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  • ExtrACTION

    Impacts, Engagements, and Alternative Futures

    Edited by Kirk Jalbert, Anna Willow, David Casagrande, Stephanie Paladino ...
    This timely volume examines resistance to natural resource extraction from a critical ethnographic perspective. Using a range of case studies from North, Central and South America, Australia, and Central Asia, the contributors explore how and why resistance movements seek to change extraction policies, evaluating their similarities, differences, successes and failures. A range of ongoing debates ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Globalization, Health, and the Environment

    An Integrated Perspective

    by Mary Anne Alabanza Akers, Timothy Akers, George J. Armelagos, David G. Casagrande, Nicole Consitt, Paul R. Epstein, John Eyles, Kristin N. Harper, Beverly Hill, Eric C. Jones, Suzanne E. Joseph, Thomas L. Leatherman, George E. Luber, Ann McElroy, Anthony McMichael, Linda M. Whiteford ...
    Series series Globalization and the Environment
    Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change. They explore the destabilizing impact of globalization on the planet's ecology, and on the health of the human populations that are dependent on the delicate global bionetwork. Their timely case studies describe the cultural adaptations of indigenous populations to their ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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  • The Environment in Anthropology, Second Edition

    A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living

    Edited by Nora Haenn, Allison Harnish, Richard Wilk ...
    Presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of viewThe Environment in Anthropology presents ecology and current environmental studies from an anthropological point of view. From the classics to the most current scholarship, this text connects the theory and practice in environment and anthropology, providing readers with a strong intellectual foundation as well ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The End of This World

    Climate Justice in So-Called Canada

    by Angele Alook, Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, Joël Laforest, Crystal Lameman, Bronwen Tucker ...
    The climate crisis is here, and the end of this world—a world built on land theft, resource extraction, and colonial genocide—is on the horizon. In this compelling roadmap to a livable future, Indigenous sovereignty and climate justice go hand in hand.Drawing on their work in Indigenous activism, the labour movement, youth climate campaigns, community-engaged scholarship, and independent ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Failure of Global Capitalism

    From Cape Breton to Colombia andBeyond

    by Terry Gibbs, PhD, Garry Leech, MA ...
    What do Cape Breton and Colombia have in common? Coal, for one thing. Coal mining was the backbone of Cape Breton’s industrial economy for more than one hundred years, but the last mine was closed in 2001 when the province’s utility company took advantage of neoliberal globalization by importing coal—from Colombia. Colombia and Cape Breton represent the loss of well-paid, unionized industrial jobs ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Population and Society

    An Introduction

    by Gregg Lee Carter ...
    This exciting new book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Gregg Lee Carter provides multiple demonstrations of how taking a demographic perspective can give us a better understanding of social phenomena once thought to be largely the products of culture, politics, or the economy.Five key chapters concentrate on (1) ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • An Ecology of Happiness

    by Eric Lambin ...
    Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ...
    The scientific evidence that a healthy planet equals happier humans: "Highly recommended."— Library JournalWe've heard plenty about the big-picture damage and danger of environmental degradation. But there hasn't been much focus on its impact on us and our well-being. You sense it while walking on a sandy beach or in a forest, or when you catch sight of wildlife, or even while gardening in your ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada

    by Ricardo Acuna, Bob Barnetson, Sara Dorow, Josh Evans, Jason Foster, Joy Fraser, Trevor Harrison, Paul Kellogg, Manijeh Mannani, Gabrielle Slowey, Peter (Jay) Smith, Karen Wall ...
    Prior to May 2015, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta had, for over four decades, been a one-party state. During that time, the rule of the Progressive Conservatives essentially went unchallenged, with critiques of government policy falling on deaf ears and Alberta ranking behind other provinces in voter turnout. Given the province’s economic reliance on oil revenues, a symbiotic relationship ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Textbook of Global Health

    by Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Yogan Pillay, Timothy H. Holtz ...
    THE CRITICAL WORK IN GLOBAL HEALTH, NOW COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED "This book compels us to better understand the contexts in which health problems emerge and the forces that underlie and propel them." -Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu H1N1. Diabetes. Ebola. Zika. Each of these health problems is rooted in a confluence of social, political, economic, and biomedical factors that together ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Does North America Exist?

    Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11

    by Stephen Clarkson ...
    In the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, renowned public intellectual and scholar Stephen Clarkson asks whether North America "exists" in the sense that the European Union has made Europe exist.Clarkson's rigorous study of the many political and economic relationships that link Canada, the United States, and Mexico answers this unusual ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • A History of Global Health

    Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples

    by Randall M. Packard ...
    A sweeping history explores why people living in resource-poor areas lack access to basic health care after billions of dollars have been invested in international-health assistance.Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormous scale and complexity of these lifesaving operations, why do millions ... Read more

    $33.59 USD

  • Eradication

    Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?

    by Nancy Leys Stepan ...
    The dream of a world completely free of disease may seem utopian. Yet eradication, used in its modern sense to mean the reduction of the number of cases of a disease to zero by deliberate public health interventions, has been pursued repeatedly. Campaigns against yellow fever, malaria and smallpox have been among the largest, most costly programmes ever undertaken in international public health. ... Read more

    $32.79 USD