Billionaire Wilderness by Justin Farrell
A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservationBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existential dilemmas they face. Justin Farrell spent five years in Teton County, Wyoming, the richest co-
Privilege
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Interaction Ritual Chains
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On Justification
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Revolution of Things
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The Death and Life of Gentrification
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Marketing Radicalism
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Data-Driven Hollywood
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The Taylorized Beauty of the Mechanical
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The Minds of Marginalized Black Men
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How Civic Action Works
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Disrupting Science
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There Goes the Gayborhood?
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Reds, Whites, and Blues
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Seeing the World
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Reinventing Justice
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Talking Prices
"Winner of the Spur Award for Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of America"
"Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award in Adult Narrative Nonfiction"
"One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 in Business and Leadership"
"Excellent and inspiring"---Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times
"One of the most fascinating and important portraits of modern American life."---Dylan Schleicher, Porchlight
"This is the sort of book you didn’t know you needed until after you pick it up."---Ryan Driskell Tate, Los Angeles Review of Books
"I just ordered the book Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West, on the strength of a recommendation by an architect friend who builds homes for the elite in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I’m only a chapter in, but I’m already fascinated by how conservation can become a way to salve guilt."---Rana Foroohar, Financial Times
"Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award in Adult Narrative Nonfiction"
"One of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 in Business and Leadership"
"Excellent and inspiring"---Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times
"One of the most fascinating and important portraits of modern American life."---Dylan Schleicher, Porchlight
"This is the sort of book you didn’t know you needed until after you pick it up."---Ryan Driskell Tate, Los Angeles Review of Books
"I just ordered the book Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West, on the strength of a recommendation by an architect friend who builds homes for the elite in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I’m only a chapter in, but I’m already fascinated by how conservation can become a way to salve guilt."---Rana Foroohar, Financial Times
Justin Farrell is associate professor of sociology at Yale University in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He is the author of the award-winning book The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict (Princeton). A native of Wyoming, he lives in New Haven and Denver. Website: justinfarrell.org Twitter @J_Farrell
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691176673 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691176671 |
| Title | Billionaire Wilderness |
| Author | Justin Farrell |
| Series | Princeton Studies In Cultural Sociology |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2020-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 392 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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