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Wild Harmonies by Gayle Moore
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The text accompanying many of the images includes selections from the inspiring words of Henry David Thoreau.
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One-Straw Revolution, The
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By Masanobu Fukuoka, translated from the Japanese and edited by Larry Korn, with introduction by France Moore Lappe.
This manifesto about farming, eating and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food.
"One of the founding documents of the alternative food movement, and indispensable to anyone hoping to understand the future of food and agriculture."
5 x 8 inch format, paper back, 185 pp.
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Shop Class as Soulcraft
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An Inquiry into the Value of Work. Matthew B. Crawford's new book (2009) brings alive an experience that was once quite common but now seems to be receding from society -- the experince of making and fixing things with our own hands.
6 x 9 inch format, hard cover, 245 pp.
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
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A Year of Food Life, by Barbara Kingsolver.
"This is the story . . . of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air."
5 x 8 inch format, paper back, 370 pp.
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Vagabonding
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An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel.
Vagabonding is about taking time off from your normal life -- from six weeks to four months to two years -- to discover and experience the world on your own terms. "Rolf Potts has produced an engaging book that . . . makes readers aware of how many possibilities vagabonding offers them to enhance their lives, and how accessible the experience of long-term travel really is."
5 x 8 inch format, paper back, 200 pp.
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Pedaling Revolution
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How Cyclists are Changing American Cities. Author Jeff Mapes provides "great ammunition for those of us who would like to see American cities become more bike-friendly." This book traces the growth of bicycle advocacy and explores the environmental, safety, and health aspects of bicycling.
6 x 9 inch format, paper back, 288 pp.
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Of Woodland Pools, Spring-Holes & Ditches
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"Excerpts from the Journal of Henry David Thoreau, wherein he observes and reflects upon the nature of life and vernal pools."
Excerpts from the months of March, April, and May.
Engravings by Abigail Rorer.
Introduction by Bradley P. Dean.
Hard Cover, 8 x 10 inch format, 80 pp.
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Sibley's Birding Basics
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Sibley, David Allen, Sibley's Birding Basics. Alfred A. Knopf Publisher, 2002, 154pp. Paperback.
A how to book on identifying birds, including the basics of how to get started. Illustrated with fabulous drawings and watercolors. A must read guide for anyone wanting to begin bird watching.
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Common Birds and Their Songs
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Elliott, Lang and Read, Marie. Common Birds and Their Songs. Houghton Mifflin, 1998, 128pp. Paperback.
A colorful guidebook to 50 common and widespread North American birds. Photographs are accompanied by informative text, range maps and a 65 minute CD of high quality field recordings of each bird.
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Clearing Land
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Brox, Jane Clearing Land, Legacies of the American Farm. North Point Press, 192 pp. Paperback
In this, her third book about her family farm in Dracut, MA, Jane looks at the "larger consideration of the meaning of cleared land and its relationship to other iconic locations in American landscape: wilderness, prarie, mountain, city." She continues to write prose that reads as poetry.
Winner of Best Book of the Year: Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Monteray County Herald.
Winner of the New England Book Award for Non-Fiction.
Ms. Brox is a member of the Thoreau Society and currently lives in Maine.
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