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  • Negotiating Tribal Water Rights

    Fulfilling Promises in the Arid West

    by Bonnie G. Colby, John E. Thorson, Sarah Britton ...
    Water conflicts plague every river in the West, with the thorniest dilemmas found in the many basins with Indian reservations and reserved water rights—rights usually senior to all others in over-appropriated rivers. Negotiations and litigation over tribal water rights shape the future of both Indian and non-Indian communities throughout the region, and intense competition for limited water ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Bret Easton Ellis

    Underwriting the Contemporary

    by G. Colby ...
    Series series American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
    This book reads the whole of Bret Easton Ellis's oeuvre to date from Less Than Zero to Imperial Bedrooms and asks to what extent Ellis's novels can be read as critiquing the cultural moments of which they are a part. Ellis's work can be thought of as an enactment of a process of underwriting contemporary culture, which offers new paths of understanding and ways of critiquing the contemporary ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Tribal Water Rights

    Essays in Contemporary Law, Policy, and Economics

    Edited by John E. Thorson, Sarah Britton, Bonnie G. Colby ...
    The settlement of Indian water rights cases remains one of the thorniest legal issues in this country, particularly in the West. In a previous book, Negotiating Tribal Water Rights, Colby, Thorson, and Britton presented a general overview of the processes involved in settling such cases; this volume provides more in-depth treatment of the many complex issues that arise in negotiating and ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

  • Arizona Water Policy

    Management Innovations in an Urbanizing, Arid Region

    Edited by Bonnie G. Colby, Katharine L. Jacobs ...
    Series series Issues in Water Resource Policy
    The central challenge for Arizona and many other arid regions in the world is keeping a sustainable water supply in the face of rapid population growth and other competing demands. This book highlights new approaches that Arizona has pioneered for managing its water needs. The state has burgeoning urban areas, large agricultural regions, water dependent habitats for endangered fish and wildlife, ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • Adaptation and Resilience

    The Economics of Climate, Water, and Energy Challenges in the American Southwest

    Edited by Bonnie G. Colby, George B. Frisvold ...
    Series series RFF Press Water Policy Series
    In America's arid southwest, climate change will occur in the context of already-keen competition for water for agriculture, urban growth, electricity generation, water-based recreation, and environmental protections. This book explores the challenges that climate change and variability pose for water and energy managers and users, communities, and policy makers in the arid Southwest and ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

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  • Unsettling Canada

    A National Wake-Up Call

    by Arthur Manuel, Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson ...
    Unsettling Canada, a Canadian bestseller, is built on a unique collaboration between two First Nations leaders, Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ron Derrickson.Both men have served as chiefs of their bands in the B.C. interior and both have gone on to establish important national and international reputations. But the differences between them are in many ways even more interesting. Arthur Manuel is ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Let There Be Water

    Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World

    by Seth M. Siegel ...
    Discover how Israel transformed from a parched land into a water superpower, offering a blueprint for a world facing an imminent water crisis.As every day brings urgent reports of growing water shortages around the world, there is no time to lose in the search for solutions. The U.S. government predicts that forty of our fifty states-and 60 percent of the earth's land surface-will soon face ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Common Wealth

    Economics for a Crowded Planet

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    “Lucid, quietly urgent, and relentlessly logical . . . this is Bigthink with a capital B.” —The New York Times Book Review“Common Wealth explains the most basic economic reckoning that the world faces.” —Al Gore, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and former vice president of the United StatesIn Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The ... Read more

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  • Film Flam

    Essays on Hollywood

    by Larry McMurtry ...
    A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize–winner Larry McMurtry knows Hollywood—in Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrating look at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls, fads, flops, and box-office hits.With successful movies and television miniseries made from several of his novels—Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, and *Hud—*McMurtry ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Why We Hate the Oil Companies

    Straight Talk from an Energy Insider

    by John Hofmeister ...
    As president of Shell Oil, John Hofmeister was known for being a straight shooter, willing to challenge his peers throughout the industry. Now, he's a man on a mission, the founder of Citizens for Affordable Energy, crisscrossing the country in a grassroots campaign to change the way we look at energy in this country. While pundits proffer false new promises of green energy independence, or flatly ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Blue Gold

    The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water

    by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke ...
    "Probably the most eloquent call to arms we're likely to hear about the politics of water" ( The Globe and Mail , Toronto).In this "chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis," Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy ( In These Times). Our ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wisdom of the Native Americans

    Including The Soul of an Indian and Other Writings of Ohiyesa and the Great Speeches of Red Jacket, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle

    Edited by Kent Nerburn ...
    The teachings of the Native Americans provide a connection with the land, the environment, and the simple beauties of life. This collection of writings from revered Native Americans offers timeless, meaningful lessons on living and learning. Taken from writings, orations, and recorded observations of life, this book selects the best of Native American wisdom and distills it to its essence in short ... Read more

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