps

The U. S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program was established in 1990 and is still going strong today. This monograph chronicles the history of the first 20 years of the ARM Program and provides descriptions of its...

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Architecture

Ecology

Architecture in Context Contemporary Design Solutions Based on Environmental, Social and Cultural Identities

The Plan

ISBN: HB: 9788416851720, Hoaki, October 2018
240 pp., 30x24 cm, 250 colour illus., 140 black&white illus.

"Architecture in Context" analyzes the work of contemporary international architects through the presentation of projects that exemplify their architectural vision and their connection with the spaces with which they work. It explains how the interac...

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Landscape Architecture

Ecology

Toward an Atlas of the European Delta Landscape

Tosi Maria Chiara

ISBN: PB: 9788895623870, Bookport, ListLab, August 2016
143 pp., 20.3x17.1 cm, colour illus.

This book examines a number of European terriories that are both fragile and affected by climate change. These characteristics – one inherent to the regions under study, the other caused by their transformation over time – produce significant effects...

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Ecology

Elephants and Kings An Environmental History

Trautmann Thomas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226264363, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 40 halftones, 1 table

Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations – such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China – kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacul...

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Business & Economics

Very Hungry City Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities

Troy Austin

ISBN: PB: 9780300198355, ISBN: HB: 9780300162318, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.

As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city's energy consumption becomes increasingly tied to its economic viability, warns the author of "The Very Hungry City". Austin Troy, a seasoned expert in urban environmental management, explains...

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