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Tara Lohan, "Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life" (Island Press, 2025)

Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life (Island Press, 2025) is not Tara’s first book, she authored one at age eight. From their she followed her passion to become an accomplished environmental journalist, initially as a graduate student in literary non-fiction, ...  Show more

Terry Williams, "Life Underground: Encounters with People Below the Streets of New York" (Columbia UP, 2024)

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