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        Synthetic Frontiers

        Synthetic Frontiers

        Synthetic Frontiers

        Ocean Plastic and the Persistence of Trash Islands

        by Kim De Wolff

        ISBN: 9780262553681

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 11, 2025

        How an imaginary island became the symbol of contemporary concern for ocean plastic pollution.
        Atomic Albion

        Atomic Albion

        Atomic Albion

        Journeys Around Britain’s Nuclear Power Stations

        by Tom Bolton

        ISBN: 9781913689971

        Publisher: Strange Attractor Press

        Pub Date: October 28, 2025

        Walking tours of Britain's nuclear power stations, exploring the history of the sites they occupy and their social, ecological, and cultural impact on the landscape.
        The Nuclear-Water Nexus

        The Nuclear-Water Nexus

        The Nuclear-Water Nexus

        Edited by Per Högselius and Siegfried Evens

        ISBN: 9780262552288

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: July 1, 2025

        An edited collection that takes a deep dive into the complex interactions between nuclear energy and water.
        Fire and Flood

        Fire and Flood

        Fire and Flood

        Extreme Events and Social Change Past, Present, Future

        by Thomas Princen

        ISBN: 9780262552127

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 20, 2025

        How extreme events, paradoxically, sow the seeds of positive response—and create opportunities for becoming adaptive to place.
        Particles of Truth

        Particles of Truth

        Particles of Truth

        A Story of Discovery, Controversy, and the Fight for Healthy Air

        by C. Arden Pope III and Douglas W. Dockery

        Foreword by Gina McCarthy

        ISBN: 9780262551670

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 1, 2025

        A compelling, real-life account of how scientists uncovered air pollution's deadly impact on human health—and the contentious battles to use key scientific evidence in the critical fight for clean air.
        Phenology

        Phenology

        Phenology

        by Theresa M. Crimmins

        ISBN: 9780262551052

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 4, 2025

        On the timing of seasonal activity in plants and animals, the impact of climate change, and what each of us, as everyday phenologists, can do to help.
        Solutions to 101 Homework Problems

        Solutions to 101 Homework Problems, second edition

        Solutions to 101 Homework Problems

        Consider a Spherical Cow

        by John Harte

        ISBN: 9781940380445

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 20, 2024

        This detailed Solutions Manual accompanies the new 2nd edition of John Harte’s innovative problems text, Consider a Spherical Cow.
        Natura Urbana

        Natura Urbana

        Natura Urbana

        Ecological Constellations in Urban Space

        by Matthew Gandy

        ISBN: 9780262551335

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 16, 2024

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

        Consider a Spherical Cow, second edition

        Consider a Spherical Cow

        A Course in Environmental Problem Solving

        by John Harte

        ISBN: 9781940380223

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 6, 2024

        This textbook teaches how to make--and derive useful insight from--relatively simple models of many seemingly complex environmental problems facing our world today.
        The Wild and the Wicked

        The Wild and the Wicked

        The Wild and the Wicked

        On Nature and Human Nature

        by Benjamin Hale

        ISBN: 9780262551267

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 6, 2024

        A brief foray into a moral thicket, exploring why we should protect nature despite tsunamis, malaria, bird flu, cancer, killer asteroids, and tofu.
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