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101 Reasons Why I'm A Vegetarianby Pamela RiceISBN 1590560752 (1-59056-075-2)
Softcover, Rudolf Steiner Pr
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At Home on This Earth: Two Centuries of U.S. Women's Nature Writingby Lorraine Anderson, Thomas S. EdwardsISBN 1584651938 (1-58465-193-8)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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Bay Area Wild: A Celebration of the Natural Heritage of the San Francisco Bay Areaby Galen Rowell, Michael SewellISBN 1578050103 (1-57805-010-3)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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The Beluga Cafe - My Strange Adventure with Art, Music, and Whales in the Far Northby Jim NollmanISBN 1578050871 (1-57805-087-1)
Softcover, University of California Press
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Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoirby Susanne AntonettaISBN 1582432090 (1-58243-209-0)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir'Book summary:Susanne Antonetta writes with a poet's precision about the almost unspeakable series of ills that have assaulted her body: cysts on her ovaries, a divided uterus, endometriosis, rampant thyroid tumors, a quadruplet pregnancy (no fertility drugs involved) that ended in miscarriage, and manic-depressive illness treated with the wrong drugs until she was in her 30s. There's not a trace of self-pity as she lists the toxic substances leaked into the air, ground, and water by the chemical company, nuclear power plant, and nuclear missile bunker near her family's summer home in Holly Park, New Jersey. She passes over the gruesome inappropriateness of that bucolic name just as she unblinkingly repeats the brutally frank comments of her relatives, who adored her brother and male cousin, had no interest in the four girl children, and excommunicated any family member who violated their rigid rules. "In the end, I'm grateful," she writes of her extended family. "They have given me the gift of clarity. They've released me. There may be nothing kinder you can do than withhold your love." Clarity is among the principal virtues of Antonetta's unusual work, aptly subtitled An Environmental Memoir. She makes general facts personally meaningful by intertwining a historical account of post-World War II America's love affair with heavy industry and its deadly by-products with the specific details of ailments suffered by herself and the other kids who ran down the streets after the DDT-spraying trucks and drank water "full of good iron, good lead, mercury, cadmium, tritium, alpha radiation, good benzenes, PCBs, chlordane, vinyl chloride, lime, mercury, good cyanide." Her scathing but matter-of-fact tone gives the author greater authority as a prophet of the whirlwind we are reaping from careless contamination of our natural resources. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Book of the Evergladesby Susan CeruleanISBN 1571312609 (1-57131-260-9)
Softcover, Milkweed Editions
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The Call of the Wildby Jack London, Mitsu Yamamoto, Pablo Marcos StudioISBN 1577656822 (1-57765-682-2)
Hardcover, Spotlight
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Call of the Wild'Book summary:This Townsend Library classic has been carefully edited to be more accessible to today's students. It includes a background note about the book, an author's biography, and a lively afterword. Acclaimed by educators nationwide, the Townsend Library is helping millions of young adults discover the pleasure and power of reading. [via]
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The Call of the Wildby Dalmatian Press StaffISBN 1577595459 (1-57759-545-9)
Hardcover, Dalmatian Press
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Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commonsby Peter BarnesISBN 1576753611 (1-57675-361-1)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services
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Caribou Rising: Defending the Porcupine Herd, Gwich-'In Culture, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refugeby Rick BassISBN 1578051142 (1-57805-114-2)
Hardcover, Sierra Club Books
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The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroadsby Ervin LaszloISBN 1571744851 (1-57174-485-1)
Softcover, Hampton Roads Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads'Book summary:Breakdown or Breakthrough?
We are at a critical juncture in history, a "decision-window" where we face the danger of global collapse--or the opportunity for global renewal. Written by Ervin Laszlo, the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, The Chaos Point provides a concise overview of the present world situation, showing where we are and how we got here.
According to Laszlo, for the next six to seven years--roughly until the end of 2012--we have the opportunity to head off trends that would lead to a critical tipping point. Beyond this "chaos point," we either evolve to a safer, more sustainable world, or the social, economic, and ecological systems that frame our life become overstressed and break down.
The 2012 chaos point need not be the end of the world, but it will certainly be the end of the kind of world we have created. In todays decision-window, we have a unique chance to break through to a new world. This pioneering book tells us what this new world can look like and how each of us can help to achieve it.
The Chaos Point is a healing book. It not only identifies the nature of the malady every person and every society now suffers from, but offers a cure.
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Click, Clickby Margaret Allen, Dave CleggISBN 1574715828 (1-57471-582-8)
Softcover, Creative Teaching Pr
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Confluence: A River, the Environment, Politics & the Fate of All Humanityby Nathaniel Tripp, Howard DeanISBN 1586421069 (1-58642-106-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Confluence: A River, the Environment, Politics & the Fate of All Humanity'Book summary:We are the river, and the river is us. We carry the same chemicals; pesticides and heavy metals, antibiotics and estrogen in our bloodstreams. From the Mekong River in Vietnam, where he served as platoon leader during the Vietnam War, to the Connecticut River near his farm in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, rivers have coursed through the life of Nathaniel Tripp. And as part of the Connecticut River Joint Commission, a bi-state advisory body made up of members from two states the river divides, Vermont and New Hampshire, he has gotten an education about rivers beyond any he could have imagined. He has worked with scientists, bureaucrats, politicians, lobbyists, property holders, and advocacy groups to balance federal, state, corporate, and individual interests.
This book is a true confluence of art and science, politics and pragmatism, ideas and plans for action. It highlights the ways in which rivers connect us all to one another. While our society has made great progress in terms of local environmental improvement, such as cleaner water, were still dodging the big issues, such as global warming. And its getting worse. We have lost the vision of our planet gained in 1969 when astronauts sent back photographs taken from the moon. Projects such as the restoration of the Atlantic salmon are politicized to become red herrings that divide us, and todays runaway free market economy eschews long-term planning and marginalizes true environmentalism. The time is right for someone to remind us, in a clear and meaningful way, about the things that matter most. And Nathaniel Tripp does just that. [via]More editions of Confluence: A River, the Environment, Politics & the Fate of All Humanity:
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Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warmingby Tom Athanasiou, Paul BaerISBN 1583224777 (1-58322-477-7)
Softcover, Seven Stories Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming'Book summary:Today's "extreme weather events" (record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and melting ice caps) foreshadow an increasingly unstable and dire future. Yet, despite all, the US government continues to reject the Kyoto Protocol, to deny the catastrophic consequences of oil dependency, and to define the politics of oil as the politics of U.S. unilateralism, domination, and war.
Dead Heat argues that justicenot rhetoric and "aid" but real developmental justice for the people of developing worldis going to be necessary, and surprisingly soon. It argues, more particularly, that such a justice must involve a phased transition from the Kyoto Protocol to a new climate treaty based on equal human rights to emit greenhouse pollutants. Dead Heat makes the case for climate justice, but insists that justice and equity, for all their manifold ethical and humanitarian attractions, must also be seen as the most "realistic" of virtues. It insists, in other words, that our limited environmental space will itself show that it is the dream of a "business as usual" future that is naïve and utopian. [via]More editions of Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming:
The Druidry Handbook: Spiritual Practice Rooted in the Living Earthby John Michael GreerISBN 1578633540 (1-57863-354-0)
Softcover, Red Wheel/Weiser
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Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable Worldby Michael K. Stone, Zenobia BarlowISBN 1578051533 (1-57805-153-3)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World'Book summary:Our efforts to build a sustainable world cannot succeed unless future generations learn how to partner with natural systems to our mutual benefit. In other words, children must become ecologically literate. The concept of ecological literacy advanced by this books creators, the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, goes beyond the discipline of environmental education. It aims, says David Orr in his foreword, toward a deeper transformation of the substance, process, and scope of education at all levels familial, geographic, ecological, and political.[via]
The reports and essays gathered here reveal the remarkable work being done by the Centers network of partners. In one middle school, for example, culinary icon Alice Waters founded a program that not only gives students healthy meals but teaches them to gardenand thus to study life cycles and energy flows. Other hands-on student projects described here range from stream restoration and watershed exploration to confronting environmental justice issues at the neighborhood level.
With contributions from distinguished writers and educators, such as Fritjof Capra, Wendell Berry, and Michael Ableman, Ecological Literacy reflects the best thinking about how the world actually works and how learning occurs. Parents and educators everywhere will find it an invaluable resource.More editions of Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World:
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhoodby Janisse RayISBN 1571312471 (1-57131-247-1)
Softcover, Milkweed Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecology of a Cracker Childhood'Book summary:The scrubby forests of southern Georgia, dotting a landscape of low hills and swampy bottoms, are not what many people would consider to be exalted country, the sort of place to inspire lyrical considerations of nature and culture. Yet that is just what essayist Janisse Ray delivers in her memorable debut, a memoir of life in a part of America that roads and towns have passed by, a land settled by hardscrabble Scots herders who wanted nothing more than to be left alone, and who bear the derogatory epithet "cracker" with quiet pride.
Ray grew up in a junkyard outside what had been longleaf pine forest, an ecosystem that has nearly disappeared in the American South through excessive logging. Her family had little money, but that was not important; they more than made up for material want through unabashed love and a passion for learning, values that underlie every turn of Ray's narrative. She finds beauty in weeds and puddles, celebrates the ways of tortoises and woodpeckers, and argues powerfully for the virtues of establishing a connection with one's native ground.
"I carry the landscape inside like an ache," Ray writes. Her evocations of fog-enshrouded woods and old ways of living are not without pain for all that has been lost--but full of hope as well for what can be saved. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Encompassing Nature: A Sourcebookby Robert M. TorranceISBN 1582430098 (1-58243-009-8)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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Endangered Mexico: An Environment on the Edgeby Joel SimonISBN 1578050162 (1-57805-016-2)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Endangered Mexico: An Environment on the Edge'Book summary:Mexico, the home of countless animal and plant species, is the third most biologically diverse nation on the planet. Yet even with growing international concern for biodiversity and habitat preservation, Simon writes, Mexico's environmental crisis continues to worsen. The most obvious problem is air pollution; on windless days, Simon notes, ten thousand tons of "toxic gunk"--made up of car exhaust, industrial particulates, blowing dirt from deforested hillsides, and fecal dust--choke Mexico City's 30 million residents. Other problems are less well known: the continuing destruction of farmland through overgrazing and the devastation of old-growth forests. If matters do not improve, Simon suggests, then Mexicans will continue to flee the site of so much loss for safer, cleaner places--namely, the United States. Environmentalists have much to ponder in Simon's pages. [via]
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Energy, Economics And the Environmentby Jacqueline Weaver, Fred P. Bosselman, Joel B. Eisen, Jim Possi, David B. Spence, Fred BosselmanISBN 1587789248 (1-58778-924-8)
Hardcover, West Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Energy, Economics And the Environment'Book summary:This text is organized roughly chronologically, according to the periods in history within which the issues arose. Economic and environmental issues are integrated with energy resource issues: energy policy, energy in nature, the concept of a public utility, water power, coal, oil, natural gas regulation before 1985, rate regulation, competitive markets in natural gas, introduction to electricity, wholesale electric power competition, stranded costs, retail competition in electric power, nuclear energy, energy in transportation, international petroleum, the climate change issue, and continuing issues in economic regulation. [via]
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Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to Policiesby Patricia K. TownsendISBN 1577661265 (1-57766-126-5)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to Policies'Book summary:Opening with a vivid description of an early anthropological life as a "child" in a new place with no dictionaries nor etiquette books, Patricia Townsend provides readers with a global view of environmental anthropological issues. This relatively new field, defined in the 1950s with Julian Steward's term cultural ecology, has expanded through an exciting time during which the world has grown smaller and consumers more numerous and demanding.Trade has boomed internationally, and resources have been used greedily.
Money has become a part of previously cashless societies; international media have romanticized primitive cultures while making them TV staples seen nightly in Western living rooms. Industrial risk has been introduced into remote, resource-rich areas. The role of the environmental anthropologist has been to organize the realities of interdependent plants, animals, and human beings, to advocate for the neediest among them, and to try passionately to save what is of value and importance to the survival of a diverse world. [via]
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Every Drop for Sale: Our Desperate Battle Over Water in a World About to Run Outby Jeffrey RothfederISBN 158542367X (1-58542-367-X)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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Every Drop for Sale : The World's Desperate Fight over Water in a World about to Run Outby Jeffrey RothfederISBN 1585421146 (1-58542-114-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Every Drop for Sale : The World's Desperate Fight over Water in a World about to Run Out'Book summary:As oil was the crisis of the twentieth century, water is the crisis of the twenty-first. Less than .0008 percent of the total water on Earth is fit for human consumption, but global consumption of fresh water is doubling every twenty years. Water has become perhaps our most precious commodity-a life-sustaining but increasingly rare and privatized resource. A dramatic gap exists between those who have adequate water for survival and those who don't, and tensions over water in some areas of the world hover just below open war.
From Europe to Asia to Africa to America, award-winning journalist Jeffrey Rothfeder has visited the world's hot spots with the least amount of water, and also places where there is so much of it that plans are in the works to sell the excess to the highest bidder. In this compelling narrative account of our world in turmoil over water, he describes the issues and struggles of the people on all sides of the water crisis: from the scarred survivors of bizarre water-management practices, to those who are willing to die for water to sustain their families and crops, to the scientists and leaders who are trying to set things straight.
Important, provocative, and immensely readable, Every Drop for Sale explores a fascinating critical dilemma: as we run out of it, is water a fundamental right of everybody on Earth or just a human need that can be bought and sold like any other commodity? [via]More editions of Every Drop for Sale : The World's Desperate Fight over Water in a World about to Run Out:
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The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925by Wallace AkinISBN 158574607X (1-58574-607-X)
Hardcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forgotten Storm: The Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925'Book summary:Wallace Akin was two years old when the Tri-State Tornado picked up his house-with him and his mother inside-and dropped it atop two other collapsed buildings. Across town, his father lay unconscious near his auto shop, close to death, and Akin's brother managed to crawl from beneath the collapsed shop. All survived. Many others were not as fortunate: Earlier that afternoon, a supercell thunderstorm had spawned a tornado so deadly that it set records against which we still measure all other twisters. The storm ripped through southeast Missouri, southern Illinois, and southwest Indiana, killing 695 people and wounding 2,000, in a record-breaking 219-mile, three-and-a-half-hour path of destruction. Akin's hometown was the worst hit, losing 243 people to the tornado.
Using first-person accounts from his family and neighbors, newspaper stories, and diaries, Akin offers a blow-by-blow account of the storm from its first sighting to its final minutes. He also attempts to explain how it began-and how it changed his life.
As a young adult, Akin realized that the weather service could have warned its victims; research on tornado prediction had ceased for no apparent reason. This, combined with his upbringing in a town traumatized by weather, led him to choose a career in geography, specializing in climate. In The Forgotten Storm he explains in clear language why tornadoes happen and how we may now be making these storms more severe and more frequent. The result is a book both thrilling and horrific, one that adds to our understanding of the battle between humans and nature. (6 x 9, 224 pages, photos)
Wallace Akin was for many years a professor of geography at Drake University. He received a research Fulbright in 1961 at the University of Copenhagen and has traveled widely studying climate and related human activities. He is the author of several academic books that include material on weather and climate. [via]
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Gifts of the Wild: A Woman's Book of Adventureby Faith Conlon, Ingrid Emerick, Jennie Goode, Krise AwiltseISBN 1580050069 (1-58005-006-9)
Softcover, Seal Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gifts of the Wild: A Woman's Book of Adventure'Book summary:Wilderness offers our jaded age a way to test our soft and hard spots. The 34 writers in Gifts of the Wild touch down in Patagonia and Nepal and skip across vast expanses of America. Visiting college professor Pam Houston dips a toe into freezing waters and the bonds between men by joining a group of fly-fishing male poets on their after-midnight jaunts. Susana Levin's sharply honed "Night Skates" follows a loose-knit clan of deranged urban guerrillas who cruise the huffing rise and stomach-churning drops of San Francisco's streets on in-line skates at night. Spilling down the long, dizzy ski jump of Golden Gate Avenue, says Levin, "I was having the kind of rush you only get when you're doing something really fun, really stupid and illegal." Whether read in an armchair or stuffed into a backpack, this lively collection calls to the wild in all of us. --Francesca Coltrera [via]
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Good Green Homes: Creating Better Homes for a Healthier Planetby Jennifer RobertsISBN 1586851799 (1-58685-179-9)
Hardcover, Gibbs Smith
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The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experienceby Wangari MaathaiISBN 159056040X (1-59056-040-X)
Softcover, Rudolf Steiner Pr
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Grub: Ideas for Urban Organic Kitchenby Anna Lappe, Bryant TerryISBN 1585424595 (1-58542-459-5)
Softcover, J P Tarcher
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Grub: Ideas for Urban Organic Kitchen'Book summary:In the past few years, organic food has moved out of the patchouli-scented aisles of hippie food co-ops and into three-quarters of conventional grocery stores. Concurrent with this growth has been increased consumer awareness of the social and health-related issues around organic eating, independent farming, and food production.[via]
Combining a straight-to-the-point exposé about organic foods (organic doesn't mean fresh, natural, or independently produced) and the how-to's of creating an affordable, easy-touse organic kitchen, Grub brings organics home to urban dwellers. It gives the reader compelling arguments for buying organic food, revealing the pesticide industry's influence on government regulation and the extent of its pollution in our waterways and bodies.
With an inviting recipe section, Grub also offers the millions of people who buy organics fresh ideas and easy ways to cook with them. Grub's recipes, twenty-four meals oriented around the seasons, appeal to eighteen- to forty-year-olds who are looking for fun and simple meals. In addition, the book features resource lists (including music playlists to cook by), unusual and illuminating graphics, and every variety of do-it yourself tip sheets, charts, and checklists.More editions of Grub: Ideas for Urban Organic Kitchen:
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The Hidden Messages in Waterby Masaru EmotoISBN 1582701148 (1-58270-114-8)
Softcover, Beyond Words Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hidden Messages in Water'Book summary:The Hidden Messages In Water explores water's susceptibility to human words, emotions and thoughts. Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto has been researching this new field of science by freezing samples of water that have been exposed to either positive or negative words, emotions and music. Through photographs Dr. Emoto has found that water exposed to positive influences produces beautiful, perfectly formed crystals, while water exposed to negativity produces ugly, malformed crystals. Because the worls and our bodies are both composed of 70per cent water, the power to change the essence of water means that humans have the power to evoke change on a global or personal scale, by way of water. [via]
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High and Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the Suvby Keith BradsherISBN 1586482033 (1-58648-203-3)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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The Highest Tideby Jim LynchISBN 1582346291 (1-58234-629-1)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Highest Tide'Book summary:Miles O'Malley, 13-year-old insomniac, naturalist, worshipper of Rachel Carson, and dweller on the mud flats of Skookumchuck Bay, at the South end of Puget Sound near Olympia, Washington, is the irresistible center of The Highest Tide. He says, "I learned early on that if you tell people what you see at low tide they'll think you're exaggerating or lying when you're actually just explaining strange and wonderful things as clearly as you can" and "People usually take decades to sort out their view of the universe, if they bother to sort at all. I did my sorting during one freakish summer in which I was ambushed by science, fame and suggestions of the divine."
And what a summer he has! Miles, who is licensed to collect marine specimens for money, slips into his kayak late one night when he can't sleep and begins his exploratory rounds. What he sees is not the usual collectibles. He hears a deep exhale, a sound of release, and comes eye to eye with a giant squid. But, there are no giant squid in Puget Sound or anywhere around it--and when they are seen by humans, they are always dead. His discovery is confirmed by Professor Kramer, a local biologist and Miles's friend. Television cameras arrive, everyone wants to interview this small-for-his-age but very smart boy and the events of the summer begin to unfold.
Jim Lynch has an ability to tell a tale that glows on every page. He knows everything that lives in or near the water by name and habit. This knowledge and his sense of wonder at the natural world brings the reader very close to his story, both in its setting and its characters. One early morning Miles says, "...the water was so clear I could see coon-stripe shrimp ... and the bottomless bed of white clam shells ... Those shells, as unique and timeless as bones, helped me realize that we all die young, that in the life of the earth, we are houseflies, here for one flash of light." Such insights are perfectly natural coming from Miles, whose interests are not garden-variety. He has a mad crush on the mixed-up 18-year-old girl next door, a randy age-mate named Phelps, and a deep friendship with Florence, the elderly woman his mother refers to as "a crazy witch." Florence is a psychic of sorts and her powers come into play when she predicts an extremely high tide on a certain day.
All of these relationships and what is happening between Miles's parents are part of this event-filled, life-changing summer. Early on, Miles says off the top of his head, when asked by a TV reporter why a deep-sea creature has found its way to his front yard, "Maybe the earth is trying to tell us something." What the earth and the sea and the people in Miles's life are all trying to tell him is what he susses out in the days that follow--before that high tide.
This absolutely luminous first novel has all the earmarks of a classic. The Highest Tide is destined to be read, re-read, and to remain on bookshelves for the enjoyment of generations to come. --Valerie Ryan [via]
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birdsby Christopher CokinosISBN 1585420069 (1-58542-006-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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How to Grow More Vegetables: And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagineby John JeavonsISBN 1580082335 (1-58008-233-5)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Ageby Edmund Blair BollesISBN 1582431019 (1-58243-101-9)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor, and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age'Book summary:It's accepted scientific fact that global climate cooling has taken place in the past. But just over 150 years ago, it was still being argued that there had been a major Ice Age with glaciers and ice sheets extending over much of Northern Europe and Canada.
The Ice Finders is the story of some of the discoveries and arguments behind the great Ice Age debate. The story is told by American popular science writer Edmund Blair Bolles who also wrote Galileo's Commandment: An Anthology of Great Science Writing. He interweaves the separate lives of three main characters--an American naval surgeon turned Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane, an English barrister turned geologist Sir Charles Lyell and a Swiss medic turned geologist Louis Agassiz. The connecting cloth is the gathering evidence for the existence of a great Ice Age which swept out of the Alps and Scandinavia and fundamentally altered the landscape of northern Europe.
Kane's two-year-long (1853-5) Greenland expedition was in search of Sir John Franklin and to check on the possibility of an open Arctic Ocean. Bolles uses the narrative of Kane's expedition to break up the more complicated technical arguments between Lyell, Agassiz and many other scientists about the nature of glacial phenomena such as erratics, parallel roads and scratched rock surfaces. Eventually the strands are pulled together when Kane returns to civilisation and publishes an account of travels and observations.
The result is an interesting read and good introduction for the general reader to many of the main characters of 19th-century earth science and their disputations. It also contains notes, a bibliography and index to assist the reader. Historians of science will doubtless argue that too much is factionalised in the interest of popularisation. --Douglas Palmer [via]
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The Industrial Revolution and Free Tradeby Burton W. FolsomISBN 1572460571 (1-57246-057-1)
Softcover, Foundation for Economic Education
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Inhabiting the Earth: Heidegger, Environmental Ethics, and the Metaphysics of Natureby Bruce V. FoltzISBN 1573926094 (1-57392-609-4)
Softcover, Humanity Books
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Inside Iso 14000: The Competitive Advantage of Environmental Managementby Don SayreISBN 1574440284 (1-57444-028-4)
Softcover, Saint Lucie Pr
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John Muirby John Muir, Joseph Cornell, Christopher Canyon, Elizabeth Ann KelleyISBN 1584690097 (1-58469-009-7)
Softcover, Dawn Pubns
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Joseph Had a Little Overcoatby Simms TabackISBN 1591124123 (1-59112-412-3)
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Kaileyby Amy Goldman Koss, Philip HoweISBN 1584855916 (1-58485-591-6)
Softcover, Amer Girl Pub
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Land Navigation Handbook: The Sierra Club Guide To Map, Compass & Gpsby W. S. Kals, Clyde SolesISBN 1578051223 (1-57805-122-3)
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Included here are the basics of interpreting maps and orienting by compass, as well as more advanced techniques for measuring distances and estimating travel times; determining and adjusting for local declination around the globe; using an altimeter to add the dimension of height to ones position; and navigation by means of sun and stars. In updating the late W. S. Kalss text, Clyde Soles focuses on the latest developments in technology and equipment, such as digital mapping software and handheld GPS units, and provides an overview of marine navigation for sea kayakers. Visuals include a full-color foldout topographic map for reference and practice, plus dozens of helpful drawings and photographs.More editions of Land Navigation Handbook: The Sierra Club Guide To Map, Compass & Gps:
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Leaves of Grassby Walt WhitmanISBN 1573920401 (1-57392-040-1)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Leaves of Grass has its genesis in an essay called The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1845, which expressed the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices. Whitman, reading the essay, consciously set out to answer Emerson's call as he began work on the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman, however, downplayed Emerson's influence, stating, "I was simmering, simmering, simmering; Emerson brought me to a boil".
On May 15, 1855, Whitman registered the title Leaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of New Jersey, and received its copyright. The first edition was published in Brooklyn at the Fulton Street printing shop of two Scottish immigrants, James and Andrew Rome, whom Whitman had known since the 1840s, on July 4, 1855. Whitman paid for and did much of the typesetting for the first edition himself. The book did not include the author's name, instead offering an engraving by Samuel Hollyer depicting the poet in work clothes and a jaunty hat, arms at his side. Early advertisements for the first edition appealed to "lovers of literary curiosities" as an oddity. Sales on the book were few but Whitman was not discouraged.
The first edition was very small, collecting only twelve unnamed poems in 95 pages. Whitman once said he intended the book to be small enough to be carried in a pocket. "That would tend to induce people to take me along with them and read me in the open air: I am nearly always successful with the reader in the open air. "About 800 were printed, though only 200 were bound in its trademark green cloth cover. The only American library known to have purchased a copy of the first edition was in Philadelphia. The poems of the first edition, which were given titles in later issues, were "Song of Myself," "A Song For Occupations," "To Think of Time," "The Sleepers," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Faces," "Song of the Answerer," "Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States," "A Boston Ballad," "There Was a Child Went Forth," "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?", and "Great Are the Myths."
The title Leaves of Grass was a pun. "Grass" was a term given by publishers to works of minor value and "leaves" is another name for the pages on which they were printed.
Whitman sent a copy of the first edition of Leaves of Grass to Emerson, the man who had inspired its creation. In a letter to Whitman, Emerson said "I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." He went on, "I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy." [via] 
Living on the Earthby Alicia Bay LaurelISBN 1586853430 (1-58685-343-0)
Softcover, Gibbs Smith, Publisher
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A Man Without a Countryby Kurt VonnegutISBN 158322713X (1-58322-713-X)
Hardcover, Seven Stories Pr
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The Memory of Old Jackby Wendell BerryISBN 1582430438 (1-58243-043-8)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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Minding Nature: The Philosophers of Ecologyby David MacAuleyISBN 1572300590 (1-57230-059-0)
Softcover, Guilford Pubn
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Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and a Journey to the Ends of the Earthby Dan GlickISBN 1586482378 (1-58648-237-8)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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Monkey Dancing takes readers along for this incredible journey. From the python-infested rivers of Borneo to the highest summits of Bali, from Nepal's Gangeatic Plains to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, Glick recounts the adventures they met with, the challenges they confronted, and how they learned to cope with grief, loss, and one another. Along the way, he offers intimate reflection on life, fatherhood, change, and the fragile health of our troubled planet.
Acclaimed by reviewers, a BookSense Parenting bestseller, Monkey Dancing is a "poignant, affirming, ultimately courageous book"Audubon Magazine.More editions of Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and a Journey to the Ends of the Earth:
Mother Earth: Through the Eyes of Women Photographers and Writersby Judith BoiceISBN 1578050650 (1-57805-065-0)
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My Antoniaby Willa CatherISBN 1583485090 (1-58348-509-0)
Softcover, To Excel Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Antonia'Book summary:It seems almost sacrilege to infringe upon a book as soulful and rich as Willa Cather's My Ántonia by offering comment. First published in 1918, and set in Nebraska in the late 19th century, this tale of the spirited daughter of a Bohemian immigrant family planning to farm on the untamed land ("not a country at all but the material out of which countries are made") comes to us through the romantic eyes of Jim Burden. He is, at the time of their meeting, newly orphaned and arriving at his grandparents' neighboring farm on the same night her family strikes out to make good in their new country. Jim chooses the opening words of his recollections deliberately: "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to be an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America," and it seems almost certain that readers of Cather's masterpiece will just as easily pinpoint the first time they heard of Ántonia and her world. It seems equally certain that they, too, will remember that moment as one of great light in an otherwise unremarkable trip through the world.
Ántonia, who, even as a grown woman somewhat downtrodden by circumstance and hard work, "had not lost the fire of life," lies at the center of almost every human condition that Cather's novel effortlessly untangles. She represents immigrant struggles with a foreign land and tongue, the restraints on women of the time (with which Cather was very much concerned), the more general desires for love, family, and companionship, and the great capacity for forbearance that marked the earliest settlers on the frontier.
As if all this humanity weren't enough, Cather paints her descriptions of the vastness of nature--the high, red grass, the road that "ran about like a wild thing," the endless wind on the plains--with strokes so vivid as to make us feel in our bones that we've just come in from a walk on that very terrain ourselves. As the story progresses, Jim goes off to the University in Lincoln to study Latin (later moving on to Harvard and eventually staying put on the East Coast in another neat encompassing of a stage in America's development) and learns Virgil's phrase "Optima dies ... prima fugit" that Cather uses as the novel's epigraph. "The best days are the first to flee"--this could be said equally of childhood and the earliest hours of this country in which the open land, much like My Ántonia, was nothing short of a rhapsody in prairie sky blue. --Melanie Rehak [via]
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the Worldby Paul StametsISBN 1580085792 (1-58008-579-2)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Windby Hayao Miyazaki, David Lewis, Toren SmithISBN 1591164087 (1-59116-408-7)
Softcover, Viz Media
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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind 5by Hayao Miyazaki, Elizabeth KawasakiISBN 1591164109 (1-59116-410-9)
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Parks Are to Shareby Lee Sullivan HillISBN 1575050684 (1-57505-068-4)
Hardcover, Lerner Pub Group
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A Place on Earthby Wendell BerryISBN 1582431248 (1-58243-124-8)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Place on Earth'Book summary:Part ribald farce, part lyrical contemplation, Wendell Berry's novel is the story of a place-Port William, Kentucky-the farm lands and forests that surround it, and the river that runs nearby. The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found. This brings the revised 1983 edition back into print, the next book in our program to put all of Wendell Berry's fiction into print in revised and corrected uniform editions. [via]
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Poets on the Peaksby John SuiterISBN 1582432945 (1-58243-294-5)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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Poets on the Peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalem & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascadesby John SuiterISBN 1582431485 (1-58243-148-5)
Hardcover, Counterpoint
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Postcards from Ed: Dispatches And Salvos from an American Iconoclastby David Petersen, Edward AbbeyISBN 1571312846 (1-57131-284-6)
Hardcover, Milkweed Editions
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Rain Forestsby Lucy BakerISBN 1587285738 (1-58728-573-8)
Softcover, Two-Can Pub Inc
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Right Outside My Windowby Mary Ann Hoberman, Nicholas WiltonISBN 1590341945 (1-59034-194-5)
Hardcover, Mondo Pub
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River of Godsby Ian McDonaldISBN 1591024366 (1-59102-436-6)
Hardcover, Prometheus Books
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The Roadless Yaak: Reflections and Observations About One of Our Last Great Wilderness Areasby Rick BassISBN 1585745456 (1-58574-545-6)
Hardcover, Lyons Pr
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The Roving Mindby Isaac AsimovISBN 1573921815 (1-57392-181-5)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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A Sacred Unity: Further Steps to an Ecology of Mindby Gregory Bateson, Rodney E. DonaldsonISBN 1572736259 (1-57273-625-9)
Hardcover, Hampton Pr
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Seals in the Wildby Fred BruemmerISBN 1571456228 (1-57145-622-8)
Hardcover, Laurel Glen
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Seashells of the Worldby R. Tucker AbbottISBN 1582381488 (1-58238-148-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Shaped by Wind and Water: Reflections of a Naturalistby Ann ZwingerISBN 1571312404 (1-57131-240-4)
Softcover, Milkweed Editions
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Sick of Natureby David GessnerISBN 1584653582 (1-58465-358-2)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of New England
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The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competitionby Michael H. ShumanISBN 1576753867 (1-57675-386-7)
Hardcover, Ingram Pub Services
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition'Book summary:Defenders of globalization, free markets, and free trade insist there's no alternative to mega-stores like Wal-Mart -- Michael Shuman begs to differ. In "The Small-Mart Revolution, Shuman makes a compelling case for his alternative business model, one in which communities reap the benefits of "going local" in four key spending categories: goods, services, energy, and finance. He argues that despite the endless media coverage of multinational conglomerates, local businesses give more to charity, adapt more easily to rising labor and environmental standards, and produce more wealth for a community. They also spend more locally, thereby increasing community income and creating wealth and jobs. "The Small-Mart Revolution presents a visionary yet practical roadmap for everyone concerned with mitigating the worst of globalization.[via]More editions of The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition:
The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazonby Michael Goulding, Ronaldo Barthem, Efrem Jorge Gondim FerreiraISBN 1588341356 (1-58834-135-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Social Ecology After Bookchinby Andrew LightISBN 1572303794 (1-57230-379-4)
Softcover, Guilford Pubn
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Soleri: Architecture As Human Ecologyby Antonietta Iolanda LimaISBN 1580931030 (1-58093-103-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Sparknotes the Jungleby Upton SinclairISBN 1586634100 (1-58663-410-0)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes" has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes'" motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:
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Statistics for Environmental Science and Managementby Bryan F.J. ManlyISBN 1584880295 (1-58488-029-5)
Softcover, Chapman & Hall
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Using a non-mathematical approach, the author describes techniques such as: environmental monitoring, impact assessment, assessing site reclamation, censored data, and Monte Carlo risk assessment, as well as the key topics of time series and spatial data. The book shows the strengths of different types of conclusions available from statistical analyses. It contains internet sources of information that give readers access to the latest information on specific topics.
The author's easy to understand style makes the subject matter accessible to anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of the basics of statistics while emphasizing how the techniques are applied in the environmental field. Clearly and copiously illustrated with line drawings and tables, Statistics for Environmental Science and Management covers all the statistical methods used with environmental applications and is suitable as a text for graduate students in the environmental science area. [via]More editions of Statistics for Environmental Science and Management:
Stumbling Toward Sustainabilityby John DernbachISBN 1585760366 (1-58576-036-6)
Softcover, Environmental Law Inst
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Three Short Novelsby Wendell BerryISBN 1582432376 (1-58243-237-6)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Short Novels'Book summary:Furthering his series on the denizens of Port William, Three Short Novels brings together some of Wendell Berry's best-loved shorter novels--Nathan Coulter, Remembering , and A World Lost . When Nathan Coulter first appeared in 1960, no one could have known that this exquisite coming-of-age tale was introducing us to one of our most distinctive fictional communities: Port William, Kentucky. Remembering (1988), centers on Andy Catlett, who has lost his right hand to a corn-picking machine. A World Lost (1996) is set in the summer of 1944, when Andy, nine years old, is stunned by the news of his Uncle Andrew's murder. Wendell Berry is the sort of writer who changes people's lives, and in his Three Short Novels his talent is abundantly clear. [via]
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Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997by Wendell BerryISBN 1582430063 (1-58243-006-3)
Softcover, Counterpoint
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Turtle Tide: The Ways Of Sea Turtlesby Stephen R. Swinburne, Bruce HiscockISBN 1590780817 (1-59078-081-7)
Hardcover, Boyds Mills Pr
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An Unnatural Order: Why We Are Destroying The Planet and Each Otherby Jim MasonISBN 1590560817 (1-59056-081-7)
Softcover, Lantern Books
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Urgent Message From Mother: Gather The Women, Save The Worldby Jean Shinoda BolenISBN 1573242659 (1-57324-265-9)
Hardcover, Red Wheel/Weiser
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Urgent Message From Mother: Gather The Women, Save The World'Book summary:The message to all women of the world is "Wake Up! Arise! Do not ask for permission to gather the women. What cannot be done by men, or by individual women, can be done by women together. Earth is Home." Jean Shinoda Bolen's life's work -- her Jungian-inspired insights in The Tao of Psychology, the blockbuster Goddesss in Every Woman, the empowering Crones Don't Whine and The Millionth Circle -- all lead up to this book. It is an urgent message and an empowering one. "When women are strong together, women can be fiercely protective of what we love." Bolen's poetic polemic explores the psychological, spiritual, and scientific aspects of women as collaborators for change. She begins with a Jungian examination of the idea of the Holy Grail archetype as "every woman's secret" and the transformative power of the sacred feminine -- the Goddess, Gaia, Earth Mother. Bolen explains Rupert Sheldrake's Theory of Morphic Resonance, which describes how societies and even species can undergo rapid evolution when they reach a tipping point. She explains that "we've learned that women gathering together in groups and telling the truth of their lives can actually change the world." She points to a fascinating UCLA study proving that women react to stress differently than their male counterparts. Instead of the "fight or flight" reaction, women have a "tend and befriend" response as a result of an increase in oxytocin, the maternal bonding hormone. While men become more adrenalized and aggressive, women nurture and protect -- biologically. From this and other compelling evidence Bolen makes a strongly convincing case that now is the time for women to lead -- to fiercely protect all that we love. Urgent Message from Mother offers a unique combination of visionary thinking and practical how-to and is Jean Shinoda Bolen's most activist work to-date. Written in a lyrical language that inspires, this book seeks to galvanize the still untapped power of women coming together to change our world. Listen to your mother; she is calling. [via]
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Walking Softly in the Wilderness - The Sierra Club Guide to Backpackingby John HartISBN 1578051231 (1-57805-123-1)
Softcover, University of California Press
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Walking the High Ridge: Life As a Field Tripby Robert Michael PyleISBN 1571312420 (1-57131-242-0)
Softcover, Milkweed Editions
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Wetland, Woodland, Wildland: A Guide to the Natural Communities of Vermontby Elizabeth H. Thompson, Eric R. Sorenson, Libby Davidson, Betsy Brigham, Darien McElwainISBN 158465077X (1-58465-077-X)
Softcover, Univ Pr of New England
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wetland, Woodland, Wildland: A Guide to the Natural Communities of Vermont'Book summary:Vermont's natural communities -- its northern hardwood forests, dry oak woodlands, alpine tundra, red maple swamps, bogs, and marshes -- are described in this comprehensive book. Richly illustrated with beautiful line drawings and color photographs, the guide describes each of Vermont's 80 upland and wetland natural communities. Ecological settings, including geology, soils, climate, and natural disturbance processes, are described for each community, along with complete lists of characteristic plants and animals, and public lands readers may visit.
Wetland, Woodland, Wildland contains detailed information on natural communities that is not available elsewhere, and practical information for naturalists, teachers, students, landowners, land managers, foresters, conservation planners, and all those with a love of the outdoors who want to learn more about their surroundings. [via]More editions of Wetland, Woodland, Wildland: A Guide to the Natural Communities of Vermont:
Where Does the Butterfly Go When It Rainsby M. Garelick, Nicholas WiltonISBN 1572551658 (1-57255-165-8)
Hardcover, Mondo Pub
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Where Vultures Feast - Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Deltaby Oronto Douglas, Ike OkontaISBN 1578050464 (1-57805-046-4)
Hardcover, Sierra Club Books
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Whose Trade Organization: Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy An Assessment of the World Trade Organizationby Lori Wallach, Michelle SforzaISBN 1582310017 (1-58231-001-7)
Softcover, Public Citizen Group
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Wild Earth: Wild Ideas for a World Out of Balanceby Tom ButlerISBN 1571312625 (1-57131-262-5)
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Wild Seattle: A Celebration of the Natural Areas in and Around the Cityby Timothy Egan, Terry Donnelly, Mary Liz Austin, Scott, Doug (AFT)ISBN 1578051118 (1-57805-111-8)
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Wild Wings: Poems for Young Peopleby Jane Yolen, Jason StempleISBN 1590781732 (1-59078-173-2)
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Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Herby Susan GriffinISBN 1578050472 (1-57805-047-2)
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Griffin draws on an astonishing range of sourcesfrom timbering manuals to medical texts to Scripture and classical literaturein showing how destructive has been the impulse to disembody the human soul, and how the long separated might once more be rejoined. Poet Adrienne Rich calls Woman and Nature perhaps the most extraordinary nonfiction work to have merged from the matrix of contemporary female consciousnessa fusion of patriarchal science, ecology, female history and feminism, written by a poet who has created a new form for her vision. ...The book has the impact of a great film or a fresco; yet it is intimately personal, touching to the quick of womans experience.More editions of Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her:
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El Origen De Las Especies/the Origin Of Speciesby Charles DarwinISBN 1583487778 (1-58348-777-8)
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