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The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers
MARTIN DOYLE · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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How rivers have shaped American politics, economics, and society from the beginnings of the Republic to today. In this fresh and powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle explores how rivers have often been the source of arguments at the heart of the American experiment -- over... |
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Limits of the Known
DAVID ROBERTS · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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A celebrated mountaineer and author searches for meaning in great adventures and explorations, past and present.David Roberts, "veteran mountain climber and chronicler of adventures" (Washington Post) , has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes... |
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
STEVEN PINKER · Viking
Pages: 576
Format: Hardcover
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The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.Is... |
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The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
ADAM NICOLSON · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land."A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall,... |
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Raven Walks Around the World: Life of a Wandering Activist
Thom Henley · Harbour Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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In 1970, twenty-two-year-old Thom Henley left Michigan and drifted around the northwest coast, getting by on odd jobs and advice from even odder characters. He rode the rails, built a squatter shack on a beach, came to be known as "Huckleberry" and embarked on adventures along... |
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The Earth Gazers: On Seeing Ourselves
CHRISTOPHER POTTER · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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It will soon be the fiftieth anniversary of the first manned mission to the moon, when men first saw for themselves the Earth as a sphere falling through space -- they saw a world without borders and these images continue to give hope and inspire.Only twenty-four people have seen the whole... |
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A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice
William E Glassley · Bellevue Literary Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
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"Very few people have spent as much time as William E. Glassley in such deep wilderness. So it would behoove us to pay attention even if he had not brought back such a fascinating, lovely, and useful set of observations. This is a remarkable book." -- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature... |
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