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Bookshelf<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n

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Featured Books<\/span><\/h3><\/div>

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Triumph of the City<\/em><\/p>\n

As Edward Glaeser proves in this myth-shattering book, cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in cultural and economic terms) places to live.<\/p>\n

Preview<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0Find at your local library<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>

\"51sf739-CaL\"<\/a>The End of the Suburbs
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\u201cThis book is a steel fist in a velvet glove. Beneath Leigh Gallagher’s smooth, elegant prose there is a methodical smashing of the suburban paradigm. When all is done, a few shards remain.”<\/p>\n

Preview<\/a> \/ Find at your local library<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Green Manhattan<\/em><\/p>\n

While the conventional wisdom condemns it as an environmental nightmare, Manhattan is by far the greenest place in America, argues this stimulating eco-urbanist manifesto.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities<\/em><\/p>\n

“One of the most remarkable books ever written about the city… a\u00a0primary\u00a0work. The research apparatus is not pretentious\u2014it is the eye and the heart\u2014but it has given us a magnificent study of what gives life and spirit to the city.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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The\u00a0City in History<\/em><\/p>\n

Lewis Mumford’s massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence–from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the modern centers of commerce (as well as dozens of black-and-white illustrations)–to show how the urban form has changed throughout human civilization.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>

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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cCities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work. In Walkable City, he persuasively explains how to create rational urban spaces and improve quality of life by containing the number one vector of global environmental catastrophe: the automobile.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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Books by EHI Faculty<\/span><\/h3><\/div>

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After the Grizzly<\/p>\n

“On the landmark species-saving law\u2019s 40th anniversary, environmental historian Peter Alagona explains why it doesn\u2019t quite work, and offers a path toward recovery.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>

\"EER\"<\/a>Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader
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Containing seminal, representative, and contemporary work in the field, this volume and the editorial commentary is designed for use on both undergraduate and postgraduate ecocritical literature courses.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This book showcases the recent explosive expansion of environmental criticism, which is actively transforming three areas of broad interest in contemporary literary and cultural studies: history, scale, and science.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>

\"81QnYDQbIJL\"<\/a>Wilderness and the American Mind
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Roderick Nash’s classic study of America’s changing attitudes toward wilderness has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times has listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

\"ME-Cover\"<\/a>Milton and Ecology<\/em><\/p>\n

Milton and Ecology<\/em>\u00a0explores\u00a0the ideological underpinnings of our current environmental crisis by way of early modern texts, in this case through Milton\u2019s reevaluation of dualistic theology, metaphysical philosophy, and early modern subjectivism.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>

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What Else Is Pastoral?<\/em><\/p>\n

“What Else Is Pastoral?<\/em>, notable for its theoretical sophistication and breadth of reference, is worthwhile precisely because it is humble enough to take representations of the countryside as actually being about the countryside first.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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Classic Texts<\/span><\/h3><\/div>

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\"Walden_Thoreau\"<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>

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