Climate change is having an immediate and sometimes life-threatening impact, especially for older adults – generally speaking, people 65 or older. Older adults often face mobility, cognitive, and resource challenges, which contribute to a...
Books
236 pages
6 x 9
20 black-and-white illustrations, photographs, line art, and maps
The Chef's Guide to Advocacy
When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous. This was a group known for short tempers and tattoos, not for saving the world. But she quickly learned that chefs and other leaders in the...
242 pages
5 x 8
1 au photo
The Next Step for City Trails and Walking Routes
If your doorstep were a trailhead, how would you experience your city? With this newfound freedom, you might head in a new direction—walk to a restaurant in an area you’ve never explored, begin to savor your daily walk to work, or set...
246 pages
6 x 9
44 photos and illustrations
A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the...
176 pages
6 x 9
20 photos
Learning to Thrive Without Growth
Over the past hundred years, the global motto has been “more, more, more” in terms of growth – of population, of the built environment, of human and financial capital, and of all manner of worldly goods. This was the reality as...
336 pages
6 x 9
55 photos and illustrations
Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood
Happy has lived at the Bronx Zoo for most of her 48 years, and for more than a decade has remained largely isolated and lonely. Like all elephants, Happy has a complex mind and a deep social, intellectual, and emotional life; she desires to make...
240 pages
7 x 10
Full color throughout
How Moths Illuminate Nature’s Hidden Rules
A plastic box with a lightbulb attached may seem like an odd birthday present. But for ecologist Tim Blackburn, a moth trap is a captivating window into the world beyond the roof terrace of his London flat. Whether gaudy or drab, rare or common,...
288 pages
6 x 9
10 photographs
The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention
For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning, the war on cancer. We’re better than ever at treating the disease, yet cancer still claims the lives of one in five men and one in six women in the US. The astonishing news is...
224 pages
6 x 9
“Congestion is the life of the city . . . it is what we came for, what we stay for, what we hunger for”, wrote Charles Downing Lay, prominent American landscape architect and planner of the early 1920s. These words are relevant today...
168 pages
5 x 8
20 photos/illustrations