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Star Power

ITER and the International Quest for Fusion Energy

by Alain Bécoulet

Translated by Erik Butler

Foreword by Dennis G. Whyte

ISBN: 9780262547284

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 19, 2023

A concise and accessible explanation of the science and technology behind the domestication of nuclear fusion energy.

Milk and Honey

Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land

by Tamar Novick

ISBN: 9780262039079

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 11, 2023

An innovative historical analysis of the intersection of religion and technology in making the modern state, focusing on bodily production and reproduction across the human-animal divide.

They Knew

The US Federal Government's Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis

by James Gustave Speth

Introduction by Julia Olson and Philip Gregory

ISBN: 9780262545099

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 23, 2022

A devastating, compelling account of the federal government's leading role in bringing about today's climate crisis.

Tomorrow's Economy

A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth

by Per Espen Stoknes

Foreword by Paul Hawken

ISBN: 9780262543859

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 12, 2022

A balance sheet for the planet: How we can achieve healthy growth—more regenerative than wasteful, instilling equity rather than exacerbating inequalities.

Natura Urbana

Ecological Constellations in Urban Space

by Matthew Gandy

ISBN: 9780262046282

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 8, 2022

A study of urban nature that draws together different strands of urban ecology as well as insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought.

Resigned Activism, revised edition

Resigned Activism

Living with Pollution in Rural China

by Anna Lora-Wainwright

ISBN: 9780262542494

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 25, 2021

An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response.

Novacene

The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

by James Lovelock

ISBN: 9780262539517

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 10, 2020

The originator of the Gaia theory offers the vision of a future epoch in which humans and artificial intelligence together will help the Earth survive.

To Know the World

A New Vision for Environmental Learning

by Mitchell Thomashow

ISBN: 9780262539821

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 3, 2020

Why environmental learning is crucial for understanding the connected challenges of climate justice, tribalism, inequity, democracy, and human flourishing.