Look Me in the Eye" is the moving, darkly funny story of growing up with Aspergers at a time when the diagnosis simply didnt exist. A born storyteller, Robison takes readers inside the head of a boy who teachers and other adults regarded as defective. Its a strange, sly, indelible account; sometimes alien yet always deeply human.
'These essays illuminate the spiritual dimension of our ecological crises with wisdom and depth. In addition, they constitute a substantive contribution to ecologizing religion, one of the crucial tasks of our time.' -Charlene Spretnak
Renowned explorer Hillary pens this account of the fateful 1998 trek he undertook to reach the South Pole. IN A GHOST COUNTRY revisits that strange land he and his teammates entered when delirium set in, snow blindness hypnotized, and ghosts from the past seemed to rise up out of the cruel and haunting landscape of the South Polar Region.
The first anthology to represent the full range of nature writing's rich and flourishing tradition, from lyrical essays to thoughtful encounters with new ethical and ecological concerns.
This memoir is set in the mountains of Vermont near Middlebury College, where the author teaches English and environmental studies. He points out that this part of New England is in the 1990s much wilder than it was in the 19th century, when Vermont was a fast-growing, booming place.
Author/designer Liz Aneloski demonstrates how to fold fabric to embellish beautiful quilts, stockings and more in this craft handbook. These 14 Christmas-themed projects include quilts, pillows, table runners, stockings, and even countdown calendars complete with folded pockets for little treats. The designs include a "Candy Canes & Flying Geese" ...
From "Walden" to "Arctic Dreams," nature writing is a powerful American literary tradition. The essays in the set combine biography, criticism, and in some cases, interviews to tell the story of each author. This set includes 70 biographical/critical essays on such writers as Rachel Carson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barry Lopez, Henry David Thoreau, ...
The pivotal figure in John Elder's latest book - itself a combination of environmental history, travel writing, literary criticism, and memoir - is the nineteenth-century diplomat and writer George Perkins Marsh, generally regarded now as Americais first environmentalist. Like Elder, Marsh was a Vermonter, and his diplomatic career took him for ...
"The height of our mountains", wrote Thomas Jefferson in his "Notes on the State of Virginia", 'has not yet been estimated with any degree of exactness'. In this sweeping anthology of nearly four centuries of nature writing from the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Michael P. Branch and Daniel J. Philippon take the full ...
Though not often recognized as environmental or agrarian literature, the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien demonstrate a complex and comprehensive ecological philosophy. The ecology of Middle-earth portrayed in "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings", and "The Silmarillion" brings together three potent and convincing elements of preservation and ...
"The Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications" is a comprehensive professional reference book that guides business analysts, scientists, engineers and researchers (both academic and industrial) through all stages of data analysis, model building and implementation. The Handbook helps one discern the technical and business ...
First discovered by Western audiences through his Hong Kong films "The Killer" and "Hard Bolled", Woo introduced the world to a new brand of psychologically frenzied action film. After relocating to the US in the early 1990s, Woo produced a trilogy of hard-charging action films - "Broken Arrow", "Face Off", and "Mission Impossible 2" - that were ...
Discontent with politics and politicians has led to calls for term limits in the belief that new faces would bring new perspectives and the influence of monied special interests would decrease. This innovative volume examines the effects of term limits by combining statistical analysis of the effects of terms limits on electoral competition, ...
The North Woods tradition of making maple syrup serves as an illuminating backdrop for John Elder's reflections on nature, literature, playfulness, and fatherhood, as he builds a sugaring house with his sons.
An account of religion in central and southern Appalachia. It focuses on Shubal Stearns, an influential early Baptist leader who did much to spread Christianity in the region. The author explores the disputes, theologies and personalities that pushed Stearns to prominence.
This text explores the way in which our attitudes toward nature are mirrored in, and influenced by poetry. It illustrates how poetry can identify, interpret and celebrate issues related to nature and our place in it, with examples from poets such as T.S. Eliot and Robinson Jeffers.
In 1853 the fabled Santa Fe trade drew a young Bostonian, John Kingsbury, to the dusty capital of America's newly-acquired New Mexico Territory. Junior partner of the prominent mercantile firm of Webb & Kingsbury, he remained in Santa Fe until 1861 and the outbreak of the Civil War. During his eight-year tenure, Kingsbury sent regular reports to ...
The Burgeoning Field of ecocriticism is beginning to address the work of ecopoets such as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin, and Wendell Berry, among others, whose poems increasingly deal with ecological and environmental issues. Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction assembles previously unpublished contributions from many of the most important ...
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