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Grand Canyon For Sale is a carefully researched investigation of the precarious future of America's public lands: our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and wildernesses. Taking the Grand Canyon as his key example, and using on-the-ground reporting as well as scientific research, Stephen Nash shows how accelerating climate change will dislocate wildlife populations and vegetation across hundreds of thousands of square miles of the national landscape. In addition, a growing political movement, well financed and occasionally violent, is fighting to break up these federal lands and return them to state, local, and private control. That scheme would foreclose the future for many wild species, which are part of our irreplaceable natural heritage, and also would devastate our national parks, forests, and other public lands. To safeguard wildlife and their habitats, it is essential to consolidate protected areas and prioritize natural systems over mining, grazing, drilling, and logging. Grand Canyon For Sale provides an excellent overview of the physical and biological challenges facing public lands. The book also exposes and shows how to combat the political activity that threatens these places in the U.S. today.

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Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have them and had married their father first? Why do so many poor American youth like Millie continue to have children before they can afford to take care of them? Over a span of five years, sociologists Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas talked in-depth with 162 low-income single moms like Millie to learn how they think about marriage and family. Promises I Can Keep offers an intimate look at what marriage and motherhood mean to these women and provides the most extensive on-the-ground study to date of why they put children before marriage despite the daunting challenges they know lie ahead.

Unmarried mothers --- Low-income single mothers --- Poor single mothers --- Low-income mothers --- Single mothers --- Unwed mothers --- Illegitimate children --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Unmarried mothers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.. --- Low-income single mothers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. --- being a single parent. --- children out of wedlock. --- cost of caring for a child. --- daunting challenges. --- low-income single mom. --- marriage and family. --- marriage. --- on the ground study. --- philadelphia pennsylvania. --- political awareness. --- single mothers. --- social activism. --- socioeconomic boundaries. --- sociologist. --- struggling single women. --- unwed mothers.