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John Muir: Nature Writings" is an immersive collection that transports readers into the heart of the wilderness through the eloquent prose of the legendary naturalist John Muir. This anthology includes Muir's seminal works, including "The Story of My Boyhood and Youth," a nostalgic exploration of his early life, and "My First Summer in the Sierra," a captivating account of his adventures amid the majestic peaks.
In "The Mountains of California,"...
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The author has collective experience with the how, perhaps even the why, of humans being fucked. It includes his growing up on a farm, surviving the Vietnam war, and working to improve conditions of human beings being human. Fucked is not used to offend religious nor rational thinking. It's to add urgency to an approaching end-state for much of life on our planet. Humans simply must change or will be changed. They can begin by adding entropy as a...
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Beyond Thorns is a poetic avowal of the fringe between the human world and nature. It goes beyond imagination into the realm of perception and existence itself. It is an endearing acceptance of sorrow that is ingrained in the being's interactions with nature. The poetry in this collection subsumes romantic and philosophical (almost prophetic) undertones, as it comes to grips with lived experiences of love, nature, and God. The poems dive subsurface...
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A masterful new collection from award-winning poet Russell Thornton.
With intense lyricism, Thornton records his imaginative movement between the element of water, waking to "the aloneness of water," and the phenomenon of light, comprehending "light" as "fate" and "love" as "memory of light." In the process, Thornton highlights how hard lives can manifest beauty and affirmation. A mother transcends degrading circumstances through laughter. A long-lost...
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Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poet's motherland and their experience as a parent, herbalist and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory. Jess Housty grapples with the natural and the supernatural, transformation and the hard work of living that our bodies are doing-held by mountains, by oceans, by ancestors and by the grief and love that come with communing.
Housty's...
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Unlock Your True Potential: A Tortoise Inspirational Odyssey Tully had always been a peculiar tortoise. While his fellow land tortoises were contentedly plodding through the rocky terrain, munching on leaves, and engaging in their leisurely routines, Tully's eyes were always drawn to the distant horizon where the endless expanse of the ocean met the sky. One day, as he observed a group of sea turtles gliding effortlessly through the crystal-clear...
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National Geographic
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2024
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Fans of the adorable internet sensation Fiona the Hippo and other animal loving kids will be excited to read about the amazing lives of hippos in the wild.
What's that animal with tiny round ears and a big nose peeking out of the river? It's a hippopotamus! Early readers will learn all about these huge, mysterious mammals in this Level 1 reader from National Geographic Kids.
From close-up photos of their gigantic teeth and adorable babies
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Disney Book Group
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2023
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This stunningly illustrated picture book will inspire every budding paleontologist with the impressive words that dino-crazy little kids love to learn—and show off! Featuring more than 50 wow-worthy words, with definitions and phonetic pronunciation, this info-packed picture book will help your little explorer sound like a dinosaur expert in no time. They'll even learn about the right tools to bring to an excavation site! But the fun doesn't stop...
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Morning Light, Quiet Nights is an invitation to escape the chaos of everyday living and immerse yourself in the calming world of nature. In this collection of poems, you will find the whimsical musings of a turtle on an adventure and the silly dance of an earthworm. Other poems will inspire you to think about what, beside footprints, you leave behind and how silence enables you to hear that which couldn't be heard before.
This book is for those...
10) Commune: A Novel
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This is the spellbinding story of six young dreamers who set out from Vancouver in the seventies to haphazardly establish a back-to-the-land commune on a small island in the Salish Sea.
Against all odds, the dream endures for half a century through fierce internecine squabbling, occasional community uproar, births and deaths, disasters in animal husbandry, the War in the Woods, RCMP raids and the blandishments of oily developers. But throughout...
11) Earth in Peril
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I have lived in many places, done quite a potpourri of work, and have known many unique individuals. Amidst the variety that spiced my life an integral part of a significant period of time was writing in journals. This started on San Jaun Island in Washington State in 1975. Through good times and hard times I wrote almost daily for over 20 years, recording observations, thoughts, feelings, dreams (both the nighttime and the aspirational varieties),...
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This influential guide by the Reverend L. L. Langstroth, "the father of modern beekeeping," revolutionized the practice of beekeeping. Originally published in 1853, his work constitutes the first descriptive treatise of modern bee management - its innovations allowed people to engage in actual beekeeping, rather than simply handling bee domiciles and extracting the honey. This book explains and illustrates techniques still employed 150 years later...
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Sharon R. Krause is the William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor of Political Science at Brown University. She is the author of Freedom Beyond Sovereignty, Civil Passions (Princeton), and Liberalism with Honor.
The case for an eco-emancipatory politics to release the Earth from human domination and free us all from lives that are both exploitative and exploited
Human domination of nature shapes every aspect of our lives today, even as it remains...
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