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John Burroughs (1837 1921) was an American naturalist important to the Conservation movement. He like Thoreau wrote essays on nature. Burroughs was ... More

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Covering a broad array of topics and reflecting the continuing diversity within the field of environmental history, Out of the Woods begins with ... More

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LIFE ON EARTH, David Attenborough's award-winning BBC series, presents fascinating speculations about why life has evolved in just the way it has, ... More

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LIFE ON EARTH, David Attenborough's award-winning BBC series, presents fascinating speculations about why life has evolved in just the way it has, ... More

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"The Origins of Modern Environmental Thought" provides readers with a concise and lively introduction to the seminal thinkers who created the modern ... More

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Noted Canadian and American authors address important wildlife survival issues.

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Kim Taplin believes that reverence for nature is vital to healthy spirituality and imagination. In this series of connected essays, generously ... More

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The eleven essays collected in "Cultivating the Colonies" demonstrate how the relationship between colonial power and nature reveals the nature of ... More

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One of America's leading conservationists looks toward the next century. Ehrenfeld has undertaken the "overwhelmingly difficult task" of describing ... More

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The Eye In The Thicket is the first in a new series of natural history essays from Thistledown Press. The essays in this inaugural volume were ... More

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Early in this volume, David Ehrenfeld describes what prophecy really is. Referring to the biblical prophets, he says they were not the "holy ... More

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This collection of vivid and eloquent testimonies by environmentalists, eco-theologians, and native peoples illustrates a variety of responses to the ... More

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"Exploration in Environmental History "represents four decades of writing from one of the most distinguished scholars in the field of environmental ... More

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No one illuminates the wonderful workings of the natural world as perceptively and enjoyably as Stephen Jay Gould. In this volume of reflections on ... More

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This collection of essays ranges from history to the latest theories in biology, from controversies over palaeontology to the origins of language. ... More

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The environmental "tipping point" we approach is more palpable each day, and people are seeing it in ways they can no longer ignore--we need only ... More

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This study situates John Burroughs, together with John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, as one of a trinity of thinkers who, between the Civil War and ... More

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While most scholars work within the safe, sturdy confines of conventional academics, Paul Shepard moved beyond convention, out under the open sky ... More

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First written in 1977, "Economics of Natural and Environmental Resources "presents a collection of articles written in exploration of the economic, ... More

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Philosopher and essayist Paul Shepard (1925-1996) brought to the environmental literature of the 1960s and '70s the political passion of the time, ... More

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This collection of vivid and eloquent testimonies by environmentalists, eco-theologians, and native peoples illustrates a variety of responses to the ... More

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Based on interviews with a dozen prominent environmental writers, this work explores how the art of storytelling might bring new perspectives and ... More

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