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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,...
4) 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...
6) 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.
7) 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.
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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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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...
10) 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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11) 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...
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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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xiv, 324 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
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"After a decades-long economic slump, the city of Flint, Michigan, struggled to address chronic issues of toxic water supply, malnutrition, and food security gaps among its residents. A community-engaged research project proposed a resilience assessment that would use panarchy theory to move the city toward a more sustainable food system. Flint is one of many examples that demonstrates how panarchy theory is being applied to understand and influence...
19) Planetary
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A provocative and breathtaking wakeup call examining one of the truly extraordinary events of civilization, space travel, and looks at how this gave a totally different perspective on the Earth.
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278 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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"For centuries, humankind was connected to nature. Yet we've evolved to feel safer inside on our devices, despite the fact that most of us are our most calm, creative, and captivated outdoors. In response, writer and environmentalist Emma Loewe blends new research and ancient spiritual knowledge on the healing properties of landscape to prove why we need to return to nature for the sake of our health -- and the planet's." -- Back cover.
"From MindBodyGreen's...
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