MAYJUNE 2018 | MOTHER JONES 19Global Gay
How Gay Culture
Is Changing the World
By Frédéric Martel
A panoramic view of gay
rights, gay life, and the
gay experience around
the world.
$27.95The Walls Have
the Floor
Mural Journal, May '68
Edited by Julien Besançon
The graffiti of the French
student and worker uprising
of May 1968, capturing par-
ticipatory politics in action.
$14.95Trump and the
Media
Edited by
Pablo J. Boczkowski
and Zizi Papacharissi
The election of Donald Trump
and the great disruption in
the news and social media.
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Global Warming
and the Sweetness
of Life
A Tar Sands Tale
By Matt Hern and
Am Johal
Seeking new definitions of
ecology in the tar sands of
northern Alberta and search-
ing for the sweetness of life in
the face of planetary crises.
$19.95Taming the Sun
Innovations to Harness
Solar Energy and Power
the Planet
By Varun Sivaram
How solar could spark a
clean-energy transition
through transformative in-
novation—creative financing,
revolutionary technologies,
and flexible energy systems.
“Varun Sivaram takes us
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energy innovation. He’s an
optimist, but a realistic one:
he knows time is running
short for the public and
private sectors to join forces.
Taming the Sun is a must-
read look into the limitless po-
tential of an energy source as
timeless as the sun that may
very well save the earth.”
—John F. Kerry, 68th U.S.
Secretary of State
$29.95How The World
Swung Right
Fifty Years of
Counterrevolutions
By François Cusset
An examination of the reac-
tionary, individualist, cynical,
and belligerent shift in global
politics to the right, imple-
mented both by the right and
the establishment left.
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