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The Age of Missing InformationISBN 0452269806 (0-452-26980-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Age of Missing Information'Book summary:"Highly personal and original . . . McKibben goes beyond Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message." -- The New York Times Imagine watching an entire day's worth of television on every single channel. Acclaimed environmental writer and culture critic Bill McKibben subjected himself to this sensory overload in an experiment to verify whether we are truly better informed than previous generations. Bombarded with newscasts and fluff pieces, game shows and talk shows, ads and infomercials, televangelist pleas and Brady Bunch episodes, McKibben processed twenty-four hours of programming on all ninety-three Fairfax, Virginia, cable stations. Then, as a counterpoint, he spent a day atop a quiet and remote mountain in the Adirondacks, exploring the unmediated man and making small yet vital discoveries about himself and the world around him. As relevant now as it was when originally written in 1992-and with new material from the author on the impact of the Internet age-this witty and astute book is certain to change the way you look at television and perceive media as a whole. "By turns humorous, wise, and troubling . . . a penetrating critique of technological society."- Cleveland Plain Dealer "Masterful . . . a unique, bizarre portrait of our life and times." - Los Angeles Times "Do yourself a favor: Put down the remote and pick up this book." - Houston Chronicle From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]
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Birch Browsings: A John Burroughs ReaderISBN 0140170162 (0-14-017016-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of De Long and the JeannetteISBN 0618057013 (0-618-05701-3)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the WorldISBN 0520244389 (0-520-24438-9)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The End of NatureISBN 0140123067 (0-14-012306-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The End of Nature'Book summary:Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth.
This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that the survival of the globe is dependent on a fundamental, philosophical shift in the way we relate to nature is more relevant than ever. McKibben writes of our earth's environmental cataclysm, addressing such core issues as the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and the depletion of the ozone layer. His new introduction addresses some of the latest environmental issues that have risen during the 1990s. The book also includes an invaluable new appendix of facts and figures that surveys the progress of the environmental movement.
More than simply a handbook for survival or a doomsday catalog of scientific prediction, this classic, soulful lament on Nature is required reading for nature enthusiasts, activists, and concerned citizens alike. [via]More editions of The End of Nature:
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Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the EarthISBN 0316560642 (0-316-56064-2)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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Life on the MississippiISBN 0375759379 (0-375-75937-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life on the Mississippi'Book summary:Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twains most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a unique glimpse into Twains life before he began to write.
Written in a prose style that has been hailed as among the greatest in English literature, Life on the Mississippi established Twain as not only the most popular humorist of his time but also Americas most profound chronicler of the human comedy. [via]More editions of Life on the Mississippi:
Long Distance : Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living StrenuouslyISBN 0452282705 (0-452-28270-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Maybe One : A Case for Smaller FamiliesISBN 0452280923 (0-452-28092-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maybe One : A Case for Smaller Families'Book summary:Here's the bottom line according to Bill McKibben: the earth will not be able to sustain its ever increasing population indefinitely. But the population problem is not just a phenomenon of developing nations--the United States is a major environmental threat, gobbling up a huge piece of the resources pie as our numbers grow larger every year. To avoid worldwide catastrophe, McKibben believes that the United States must reduce its birthrate.
Maybe One is more about the concept of having only one child per family, than a sanctimonious sermon on the perils producing more than that lone baby will have on the world. Understandably the implications of overpopulation for the planet's resources isn't something the average American cries into his Cheerios about every morning, but Maybe One argues that we must start thinking about family size and stop thinking of population as an "abstract issue" that has no bearing on our lives. McKibben produces compelling if not controversial arguments for curbing the U.S. population explosion, a population which he believes could grow by at least 50 percent by the year 2050 to possibly 400 million people. That's a lot of mouths to feed, fuel to burn, and waste to dispose! McKibben's arguments are a mixture of the highly personal (he speaks in great detail of his decision to have a vasectomy) to the highly global (McKibben cites scary statistics about the greenhouse effect, species extinction, soil erosion, and food shortages). He is particularly passionate about "only children" and that it really is okay to have just one child, arguing that only children are often more intelligent and confident than their multiple-sibling friends.
Like in The End of Nature an earlier McKibben book concerned with man's catastrophic contribution to the greenhouse effect, McKibben urges us in Maybe One to really think about our relationship with the earth. He writes, "No decision any of us makes will have more effect on the world (and on our lives) than whether to bear another child." Prophetic words, but words many parents will find difficult by which to abide. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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The Mountains of CaliforniaISBN 0375758194 (0-375-75819-4)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mountains of California'Book summary:When John Muir traveled to California in 1868, he found the pristine mountain ranges that would inspire his lifes work. The Mountains of California is the culmination of the ten years Muir spent in the Sierra Nevadas, studying every crag, crook, and valley with great care and contemplation.
Bill McKibben writes in his Introduction that Muir "invents, by sheer force of his love, an entirely new vocabulary and grammar of the wild . . . a language of ecstasy and exuberance."
The Mountains of California is as vibrant and vital today as when it was written over a century ago.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes the photographs and line drawings from the original 1898 edition. [via]More editions of The Mountains of California:
Thoreau on Land: Nature's CanvasISBN 0395953855 (0-395-95385-5)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape Vermont's Champlain valley And New York's AdirondacksISBN 0609610732 (0-609-61073-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Bill McKibben begins his journey atop Vermonts Mt. Abraham, with a stunning view to the west that introduces us to the broad Champlain Valley of Vermont, the expanse of Lake Champlain, and behind it the towering wall of the Adirondacks. In my experience, McKibben tells us, the world contains no finer blend of soil and rock and water and forest than that found in this scene laid out before mea few just as fine, perhaps, but none finer. And no place where the essential human skillscooperation, husbandry, restraintoffer more possibility for competent and graceful inhabitation, for working out the answers that the planet is posing in this age of ecological pinch and social fray.
The region he traverses offers a fine contrast between diverse forms of human habitation and pure wilderness. On the Vermont side, he visits with old friends who are trying to sustain traditional ways of living on the land and to invent new ones, from wineries to biodiesel. After crossing the lake in a rowboat, he backpacks south for ten days through the vast Adirondack woods. As he walks, he contemplates the questions that he first began to raise in his groundbreaking meditation on climate change, The End of Nature: What constitutes the natural? How much human intervention can a place stand before it loses its essence? What does it mean for a place to be truly wild?
Wandering Home is a wise and hopeful book that enables us to better understand these questions and our place in the natural world. It also represents some of the best nature writing McKibben has ever done. [via]More editions of Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape Vermont's Champlain valley And New York's Adirondacks:
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The Wild Within : Adventures in Nature and Animal TeachingsISBN 0425171574 (0-425-17157-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wild Within : Adventures in Nature and Animal Teachings'Book summary:The story of Paul Rezendes's spiritual journey began when he was leader of a motorcycle gang (i.e., a Devil's Disciple). His dangerous life of narcotics and guns eventually caught up with him and he and his wife found themselves in trouble with the law. His legal hassles gave him the perfect excuse to back out of the gang; thus he reneged on his lifelong commitment. (Apparently, motorcycle gangs are a lot like the Mafia; he muses, "You better have a damn good reason to leave.") From then on Rezendes began a furtive spiritual quest that led him into the woods, following the paw and hoof prints of wild animals.
Like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Rezendes teaches the art of animal tracking and stalking, all the while making the link to the clean, observant Zen mind. "Stalking meditation demands that we pay full attention to every footfall, every breath, every sound we make, each nuance of landscape, wind, humidity," he writes. "Stalking gives us the opportunity to move away from the tiny perspective of thought and self into all-encompassing awareness." Rezendes, a renowned teacher of seminars and workshops, uses personal tracking stories to emphasize the importance of focused observation. But more importantly, his storytelling challenges readers to be spiritually accountable in the wild as well as everyday life.--Gail Hudson [via]
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