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John Pitt
USA by Rail, Bradt, 2005, (338 pages, $21.95)
- Sixth edition includes profiles of 25 long-distance train journeys, advice on buying tickets and a history of railways in the United States.
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Ginger Adams Otis
New York Encounter, Lonely Planet, 2007, (288 pages)
- Discover twice the city in half the time.

Beth Greenfield, Robet Reid and Ginger Adams Otis
New York City Guide, Lonely Planet, 2006 (440 pages, $19.99)

Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokes
America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked, Times Books, 2006 ($25, 288 pages)
- This book is a summary of an extensive Pew Research Center survey that polled more than 91,000 people in 50 nations to review attitudes toward the United States. The unsettling news is that world opinion of Usians has plummeted over the past few years.

John Perkins
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Berret-Koehler, 2006
($24.95, 264 pages)
- Perkins' confession is that as a economic consultant he cooked the books to convince foreign governments to accept billions of dollars of loans from the World Bank and other institutions to invest in infrastructure that he knew they couldn't afford. The story lacks critical details, but it is a book worth reading, particularly as development institutions promote the cause of "sustainability" without much-needed transparency and public reviews.
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Mark Dowie
Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century, MIT Press, 1995
- Demonstrates how national and international environmental groups have lost touch with local environmentalists. This book has a good review of NAFTA and politics in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Mark Dowie
American Foundations MIT Press, 2001
- The author conducted more than 200 interviews with foundation officers, critics, and grant recipients in addition to extensive research in foundation archives to assess the status of foundations. His assessment that organized philanthropy has been "slow to see problems coming, slow to respond, and quick to justify every decision" is accompanied by a series of suggestions on how to make reforms.

Herbert Hiller
Highway A1A , University Press of Florida, 2005 (445 pages, $24.95)
- One of our favorite writers details the ongoing transformation of Florida at the Edge

Holly Ambrose
30 Eco Trips in Florida, University Press of Florida, 2005 (348 pages, $19.95)
- The publisher of EcoFlorida shares her intimate knowledge of Florida's wilder side.

Barbara Spring
The Dynamic Great Lakes, Baltimore: AmErica House, 2001
- Recommended collection of essays about the Great Lakes, formed by Ice Age glaciers. The author writes: "The Great Lakes system is a treasure. Understanding understanding the dynamics of what we do is essential to these life-giving waters."
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Julian Smith
Four Corners , Avalon Publications, 2003
- One of our favorites! This book provides tips for traveling in the Southwestern corner of the Untied States. Beautiful maps!

George C. Fraser
Journeys in the Canyon Lands, University of Arizona Press, 2005 (225 pages, $19.95)
- Memoir of remote landscapes in Utah and Arizona

Ron Morton and Carl Cawboy
Talking Rocks, Pfeifer-Hamilton, 2000
- Subtitled 'Geology and 10,000 Years of Native American Tradition in the Lake Superior Region,' this book is a fictionalized dialogue between a Native American elder and a geologist. In telling the shared history of the region, the two men discover many commonalties between science and religion. This is a creative and spell-binding tale.

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