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Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate (A Progressive Guide to Action)
by George Lakoff  
Powells.com Staff Pick Now more than ever, Don't Think of an Elephant is an important resource for progressives in this country. George Lakoff submits that for progressive values to reclaim mainstream America we must transform the language of American politics. "Frames are...
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Machines As the Measure of Men : Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (89 Edition)
by Michael Adas
Book News Annotation Adas (history, Rutgers) examines the ways in which European perceptions of their scientific and technological superiority have since the 16th century shaped their interactions with non-Western peoples and cultures--cultures that they judge to...
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The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience
by Wangari Maathai
Publisher Comments Africa's future is the subject of fierce debate, with the media full of warnings about environmental and economic collapse. Development workers continue to create supposed solutions to the problems they see, with little effect and much controversy. While...
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Welcome To the Machine : Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control (04 Edition)
by Derrick Jensen Publisher Comments Jensen and Draffan look at the way machine readable devices that track our identities and purchases have infiltrated our lives and have come to define our culture....
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Animate Earth (06 Edition)
by Harding Publisher Comments Modern science and western culture both teach that the planet we inhabit is a dead and passive lump of matter, but as Stephan Harding points out, this wasn't always the prevailing sentiment and in Animate Earth he sets out to explain how these older...
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Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
by Robert Pape
Publisher Comments Can air bombardment break the morale of an enemy and force it to capitulate or does it strengthen the enemy's determination to resist? In the first major book since the Vietnam War on the theory and practice of airpower and its political effects, Robert...
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The Empty Ocean: Plundering the World's Marine Life
by Richard Ellis
Publisher Comments In The Empty Ocean, acclaimed author and artist Richard Ellis tells the story of our continued plunder of life in the sea and weighs the chances for its recovery. Through fascinating portraits of a wide array of creatures, he introduces us to the many...
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Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
by Vandana Shiva
Publisher Comments Shiva exposes the "new colonies" in the North's assault on the South's biological resources -- the interior spaces of the bodies of women, plants and animals -- and convincingly argues that international agreements enable Northern capital to appropriate...
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Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (World as Home)
by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments Divided into three sections, Hope, Human and Wild profiles the efforts of three caring communities to preserve wilderness and reverse environmental devastation. They include the reforestation of McKibben’s home territory, New York’s...
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Man Who Planted Trees - 20TH Anniversary ((Rev)05 Edition)
by Jean Giono
Publisher Comments Twenty years ago Chelsea Green published the first trade edition of The Man Who Planted Trees, a timeless eco-fable about what one person can do to restore the earth. The hero of the story, Elzéard Bouffier, spent his life planting one hundred...
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Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays; The Diane Wilson Story
by Molly Bang Publisher Comments Acclaimed graphic artist Molly Bang brings Diane Wilson's story to life in striking pictures. A vivid companion to An Unreasonable Woman. Diane Wilson lived a fairly ordinary life as a commercial shrimper and mother until she learned that she lived...
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The Happiness Trip: A Scientific Journey
by Eduard Punset Publisher Comments This is a lucid and passionate approach to the science of happiness and its conditioning factors: emotions, stress, hormonal flows, and aging, as well as the social, economic, cultural, and religious aspects associated with the emotion....
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Winning the Next War : Innovation and the Modern Military (91 Edition)
by Stephen Peter Rosen
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