At a time when climate-change deniers hold the reins of power in the United States and international greenhouse gas negotiations continue at a slow crawl, what options are available to cities, companies, and consumers around the world who seek a cleaner future? Scott Victor Valentine, Marilyn A. Brown, and Benjamin K. Sovacool explore developments and strategies that will help fast-track the transition to renewable energy. They provide an expert analysis of the achievable steps that citizens, organizational leaders, and policy makers can take to put their commitments to sustainability into practice. Empowering the Great Energy Transition examines trends that suggest a transition away from carbon-intensive energy sources is inevitable―there are too many forces for change at work to stop a shift to clean energy. Yet under the status quo, change will be too slow to avert the worst consequences of climate change. Humanity is on a path to incur avoidable social, environmental, and economic costs. Valentine, Brown, and Sovacool argue that new policies and business models are needed to surmount the hurdles separating the current consumption model from a sustainable energy future. Empowering the Great Energy Transition shows that with well-placed efforts, we can set humanity on a course that supports entrepreneurs and communities in mitigating the environmental harm caused by technologies whose time has come and gone.

Empowering the Great Energy Transition: Policy for a Low-Carbon Future

Science & Math

Brown, Marilyn

Valentine, Scott

Sovacool, Benjamin

Earth Sciences

Columbia University Press

Having suffered and survived the ravages of tuberculosis, Oklahoma natives Ed and Lillie Brown are determined to stay healthy and raise their children. But the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression have left them nearly destitute. Leaving friends, family, and everything familiar behind, they pack up their children and belongings and make the long journey to Mojave, California, in hopes of finding better health and a better life. The family begins anew in the fresh air of the desert. The children are able to play for hours in their huge backyard, Ed finds a good job working in the mines, and Lillie even learns how to drive. Even more wonderful, Lillie's health begins to improve. When World War II starts, the young children try not to let the war bother them, and five-year-old Charles and his friends have one adventure after another. Tunneling into old mine shafts and surviving a wild mustang stampede break the monotony of the restless atmosphere created by the war and leave the Brown family with cherished memories for years to come. Route 66 to Mojave: A Memoir delivers an unvarnished look at life during the Depression and World War II. The Brown family's triumphs and heartaches create a timeless story, brimming with human emotion.

Route 66 to Mojave: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

iUniverse

Provo is one of Utah’s oldest historic sites. Still a medium-sized town, it has kept its pristine antique quality, its quaint buildings, and its relaxed atmosphere, which won it the title “Most Stressless City of the Nation” according to the 2004 Sperling list. Building on faith, dedication, and hard work, early citizens faced settlement challenges to form a sensible government, establish Brigham Young University, and generate devoted intellectuals who made great strides in their fields. It is Provo people who began WordPerfect, helped invent television, and established Novell, NuSkin, and other national companies. Boasting a picturesque collection of buildings, Provo still maintains high standards, a strong work ethic, and a profound commitment toward industrial progress and technology.

Provo (Images of America)

Arts & Photography

Holladay, Valerie

Photography & Video

Arcadia Publishing

The first comprehensive publication exploring the life and art of pioneering American abstract artist Alice Trumbull Mason is perfect for audiences eager to discover unsung yet brilliantly talented women artists. A groundbreaking artist, Alice Trumbull Mason (1904-1971) was one of the earliest painters of the twentieth century to embrace abstract painting in America. Mason's early paintings have been compared to those of Gorky, Kandinsky, and Miró, and in 1936 she became a founding member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) and one of its leaders in the promotion of abstract work by artists such as Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt, Piet Mondrian, and many others. Mason was a true artist's artist whose efforts helped lead to the great movements of later twentieth-century art, such as Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Post-Modernism, and Conceptual Art. Alice Trumbull Mason features essays that illuminate and contextualize the artist's multifaceted work and personal life through her paintings, prints, poetry, and letters. The book reveals the full life story of a seminal abstractionist, making a sound argument for adding her to the annals of great twentieth-century artists.

Alice Trumbull Mason: Pioneer of American Abstraction

Weyl, Christina

Almino, Elisa Wouk

Heinrich, Will

Micchelli, Thomas

History & Criticism

Rizzoli Electa

What happens when the forces of jealousy and greed break a nation into factions? History proves a broken country weakens, and may come undone. Fires of Jerusalem is a novel that explores the breakdown of Jerusalem, and tells why Urijah, Lehi, Jeremiah--and many more--tried to leave it.

Fires of Jerusalem

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Bentley Enterprises

Provo is one of Utah's oldest historic sites. Still a medium-sized town, it has kept its pristine antique quality, its quaint buildings, and its relaxed atmosphere, which won it the title "Most Stressless City of the Nation" according to the 2004 Sperling list. Building on faith, dedication, and hard work, early citizens faced settlement challenges to form a sensible government, establish Brigham Young University, and generate devoted intellectuals who made great strides in their fields. It is Provo people who began WordPerfect, helped invent television, and established Novell, NuSkin, and other national companies. Boasting a picturesque collection of buildings, Provo still maintains high standards, a strong work ethic, and a profound commitment toward industrial progress and technology.

Provo

History

Americas

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

They believed they had left their fears behind. They traveled over fifteen hundred miles to escape persecution, only to find their hard-won peace threatened by the U.S. Army, as well as their old enemies from Missouri. 
 What happened in the Mountain Meadows on that day in September of 1857 may never be fully understood, but author Marilyn Brown skillfully and sensitively evokes the layers of tragedy surrounding a people and place forever scarred by a brief moment in history. 
After the horror of Haun’s Mill and Carthage, they thought they had found peace in their small community in southern Utah. But the nightmare of the Mountain Meadows Massacre still lay ahead. And its shadow would haunt them for the rest of their lives. 
-For Elizabeth, who lost her family during the westward trek and loved a man beyond her reach- and perhaps beyond heaven’s as well. 
-For Jacob, who knew he would love one particular woman forever. 
-For John Lee, whose reluctant obedience would shadow his name, his life, and the lives of his descendants for generations to come.

The Wine-Dark Sea of Grass [Hardcover] Brown, Marilyn

Contemporary

Cedar Fort

"I heard you talking about the tree," Aunt Selby said. "Remember, I told you I have a Christmas tree somewhere in the house," Selby said. "I wanted to tell you where it was, but I haven't put it up the last few years. So I've forgotten where it was. You are welcome to look for it. I made it when Seymour died, and I've used it every year. It's made out of macaroni." 
When the Callister family from Christmas at the M&amp;M are reunited with their father right before Christmas, the first thing they want to do is buy a Christmas tree. Before they can buy one, they are called to the home of their elderly aunt, Selby Blue. 
Aunt Selby asks the family to move in and take care of her. The children are ecstatic at the thought of living in the run-down mansion, but are shocked to hear that Selby Blue is allergic to pine needles and they can't get a Christmas tree. She tells the children that if they can find it, they can use a tree she had made out of macaroni. 
As the children search for the tree, Aunt Veronica arrives, demanding that the mansion should be hers. With angry aunts, a cousin who eats all of the Christmas cookies, and a ghost in the attic, will it be the Callister's merriest Christmas ever, or the craziest? The "Macaroni Christmas Tree" just might hold the key.

The Macaroni Christmas Tree

Clara Franklin has been ill since birth. Her parents keep her shut away from the world to protect her, but their efforts are keeping her in her fragile state. Her condition seems hopeless until two distant relatives come for Christmas, and bring with them a special nutcracker—one that could be the answer to Clara’s prayers.

The Merry Nutcracker

Children's Books

Bonneville Books

Gardens are one of the most important elements in the cultural history of Scotland. Like any art form, they provide an insight into social, political and economic fashions, they intimately reflect the personalities and ideals of the individuals who created them, and they capture the changing fortunes of successive generations of monarchs and noblemen. Yet they remain fragile features of the landscape, easily changed, abandoned or destroyed, leaving little or no trace. In Scotland's Lost Gardens, author Marilyn Brown rediscovers the fascinating stories of the nation's vanished historic gardens. Drawing on varied, rare and newly available archive material, including the cartography of Timothy Pont, a spy map of Holyrood drawn for Henry VIII during the 'Rough Wooing', medieval charters, renaissance poetry, the Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer; and modern aerial photography, a remarkable picture emerges of centuries of lost landscapes. Starting with the monastic gardens of St Columba on the Isle of Iona in the sixth century, and encompassing the pleasure parks of James IV and James V, the royal and noble refuges of Mary Queen of Scots, and the 'King's Knot', the garden masterpiece which lies below Stirling Castle, the history of lost gardens is inextricably linked to the wider history of the nation, from the spread of Christianity to the Reformation and the Union of the Crowns. The product of over thirty years of research, Scotland's Lost Gardens demonstrates how our cultural heritage sits within a wider European movement of shared artistic values and literary influences. Providing a unique perspective on this common past, it is also a fascinating guide to Scotland's disappeared landscapes and sanctuaries - lost gardens laid out many hundreds of years ago "for the honourable delight of body and soul".

Scotland's Lost Gardens: From the Garden of Eden to the Stewart Palaces

Rcahms

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