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“john waldman”

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  • Still the Same Hawk

    Reflections on Nature and New York

    by John Waldman ...
    This essay collection draws on natural history, urban ecology, and environmental politics to consider New York City's complex relationship to nature.How can a hawk nesting above Fifth Avenue become a citywide phenomenon? Why does a sudden butterfly migration at Coney Island energize the community? What makes the presence of a community garden or an empty lot ripple so differently through the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heartbeats in the Muck

    The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor

    by John Waldman ...
    "Gives the reader a sense of lost New York, of the incredibly rich and biologically diverse ecosystem that once was the lower Hudson River estuary." —Ted Steinberg, author of Gotham UnboundHeartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor's environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Running Silver

    Restoring Atlantic Rivers and Their Great Fish Migrations

    by John Waldman ...
    That one could “walk drishod on the backs” of schools of salmon, shad, and other fishes moving up Atlantic coast rivers was a not uncommon kind of description of their migratory runs during early Colonial times. Accounts tell of awe-inspiring numbers of spawners pushing their way upriver, the waters “running silver,” to complete life cycles that once replenished critical marine fisheries along the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder

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  • Saving Time

    Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture

    by Jenny Odell ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ‘time is money.’ . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing.”—Esquire“One of the most important books I’ve read in my life.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense WorldA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago Public Library, Electric Lit</... ... Read more

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  • On Trails

    An Exploration

    by Robert Moor ...
    New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award • Winner of the Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Award • “The best outdoors book of the year.” —Sierra ClubFrom a talent who’s been compared to Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, David Quammen, and Jared Diamond, On Trails is a wondrous exploration of how trails help us understand the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Letters to My Grandchildren

    by David Suzuki ...
    In this inspiring series of letters to his grandchildren, David Suzuki offers grandfatherly advice mixed with stories from his own remarkable life and explores what makes life meaningful. He challenges his grandchildren - and us - to do everything at full tilt. He explains why sports, fishing, feminism, and failure are important; why it is dangerous to deny our biological nature; and why First ... Read more

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  • The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed, prizewinning books of nonfiction, brings the same dazzling writing to the essays in Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit’s concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical style she combines commentary on history, justice, war and peace, and explorations of place, art, and ... Read more

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  • Rewilding Our Hearts

    Building Pathways of Compassion and Coexistence

    by Marc Bekoff ...
    In wildlife conservation, rewilding refers to restoring habitats and creating corridors between preserved lands to allow declining populations to rebound. Marc Bekoff, one of the world’s leading animal experts and activists, here applies rewilding to human attitudes. Rewilding Our Hearts invites readers to do the essential work of becoming reenchanted with the world, acting from the inside out, ... Read more

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  • A Passion for This Earth

    Writers, Scientists, and Activists Explore Our Relationship with Nature and the Environment

    by Rick Bass, Alan Weisman, Richard Mabey, Helen Caldicott ...
    David Suzuki's lifelong work as an environmentalist, naturalist, and scientist have influenced countless others in their fight to save the planet, 20 such devotees of them have contributed to this inspiring collection. These journalists, scientists, writers and environmentalists have taken their enthusiasm for Suzuki's philosophy and funneled it into their own personal recollections, manifestos, ... Read more

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  • Citizen Scientist

    Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction

    by Mary Ellen Hannibal ...
    A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year: "Intelligent and impassioned, Citizen Scientist is essential reading for anyone interested in the natural world."A Nautilus Award Winner in Ecology and EnvironmentAward-winning writer Mary Ellen Hannibal has long reported on scientists' efforts to protect vanishing species. But it was only through citizen science that she found she could take action ... Read more

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  • Living in the Anthropocene

    Earth in the Age of Humans

    by Thomas E. Lovejoy, Edward O. Wilson ...
    Explores the causes and implications of the Anthropocene, or Age of Humans, from multiple points of view including anthropological, scientific, social, artistic, and economic.Although we arrived only recently in Earth's timeline, humans are driving major changes to the planet's ecosystems. Even now, the basic requirements for human life--air, water, shelter, food, nature, and culture--are rapidly ... Read more

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