How are communities uniting against fracking and tar sands to change our energy future? Working across Lines offers a detailed comparative analysis of climate justice coalitions in California and Idaho—two states with distinct fossil fuel histories, environmental contexts, and political cultures. Drawing on ethnographic evidence from 106 in-depth interviews and three years of participant observation, Corrie Grosse investigates the ways people build effective energy justice coalitions across differences in political views, race and ethnicity, age, and strategic preferences. This book argues for four practices that are critical for movement building: focusing on core values of justice, accountability, and integrity; identifying the roots of injustice; cultivating relationships among activists; and welcoming difference. In focusing on coalitions related to energy and climate justice, Grosse provides important models for bridging divides to reach common goals. These lessons are more relevant than ever.

During Covid, Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Film Festival and the book's author Roger Durling recommended films to the community of followers of the legendary festival. His insights into each film were often reflections on what was happening around us. Over 100 of his reviews are featured in this anthology along with the complete listing of each film selected and the correlating historical events that sparked his choices."I see the collection as a commemoration of cinema and this period in our lives in which we were forced to pause - and deal with vicissitudes we never imagined we would ever have to grapple with. I see this book as a celebration of how the art of cinema can give hope. We were given time to be introspective and reevaluate life as we knew it. I see cinema as a conduit to allow you to do that."

Part memoir, part inspiration, and part celebration of life's ups and downs-Aging in High Heels is Beverlye Hyman Fead's thoughtful take on the "New Old." With humor, she draws on her personal feelings and experiences as a woman who grew up in California.