Jonathan Maskit, "Bicycle" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jonathan Maskit, "Bicycle" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

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Shawn William Miller, "Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World's Longest Highway" (U California Press, 2026)

A century after the Pan-American Highway was first conceived, its story remains largely unknown—even to the hundreds of motorists who annually attempt the 30,000-kilometer drive from far northern Alaska to the tip of Tierra del Fuego. There is more to the highway, however, than t ...  Show more

Susannah Crockford, "A Perturbed System: Religion and Climate Change from the End of a World" (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Our ecological system is disturbed, and with it, every other system we’ve built to inhabit it. We do not face inevitable destruction, yet many of us cannot conceive of climate change as anything but the end of the world, an apocalypse with all its biblical trappings. Why? In A Pe ...  Show more

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Antero Garcia, "All through the Town: The School Bus as Educational Technology" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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