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Publisher
Shearwater Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
xiii, 191 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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The story of Brooke Williams' personal journey, balancing the expectations of family and society, and the needs and desires of his heart. He identifies a balance we all must strike between our cultural obligations and the strong pull toward wildness that our evolutionary heritage exerts on the human psyche.
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xviii, 249 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In her newest collection, Moore selects essays that celebrate the music of the natural world as a reminder of what can be taken from us-the yowl of wolves, tick of barnacles, laughter of children, shriek of falling mountains. Alongside these selections are brand new essays born from the sorrow and iniquity of this new age of extinction, all bearing witness to the glories of this world and the sins against it. Each group of essays moves, as Moore...
Publisher
Bear & Company
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xxiv, 359 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Indigenous leaders and other visionaries suggest solutions to todayś global crisis: Original Instructions are ancient ways of living from the heart of humanity within the heart of nature ; Explores the convergence of indigenous and contemporary science and the re-indigenization of the worldś peoples ; Includes authoritative indigenous voices, including John Mohawk and Winona LaDuke. For millennia the worldś indigenous peoples have acted as guardians...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xi, 420 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Renowned naturalist and bestselling author Jane Goodall examines the critical role that trees and plants play in our world. In her wise and elegant new book, Jane Goodall blends her experience in nature with her enthusiasm for botany to give readers a deeper understanding of the world around us. Long before her work with chimpanzees, Goodall's passion for the natural world sprouted in the backyard of her childhood home in England, where she climbed...
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English
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"Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation"--
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English
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As a leading researcher in the field of biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer understands the delicate state of our world. But as an active member of the Potawatomi nation, she senses and relates to the world through a way of knowing far older than any science. In Braiding Sweetgrass, she intertwines these two modes of awareness -- the analytic and the emotional, the scientific and the cultural -- to ultimately reveal a path toward healing the rift that grows...
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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xiii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human--and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based on four years of fieldwork among the Runa of Ecuador's Upper Amazon, Eduardo Kohn draws on his rich ethnography to explore how Amazonians interact with the many creatures that inhabit one of the world's...
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