Counterpoint, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "Berry's latest collection of essays is the reminiscence of a literary life. It is a book that acknowledges a lifetime of intellectual influences, and in doing so, positions Berry more squarely as a......
Sierra Club Books, 1995. Trade Paperback. 338 pages. Forewords by Lester R. Brown and James Hillman. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "Ecopsychology" marks the coming together of leading-edge psychologists and ecologists to redefine sanity on a personal and planetary scale. Here is the first in-depth exploration of an exciting new.....
Shoemaker & Hoard, December 2003. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Berry's second collection of essays was first published in 1972, and contained eight essays, including the seminal Think Little, which was printed in The Last Whole Earth Catalogue and reprinted around the globe, and the splendid.....
Perseus Books Group, October 1996. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This popular collection features six essays on sustainability and stewardship from one of Americas most important cultural critics. Provocative, intimate, and thoughtful, Another Turn of the Crank reaches to the heart of Wendell Berrys concern for our nation.....
Counterpoint, May 2001. Trade Paperback. "[A] scathing assessment . . . Berry shows that Wilson's much-celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of knowledge is nothing more than a fatuous subordination of religion, art, and everything else that is good to science . . . Berry is one.....
Counterpoint, May 2015. Trade Paperback. The letters are valuable for ecologists, students, and teachers of contemporary American literature and for those of us eager to know how these two distant neighbors networked, negotiated, and remained friends. --San Francisco Chronicle In Distant Neighbors, both Berry and Snyder come across as honest.....
The Experiment, August 2016. Hardcover. Ditch your fancy electric gadgetry and learn to see Earth's most famous feature with your own eyes. A handsome, illustrated guide. A New York Times Bestseller A Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016 Read the sea like a Viking and interpret ponds.....
Dover Publications, May 1993. Trade Paperback. Philosopher, naturalist, poet and rugged individualist, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves, to follow the dictates of their own conscience and to make an art of their lives. This representative sampling of his thought includes five of.....
Viking Adult, September 2014. Hardcover. A brilliant study of Aristotle as biologist The philosophical classics of Aristotle loom large over the history of Western thought, but the subject he most loved was biology. He wrote vast volumes about animals. He described them, classified them, told us where and how they.....
New World Library, March 2012. Trade Paperback. The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis.....
Grove Press, July 2021. Trade Paperback. From the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world. Animals don't exist in order to teach us things.....
W. W. Norton & Company, March 2017. Trade Paperback. Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, a classic of our time, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond dismantles.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), May 2011. Trade Paperback. "A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why." --Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book Review Acclaimed author of American Catch and The Omega Princple and life-long fisherman, Paul Greenberg takes us.....
Broadway Books, July 2000. Trade Paperback. In this fascinating book, wildlife expert and enthusiast Warner Shedd refutes popular animal myths like squirrels remembering where they bury nuts, wolves howling at the moon, and oppossums playing dead. Have you ever seen a flying squirrel flapping through the air, watched a beaver.....
W W Norton & Co Inc, May 2006. Trade Paperback. When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in.....
Picador, January 2015. Trade Paperback. Kolbert, a New Yorker writer, is a modern-day Rachel Carson, raising a hue and cry over coming environmental catastrophes. This book makes that case that the earth is at the beginning of great extinction period (like when an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs). This one.....
Heyday, August 2016. Trade Paperback. Wildness beats in the heart of California's urban areas. In Los Angeles, residents are rallying to build one of the largest wildlife crossings in the world because of the plight of one lonely mountain lion named P-22. Porpoises cavort in San Francisco Bay again because.....
Houghton Mifflin, October 2002. Trade Paperback. The classic that launched the environmental movement Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did exactly that. The outrcrythat followed its publication in 1962 forced the banning of DDT and spurred the revolutionary changes in the.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, December 2017. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a......
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, December 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other Minds Although mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant.....
Trinity University Press, February 2014. Hardcover. A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. There's no mystery to chopping down a tree. But how do you put back together a tree that's been felled? Mystical instructions are required, and that's what W. S. Merwin provides in his prose piece "Unchopping a......
Scientific Amereican Library, 1989. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Scientific American library, 1995. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. In Atmosphere, Climate, and Change, world renowned experts on the chemistry of the atmosphere Thomas E. Graedel and Paul J. Crutzen take us behind the scenes of local climate change to reveal the.....
Scientific American Library, 1997. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Exploring the scientific side of the Gaia hypothesis, this work describes how living organisms assure their survival by actively participating in complex cycling of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur. Updates are provided on the.....
Scientific American Library, 1996. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Beginning with a discussion of the scientific and economic principles relevant to the conservation of biodiversity, the text explores the causes of extinction and consequences of habitat loss. It also includes endangered species.....