In his excellent and informative book Five Times Faster, Simon Sharpe proposes solutions to climate change challenges on three fronts: science, economics, and policy. Sharpe argues that the biggest problem with current approaches to... Read More

In A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World, veteran nature writer David Gessner uses powerful examples of environmental devastation to show myriad ways in which climate change is altering areas across the United States. The book... Read More

The climate crisis is a global problem, with every individual playing a role: Nikolaj Schultz confronts this conundrum in his lovely, essay-length book "Land Sickness". In beautiful prose that makes everyday moments seem profound,... Read More

In "Beginning to End the Climate Crisis" Luisa Neubauer and Alexander Repenning show just how hard young people, who will pay the highest price if climate change goes unaddressed, are fighting to affect international political agendas.... Read More

Judith Hicks Stiehm’s thorough biography covers the legal career of the United States’s first woman attorney general. Reno grew up “deeply rooted in Miami” at a time when the future metropolis retained a small-town feel. Her... Read More

The thought-provoking and expert essays of "A New History of the American South" represent expansive views of Southern history—beyond the period-focused notions of the region that often appear in history and literature. Rather than... Read More

In response to years of clear social upheaval in the United States, from renewed fights for social justice to new threats of authoritarianism, a new, diverse set of comedy voices are using humor in their activism. Caty Borum chronicles... Read More

In the mid-nineteenth century, the expanding United States worked to colonize the territory that’s now Arizona. To do so, it turned to the Middle East for expertise, inspiration, and camels. Natalie Koch’s "Arid Empire" shows how... Read More