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Natural History of the Senses
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Diane Ackerman writes a detailed meditation on each of the five senses, seeing them not merely as sense organs but as important doors into the truths of our culture. Ackerman refreshingly combines a gift for lyrical language with a scientist's passion for facts.
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
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Diane Ackerman
A true story--as powerful as "Schindler's List"--in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
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An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
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Diane Ackerman
This time around, poet and nature writer Diane Ackerman looks at the brain, exploring a complex subject not only from the scientific side but from more individual and personal angles, and never ceasing to marvel at the brain's capabilities.
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A Natural History of Love
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Diane Ackerman
In this interdisciplinary approach to most lively of subjects--love--Diane Ackerman combs through history, literature, biology, and pop culture in this seductive volume. She probes and prods at every aspect of the subject including adultery, aphrodisiacs, the kiss, Freud, and courtly love.
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Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
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Diane Ackerman
In CULTIVATING DELIGHT, Diane Ackerman introduces readers to her garden, weeds and all, and muses on the connections between plants and people, and the effect of gardening on the human spirit.
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Deep Play
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Diane Ackerman
Ackerman defines "deep play" as an activity that can transport a person into an altered state in which they are fully absorbed and fully alive. Common to children, deep play is something adults too are capable of, says Ackerman, and she finds it not only in such experiences as scuba diving and mountaineering, but also in creating art and exploring ...
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Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World
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Paul Hawken, Diane Ackerman, Robert Redford (Foreword by)
Drawing on the work of some of the finest photojournalists in the world, Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World focuses on the entire safe drinking water story: its origins, its implications, its heroes and its solutions.
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The Bard on the Brain: Understanding the Mind Through the Art of Shakespeare and the Science of Brain Imaging
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Paul M Matthews, M.D., Jeffery McQuain, Diane Ackerman (Foreword by)
Paul Matthews describes the center-stage role of the brain in famous scenes from Shakespeare's plays with the use of colour brain scans. Interwoven with these are the interpretations of many of the most significant soliloquies in all of Shakespeare's plays.
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The Book of Love
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Diane Ackerman (Editor), Jeanne Mackin (Editor)
A selection of letters, poetry, fiction, essays and memoirs, this book celebrates our greatest pastime and obsession. A treasury of more than 200 works, it is a panorama of the finest writing about the many moods and majesties of love, from all the veils of flirtation, seduction and marriage to the tempests of suspicion, jealousy and heartache. ...
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The Curious Naturalist
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Diane Ackerman, Jennifer Ackerman (Editor), Michael Parfit
In tours of nine North American ecosystems ranging from backyards to sandy shores, renowned naturalists, writers and photographers offer step-by-step instructions for a host of practical and intriguing outdoor skills and simple naturalist's techniques--from identifying trees to finding fossils. 356 full-color photographs and paintings.
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The moon by whale light : and other adventures among bats, penguins, crocodilians, and whales
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Diane Ackerman
In her essays, most of which were published in The New Yorker, Diane Ackerman enlists her habit of close observation and her gift for lyrical descriptions to describe, from on site, the habits of bats, humpback whales, and other animals--most memorably, perhaps, a penguin colony where she assists in feeding the baby penguins.
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The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
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Diane Ackerman
From the author of A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SENSES comes this rare glimpse of those species likely to become extinct. From the golden lion tamarin to monk seals, the monarch butterfly to the short-tailed albatross, Ackerman rejoices in these fantastic creatures with rich and evocative language.
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A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis
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Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman writes vividly of the hours she has spent volunteering at a suicide prevention center taking calls and counseling people in crisis.
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Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire
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Diane Ackerman
Ackerman shares her experience undergoing intense psychoanalysis in these passionate and self-probing poems.
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Animal Sense
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Diane Ackerman, Peter Sis (Illustrator)
This is a collection of poems about the five senses as experienced and enjoyed by members of the animal kingdom. Illustrations accompany the verses.
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Moon by Whalelight
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Diane Ackerman
In a rare blend of scientific fact and poetic truth, the acclaimed author of A Natural History of the Senses explores the activities of whales, penguins, bats, and crocodilians, plunging headlong into nature and coming up with highly entertaining treasures.
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Jaguar of sweet laughter : new & selected poems
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Diane Ackerman
Poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman brings her usual heightened awareness and her gift for vivid language to the poems in this 1991 collection.
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Twilight of the Tenderfoot: A Western Memoir
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Diane Ackerman
In the twenty-some years since award-winning writer Diane Ackerman first visited the Tequesquite ranch in New Mexico, she has delighted readers with her rich, observant prose in such books as A Natural History of the Senses and, most recently, Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden. However, her first nonfiction book, Twilight of the ...
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I Praise My Destroyer: Poems
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Diane Ackerman
This sixth collection by Diane Ackerman, the well-known nature writer, contains rich imagery describing the beauty of everyday pleasures, as well as meditations on death and longing. The passionate depth present in a poem describing the pain of psychotherapy is brought equally to bear on a poem describing an apricot.
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Sandi Fellman: Open Secret(cl)
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Sandi Fellman (Photographer), Diane Ackerman
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Deep Play: A Climber's Odyssey from Llanberis to the Big Walls
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Paul Pritchard
Mountaineer, Paul Pritchard recounts some of his historic climbs, both in this country and around the world.
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Secret Spaces of Childhood
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Elizabeth Goodenough (Editor), Diane Ackerman (Contributions by), Robert Coles, M.D. (Contributions by)
This eclectic, wide-ranging anthology of essays, art, poetry, fiction, and memoir gathers distinguished contributors, from Wole Soyinka to Joyce Carol Oates
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In Our Nature
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DK Publishing, Diane Ackerman (Foreword by)
This collection of nature writing joins the observations of traditional nature writers, like Ackerman, with more offbeat explorations of the fine line dividing man from beast by Doctorow, Atwood, Lopez, and others.
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Cultivating Delight
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In CULTIVATING DELIGHT, Diane Ackerman introduces readers to her garden, weeds and all, and muses on the connections between plants and people, and the effect of gardening on the human spirit.
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Animal Attractions
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Diana Edkins, Diane Ackerman (Illustrator), Kitty Hawks
One hundred photographs by 52 contemporary photographers, including William Wegman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tina Barney, Elliot Erwitt,and several others.
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