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Back to SearchPeter J. Thuesen, "Tornado God: American Religion and Violent Weather" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 827
In Tornado God: American Religion and Violent Weather (Oxford UP, 2020), Peter J. Thuesen links the “numinous” religious experiences of Americans as …
5 years, 7 months ago
Precariously Positioned: How Africa Must Balance Development with a Climate-Friendly Outlook
Episode 22
In addition to battling poverty, malnutrition, and disease, African countries today find themselves also having to fend off the numerous perils of cl…
5 years, 7 months ago
Valerie Olson, "Into the Extreme: U.S. Environmental Systems and Politics Beyond Earth" (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
Episode 264
What if outer space is not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point of Valerie Olson’s Into the Extr…
5 years, 7 months ago
Kristina M. Lyons, "Vital Decomposition: Soil Practitioners and Life Politics" (Duke UP, 2020)
Episode 59
In Colombia, decades of social and armed conflict and the US-led war on drugs have created a seemingly untenable situation for scientists and rural c…
5 years, 7 months ago
Kristin J. Jacobson, "The American Adrenaline Narrative" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
Episode 86
Kristin J. Jacobson In her new book, The American Adrenaline Narrative (University of Georgia Press), Kristin Jacobson considers the nature of perilo…
5 years, 7 months ago
Daniel Macfarlane, "Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall" (UBC Press, 2020)
Episode 58
Water and diplomatic historian Dan MacFarlane has written a fascinating book on a fundamental debate in environmental history: What is a natural land…
5 years, 8 months ago
Thom van Dooren, "The Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Episode 3
Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are, from tropical islands to deserts and arctic forests, from densely populated cities to suburbs a…
5 years, 8 months ago
Elizabeth Ferry and Stephen Ferry, "La Batea" (Red Hook, 2017)
Episode 78
La Batea is an unconventional book. A collaboration between anthropologist Elizabeth Ferry and her photographer brother Stephen, it combines text and…
5 years, 8 months ago
Andrew C. Isenberg, "The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920" (Cambridge UP, 2000)
Episode 54
In 1800, tens of millions of bison roamed the North American Great Plains. By 1900, fewer than 1,000 remained. In The Destruction of the Bison: An En…
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Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin, "Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet" (Verso Books, 2020)
Episode 57
In Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet (Verso Books, 2020), Noam Chomsky, the world’s leading pu…
5 years, 8 months ago