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  • Environmental Literacy: Education as if the Earth Mattered

    by David W. Orr, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics."For the most part . . . we are still educating the young as if there were no planetary emergency." Yet, continues David Orr, the environmental crisis is "first and foremost a crisis of mind, perception, and values—hence, a challenge to those ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • You, Too, Could Write a Poem

    by David Orr ...
    A collection of reviews and essays by David Orr, the New York Times poetry columnist and one of the most respected critics in America today, his best work of the past fifteen years in one placePoetry is never more vital, meaningful, or accessible than in the hands of David Orr. In the pieces collected here, most of them written originally for the New York Times, Orr is at his rigorous, ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • Beautiful & Pointless

    A Guide to Modern Poetry

    by David Orr ...
    "David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr's a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom PerrottaAward-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hope Is an Imperative

    The Essential David Orr

    by David W. Orr ...
    For more than three decades, David Orr has been one of the leading voices of the environmental movement, championing the cause of ecological literacy in higher education, helping to establish and shape the field of ecological design, and working tirelessly to raise awareness of the threats to future generations posed by humanity’s current unsustainable trajectory.Hope Is an Imperative brings ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Road Not Taken

    Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong

    by David Orr ...
    A cultural “biography” of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is so ubiquitous that it’s easy to forget that it is, in fact, a poem. Yet poetry it is, and Frost’s immortal lines remain ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Earth in Mind

    On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect

    by David W. Orr ...
    In Earth in Mind, noted environmental educator David W. Orr focuses not on problems in education, but on the problem of education. Much of what has gone wrong with the world, he argues, is the result of inadequate and misdirected education that:alienates us from life in the name of human dominationcauses students to worry about how to make a living before they know who they areoveremphasizes ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Last Refuge

    Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror

    by David W. Orr ...
    "Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels" -SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1775Updated and revised following the 2004 elections, The Last Refuge describes the current state of American politics against the backdrop of mounting ecological and social problems, the corrosive influence of money, the corruption of language, and the misuse of terrorism as a political issue.Setting out an agenda that transcends ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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    Jojo Unplugged

    by Jamie Orr ...
    Narrated by Talon David ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 39 min

    The paparazzi can’t find her. Her agent can’t find her. Maybe love can.Pop superstar Jojo needs to disappear for a few weeks to finish writing songs for a new album and get some space from her controlling manager. Fortunately, when her trademark makeup and wigs come off, she’s practically invisible to reporters and fans. At a lakeside cabin in Vermont, she can work without distraction . . . until ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Down to the Wire

    Confronting Climate Collapse

    by David W. Orr ...
    "The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives.... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions." So writes David Orr in Down to the Wire, a sober and eloquent assessment of climate destabilization and an urgent call to action. Orr describes how political negligence ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Nature of Design : Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention

    Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention

    by David W. Orr ...
    The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "progress." The Nature of Design, on the other hand, is about starting things, specifically an ecological design revolution that changes how we provide food, shelter, energy, materials, and livelihood, and how we deal with waste. Ecological design is an emerging field that aims to recalibrate what humans do ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Judges of Origin

    Part 1

    by David Orr ...
    The Judges of Origin continues the story of the Freaks of Origin. Fox is dying and in a foreign country. It’s a race against the clock to meet his goals. Will he survive? Meanwhile in Origin, people are becoming increasingly aware of powers. It doesn’t take the government long before taking an interest in those with powers, and with almost all of the original Freaks graduated, it’s up to a new set ... Read more

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  • Encountering Riel

    by David D. Orr ...
    Willie Lorimer is a young poetry student who forgot to resign his commission in the Canadian militia. When he is called up to join the fight against the Métis rebel leader, Louis Riel, Willie is scared, but bolstered by his own naïveté. The journey to the heart of the rebellion is long and full of anguish. When the militia reach the West, things go tragically wrong, and their once-heroic cause is ... Read more

    $6.54 USD