Island Press
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Science with Impact: How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence Policy
$35.00 Add to cartWill you please just listen to me? If you are a scientist, or a fan of science, have you ever wondered why your fact-based explanation of ground-breaking scientific research falls flat with family, fr… [more below]
- Author: Toomey, Anne Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833282
- Language: English
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Preserving with Purpose: Reimagining Buildings for Community Benefit
$40.00 Add to cartWhile prominent buildings like Notre Dame in Paris rise from the ashes, historic buildings in disinvested communities are lost at an alarming rate. The resulting holes in the fabric of the community a… [more below]
- Author: Hetletvedt, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833487
- Language: English
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Overbuilt: The High Costs and Low Rewards of Us Highway Construction
$35.00 Add to cartThe world’s largest public works investment visible from space, the Interstate Highway System and the hundreds of thousands of miles of supporting roadways, are frequently hailed as a marvel and trium… [more below]
- Author: Guerra, Erick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833363
- Language: English
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Forest of the Sea: The Remarkable Life and Imperiled Future of Kelp
$30.00 Read moreA powerful call to action that shows how science, culture, and hope can converge to restore one of Earth’s most vital marine habitats
In a matter of decades, a spectacular cold-water paradise thirty m- Author: Helvarg, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1642833827
- Language: English
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Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life
$37.00 Read moreImagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and com… [more below]
- Author: Sim, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1642830186
- Language: English
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When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
$32.00 Read moreOne third of people living in the United States do not have a driver license. Because the majority of involuntary nondrivers are disabled, lower income, unhoused, formerly incarcerated, undocumented i… [more below]
- Author: Zivarts, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833150
- Language: English
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Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion That Science Underlies Our Transportation System
$36.00 Add to cartIn the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899. The numbers are getting worse in recent years, yet we continue to accept these deaths as part of doing business…. [more below]
- Author: Marshall, Wes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833304
- Language: English
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If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy
$32.00 Add to cartYour transit and street safety dreams are within your reach. While challenging our dangerous car-centric systems can feel daunting, you can win, and this book is here to help. In If You Want to Win, Y… [more below]
- Author: Lavin, Carter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833738
- Language: English
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Meet Me at the Library: A Place to Foster Social Connection and Promote Democracy
$24.00 Add to cartAmerica is facing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation, with troubling effects on our mental and physical health. We live in one of the most divisive times in our history, one in which we tend to w… [more below]
- Author: Hallman, Shamichael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1642833193
- Language: English
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Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods
$35.00 Add to cartFrom buffalo prairies to urban orchards, an introduction to a diverse movement redefining how we grow, eat, and live with the land
Just four annual crops–corn, wheat, rice, and soybeans–account for- Author: Krug, Aubrey Streit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1642833886
- Language: English
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The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartConsider your surroundings. Maybe you’re in a house or in an apartment building. Maybe you’re at a desk in an office building, or in a caf? looking out on a lively main street. The urban landscape is
- Author: Schneider, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833533
- Language: English
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The Twilight Forest: An Elegy for Ponderosa in a Changing West
$30.00 Add to cartWith their towering, cinnamon-colored trunks and dusky green canopies, ponderosa pine has long been a charismatic icon of the American West. Yet a quiet unraveling has begun: in the past decade, in a … [more below]
- Author: Ferguson, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833428
- Language: English
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Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life
$32.00 Add to cartFree-flowing rivers in the United States are an endangered species. With more than 500,000 dams in place, we’ve dammed and diverted almost every major river, straightening curves and blocking passage … [more below]
- Author: Lohan, Tara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833347
- Language: English
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Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry
$24.99 Add to cartNow with a new chapter on the Distribution Barons!
Best Books of 2024: “Frerick’s prose throughout is both direct and masterfully controlled, with every point supported by extensive references and no- Author: Frerick, Austin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1642834440
- Language: English
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Squirrel: How a Backyard Forager Shapes Our World
$30.00 Add to cartSquirrels are a common sight, seemingly everywhere in wild and urban nature. Their chattering antics in city parks delight us while their raids on our backyard gardens and birdfeeders never fail to ex… [more below]
- Author: Castaldo, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833754
- Language: English
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The Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit
$32.00 Add to cart“A deeply meditative book in the vein of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass.”
As a child in the foothills of the Himalayas, Priyanka Kumar wa
–Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus- Author: Kumar, Priyanka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833630
- Language: English
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Living Off Grid: 50 Steps to Unplug, Become Self-Sufficient, and Build the Homestead of Your Dreams
$25.00 Add to cartRyan Mitchell never thought he would go off the grid. Yet this self-described desk-jockey with no carpentry skills today lives on 11 acres in a house he designed and powers with solar, gets his water … [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833592
- Language: English
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Barn Gothic: Three Generations and the Death of the Family Dairy Farm
$30.00 Add to cartWhen Ryan Dennis’s father was crushed by heavy machinery on their New York dairy farm, both men accepted the accident as a risk of agricultural life. But it was harder to comprehend being crushed by l… [more below]
- Author: Dennis, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1642834475
- Language: English
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New York’s Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit
$35.00 Add to cartIn the nineteenth century, Manhattan’s streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect … [more below]
- Author: Algeo, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833657
- Language: English
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A Northern Gardener’s Guide to Native Plants and Pollinators
$35.00 Add to cartFew sights are as charming as a hummingbird hovering over cardinal flowers in your backyard or a butterfly lighting on the black-eyed Susans potted on your balcony. Yet pollinators do more than beguil… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1642832995
- Language: English
