Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration—and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives 9780300243406, 0300243405

Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration—and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives 9780300252408

A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown—of population growth, economies, an

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Biography of the Earth - Its Past, Present and Future (The Astonishing Life Story of Our Planet)

How did the birth of the Earth come about? How was the Moon, Earth's offspring, born? What good are earthquakes? Ho

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The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens 9780300221084

Why do policies and business practices that ignore the moral and generous side of human nature often fail? Should the

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Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet 1469673339, 9781469673332

The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region's impact

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Sacred Cow: The Case for (Better) Meat: Why Well-Raised Meat Is Good for You and Good for the Planet 9781950665112, 1950665119

We’re told that if we care about our health—or our planet—eliminating red meat from our diets is crucial. That beef is b

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The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives 9780520975347

Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experienc

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The Power at the End of the Economy 9780822375814

In his latest book, the influential critic Brian Massumi offers a new theory of political economy that demonstrates how

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The Time of Our Lives 9781922267283

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Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life 9780300138160

The question of what living is for—of what one should care about and why—is the most important question a person can ask

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The Crime of Our Lives 1511476281, 9781511476287

An MWA Grand Master tells it straight: Fredric Brown: “When I read Murder Can Be Fun, I had a bottle of bourbon on the t

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