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“As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).

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A Sand County Almanac is a 1949 non-fiction book written by American ecologist and environmentalist Aldo Leopold. Describing the land around Leopold's home in Sauk County, Wisconsin and his thoughts on developing a "land ethic," it was edited and published by his son, Luna, a year after Leopold's death from a heart attack. The collection of essays is considered to be a landmark book in the American conservation movement.

Annalee Newitz is the founding editor of the science Web site io9.com and a journalist with a decade’s experience in writing about science, culture, and the future for such publications as Wired, Popular Science, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. She is the editor of the anthology She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Geeky Stuff and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She lives in San Francisco. 

Lopez's journey across our frozen planet is a celebration of the Arctic in all its guises. A hostile landscape of ice, freezing oceans and dazzling skyscapes. Home to millions of diverse animals and people. The stage to massive migrations by land, sea and air. The setting of epic exploratory voyages. And, in crystalline prose, Lopez captures the magic of the Arctic - the essential mystery and beauty of a continent that has enchanted man's imagination and ambition for centuries.

Erik Olin Wright is Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of many books, including Classes, Interrogating Inequality, Class Counts, Deepening Democracy (with Archon Fung), and Envisioning Real Utopias. For more information on Envisioning Real Utopias and the Real Utopias project, and to access book content, please visit <a href="http://realutopias.org/">realutopias.org</a> (site in progress).

London: Simon & Schuster. 2003. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition in Near Fine Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to reverse of front free endpaper. 247 pages. About a little-known man and the science he founded, The Man Who Found Time is also a parable about the power of books to shape the history of ideas. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all... Read more about this item

Edizioni Agricole. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. Ex-Library hardbound, with gilt lettering. Very clean and tight with minor age-toning. Text in English. ; 246 pages .

London: Faber & Faber. 1944. Octavo Size [approx 16x24cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Brown cloth boards with gilt to spine. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 313 pages. . 3rd Impression. Hardback.

Adelaide: Published by Author. 1975. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Loose papers housed in card folder. Folder a little worn. Draft report stapled [19 pages]. Appendix 1 [USDA Criteria for Soil Interpretations] slightly tanned [not paginated but about 25 pages]. 2 Black and white Maps with clear acetate overlay - in good order. All stored in grey folder which is dis-coloured along edges and beginning to tear along top 5 cms. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.... Read more about this item

Melbourne: CSIRO Australia. 1983. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good+ condition. No dustjacket - as issued. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. B/W maps. Coloured endpaper maps. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 928 pages. This book draws upon 50 years of research experience, by 67 authors, many of... Read more about this item

New York: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation. 1965. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good+ Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Small closed tear to DJ (no loss) Previous Bookshop Stamp to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 151 pages. In this book Henry George discusses the distressed conditions of Ireland struggling under the yoke of English landlordism. . Reprint. Hardback.

London: Quercus. 2008. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 192 pages. . Reprint. Softcover.

London: Quercus. 2008. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine laminated boards in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs. 224 pages. A satellite portrait of the planet. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

New York: Birch Lane Press. 1990. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 255 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

London: Mitchell Beazley. 2003. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs. 176 pages. With its informative and approachable text, timelines, photographs and artworks, this book tells the story of our place in nature and how these discoveries have irrevocably changed our world view. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. .... Read more about this item

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1968. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. xiv, 205 pages. The account of an intensive field study of a single village, typical of Indian peasant village life. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.