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Barons 1 Gaslight 2 Movement 3 When Driving is Not an Option 4 Bicycle City 5 Killed by a Traffic Engineer 6 Making Climate Tech Work 7 Climate Action for Busy People 8 Water Management 9 Bird Brother 10

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New Austin Frerick

Barons Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry A shocking portrait of corporate corruption in America’s food industry, its implications on democracy, and what we can do to improve it.

Political Science/Agriculture & Food Policy March 2024.

Hardcover | $29.00 | 978-1-64283-269-3 E-book | $28.99 | 978-1-64283-270-9 248 pages. | 6 x 9 | Island Press Trade Worldwide

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At the Table Katherine Miller

Barons is the story of seven titans of the food industry, their rise to power, and the consequences for workers, eaters, and democracy itself. Readers will meet a secretive German family that took over the global coffee industry in less than a decade, relying on wealth traced back to the Nazis to gobble up countless independent roasters. They will visit the Disneyland of agriculture, where school children ride trams through mechanized warehouses filled with tens of thousands of cows that never see the light of day. And they will learn that in the food business, crime really does pay—especially when you can bribe and then double-cross the president of Brazil. Barons paints a stark portrait of corporate consolidation, but it also shows that a fair, healthy, and prosperous food industry is possible—if we take back power from the barons who have robbed us of it.

Austin Frerick is an expert on agricultural and antitrust policy. He worked at the Open Markets Institute, the U.S. Department of Treasury, and the Congressional Research Service before becoming a Fellow at Yale University. He is a 7th generation Iowan and 1st generation college graduate, with degrees from Grinnell College and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Author’s residence: United States

Biting the Hands that Feed Us Baylen J. Linnekin

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New Jonathan Mingle

Gaslight The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America’s Energy Future Journalist Jonathan Mingle tells the vivid and inspirational story of everyday citizens standing up against the country’s most powerful energy companies—essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the urgent stakes of the energy choices we face today.

Gaslight is the story of an epic, six-year battle between one of the country’s most powerful energy companies and the everyday people who stood in the path of its massive fossil gas pipeline. On one side, an archetypal Goliath: a corporation that commands billions of dollars and unparalleled influence over state politicians and federal government agencies alike. On the other, a diverse band of Davids: lawyers and farmers, conservationists and conservatives, innkeepers and lobbyists, scientists, and nurses.

Their struggle took them all the way to the Supreme Court, but their larger fight was in the court of public opinion. Would the nation swallow the industry's narrative that gas was “a bridge fuel” to a clean, green future? Or would the public recognize it as a methane bomb, capable of not only wrecking local communities but imperiling the planet? Vivid and suspenseful, Gaslight is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the urgent stakes of the energy choices we face today.

Jonathan Mingle is an independent journalist. Over the past fifteen years, he has written about climate change impacts and solutions, air pollution, public health, energy and resource issues, technology, and much more for a range of outlets including The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Undark, Yale Environment 360, Slate, and The Boston Globe. As a 2020 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow, he reported on political and grassroots battles over natural gas (aka methane) infrastructure and its local and global climate consequences. His first book is Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World.

Author’s residence: Lincoln, Vermont

Political Science/Energy Policy May 2024.

Hardcover | $30.00 | 978-1-64283-248-8 E-book | $29.99 | 978-1-64283-249-5 352 pages. | 6 x 9 | 6 illustrations.

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A New War on Cancer Kristina Marusic

The Monsanto Papers Carey Gillam

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New Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet

Movement How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives Drawing on inspiration from the Netherlands, Movement urges us to rethink public spaces and transform mobility by putting people at the center of urban design.

In Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives, journalist Thalia Verkade and mobility expert (“the cycling professor”) Marco te Brömmelstroet take a three-year shared journey of discovery into the possibilities of our streets. They investigate and question the choices and mechanisms underpinning how these public spaces are designed and look at how they could be different. Verkade and te Brömmelstroet draw inspiration from the Netherlands and look at what other countries are doing, and could do, to diversify how they use their streets and make them safer.

Architecture/Urban & Land Use Planning May 2024.

Paperback | $35.00 | 978-1-64283-344-7 E-book | $34.99 | 978-1-64283-345-4 288 pages. | 6 x 9 | Island Press Short US & Canada

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Building the Cycling City Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett

Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Second Edition National Association of City Transportation Officials

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Making our communities safer, cleaner, and greener starts with asking these fundamental questions: who do our streets belong to, how do we want to use them, and who gets to decide? To truly transform mobility, we need to look far beyond the technical aspects and put people at the center of urban design. Movement will change the way that you view our streets.

Thalia Verkade is a staff writer and foreign correspondent for the Dutch national newspapers NRC Handelsblad and nrc.next. For the ad-free slow journalism platform De Correspondent she has written extensively about the topics she loves most: language, transport, and technocracy.

Marco te Brömmelstroet is the chair of Urban Mobility Futures at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam. His teaching centers on the relationship between land use developments and mobility behavior.

As founding academic director of the Urban Cycling Institute he strengthens the links between academia and how cycling relates to the urban and social environment. Cycling offers him a lens to radically reimagine the way in which society thinks about mobility, transport systems, and the street.

Authors' residences: Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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New Anna Letitia Zivarts, foreword by Dani Simons

When Driving is Not an Option Steering Away from Car Dependency Everyone knows someone who is an involuntary nondriver and has trouble moving freely around their community–whether it is due to age, immigration status, or a disability–and it is time to address the need for an improved mobility system.

By one measure, those with a driver license, one third of people living in the US cannot legally drive. Yet our transportation system is designed almost exclusively with drivers in mind. Since most involuntary nondrivers are lower income; elderly; young; Black, Brown, or Indigenous; or undocumented, they are invisible to decisionmakers.

In When Driving is Not an Option disability advocate Anna Letitia Zivarts draws from interviews with involuntary nondrivers from around the US and from her own experience, to shine a light on the number of people in the US who cannot drive and outline actions to improve our mobility systems.

When the needs of involuntary nondrivers are viewed as essential to how we design our transportation systems and our communities, not only will we be able to more easily get where we need to go, but the changes will lead to healthier, climate-friendly communities for everyone.

Anna Letitia Zivarts is a low-vision mom and nondriver who was born with the neurological condition nystagmus. Since launching the Disability Mobility Initiative at Disability Rights Washington in 2020, Anna has worked to bring the voices of nondrivers to the planning and policy-making tables through organizing, research and policy campaigns led by nondrivers.

Transportation/General May 2024.

Paperback | $32.00 | 978-1-64283-315-7 E-book | $31.99 | 978-1-64283-316-4 240 pages. | 6 x 9 | 20 black-and-white illustrations, photographs, line art, and maps.

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New Mobilities Todd Litman

She began her career as a organizer and videographer, producing videos and collecting stories for the LGBT & HIV/AIDS and Voting Rights projects at the ACLU, and co-founding the union and worker-run video production company Time of Day Media.

Author’s residence: Seattle, Washington

Autonorama Peter Norton

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New Dan Piatkowski

Bicycle City Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future Drawing on research and case studies from around the world, Bicycle City offers a compelling case of a car-free urban future by harnessing the post-pandemic bike boom—perfect for professionals and advocates.

In Bicycle City: Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future cycling expert Daniel Piatkowski argues that the bicycle is the best tool that we have to improve our cities. The car-free urban future—where cities are vibrant, with access to everything we need close by—may be less bike-centric than we think. But bikes are a crucial first step to getting Americans out of cars.

Transportation/Bicycles May 2024.

Paperback | $32.00 | 978-1-64283-307-2 E-book | $31.99 | 978-1-64283-308-9 244 pages. | 6 x 9 | 10 black-and-white illustrations, photographs, line art, and maps.

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Curbing Traffic Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett

Piatkowski offers pragmatic lessons drawn from the latest research along with interviews, anecdotes, and case studies from around the world. Electric bikes are demonstrating the ability of bikes to replace cars in more places and for more people. Cargo bikes are replacing SUVs for families and delivery trucks for freight. At the same time, mobility startups are providing new ownership models to make these new bikes easier to use and own, ushering in a new era of pedalpowered cities.

Bicycle City is about making cities better with bikes rather than for bikes.

Dan Piatkowski is associate professor of Integrated Land Use and Transportation Planning at OsloMet-Oslo Metropolitan University. Before moving to Norway, Dan taught urban planning at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and at Savannah State University, and worked in planning in Colorado and New Mexico. He has authored many articles and co-authored the book Bicycling for Transportation: An Evidence-Base for Communities.

Author’s residence: Oslo, Norway

Copenhagenize Mikael Colville-Andersen

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New Wes Marshall

Killed by a Traffic Engineer Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System Thoroughly researched and compellingly written, Killed by a Traffic Engineer is the first book to uncover the lack of science behind traffic engineering, leaving readers inspired to take action and demand streets engineered for the safety of people.

Fixing the carnage on our roadways requires a change in mindset and a dramatic transformation of transportation. This goes for traffic engineers in particular because they are still the ones in charge of our streets.

In Killed by a Traffic Engineer, civil engineering professor Wes Marshall shines a spotlight on how little science there is behind the way that our streets are engineered, which leaves safety as an afterthought. While traffic engineers are not trying to cause deliberate harm to anyone, he explains, they are guilty of creating a transportation system whose designs remain largely based on plausible, but unproven, conjecture.

Killed by a Traffic Engineer is ultimately hopeful about what is possible once we shift our thinking and demand streets engineered for the safety of people, both outside and inside of cars. It will make you look at your city and streets—and traffic engineers—in a new light and inspire you to take action.

Wes Marshall, PhD, PE, is professor of Civil Engineering with a joint appointment in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Colorado Denver. He is also the director of the CU Denver Transportation Research Center and co-director of the Active Communities/Transportation (ACT) research group. He received his Professional Engineering license in 2003 and focuses on transportation teaching and research dedicated to creating a more sustainable and resilient world, particularly in terms of road safety. Having spent time in the private sector, Wes has been working on these issues for more than 25 years. With over 80 peer-reviewed publications, Wes was also the winner of the Campus-wide University of Colorado Denver Outstanding Faculty in Research Award.

Authors’ residences: Denver, Colorado

Transportation/General June 2024.

Paperback | $35.00 | 978-1-64283-330-0 E-book | $34.99 | 978-1-64283-331-7 344 pages. | 6 x 9 | 15 black-and-white illustrations, photographs, line art, and maps.

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Inclusive Transportation Veronica O. Davis

Right of Way Angie Schmitt

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New Alon Tal

Making Climate Tech Work Policies that Drive Innovation A comprehensive and accessible analysis of how effective climate policies can lead to a more sustainable future—perfect for anyone interested in climate tech solutions.

Political Science/Environmental Policy April 2024.

Paperback | $35.00 | 978-1-64283-338-6 E-book | $34.99 | 978-1-64283-339-3 312 pages. | 6 x 9 | No illustrations.

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Over the Seawall Stephen Robert Miller

Tech to Table Richard Munson

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Climate tech is critical for averting planetary chaos. Half the greenhouse gas reductions required to reach "net-zero" climate targets in 2050 will need to come from technologies that have not yet been invented. Making Climate Tech Work is an insightful analysis of how smart government policies can make those technologies a reality. Which approaches can lead us to a sustainable economy, and which are likely to fall short? Learn how Denmark became a wind energy superpower, Germany incentivized renewables, Australia phased out incandescent bulbs, and why carbon taxes have failed around the world—but could be designed for success. Alon Tal expertly distills each policy's benefits and drawbacks, along with related ethical questions and public perceptions. The result is an essential primer for anyone interested in accelerating climate tech solutions.

Alon Tal's career has been a balance between academia, politics, and public interest advocacy. He is presently a visiting professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and outgoing chair of the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University.

Tal has published hundreds of academic and popular articles and written/edited some eleven books on topics involving sustainability. Between 2021 and 2022 Tal was a member of the Knesset, Israel's Parliament where he chaired the country's first subcommittee on Environment and Climate. He also served on Israel's national delegation to the COP27 climate conference.

Author’s residences: Maccabim, Israel and Stanford, California

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New Cate Mingoya-LaFortune

Climate Action for Busy People A hopeful and realistic guide for everyday people wanting to help grow their local community's impact on climate change.

As unprecedented heat waves, storms of the century, and devastating fires impact cities across the country, the time to create climate resilient communities is now. While large-scale innovations in policy and technology are necessary to preserve the planet, the wisest and most lasting adaptation solutions originate at the local level. Each chapter will help readers scale up their actions, from identifying climate solutions that an individual or small group can pull off in a handful of weekends, like tree plantings or depaving parties, to advocating for change at the municipal level through coalition-building and data collection. It's not too late for people of all ages and skill levels to create climate safe neighborhoods.

Architecture/Sustainability & Green Design June 2024.

Paperback | $27.00 | 978-1-64283-277-8 E-book | $26.99 | 978-1-64283-278-5 216 pages. | 6 x 9 | 22 photos and illustrations.

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Cate Mingoya-LaFortune is the Chief Officer of Climate Resilience and Land Use for Groundwork USA. In this role, she leads Groundwork's climate resilience and environmental justice initiatives. She holds a Master of City Planning from MIT and a BA in Biology from Reed College. She lives with her family and community in New England.

Author’s residence: Somerville, Massachusetts

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Climate Action Planning Michael R. Boswell, Adrienne I. Greve, and Tammy L. Seale

Resilience for All Barbara Brown Wilson

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New Shimon C. Anisfeld

Water Management Prioritizing Justice and Sustainability Drawing on expertise from diverse fields of study, Water Management offers a comprehensive examination of water issues such as prior appropriation, flooding, and famine—perfect for students and professionals looking for a broader view of the subject.

Water Management fills a critical gap: providing a base of knowledge to understand and manage complex water problems.

It is geared primarily towards students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, but will also be a helpful resource for practicing water professionals who are looking for new ideas or a broader view of the subject.

Nature/Environmental Conservation & Protection June 2024.

Paperback | $50.00 | 978-1-64283-005-7 E-book | $49.99 | 978-1-64283-006-4 440 pages. | 8 1/2 x 11 | 77 illustrations.

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Purified Peter Annin

This text explores the entire gamut of water issues, from dams to desalination, from prior appropriation to pumped storage, from sanitation to stormwater. Rather than teaching from one disciplinary perspective, it examines water through a variety of lenses: hydrology, climate science, ecology, and engineering, but also law, economics, history, and environmental justice. The result is a comprehensive introduction to one of the most demanding challenges of our time: developing just and sustainable solutions to water management.

Shimon Anisfeld is Senior Lecturer II and Research Scientist at the Yale School of the Environment, where he teaches courses in water management, coastal ecology, organic pollutants, and physical science for environmental managers. His research and writing interests include both freshwater and coastal issues, which he sees as central to the challenges facing the world in the coming decades.

Author’s residence: Newton, Massachusetts

Replenish Sandra Postel

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Now in Paperback Rodney Stotts with Kate Pipkin

Bird Brother A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife Rodney Stotts' incredible journey to become a master falconer shows the power and possibilities of nature and the human spirit.

"Stotts’s gift for storytelling, as an educator and public speaker, is on full display in this remarkable memoir; it’s thought-provoking, moving, and inspiring." - starred review, Library Journal In Bird Brother, Rodney Stotts shares his unlikely journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America’s few Black master falconers. Rodney grew up in Washington, D.C. during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration affecting the lives of everyone he knew. He was no exception, but he was also employed by the newly founded Earth Conservation Corps, helping to restore and conserve the polluted Anacostia River. This work eventually sent his life in a different direction, as he began to train to become a master falconer and to develop his own raptor education program and sanctuary. Eye-opening, witty, and moving, Bird Brother is a testament to the healing power of nature, and a reminder that no matter how much heartbreak we’ve endured, we still have the capacity to give back to our communities and follow our dreams.

Raised in Southeast Washington, D.C., Rodney Stotts has achieved the highest level of master falconer. Stotts is an educator and the founder and director of Rodney’s Raptors.

When he’s not on the sanctuary property located in Laurel, Maryland, Rodney lives on seven acres in Charlotte Court House, Virginia, where he is working to turn the property into a haven for underprivileged youth and anyone who is interested in learning about falconry, wildlife, and conservation. The finished project will be called Dippy’s Dream, after Rodney’s deceased mother. His work has been featured in National Geographic, NPR, and other national outlets. He is the subject of the documentary The Falconer.

Kate Pipkin is the Senior Director of Communications and Marketing for the School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. She has contributed to The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Magazine, Johns Hopkins Magazine, Loch Raven Review, and other publications.

Biography/Environmentalists & Naturalists April 2024.

Paperback | $21.95 | 978-1-64283-350-8 E-book | $21.95 | 978-1-64283-175-7 224 pages. | 5 x 8 | 11 photos.

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Unnatural Companions Peter Christie

The Bird-Friendly City Timothy Beatley

Authors' residences: Laurel, Maryland; Baltimore, Maryland

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Killed by a Traffic Engineer

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Barons

Gaslight

by Austin Frerick Page 1

by Jonathan Mingle Page 2

Climate Action for Busy People

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