A Celebration of Gardens
Timber Press, Incorporated, October 1993. Oversized Hardcover. Jacket chipped and torn. More
Timber Press, Incorporated, October 1993. Oversized Hardcover. Jacket chipped and torn. More
Agate Midway, January 2023. Hardcover. From National Book Award-nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, spanning her ancestry in Eastern Europe, her childhood in rural Indiana, and her new life set in the remote forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Fieldwork explores how Regan's..... More
Trinity University Press, August 2022. Paper Back. Looking for adventure and continuing a process of self-discovery, Janisse Ray has repeatedly set out to immerse herself in wildness, to be wild, and to learn what wildness can teach us. From overwintering with monarch butterflies in Mexico to counting birds in Belize..... More
Random House (NY), September 1992. Hardcover. The world's most celebrated team of science writers explores the origins of human life on Earth--a wonderfully entertaining and awe-inspiring excursion through more than a billion years of evolution. Beginning with a vivid account of Darwin and his theory of evolution, the authors set..... More
Simon & Schuster, January 2023. Hardcover. A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum. Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction..... More
Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1974. Reprint. Cloth. {4 & 1/2' x 7 & 1/2'} In tattered & torn DJ with large rough hewn chunk torn from top of front panel and top of spine and about one-half of rear panel. Much worn jacket edges. 5 inch tear snaking its way from..... More
Ernest P.Edward, 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. 2ND Edition {6' x 9'} In well edgeworn dustjacket with tears and front flap clipped. Pine green cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Tight binding [282 pages]. More
JONATHAN CAPE & BH - TRADE. Trade Paperback. More
Harvard Business School Press, October 2006. Trade Paperback. Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs. Frans Johansson's..... More
Little Brown and Company, May 2022. Hardcover. A "sublime" and "radically original" exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder). Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during..... More
Houghton Mifflin Co., January 1973. First Edition. Cloth. 12mo. in chipped, torn and tattered jacket. Flap not clipped. Green cloth covered boards with black lettering & illustration on front panel and along spine. Maps of Mexico on front and back end pages. [298 pages]. More
Houghton Mifflin, January 1947. Cloth. 12mo. Without dustjacket. Green cloth covered boards with black lettering & illustration on spine and front panel. Boards bowed. Corners bent & bumped. Roadside silhouettes on front end pages. Flight silhouettes on rear end pages. Previous owner's name in ink ffep. [230 pages]. More
Oxford University Press, USA, August 2016. Trade Paperback. The million copy international bestseller, critically acclaimed and translated into over 25 languages. As influential today as when it was first published, The Selfish Gene has become a classic exposition of evolutionary thought. Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, October 2017. Trade Paperback. Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments..... More
Livingston Publishing, January 1970. Hardcover. Octavo. Turquoise cloth covered boards with somewhat faded gold illustration and lettering. Cloth heavily worn along board edges, especially bottom. Name and address scrawled in ballpoint ffep. Tanning of margins and gutter to end pages front and rear. Marginal ink notations on a few pages..... More
St. Martin's Griffin, January 2010. Trade Paperback. Time surrounds us. It defines our experience of the world; it echoes through our every waking hour. Time is the very foundation of conscious experience. Yet as familiar as it is, time is also deeply mysterious. We cannot see, hear, smell, taste, or..... More
Old Farmer's Almanac, August 2022. Paper Back. Happy New Almanac Year! It's time to celebrate the 231st edition of The Old Farmer's Almanac! Long recognized as North America's most beloved and best-selling annual, this handy yellow book fulfills every need and expectation as a calendar of the heavens, a time..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2022. Hardcover. Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2022. Paper Back. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times..... More
Pegasus Books, February 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. An illuminating and lively narrative of Charles Darwin's formative years and his adventurous voyage aboard the H.M.S. Beagle. The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career.--Charles Darwin Charles Darwin--alongside..... More
Metropolitan Books, October 2014. Hardcover. #1 New York Times Bestseller In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), October 2005. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times bestseller "Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history."--Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."--Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in..... More
Seven Stories Press, April 2009. Trade Paperback. What We Leave Behind is a piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. Here, award-winning author..... More
Seven Stories, June 2006. Trade Paperback. The long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore how this..... More
Seven Stories Press, June 2006. Trade Paperback. Whereas Volume 1 of Endgame presents the problem of civilization, Volume 2 of this pivotal work illustrates our means of resistance. Incensed and hopeful, impassioned and lucid, Endgame leapfrogs the environmental movement's deadlock over our willingness to change our conduct, focusing instead on..... More