Dodging and Confronting Stigma
Outcast and Marginal People in Medieval Japan
On a Rising Swell
Surf Stories from Florida's Space Coast
In this high-speed glide through Florida surf culture, Dan Reiter chronicles stories of the sport in a region that has produced some of the world’s finest surf champions, Pipe masters, and surfboard builders.
High Desert, Higher Costs
Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West
In High Desert, Higher Costs, Jonathan Bach takes a closer look at the housing crisis in this mid-sized city that is both the population center for rural Central Oregon and a major recreation area.
The Divided North
Black and White Families in the Age of Slavery
Going for Zero
Decarbonizing the Built Environment on the Path to Our Urban Future
In Going for Zero: Decarbonizing the Built Environment on the Path to Our Urban Future, seasoned architect and former AIA president Carl Elefante addresses how buildings and cities can and must help resolve the looming climate emergency.
For architects and the countless others who work together creating human habitation, the twenty-first century imperatives demand a profound mode shift, from an expansion mindset to one of reintegration and healing.
Elefante explains that revitalizing communities by optimizing existing resources makes social, economic, and environmental sense and directs resources where they are most needed. He offers a decidedly alternative viewpoint, one informed by his career rescuing buildings from demolition and learning from the practices and wisdom embedded in built heritage.
In Going for Zero Elefante offers a message of hope, with the urgency to act now.
Visions of Transformation
Hegemony, Plurinationality, and Revolution in Bolivia
Visions of Transformation provides an analytical framework through which to interpret and understand the process of social change in Bolivia during the era of Evo Morales.
Triumph and Solidarity
BC Communists in the Early Years of the Great Depression
The Hype About Hydrogen, Revised Edition
False Promises and Real Solutions in the Race to Save the Climate
For decades, we’ve been promised a high-tech hydrogen economy that never arrives. Yet we continue to pour billions of dollars into hydrogen as part of our low-carbon future. As the window to mitigate climate change narrows, is it time to stop investing in "the fuel of the future?"
In 2003, energy expert Joseph J. Romm wrote The Hype About Hydrogen to explain why hydrogen wasn’t the panacea we were promised—and may never be. In this newly revised and updated edition, Romm builds an even stronger case, explaining the barriers hydrogen faces, from its inefficiency as an energy carrier to the risk of increased global warming from hydrogen leaks. In a series of significant updates, Romm breaks down the latest methods of production, including "green" hydrogen and hydrogen made with nuclear power, and reveals the limitations of suggested applications of hydrogen, including e-fuels and hydrogen cars. The Hype About Hydrogen is essential reading—and a reality check—for anyone who hopes that hydrogen will be a major solution to the climate crisis.
Rainforest Radio
Language Reclamation and Community Media in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Rainforest Radio follows Napo Kichwa media producers, performers, and consumers across a disrupted Amazon rainforest to understand the effects of different methods and media in language reclamation projects.
Reflection-in-Motion
Reimagining Reflection in the Writing Classroom
Reflection-in-Motion considers how reflective practice is embedded in daily course happenings, centering the experiences of students and teachers in Minority Serving Institutions to amplify
underrepresented viewpoints about how reflection works in the writing classroom.