Tom Higham, "The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins" (Yale UP, 2021)

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Amy Zhang, "Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China" (Stanford UP, 2024)

After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. As the world's largest waste-generating nation, the World Economic Forum projects that by 2030, the volume of household waste in China will be double that of the United States. Starting in ...  Show more

The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods

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