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  • Contaminated Country

    Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia

    by Jessica Urwin, Paul S. Sutter ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia's embrace of the world's nuclear orderThough a nonnuclear state, Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentieth century. From uranium extraction to nuclear testing, Australia’s lands became sites of imperial exploitation under the guise of national development. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Charged

    A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future

    by James Morton Turner, Paul S. Sutter ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    **Winner of the 24th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book PrizeFinalist for the 2023 Cundill History PrizeGold Medal Recipient, Nautilus Book Awards, SustainabilityThe dirty work essential to a clean energy transition**To achieve fossil fuel independence, few technologies are more important than batteries. Used for powering zero-emission vehicles, storing electricity from solar panels and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • How to Die in Space

    A Journey Through Dangerous Astrophysical Phenomena

    by Paul Sutter ...
    A brilliant and breathtakingly vivid tour of the universe, describing the physics of the dangerous, the deadly, and the scary in the cosmos.So you’ve fallen in love with space and now you want to see it for yourself, huh? You want to witness the birth of a star, or visit the black hole at the center of our galaxy? You want to know if there are aliens out there, or how to travel through a wormhole? ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Rescuing Science

    Restoring Trust In an Age of Doubt

    by Paul M. Sutter ...
    For readers concerned about the roots of the public mistrust of science, get the book that Publishers Weekly says is "an ardent appraisal of what ails the scientific establishment."Rescuing Science: Restoring Trust in an Age of Doubt is the product of Paul M. Sutter’s long career in the scientific community, both inside and outside academia. Interweaving his own experiences as an astrophysicist ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Atomic Universe

    One Atom’s Journey from the Big Bang to Now

    by Paul M. Sutter, David Kelly ...
    From the creator of the YouTube sensation “History of the Universe” comes a story billions of years in the making—the cosmic journey of a single atom from the present moment all the way back to the Big BangAll matter originated, as far as we can tell, 13.7 billion years ago in the Big Bang. The very same atoms that make up the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the eyes we use to read were ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture

    Environmental Histories of the Georgia Coast

    by Paul S Sutter, Paul M Pressly ...
    Series series Environmental History and the American South
    An essay collection exploring the history of 5,000-year relationship between human culture and nature on the Georgia coast.One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of the coast is its deep and diverse human history. Indeed, few places that seem so natural hide so ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Animating Central Park

    A Multispecies History

    by Dawn Day Biehler, Paul S. Sutter ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    The entangled human and more-than-human histories of one of the world’s iconic urban green spacesFrom deer and beavers to “free range” pigs and goats in and around Seneca Village, what we now know as Central Park has long been home to an abundance of animals. In 1858, the city adopted the Greensward Plan and began the long process of reshaping the 843 acres of land into a park where everything ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    How to Die in Space

    A Journey through Dangerous Astrophysical Phenomena

    by Paul M. Sutter PhD ...
    Narrated by Paul M. Sutter PhD ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 42 min

    A brilliant and breathtakingly vivid tour of the universe, describing the physics of the dangerous, the deadly, and the scary in the cosmosSo you’ve fallen in love with space and now you want to see it for yourself, huh? You want to witness the birth of a star, or visit the black hole at the center of our galaxy? You want to know if there are aliens out there, or how to travel through a wormhole? ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Debating Malthus

    A Documentary Reader on Population, Resources, and the Environment

    by Paul S. Sutter ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics
    Introducing students to the place of population in environmental thinkingFor centuries, thinking about the earth's increasing human population has been tied to environmental ideas and political action. This highly teachable collection of contextualized primary sources allows students to follow European and North American discussions about intertwined and evolving concepts of population, resources, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Fir and Empire

    The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China

    by Ian M. Miller, Paul S. Sutter ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    A CHOICE **OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLERestores China’s place in forest history**The disappearance of China’s naturally occurring forests is one of the most significant environmental shifts in the country’s history, one often blamed on imperial demand for lumber. China’s early modern forest history is typically viewed as a centuries-long process of environmental decline, culminating in a nineteenth ... Read more

    Free

  • Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies

    Providence Canyon and the Soils of the South

    by Paul S. Sutter ...
    Series series Environmental History and the American South
    Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia’s “Little Grand Canyon,” preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed a modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade, local boosters ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • People of the Ecotone

    Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America

    by Robert Michael Morrissey, Paul S. Sutter ...
    Series series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
    **Winner of the 2023 Hal K. Rothman Book Prize for best book in western environmental history from the Western History AssociationIndigenous power in a significant cultural and ecological borderland**In People of the Ecotone, Robert Morrissey weaves together a history of Native peoples with a history of an ecotone to tell a new story about the roots of the Fox Wars, among the most transformative ... Read more

    $28.99 USD