Social Science - Human Geography

We have most of the technology we need to combat the climate crisis - and most people want to see more action. But after three decades of climate COPs, we are accelerating into a polycrisis of climate, food security, biodiversity, pollution, inequality, and more....

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven...

From global navigation to natal charts to memory palaces and beyond, a thrilling journey through humanity's visualization of new spaces. When you give directions, do you tell someone to go straight ahead and turn left? Or do you suggest that they head north before...

The first collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography and incarceration Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer,...

A major collection of essays and speeches from pioneering freedom fighter Angela Y. Davis For over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state violence and oppression. Abolition: Politics, Practices,...

In America, but Bigger: Near-Annexations, from Greenland to the Galapagos, author Mark Kawar recounts the surprising, often forgotten history of America's unrealized empire. Intrigued by President Donald Trump's 2019 bid to purchase Greenland, Kawar set out to ask a bigger question: Just how far...

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Award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti transform enormous datasets into rich maps and cutting-edge visualizations. In this triumph of visual storytelling, they uncover truths about our past, reveal who we are today, and highlight what we face in the years ahead. With...

A groundbreaking history that explores how human desires have affected our relationship with the natural world, and why this is a cause for hope Donald Worster looks back over 200,000 years of Homo sapiens sapiens to show how human nature, especially the drive for...

Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented...

Honorable Mention, 2026 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award, Caribbean Studies Association Shortlist, 2026 James Beard Media Award in Reference, History, and Scholarship Breadfruit trees are staples of the tropics, bearing cantaloupe-sized green-skinned fruits whose taste and texture resemble potatoes. More than three...

Richard Campanella's Crossroads, Cutoffs, and Confluences tells the epic story of human settlement in Louisiana, unearthing the original geographical rationales for the formation of hundreds of cities, towns, and villages where most Louisianians live now. Campanella illuminates why these communities formed where they did,...

AN NPR SUMMER READING PICK"A powerful and thought-provoking deep history of data and power, essential reading for understanding the opportunities and dangers of the technological revolution now transforming our world." --Jonathan Kennedy, author of PathogenesisFrom clay tablets to the algorithmic state, a groundbreaking new...

In this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of the United States--a history that places the environment at the very center of the narrative. Now in a new edition, Down to Earth reenvisions the story of America "from...

The globetrotting story of how humans have harnessed the geographical landscape and written ourselves onto our surroundings. Mountains, meridians, rivers, and borders--these are some of the features that divide the world on our maps and in our minds. But geography is far less set...

Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for women as mothers, workers...

New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Pick Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author "Entertaining, enlightening and disturbing." - Ira Glass The immersive, captivating untold story of the mass radicalization of the Republican Party in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, entrenching the political power of a...

In this masterful tour de force of nature writing, Kenneth Brown explores one of the most awe-inspiring regions on earth -- the Four Corners of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Weaving together its geological, ecological and human histories, he presents a unique portrait...

An eye-opening examination of how treating land as a source of profit has a massive impact on racial inequality and the housing, gentrification, and environmental crises.Climate change, gentrification, racial inequity, and corporate greed are some of the most urgent problems facing our society. They...

Author: Tony ChoPublisher: Greenleaf Book Group PressPublished: 08/11/2026Pages: 280Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.27h x 6.39w x 1.08dISBN: 9798886455083About the AuthorTony Cho is a purpose-driven entrepreneur, visionary community builder, and leading voice in regenerative placemaking. A catalyst of Miami's urban renaissance, he played a key...