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  • The Progress Illusion

    Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics

    by Jon D. Erickson ...
    We live under the illusion of progress: as long as GDP is going up and prices stay low, we accept poverty and pollution as unfortunate but inevitable byproducts of a successful economy. In fact, the infallibility of the free market and the necessity of endless growth are so ingrained in the public consciousness that they seem like scientific fact. Jon Erickson asks, why? With the planet in peril ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Progress Illusion

    Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics

    by Jon D. Erickson ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    In The Progress Illusion, Jon D. Erickson charts the rise of the economic worldview and its infiltration into our daily lives as a theory of everything. Drawing on his own experience as a young economist inoculated in the 1980s era of "greed is good," Erickson shows how pseudoscience came to dominate economic thought. He pokes holes in the conventional wisdom of neo-classical economics, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition

    by Jon Erickson ...
    Hacking is the art of creative problem solving, whether that means finding an unconventional solution to a difficult problem or exploiting holes in sloppy programming. Many people call themselves hackers, but few have the strong technical foundation needed to really push the envelope.Rather than merely showing how to run existing exploits, author Jon Erickson explains how arcane hacking techniques ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Fate of the Object

    From Modern Object to Postmodern Sign in Performance, Art, and Poetry

    by Jon Erickson ...
    The Fate of the Object traces the historical shift in focus from the "difficult" essential object of modernist theater, art, and poetry to its transformation as a sign in a postmodern field of signs. In modern art, the central object had been the abstract painting; in theater, the body of the actor; in poetry, the sonic, visual and grammatical elements of the poem. Spanning several disciplinary ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Let the People Judge

    Wise Use And The Private Property Rights Movement

    by Grant Ferrier, Suzanne Iudicello, Jack Archer, Mary Ann Glendon, Carl Safina, Thomas Eisner, Michael Bliss, Donald Connors, Randall Snodgrass, Beverly Reece, Tom H. Watkins, Roy Morgan, Jim Bernfield, Neil Hamilton, Beth Parke, Sharon Dennis, Janet Ellis, Don Judge, Robert Ekey, Thomas Michael Power, Florence Williams, Robert Woodmansee, Dana Larsen, Henry Carey, Meri Loeks, Linda Trocki, Eve Pell, Tarso Ramos, Douglass North, Philip Brick, Jon Roush, Teresa Erickson, William Riebsame, Holmes Rolston, III ...
    One of the most serious challenges to environmentalism that has emerged in the 1990s is the so-called Wise Use movement. While operating under the guise of an independent movement of small landowners, it is in reality a backlash against environmental protection measures, funded and organized by corporations with a vested interest in preventing further environmental gains. Let the People Judge ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Housing the Homeless

    by Jon Erickson, Charles Wilhelm ...
    Homelessness has become a lasting issue of vital social concern. As the number of the homeless has grown, the complexity of the issue has become increasingly clear to researchers and private and public service providers. The plight of the homeless raises many ethical, anthropological, political, sociological, and public health questions. The most serious and perplexing of these questions is what ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Great Experiment in Conservation

    Voices from the Adirondack Park, Revised Edition

    Edited by William F. Porter, Jon D. Erickson, Ross S. Whaley ...
    Series series New York State Series
    The Adirondack region of New York State is, in many respects, America’s cauldron of conservation. It was there, more than a century ago, that wanton exploitation of forests first aroused concern about human impact on the environment. It was there that Americans first began to set aside lands proclaimed as "forever wild." The establishment of the Adirondack Park created an immense landscape of 6 ... Read more

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  • Sea of Grass

    The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie

    by Dave Hage, Josephine Marcotty ...
    A vivid portrait of the American prairie, which rivals the rainforest in its biological diversity and, with little notice, is disappearing even faster“This book describes—in loving, living prose—one of the world’s greatest and most important landscapes. And it does so while there’s still time to save some serious part of it.”—Bill McKibben, author of The End of NatureThe North American prairie is ... Read more

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  • Nature Wars

    The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds

    by Jim Sterba ...
    This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history. For nature lovers, this should be wonderful news -- unless, perhaps, you are one of more than 4,000 drivers who will hit a deer today, your child’s soccer field is carpeted with goose ... Read more

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  • Down to Earth

    Nature's Role in American History

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    A tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story. Writing with marvelous clarity, historian Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he recounts how the environment has played a key role in virtually every social, economic, and ... Read more

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  • Biodiversity Planning and Design

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    How do you measure biodiversity, and why should landscape architects and planners care? What are the essential issues, the clearest terminology, and the most effective methods for biodiversity planning and design? How can they play a role in biodiversity conservation in a manner compatible with other goals? These are critical questions that Jack Ahern, Elizabeth Leduc, and Mary Lee York answer in ... Read more

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