The Book of Stones
Who They Are and What They Teach
Written by Robert Simmons and Naisha Ahsian
Price: $29.95
North Atlantic Books
The Book of Stones is a new edition of the best-selling guide to some of Earth’s most beautiful natural objects. Two introductory chapters detail the authors’ theories about how to work with crystals and stones—including the concept of crystal resonance and the scientific observation that living organisms (such as ourselves) are...
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On the Integration of Nature
Post 9-11 Biopolitical Notes
Written by Richard Grossinger
Price: $15.95
North Atlantic Books
This collage-like book is an inquiry into the nature of life and of existence itself. Simultaneously philosophical, spiritual, and literary, it pushes the boundaries of this area of thought beyond the strictures of science, religion, and all other forms of ideology. Author Richard Grossinger dazzlingly blends narrative memoir, short science fiction...
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Seasons Among the Vines
Life Lessons from the California Wine Country
Written by Paula Moulton
Price: $16.95
Frog Books
Seasons Among the Vines explores the pleasures and pitfalls of following a lifelong dream. For Paula Moulton it was the dream of leaving the city for the California wine country to take up viticulture and gardening. In the process, she finds unexpected frustrations in running a farm and seeks help from...
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Acadia
The Soul of a National Park
Written by Steve Perrin
Price: $22.95
North Atlantic Books
Writer-photographer Steve Perrin believes there is no more intimate connection than the one between a natural setting and its inhabitants. This sumptuously illustrated book, containing over 250 photos, clearly demonstrates his conviction. Acadia features 60 different hikes throughout the year in Acadia National Park, each one containing a description of a...
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Souls in the Sea
Dolphins, Whales, and Human Destiny
Written by Scott Taylor
Price: $19.95
Frog Books
Austrailian Scott Taylor has devoted his life to studying dolphins and whales. In this poetic cetology compendium, he shows how the history, mythology, and scientific research surrounding these creatures is an index to what our future as a species can be. The author discusses the portrayal of dolphins and whales in...
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BirdTalk
Conversations with Birds
Written by Alan Powers and Richard Wheeler
Price: $14.95
Frog Books
For the last 20 years, Alan Powers, who lives near Cape Cod, has experimented with birdcalls - mimicking and answering the calls he hears around his country home, in cities, and abroad in France and Italy. In BirdTalk, he celebrates this connection with entertaining allusions to history, literature, travel, linguistics, and...
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Maya Atlas
The Struggle to Preserve Maya Land in Southern Belize
Written by Toledo Maya Cultural Council and Toledo Alcades Association
Price: $25.00
North Atlantic Books
The Maya Atlas was made by the forty-two Ke'kchi and Mopan Maya communities of southern Belize. The maps, text, drawings, photographs and interviews were done by Maya village researchers and cartographers elected by the communities. In their own words and with their own maps, the Maya describe their land and life...
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Printer's Catch
An Artist's Guide to Pacific Coast Edible Marine Animals
Written by Christopher Dewees
Price: $22.50
Frog Books
This classic book on the Japanese art of fish printing known as Gyotaku gives information on 32 of the most commercially important fish and shellfish families. There is at least one full-page Gyotaku fish print for each family. It also includes background on fish structure, biology, ecology, and commercial fishing for...
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From Eco-Cities to Living Machines
Principles of Ecological Design
Written by Nancy Todd and John Todd
Price: $19.95
North Atlantic Books
From Eco-cities to Living Machines presents the ecologically-based working designs and prototypes of biologist John Todd and writer and environmental activist Nancy Todd. Since 1969 with the founding of New Alchemy Institute on Cape Cod, the Todds have become known world-wide for their leadership in the restoration of pure water, bioremediation...
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Ecology, Meaning, and Religion
Written by Roy Rappaport
Price: $14.95
North Atlantic Books
"Two enterprises have proceeded in anthropology since ts earliest days. One, objective in its aspirations and inspired by biological disciplines, seeks explanation and is concerned to discover laws and causes. The other, subjective in its orientation and influenced by philosophy, linguistics, and the humatities, attempts interpretation and seeks to elucidate meanings...
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Ecocity Berkeley
Written by Richard Register
Price: $16.95
North Atlantic Books
Ecocity Berkeley offers innovative city planning solutions that would work anywhere, but the book offers a vision of what the future can be like with a fair amount of planning beforehand. This book is very inspirational, and could be used to advocate similar planning improvements in any large city. This book...
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Ecology and Consciousness
Traditional Wisdom on the Environment Second Edition
Edited by Richard Grossinger
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books
Rather than describe aspects of our global dilemma and pose interpretations and solutions, Ecology and Consciousness brings together a medley of voices crying out in Earth song. Some of them are sonorous, some of them shrill, some of them fully, some of them outrageous--all of them our paradox of consciousness in...
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Mending the Earth
A World for Our Grandchildren
Edited by Paul Rothkrug and Robert Olson
Price: $9.95
North Atlantic Books
The book is written from the conviction that people can create an ecologically sustainable and economically productive society. The voices in Mending the Earth are those of citizens who have been working to find strategies and solutions to our massive environmental problems. They write from the conviction that we can create...
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