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Against The Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilizationby Richard ManningISBN 0865477132 (0-86547-713-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against The Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization'Book summary:In this provocative, wide-ranging book, Richard Manning offers a dramatically revisionist view of recent human evolution, beginning with the vast increase in brain size that set us apart from our primate relatives and brought an accompanying increase in our need for nourishment. For 290,000 years, we managed to meet that need as hunter-gatherers, a state in which Manning believes we were at our most human: at our smartest, strongest, most sensually alive. But our reliance on food made a secure supply deeply attractive, and eventually we embarked upon the agricultural experiment that has been the history of our past 10,000 years.[via]
The evolutionary road is littered with failed experiments, however, and Manning suggests that agriculture as we have practiced it runs against both our grain and nature's. Drawing on the work of anthropologists, biologists, archaeologists, and philosophers, along with his own travels, he argues that not only our ecological ills-overpopulation, erosion, pollution-but our social and emotional malaise are rooted in the devil's bargain we made in our not-so-distant past. And he offers personal, achievable ways we might re-contour the path we have taken to resurrect what is most sustainable and sustaining in our own nature and the planet's.More editions of Against The Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization:
An Alphabet for Gourmetsby M. F. K. FisherISBN 0865473919 (0-86547-391-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Amazing Fact Book of Spidersby Anthony Wootton, Sergio BorellaISBN 0865500215 (0-86550-021-5)
Softcover, A & P Books
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American Women in Mission: A Social History of Their Thought and Practiceby Dana L. RobertISBN 0865545499 (0-86554-549-9)
Softcover, Mercer University Press
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Amos of Israel: A New Interpretationby Stanley N. RosenbaumISBN 0865543550 (0-86554-355-0)
Hardcover, Mercer Univ Pr
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Applesby Frank BrowningISBN 0865475792 (0-86547-579-2)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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Arnold: An Unauthorized Biographyby Wendy LeighISBN 0865532206 (0-86553-220-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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As I Live and Breathe: Notes of a Patient-Doctorby Jamie WeismanISBN 0865476691 (0-86547-669-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Bereftby Jane BernsteinISBN 0865476136 (0-86547-613-6)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranesby Peter Matthiessen, Robert BatemanISBN 0865476578 (0-86547-657-8)
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Blackoutby James GoodmanISBN 0865477159 (0-86547-715-9)
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Blind Obedience: A True Story of Family Loyalty and Murder in South Georgiaby Bill BoydISBN 0865547076 (0-86554-707-6)
Hardcover, Mercer Univ Pr
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The trials of Joe Rawlinsa popular, well-to-do South Georgia farmer, a Baptist preacher and father of fiveand his sones ended a bitter feud that lasted for more than twenty years. Joe Rawlins and W. L. Carter argued over property rights, stray livestock, fishing rights, even each other's character. Rawlins moved twice and each time he thought he had seen the last of his archenemy. But each time, Carter showed up and bought land bordering Rawlins' farm. Was it a coincidence or was Rawlins being pursued? As the acrimony peaked, Rawlins tried to kill Carter, but failed. Then he hired an assassin and sent his own sons to wipe out the entire Carter family. But the only victims of the attempt were two teenage Carter children.
The trials that followed brought a festival atmosphere to Valdosta, Georgia. Excursion trains ferried several thousand people to town for the trial. Joe Rawlins became one of the most quoted condemned men in Georgia history, and the demand for accounts of the trial and subsequent appeals turned the twice-a-week Valdosta Times into a daily newspaper.
Blind Obedience tells how the testimony of Alf Moore, an African-American man, was critical to putting a white man on the gallows, possibly the first time a black man's testimony was taken so seriously. The book also documents a series of appeals by Macon attorney John Randolph Cooper that delayed the hanging of Rawlins for sixteen months, a respite that was unheard of at the time. Even today, the Rawlins case is remembered as the most famous murder case in the history of Lowndes County, as well as one of the most notorious in Southern history. [via]
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Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Undergroundby Charles BowdenISBN 0865476535 (0-86547-653-5)
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The Book of Imagesby Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward A. SnowISBN 086547477X (0-86547-477-X)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Images'Book summary:Now substantially revised by Edward Snow, whom Denise Levertov once called "far and away Rilke's best translator," this bilingual edition of The Book of Images contains a number of the great poet's previously untranslated pieces. Also included are several of Rilke's best-loved lyrics, such as "Autumn," "Childhood," "Lament," "Evening," and "Entrance."[via] 
The Book of Jobby Stephen MitchellISBN 086547270X (0-86547-270-X)
Softcover, North Point Press
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But Beautifulby Geoff DyerISBN 0865475083 (0-86547-508-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'But Beautiful'Book summary:In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the greats: Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonious Monk creating his own private language on the piano. However, music is the driving force of But Beautiful, and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.[via] 
Caught Inside: A Surfer's Year on the California Coastby Daniel DuaneISBN 0865475091 (0-86547-509-1)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga Of Dark And Lightby Mort RosenblumISBN 0865477302 (0-86547-730-2)
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Science, over recent years, has confirmed what chocolate lovers have always known: the stuff is actually good for you. It's the Valentine's Day drug of choice, has more antioxidants than red wine, and triggers the same brain responses as falling in love. Nothing, in the end, can stand up to chocolate as a basic fundament to human life.
In this scintillating narrative, acclaimed foodie Mort Rosenblum delves into the complex world of chocolate. From the mole poblano--chile-laced chicken with chocolate--of ancient Mexico to the contemporary French chocolatiers who produce the palets d'or--bite-sized, gold-flecked bricks of dark chocolate--to the vast empires of Hershey, Godiva, and Valrhona, Rosenblum follows the chocolate trail the world over. He visits cacao plantations, meets with growers, buyers, makers, and tasters, and investigates the dark side of the chocolate trade as well as the enduring appeal of its product.
Engaging, entertaining, and revealing, Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light is a fascinating foray into this "food of the gods."More editions of Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga Of Dark And Light:
Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farmby Jane BroxISBN 0865477280 (0-86547-728-0)
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In this clear-eyed, lyrical account, Brox twines the two narratives, personal and historical, to explore the place of the family farm as it has evolved from the pilgrims' brutal progress at Plymouth to the modern world, where much of our food is produced by industrial agriculture while the small farm is both marginalized and romanticized. In considering the place of the farm, Brox also considers the rise of textile cities in America, which encroached not only upon farms and farmers but upon the sense of commonality that once sustained them; and she traces the transformation of the idea of wilderness--and its intricate connection to cultivation--which changed as our ties to the land loosened, as terror of the wild was replaced by desire for it. Exploring these strands with neither judgment nor sentimentality, Brox arrives at something beyond a biography of the farm: a vivid depiction of the half-life it carries on in our collective imagination.More editions of Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm:
Cleaving: Story of a Marriageby Vicki Covington, Dennis CovingtonISBN 086547589X (0-86547-589-X)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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Cooking With Pomianeby Edouard De Pomiane, Peggie BentonISBN 0865474818 (0-86547-481-8)
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A Country Practice: Scenes from the Veterinary Lifeby Douglas WhynottISBN 0865476470 (0-86547-647-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Courage of Turtles: 15 Essays About Compassion, Pain and Love, About Being at Home, About Rodeos, the Circus, and Boxing, About Being a Wasp, Aboby Edward HoaglandISBN 0865471967 (0-86547-196-7)
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Every Force Evolves a Formby Guy DavenportISBN 0865472475 (0-86547-247-5)
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Every Force Evolves a Form: Twenty Essaysby Guy DavenportISBN 0865472483 (0-86547-248-3)
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Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgeraldby Scott DonaldsonISBN 0865530858 (0-86553-085-8)
Hardcover, Congdon & Weed
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The Ghost With Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Speciesby Scott WeidensaulISBN 0865476683 (0-86547-668-3)
Softcover, North Point Pr
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Giant Bluefinby Douglas WhynottISBN 0865474974 (0-86547-497-4)
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Glorious Gardens: A Portfolio of Ideas for Planting and Designby Francesca GreenoakISBN 0865532079 (0-86553-207-9)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruinby Richard Davenport-HinesISBN 0865475903 (0-86547-590-3)
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The birth of gothic can be said to date to the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, an event so powerful it created a new landscape. Indeed, it was the desolate and savage landscape paintings of the seventeenth-century artist Salvator Rosa, with their precipices, ruined castles, dark caves, and contorted trees, that provided the original visual and imaginative frame of the genre. In England, under Rosa's influence, William Kent created the first gothic garden when he planted a dead tree in the grounds of Kensington Palace.
Castles and country houses built like castles are another manifestation of the gothic imagination: in real life, in pictures, and in gothic stories. They are usually places of fear and anxiety; none more so than in Mitchelstown in Cork, where one family lived up to their home: surrounded by stories of murder, sexual degeneracy, eccentricity, madness, decay, and ruin.
Whatever the genre, gothic is about exaggeration, about immoderation. This revelatory history ranges through art, architecture, gardening, literature, photography, filmmaking, music, and clothing design, and takes in artists and characters as various as Byron, Horace Walpole, Goya, Frankenstein's monster, Edgar Allan Poe, Dracula, Jackson Pollock, The Addams Family, David Lynch, The Terminator, and The Cure. [via]
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Growing Upby Russell BakerISBN 0865530548 (0-86553-054-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Growing Up'Book summary:Russell Baker won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for this biography/autobiography about growing up in the backwoods of Virginia, in a New Jersey Commuter town, and in the Depression-shadowed urban landscape of Baltimore, all happening between the world wars. Baker introduces us to the people that impacted his early life, and he also discusses powerful love, awkward sex, and courage in the face of adversity. The Great Depression provided the backdrop against success, and to help his mother and family through it, he delivered papers and hustled subscriptions of the Saturday Evening Post, which introduced him to bullies, mentors, and heroes who faced national disaster with hard work and good cheer. [via]
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If Dogs Could Talk: Exploring the Canine Mindby Vilmos Csanyi, Richard E. QuandtISBN 0865477299 (0-86547-729-9)
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The Intelligent Traveller's Guide to Historic Britain: England, Wales, the Crown Dependenciesby Philip Axtell CrowlISBN 0865530378 (0-86553-037-8)
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Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-And-Roll's Legendary Neighborhoodby Michael WalkerISBN 0865479666 (0-86547-966-6)
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Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birdsby Scott WeidensaulISBN 0865475431 (0-86547-543-1)
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For anyone curious about the lives of migratory birds (and, incidentally, those of bird-obsessed humans), this book is a great nest of information. The author has traveled all over the world banding and observing birds and talking to the experts--amateur birders and ornithologists who have made many of the important discoveries about bird biology. From Alaska to Lake Erie to the limestone forests of Jamaica, Weidensaul reaches not only for the scientific particulars but for the universal stories and humanizing, descriptive turns of phrase that keep this book from bogging down in statistics and jargon. By book's end the reader is unable to resist the heart of this compelling story, a plea for the conservation of habitat to keep these miraculous creatures on--or at least circling--the earth. --Maria Dolan [via]
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Living on the Wind: Across the Wind With Migratory Birdsby Scott WeidensaulISBN 0865475911 (0-86547-591-1)
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Making Sense of New Testament Theology: "Modern" Problems and Prospectsby A. K. M. AdamISBN 086554459X (0-86554-459-X)
Softcover, Mercer Univ Pr
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The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in Americaby N. Brent Kennedy, Robyn Vaughan KennedyISBN 0865545162 (0-86554-516-2)
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These Melungeons were a remarkable people caught up in a nightmare not of their own making. Perhaps history can finally amend itself and belatedly recognize the incredible achievement of these brave and lonely people, who were among the earliest American pioneers, and bring at long last an end to the Inquisition. The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People by N. Brent Kennedy and Robyn Vaughan Kennedy is their story. [via]
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The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Dieby Katherine AshenbergISBN 0865477051 (0-86547-705-1)
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The Murder of Napoleonby David Hapgood, Ben WeiderISBN 0865530351 (0-86553-035-1)
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New Poemsby Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward A. SnowISBN 0865476128 (0-86547-612-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Poems'Book summary:Translated by Edward Snow Winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.
Rilke's move to Paris in 1902 and his close association with Rodin led him in a new direction in his poetry. Between 1906 and 1908 he produced a torrent of brilliant work that he published in two volumes under the title Neue Gedichte: "New Poems."
As translator Edward Snow writes, these books "together constitute one of the great instances of the lyric quest for objective experience." [via]
The New Testament: King James Versionby Richmond A. LattimoreISBN 0865474990 (0-86547-499-0)
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Noah's Children: Restoring the Ecology of Childhoodby Sara Bonnett SteinISBN 0865476446 (0-86547-644-6)
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The Occasions of Poetryby Thom GunnISBN 0865472076 (0-86547-207-6)
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Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruitby Mort RosenblumISBN 0865475261 (0-86547-526-1)
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The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the Worldby Hugh BrodyISBN 0865476381 (0-86547-638-1)
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In material terms, the hunters have been all but vanquished, yet in this profound and passionate book, Brody utterly dispels the notion that theirs is a lesser way of life. Drawing on his experiences among indigenous peoples as well as on the work of linguists, historians, and fellow anthropologists, he reveals the systems of thought, belief, and practice that distinguish the hunters from the farmers. Whereas the farmers are doomed to the geographical and spiritual restlessness embodied in the story of Genesis, Brody argues, the hunters' deep attachment to the place and ways of their ancestors stems from an enviable sense, distinctively expressed in thought, language, and behavior, that they are part of a web of relationships in the natural and spiritual worlds. Brody's aim, however, is not to elevate one mode of being over another; rather, it is to suggest that we might move beyond the familiar dichotomies and become more fully human. [via]
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Our Sustainable Tableby Robert ClarkISBN 0865474451 (0-86547-445-1)
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The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crimeby James E. GoodmanISBN 0865476586 (0-86547-658-6)
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Unfortunately, there was also widespread looting, vandalism, and arson. Even before police restored order, people began to ask and argue about why. Why did people do what they did when the lights went out? The argument raged for weeks but it was just like the night: lots of heat, little light--a shouting match between those who held fast to one explanation and those who held fast to another.
James Goodman cuts between accidents, encounters, conversations, exchanges, and arguments to re-create that night and its aftermath in a dizzying accumulation of detail. Rejecting simple dichotomies and one-dimensional explanations for why people act as they do in moments of conflict and crisis, Goodman illuminates attitudes, ideas, and experiences that have been lost in facile generalizations and analyses. Journalistic re-creation at its most exciting, Blackout provides a whirlwind tour of 1970s New York and a challenge to conventional thinking.More editions of The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime:
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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farinaby David HajduISBN 086547642X (0-86547-642-X)
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Positively 4th Street is very much a group portrait. When something amazing happens, Hajdu puts you right there: the unknown Baez barefoot in the rain, bedazzling the Newport Jazz Festival and becoming immortal overnight; the irresistibly irresponsible Fariña talking his folk-star wife out of shooting him dead with his own pistol; the "little spastic gnome" Dylan transmogrified into greatness onstage, bashing Joan with the searing lyrics of "She Belongs to Me". The book is as delectably gossipy as Vanity Fair (one of Hajdu's employers). Richard married the exceedingly young beauty Mimi and helmed their career, but he might have dumped her for big sister Joan, whose madcap humour and verbal wit harmonised with his--except that he ineptly killed himself on a motorcycle first. Bob mumblingly courted both sisters, but when he cruelly taunted the insecure Joan, Mimi yanked his hair back until he cried. The account of Bob and Joan's musical-erotic passion is first-rate music history and uproarious soap opera. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Pot on the Fire: Further Exploits of a Renegade Cookby John Thorne, Matt Lewis ThorneISBN 0865476209 (0-86547-620-9)
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The Practice of the Wild: Essaysby Gary SnyderISBN 0865474540 (0-86547-454-0)
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A Private History of Aweby Scott R. SandersISBN 0865477345 (0-86547-734-5)
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Religion and the Scientific Future: Reflections on Myth, Science, and Theologyby Langdon Brown GilkeyISBN 0865540306 (0-86554-030-6)
Hardcover, Mercer Univ Pr
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Rice Gold: James Hamilton Couper and Plantation Life on the Georgia Coastby James BagwellISBN 0865547971 (0-86554-797-1)
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Richard Sibbes: Puritanism and Calvinism in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart Englandby Mark DeverISBN 0865546576 (0-86554-657-6)
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Shapinsky's Karma, Bogg's Bills, and Other True-Life Talesby Lawrence WeschlerISBN 086547317X (0-86547-317-X)
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So This Is Depravityby Russell BakerISBN 0865530009 (0-86553-000-9)
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Son of the Morning Starby Evan ConnellISBN 0865475105 (0-86547-510-5)
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Sonnets To Orpheusby Rainer Maria Rilke, Edward SnowISBN 0865477213 (0-86547-721-3)
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The Splendid Outcastby Beryl Markham, Mary S. LovellISBN 0865473013 (0-86547-301-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Splendid Outcast'Book summary:Written in the '40s for magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal and Collier's, these eight stories belong both to their time and to their author, the aviatrix and horse-trainer whose bestselling West with the Nightdetailing her 1936 solo flight east to west across the Atlanticwas recently reissued. About horses, flying and romance, the early autobiographical stories in particular are vivid with details of African custom and landscape gleaned from the author's early life in Kenya. The last four stories, more obviously fictional and broadly romantic, are likely collaborative efforts of Markham with either her third husband, writer Raoul Schumacher, or her friend and fellow writer, Stuart Cloete; they are more commercial and less satisfying. That this accomplished woman wrote tales so determinedly romantic seems rather odd; yet, as Mary S. Lovell observes in helpful and clearly written introductions, such was the magazine market in those war years. West with the Night and this volume comprise Markham's known written work. [via]
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The Story of Cornby Betty FussellISBN 0865475458 (0-86547-545-8)
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The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green Worldby Linda Hogan, Brenda PetersonISBN 086547625X (0-86547-625-X)
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Since prehistory, plants--as sources of food, medicine, clothing, beauty, and life itself--have been the province of women. Yet no previous book has attempted to bring together the rich literature this husbandry has inspired. This burgeoning collection amply addresses that lack, with more than three dozen selections of nonfiction and poetry.
As in Intimate Nature, their previous anthology on women and animals (edited with Deena Metzger), Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson illuminate their subject from a range of perspectives. Here are curranderas and craftswomen whose legacy of plant wisdom safeguards our connection to the green world; botanists and geneticists; and visionaries like Rachel Carson, who show us the world--and our power to protect or destroy it--in a blade of grass. Here are Zora Neale Hurston on voodoo herbs, Sharman Apt Russell on the perfume of plants, Annick Smith on huckleberries, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas on the Everglades' "river of grass," Isabel Allende on the language of flowers, Susan Orleans on "Orchid Fever," Diane Ackerman on the rain forest, and Kathleen Norris on "Dreaming of Trees." Here is an eloquent "ode to mold," a paean to mulch, an elegy for elders. Here is a book that celebrates an ancient and ongoing relationship in a new and appealing way.More editions of The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World:
A Sweet Quartet: Sugar, Almonds, Eggs and Butterby Fran GageISBN 0865476098 (0-86547-609-8)
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A Sweet Quartet: Sugar, Almonds, Eggs, and Butter A Baker's Tour Including 33 Recipesby Fran GageISBN 0865476748 (0-86547-674-8)
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A Thousand Miles from Nowhere: Trucking Two Continentsby Graham CosterISBN 0865474893 (0-86547-489-3)
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To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towersby Philippe PetitISBN 0865476519 (0-86547-651-9)
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Turn Left at the Pubby George W. OakesISBN 0865531498 (0-86553-149-8)
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Virgin Time: In Search Of The Contemplative Lifeby Patricia HamplISBN 0865477167 (0-86547-716-7)
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West With the Nightby Beryl MarkhamISBN 0865473048 (0-86547-304-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'West With the Night'Book summary:One of the most beautifully crafted books I have ever read, with some of the most poetic prose passages I could imagine, such as the following, resonating with a stately and timeless quality so absent in our modern life:
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt. There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.
Born in England in 1902, Markham was taken by her father to East Africa in 1906. She spent her childhood playing with native Maruni children and apprenticing with her father as a trainer and breeder of racehorses. In the 1930s, she became an African bush pilot, and in September 1936, became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west. [via]More editions of West With the Night:
Westward the Womenby Nancy Wilson RossISBN 0865471835 (0-86547-183-5)
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The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharmaby Red PineISBN 0865473994 (0-86547-399-4)
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