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"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders,...
5) Blue desert
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xx, 193 pages ; 22 cm
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Presents a view of the Southwest that seeks to measure how rapid growth has taken its toll on the land.
"This reissue of Charles Bowden's third book-length work includes a new foreword by Francisco Cantú"--Provided by publisher.
6) My Ishmael
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288 pages ; 21 cm
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Traces the relationship between a lowland gorilla with telepathic powers and a humanitarian twelve-year-old girl, who challenges his role and his wisdom as a teacher of humanity.
7) Co-creation
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Co-Creation, the fourth book and centerpiece of the Series, paints a dramatic living image of the creation of the Universe and humanity's place in this creation, making this primordial mystery relevant to our everyday living today. Deeply metaphysical yet at the same time down-to-Earth practical, this poetic heart-felt volume helps us uncover answers to the most significant questions about the essence and meaning of the Universe and the nature and...
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x, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, this text shows how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity's fate.
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"'The Sacred Balance has a beautiful spirit.'--E.O. Wilson With a new foreword from Robin Wall Kimmerer, New York Times-bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass -- and an afterword from Bill McKibben -- this special 25th anniversary edition of a beloved bestseller invites readers to see ourselves as part of nature, not separate. The world is changing at a relentless pace. How can we slow down and act from a place of respect for all living things?...
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xiii, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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"Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism,...
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Movement Matters is a collection of essays in which biomechanist Katy Bowman continues her groundbreaking investigation of the mechanics of our sedentary culture and the profound potential of human movement. Here she widens her You are how you move message and invites us to consider our personal relationship with sedentarism, privilege, and nature. Bowman explores: --how convenience often means less movement, not more time --the missing movement...
13) Who are we?
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Who Are We?, the fifth book of the Ringing Cedars Series, describes the author's search for real-life 'proofs' of Anastasia's vision presented in the previous volumes. Finding these proofs and taking stock of ongoing global environmental destruction, Vladimir Megre describes further practical steps for putting Anastasia's vision into practice. Full of beautiful realistic images of a new way of living in co-operation with the Earth and each other,...
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(Vladimir),Ringing cedars volume 3
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vi, 236 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Nothing you have read in Books 1 and 2 has prepared you for Book 3--The Space of Love. News of Anastasia's powerful abilities has reached people in high places. Someone wants her captured. As Megre attempts to return to the forest--where Anastasia has borne him a son--he finds is way blocked. A helicopter hovers over her glade as armed agents close in. But these men with machine guns flee in horror when Anastasia gives them a terrifying taste of hell--and...
15) Rites of love
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(Vladimir),Ringing cedars volume 8, pt. 2
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vi, 285 pages ; 22 cm.
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In 1984, Jack Loeffler produced a radio series entitled "Southwest Sound Collage." His primary listener was his great friend author Edward Abbey who said, "Loeffler, this radio series should be a book." Thus, "Headed Upstream" first appeared in 1989 shortly after Abbey's death. The challenging interviews that appear herein (Edward Abbey, Andrew Weil, John Nichols, Stewart Udall, and Gary Snyder, to name a few) reflect many points of view from anarchist...
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"Douglas W. Tallamy's first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of readers to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new book, Tallamy takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots approach to conservation. Nature's Best Hope shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors...
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"Readers of Church of the Wild: Many readers who loved Church of the Wild are now considering this approach to church and are looking for resources for initiating and sustaining their own gatherings. Interfaith readers, SBNR readers, and others who are concerned about the environment and who want to find ways to connect to the land and to each other. Wild Goose Festival attenders"-- Provided by publisher.
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