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American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in Californiaby James N. GregoryISBN 0195071360 (0-19-507136-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California'Book summary:Fifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west to California by dust storms, drought, and economic hardship. It was a story that generations of Americans have also come to know through Dorothea Lange's unforgettable photos of migrant families struggling to make a living in Depression-torn California. Now in James N. Gregory's pathbreaking American Exodus, there is at last an historical study that moves beyond the fiction of the 1930s to uncover the full meaning of these events.
American Exodus takes us back to the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and the war boom influx of the 1940s to explore the experiences of the more than one million Oklahomans, Arkansans, Texans, and Missourians who sought opportunities in California. Gregory reaches into the migrants' lives to reveal not only their economic trials but also their impact on California's culture and society. He traces the development of an "Okie subculture" that over the years has grown into an essential element in California's cultural landscape.
Gregory vividly depicts how Southwesterners brought with them on their journey west an allegiance to evangelical Protestantism, "plain-folk American" values, and a love of country music. These values gave Okies an expanding cultural presence their new home. In their neighborhoods, often called "Little Oklahomas," they created a community of churches and saloons, of church-goers and good-old-boys, mixing stern-minded religious thinking with hard-drinking irreverence. Today, Baptist and Pentecostal churches abound in this region, and from Gene Autry, "Oklahoma's singing cowboy," to Woody Guthrie, Bob Wills, and Merle Haggard, the special concerns of Southwesterners have long dominated the country music industry in California. The legacy of the Dust Bowl migration can also be measured in political terms. Throughout California and especially in the San Joaquin Valley Okies have implanted their own brand of populist conservatism.
The consequences reach far beyond California. The Dust Bowl migration was part of a larger heartland diaspora that has sent millions of Southerners and rural Midwesterners to the nation's northern and western industrial perimeter. American Exodus is the first book to examine the cultural implications of that massive 20th-century population shift. In this rich account of the experiences and impact of these migrant heartlanders, Gregory fills an important gap in recent American social history. [via]More editions of American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California:
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The American Family Farm: A Photo Essayby George Ancona, Joan AndersonISBN 0152030255 (0-15-203025-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt Children's Books
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Anna Kareninaby Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, Louise Shanks MaudeISBN 0192833812 (0-19-283381-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:Some people say Anna Karenina is the single greatest novel ever written, which makes about as much sense to me as trying to determine the world's greatest color. But there is no doubt that Anna Karenina, generally considered Tolstoy's best book, is definitely one ripping great read. Anna, miserable in her loveless marriage, does the barely thinkable and succumbs to her desires for the dashing Vronsky. I don't want to give away the ending, but I will say that 19th-century Russia doesn't take well to that sort of thing. [via]
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Anna Kareninaby Richard Pevear, Leo Tolstoy, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0142000272 (0-14-200027-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina'Book summary:"Anna Karenina" tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness. While previous versions have softened the robust, and sometimes shocking, quality of Tolstoy's writing, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. This award-winning team's authoritative edition also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this "Anna Karenina" will be the definitive text for generations to come.
"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English, and their superb rendering allows us, as perhaps never before, to grasp the palpability of Tolstoy's 'characters, acts, situations.'" (James Wood, "The New Yorker") [via]More editions of Anna Karenina:
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Anna Karenina: Oprah #5by Leo TolstoyISBN 0143035002 (0-14-303500-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anna Karenina: Oprah #5'Book summary:[via]The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written, soon to be a film adapted by Tom Stoppard and starring Kiera Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Johnson, and Emily Watson
Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as flawless, Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.
While previous versions have softened the robust, and sometimes shocking, quality of Tolstoy's writing, Pevear and Volokhonsky have produced a translation true to his powerful voice. This authoritative edition, which received the PEN Translation Prize and was an Oprah Book Club" selection, also includes an illuminating introduction and explanatory notes. Beautiful, vigorous, and eminently readable, this Anna Karenina will be the definitive text for fans of the film and generations to come.More editions of Anna Karenina: Oprah #5:
The Art of Blacksmithingby Alex W. BealerISBN 0308102541 (0-308-10254-1)
Hardcover, Funk & Wagnalls
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Australian Space, Australian Time: Geographical Perspectivesby Michael Williams, J.M. PowellISBN 0195504569 (0-19-550456-9)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption, And Environmental Change in Honduras And the United Statesby John SoluriISBN 0292712561 (0-292-71256-1)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Bees:Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Language: Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Languageby Karl Von FrischISBN 0224613006 (0-224-61300-6)
Hardcover, Cape
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Changing Works: Visions of a Lost Agricultureby Douglas A. HarperISBN 0226317226 (0-226-31722-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America's Favorite Foodby Steve StrifflerISBN 0300095295 (0-300-09529-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grassby Gary Paulsen, Ruth Wright PaulsenISBN 0151181012 (0-15-118101-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass'Book summary:Paulsen captures a vanishing way of life and offers a lyrical tribute to the american farm. Paulsens prose is realistic and down-to-earth....Ruth Wright Paulsens paintings are an invitation to pause and imagine...a delight (Christian Science Monitor). Illustrations by Ruth Wright Paulsen.[via]More editions of Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass:
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Clearingby Wendell BerryISBN 0156180510 (0-15-618051-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clearing'Book summary:A sequence of poems in which Berry writes of the land he and his wife hold in trust--a farm they have tended for years and a new homestead they recently rescued from ecological disaster. [via]
Climates of Hunger: Mankind and the World's Changing Weatherby Ernest Glen WeverISBN 0299073742 (0-299-07374-2)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Climates of Hunger: Mankind and the World's Changing Weatherby Reid A. BrysonISBN 029907370X (0-299-07370-X)
Hardcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeedby Jared DiamondISBN 0143036556 (0-14-303655-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed'Book summary:Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart. Not every collapse has an environmental origin, but an eco-meltdown is often the main catalyst, he argues, particularly when combined with society's response to (or disregard for) the coming disaster. Still, right from the outset of Collapse, the author makes clear that this is not a mere environmentalist's diatribe. He begins by setting the book's main question in the small communities of present-day Montana as they face a decline in living standards and a depletion of natural resources. Once-vital mines now leak toxins into the soil, while prion diseases infect some deer and elk and older hydroelectric dams have become decrepit. On all these issues, and particularly with the hot-button topic of logging and wildfires, Diamond writes with equanimity.
Because he's addressing such significant issues within a vast span of time, Diamond can occasionally speak too briefly and assume too much, and at times his shorthand remarks may cause careful readers to raise an eyebrow. But in general, Diamond provides fine and well-reasoned historical examples, making the case that many times, economic and environmental concerns are one and the same. With Collapse, Diamond hopes to jog our collective memory to keep us from falling for false analogies or forgetting prior experiences, and thereby save us from potential devastations to come. While it might seem a stretch to use medieval Greenland and the Maya to convince a skeptic about the seriousness of global warming, it's exactly this type of cross-referencing that makes Collapse so compelling. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492by Alfred W. Crosby, Otto Von Mering, John Robert McNeillISBN 0275980928 (0-275-98092-8)
Softcover, Praeger Pub Text
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Controversies in Science and Technology: From Maize to Menopauseby Daniel Kleinman, Jo Handelsman, Abby J. KinchyISBN 0299203905 (0-299-20390-5)
Hardcover, University of Wisconsin Press
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The Controversy over Capitalism: Studies in the Social Philosophy of the Russian Populistsby Andrzej WalickiISBN 0268007705 (0-268-00770-5)
Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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Cultivating Crisis: The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin Americaby Douglas L. MurrayISBN 0292751699 (0-292-75169-9)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Dead Soulsby Bernard G. Guerney, Susanne Fusso, Nikolai Vasilevich GogolISBN 0300060998 (0-300-06099-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:A socially adept newcomer fluidly inserts himself into an unnamed Russian town, conquering first the drinkers, then the dignitaries. All find him amiable, estimable, agreeable. But what exactly is Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov up to?--something that will soon throw the town "into utter perplexity."
After more than a week of entertainment and "passing the time, as they say, very pleasantly," he gets down to business--heading off to call on some landowners. More pleasantries ensue before Chichikov reveals his bizarre plan. He'd like to buy the souls of peasants who have died since the last census. The first landowner looks carefully to see if he's mad, but spots no outward signs. In fact, the scheme is innovative but by no means bonkers. Even though Chichikov will be taxed on the supposed serfs, he will be able to count them as his property and gain the reputation of a gentleman owner. His first victim is happy to give up his souls for free--less tax burden for him. The second, however, knows Chichikov must be up to something, and the third has his servants rough him up. Nonetheless, he prospers.
Dead Souls is a feverish anatomy of Russian society (the book was first published in 1842) and human wiles. Its author tosses off thousands of sublime epigrams--including, "However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man," and is equally adept at yearning satire: "Where is he," Gogol interrupts the action, "who, in the native tongue of our Russian soul, could speak to us this all-powerful word: forward? who, knowing all the forces and qualities, and all the depths of our nature, could, by one magic gesture, point the Russian man towards a lofty life?" Flannery O'Connor, another writer of dark genius, declared Gogol "necessary along with the light." Though he was hardly the first to envision property as theft, his blend of comic, fantastic moralism is sui generis.--Kerry Fried [via]
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Dead Soulsby Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Christopher EnglishISBN 0192818376 (0-19-281837-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Souls'Book summary:Gogol's tale of a dismissed civil servant turned unscrupulous confidence man is the most essentially Russian of all the great novels in Russian literature. With its rich and ebullient language, ironic twists, and cast of comedic characters, Dead Souls (1842) stands as one of the most dazzling and poetic masterpieces of the nineteenth century. This brilliant new translation by Christopher English is complemented by a superb introductory essay by the pre-eminent Gogol scholar, Robert Maguire. [via]
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The Death of Ramon Gonzalez: The Modern Agricultural Dilemmaby Angus WrightISBN 0292715668 (0-292-71566-8)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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Domestication of Plants in the Old World: The Origin and Spread of Cultivated Plants in West Asia, Europe, and the Nile Valleyby Daniel Zohary, Maria HopfISBN 0198503563 (0-19-850356-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agricultureby Craig CanineISBN 0226092658 (0-226-09265-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Eclogues and Georgicsby VirgilISBN 0192816438 (0-19-281643-8)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The English Cottage Gardenby Andrew Lawson, Jane TaylorISBN 0297835068 (0-297-83506-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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English Herb Gardensby Guy Cooper, Gordon Taylor, Clive BoursnellISBN 0297791311 (0-297-79131-1)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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The English Rural Landscapeby Joan ThirskISBN 019866219X (0-19-866219-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Productionby Vaclav SmilISBN 0262693135 (0-262-69313-5)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Environmental Management in Australia, 1788-1914: Guardians, Improvers and Profit An Introductory Surveyby Joseph Michael PowellISBN 019550478X (0-19-550478-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Essential Earth Gardenby Keith Smith, Irene SmithISBN 0170061191 (0-17-006119-1)
Softcover, Nelson
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The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretationby Avner OfferISBN 0198202792 (0-19-820279-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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French Roots in the Illinois Country: The Mississippi Frontier in Colonial Timesby Carl J. EkbergISBN 0252069242 (0-252-06924-2)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concordby Brian DonahueISBN 0300097514 (0-300-09751-4)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Guerra Y Pazby Leo N. Tolstoy, Gala Arias RubioISBN 0307273911 (0-307-27391-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guerra Y Paz'Book summary:The well-known works of literature in this series constitute the most valuable treasures of universal literature. The affordably priced imitation leather bound books enhance any library, putting the works of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy within everyone's reach.[via]More editions of Guerra Y Paz:
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famineby Robert ConquestISBN 0195051807 (0-19-505180-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine'Book summary:The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and collectivization, the abolition of private ownership of land and the concentration of the remaining peasants in party-controlled "collective" farms. This was followed in 1932-33 by a "terror-famine," inflicted by the State on the collectivized peasants of the Ukraine and certain other areas by setting impossibly high grain quotas, removing every other source of food, and preventing help from outside--even from other areas of the Soviet Union--from reaching the starving populace. The death toll resulting from the actions described in this book was an estimated 14.5 million--more than the total number of deaths for all countries in World War I.
Ambitious, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, The Harvest of Sorrow is a deeply moving testament to those who died, and will register in the Western consciousness a sense of the dark side of this century's history. [via]More editions of The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine:
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Horse Sense for People: Using the Gentle Wisdom of the Join-Up Technique to Enrich Our Relationships at Home and at Workby Monty RobertsISBN 0142000973 (0-14-200097-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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In Dubious Battleby John Steinbeck, Warren G. FrenchISBN 0143039636 (0-14-303963-6)
Softcover, Penguin Classics
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The Jungleby Upton Beall SinclairISBN 014303958X (0-14-303958-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Jungleby James R. Barrett, Upton Beall SinclairISBN 0252014944 (0-252-01494-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The Limits of Hope: Soldier Settlement in Victoria 1915-38by Marilyn LakeISBN 0195546660 (0-19-554666-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Making of the Awuby John MerrittISBN 0195546679 (0-19-554667-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Making Rural Australia: An Economic History of Technical and Institutional Creativity, 1788-1860by Geoff RabyISBN 0195534204 (0-19-553420-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Namibby David Coulson, Barney WanISBN 0283999608 (0-283-99960-8)
Hardcover, Sidgwick & Jackson
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Nature in the Round: A Guide to Environmental Scienceby Nigel CalderISBN 0297765973 (0-297-76597-3)
Hardcover, Wedenfeld [sic] & Nicolson
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No Paradise for Workers: Capitalism and the Common People in Australia, 1788-1914by K. D. Buckley, E. L. WheelwrightISBN 0195546210 (0-19-554621-0)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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The Oxford History of the American Westby Carol A. O'Connor, Clyde A. Milner, Martha A. SandweissISBN 0195112121 (0-19-511212-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Piers Plowman: A New Translation of the B-Textby William Langland, A.V.C. SchmidtISBN 0192836463 (0-19-283646-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Public Lands of Australia Felix: Settlement and Land Appraisal in Victoria 1834-91 with Special Reference to the Western Plainsby J.M. PowellISBN 0195503406 (0-19-550340-6)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Placeby Wes Jackson, William VitekISBN 0300069618 (0-300-06961-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917by Elizabeth SandersISBN 0226734773 (0-226-73477-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers, and the American State, 1877-1917'Book summary:Roots of Reform offers a sweeping revision of our understanding of the rise of the regulatory state in the late nineteenth century. Sanders argues that politically mobilized farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control over private economic power. She demonstrates that farmers from the South, Midwest, and West reached out to the urban laborers who shared their class position and their principal antagonistnortheastern monopolistic industrial and financial capitaldespite weak electoral support from organized labor.[via]
Based on new evidence from legislative records and other sources, Sanders shows that this tenuous alliance of "producers versus plutocrats" shaped early regulatory legislation, remained powerful through the populist and progressive eras, and developed a characteristic method of democratic state expansion with continued relevance for subsequent reform movements.
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A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservationby Aldo Leopold, Michael SewellISBN 0195146174 (0-19-514617-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation'Book summary:Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, "in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.... I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." Leopold's road-to-Damascus change of view would find its fruit some years later in his so-called land ethic, in which he held that nothing that disturbs the balance of nature is right. Much of Almanac elaborates on this basic premise, as well as on Leopold's view that it is something of a human duty to preserve as much wild land as possible, as a kind of bank for the biological future of all species. Beautifully written, quiet, and elegant, Leopold's book deserves continued study and discussion today. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and Thereby Aldo Leopold, Charles W. SchwartzISBN 019505928X (0-19-505928-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There'Book summary:Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, "in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.... I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." Leopold's road-to-Damascus change of view would find its fruit some years later in his so-called land ethic, in which he held that nothing that disturbs the balance of nature is right. Much of Almanac elaborates on this basic premise, as well as on Leopold's view that it is something of a human duty to preserve as much wild land as possible, as a kind of bank for the biological future of all species. Beautifully written, quiet, and elegant, Leopold's book deserves continued study and discussion today. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round Riverby Aldo LeopoldISBN 0195007778 (0-19-500777-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River'Book summary:Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, "in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.... I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." Leopold's road-to-Damascus change of view would find its fruit some years later in his so-called land ethic, in which he held that nothing that disturbs the balance of nature is right. Much of Almanac elaborates on this basic premise, as well as on Leopold's view that it is something of a human duty to preserve as much wild land as possible, as a kind of bank for the biological future of all species. Beautifully written, quiet, and elegant, Leopold's book deserves continued study and discussion today. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round Riverby Aldo LeopoldISBN 0195006194 (0-19-500619-4)
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failedby James ScottISBN 0300078153 (0-300-07815-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed'Book summary:James C. Scott's research for this book began with an examination of the tensions between state authorities and various "unstable" individuals throughout history, from hunter-gatherer tribes to Gypsies to the homeless. He soon became fascinated, however, by the recurring patterns of failure and authoritarianism in certain social engineering programs aimed at bringing such people fully into the state's fold. Soviet collectivization, the Maoist Great Leap Forward, the precisely planned city of Brasilia--these and other projects around the world, while deeply ambitious, extracted immeasurable tolls on the people they were designed to help.
One of the most important common factors that Scott found in these schemes is what he refers to as a high modernist ideology. In simplest terms, it is an extremely firm belief that progress can and will make the world a better place. But "scientific" theories about the betterment of life often fail to take into account "the indispensable role of practical knowledge, informal processes, and improvisation in the face of unpredictability" that Scott views as essential to an effective society. What high modernism lacks is metis, a Greek word which Scott translates as "the knowledge that can only come from practical experience." Although metis is closely related to the concept of "mutuality" found in the anarchist writings of, among others, Kropotkin and Bakunin, Scott is careful to emphasize that he is not advocating the abolition of the state or championing a complete reliance on natural "truth." He merely recognizes that some types of states can initiate programs which jeopardize the well-being of all their subjects.
Although the collapse of most socialist governments might lead one to believe that Seeing Like a State is old news, Scott's analysis should prove extremely useful to those considering the effects of global capitalism on local communities. [via]
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Small Is Possibleby George McRobieISBN 0224018582 (0-224-01858-2)
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Squashedby Joan BauerISBN 0142404268 (0-14-240426-8)
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Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Partsby Richard PeckISBN 0142405078 (0-14-240507-8)
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Tess of the D'Urbervillesby Thomas Hardy, Simon Gatrell, Juliet GrindleISBN 0192818260 (0-19-281826-0)
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Tess Of The d'Urbervillesby Simon Gatrell, Penny Boumelha, Juliet Grindle, Thomas HardyISBN 019284069X (0-19-284069-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tess Of The d'Urbervilles'Book summary:Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered true love and happiness, but her past catches up with her and she faces an agonizing moral choice.
Hardy's indictment of society's double standards, and his depiction of Tess as "a pure woman," caused controversy in his day and has held the imagination of readers ever since. Hardy thought it his finest novel, and Tess the most deeply felt character he ever created. This unique critical text is taken from the authoritative Clarendon edition, which is based on the manuscript collated with all Hardy's subsequent revisions. [via]More editions of Tess Of The d'Urbervilles:
Tess of the D'urbervilles: Stage 6 2,500 Headwordsby Thomas Hardy, Jennifer BassettISBN 0194230945 (0-19-423094-5)
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Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My LIfe with Autismby Temple Grandin, Oliver W. SacksISBN 0307275655 (0-307-27565-5)
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In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world. What emerges in Thinking in Pictures is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who, in gracefully and lucidly bridging the gulf between her condition and our own, sheds light on the riddle of our common identity. [via]More editions of Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My LIfe with Autism:
Together At The Table: Sustainability And Sustenance In The American Agrifood Systemby Patricia AllenISBN 0271024739 (0-271-02473-9)
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Trees: A Guide to Familiar American Treesby Alexander C. Martin, Herbert Spencer Zim, Sy Barlowe, Dorothea BarloweISBN 0307240568 (0-307-24056-8)
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Trees of North Americaby Christian Frank BrockmanISBN 0307136582 (0-307-13658-2)
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Under the Greenwood Treeby Thomas Hardy, Simon GatrellISBN 0192835173 (0-19-283517-3)
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Vision of William Concerning Piersby LanglandISBN 0198113668 (0-19-811366-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vision of William Concerning Piers'Book summary:The title Piers Plowman or, as I prefer to write it, Piers CP lowman, is one which has been frequently misconstrued 1misunderstood by many authors, and concerning which many books have blundered inextricably. It is most important the reader should have a clear idea of what it means, and as is rather a difficult point to explain accurately, I must ask him give me his best attention; and I cannot refrain from adding hope that, if he succeeds in mastering the explanation of it, will refrain from using the phrase in future in the old slovenly The difficulty is three-fold, as originating in a three-fold error. three mistakes commonly made are these. First, Piers man is used as though it were the name of an author tndiy, two poems which are quite distinct, and the respective of which are familiarly expressed as The Vision of Piers )man and Pierce the Ploughmar CsC rede have been frequently founded together; and thirdly, the name of The Vision of Plowman is commonly given to what is really the Liber de :ro Plowman, of which the Vision forms only about a third I must ask the reader to bear in mind that, in what I am going to say, I make no reference whatever to the Crede, do not make any assertion about it till I again expressly tntion it by its full title. Unless this be remembered, our ice of arriving at the truth is much lessened. Just as Christian is not the author of Bunyans Pilgrim s Probut only the subject of it, so Piers the Plowman is not the lor of the Vision, but the subject of it; he is the personage T bif mistake occurs, for instance, in Chaucer s England, vol. ii. p. 230, Matthew Browne; who should have known better.
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War and Peaceby Leo Tolstoy, Orlando Figes, Anthony BriggsISBN 0143039997 (0-14-303999-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War And Peace'Book summary:In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Yet while his historical vision ranged beyond national frontiers, his imaginative vision focused, with extraordinary intensity, on the lives of individuals, on the physical reality of human experience and its bewildering complexity. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, 'a complete picture', as a contemporary reviewer put it, 'of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation'. [via]
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The Whistling Seasonby Ivan DoigISBN 0156031647 (0-15-603164-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Whistling Season'Book summary:Novelist Ivan Doig revisits the American west in the early twentieth century, bringing to life the eccentric individuals and idiosyncratic institutions that made it thrive.
Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. That unforgettable season deposits the ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the promise of the Big Ditcha gargantuan irrigation project intended to make the Montana prairie bloom. When the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher, Morris is pressed into service, setting the stage for the "several kinds of education"none of them of the textbook varietyMorris and Rose will bring to Oliver, his three sons, and the rambunctious students in the region's one-room schoolhouse. A paean to a way of life that has long since vanished, The Whistling Season is Ivan Doig at his evocative best. [via]
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Wilderness and the American Mindby Roderick NashISBN 0300091222 (0-300-09122-2)
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With These Hands : The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Todayby Daniel Rothenberg, Robert ColesISBN 0151002053 (0-15-100205-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'With These Hands : The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today'Book summary:From Florida to Washington, from California to Maine, migrant farmworkers handpick nearly every vegetable and piece of fruit. Few labor laws protect them and their pay is often stolen by those who employ them. No one story, no single truth, can adequately express the farmworkers world; this book presents its complexity in vivid and human language.[via]More editions of With These Hands : The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today:
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