Books

Beyond Greenways: The Next Step for Urban Trails and Walking Routes by Robert M. Searns | An Island Press book
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

Hazardous Seas: A Sociotechnical Framework for Early Tsunami Detection and Warning  Edited by Louise K. Comfort and Harkunti P. Rahayu | An Island Press book
A Sociotechnical Framework for Early Tsunami Detection and Warning

Edited by Louise K. Comfort and Harkunti P. Rahayu; Forewords by Dwikorita Karnawati and Ir. Hammam Riza

Tsunamis are infrequent but terrifying hazards for coastal communities. Difficult to predict, they materialize with little warning, claiming thousands of lives and causing billions of dollars in damage. Recent mega-tsunamis in Japan and Indonesia...

360 pages
6 x 9
89 figures

Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities by Veronica Davis | An Island Press book
A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities

Veronica Davis; Foreword by tamika l. butler

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

Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World: Learning to Thrive Without Growth by Alan Mallach | An Island Press book
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

Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood by Samuel Machado and Cynthia Sousa Machado with Steven M. Wise | An Island Press book
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

The Jewel Box: How Moths Illuminate Nature’s Hidden Rules by Tim Blackburn | An Island Press book
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

A New War on Cancer: The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention by Kristina Marusic | An Island Press book
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

The Freedom of the City by Charles Downing Lay, with introduction and essay by Thomas J. Campanella | An Island Press book

“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

A Northern Gardener’s Guide to Native Plants and Pollinators by Lorraine Johnson and Sheila Colla | An Island Press book

Few sights are as charming as a hummingbird hovering over cardinal flowers in your backyard or a butterfly lighting on the black-eyed Susans potted on your balcony. Yet pollinators do more than beguile us: they are key to a healthy...

264 pages
8 x 9
4-color illustrations throughout

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