The University of Akron Press Series on Technology and the Environment, edited by Stephen H. Cutcliffe seeks manuscripts that focus on the intersection of environmental history and the history of technology. Members of the special interest group, Envirotech, are particularly encouraged to submit their ms. or contact the Editor with questions.
Previously published volumes in [...]

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Is anyone here doing research, or working with, the United Nations’
Millennium Development Goals?
Luis
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The Vol. 3, No. 11, November 2007 issue of the
Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence (SSNV) Research Newsletter http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv03n11.html
has been posted. The focus this month is the question:
“IF NOT THE MDGs, THEN WHAT?”
Table of contents:
RESEARCH REPORT & MONTHLY DIGEST
1. Global News & Emerging Issues
2. Negative [...]

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The new book The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century by Clay McShane and Joel Tarr is now available from Johns Hopkins University Press. Read about it here.
The Horse in the City: Living Machines in the Nineteenth Century

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Thomas Zeller has co-edited with Christof Mauch two new books of interest for envirotechies:

The World beyond the Windshield: Roads and Landscapes in the United States and Europe (Ohio University Press, 2007). Click here for more details about the book from the publisher.
Rivers of History: Designing and Conceiving Waterways in Europe and North America (Pittsburgh: [...]

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