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  • Writing for Animals

    New perspectives for writers and instructors to educate and inspire

    by John Yunker, Joanna Lilley, Lisa Johnson, Sangamithra Iyer, Alex Lockwood, Midge Raymond, Kipp Wessel, Hunter Liguore, Rosemary Lombard, Hannah Sandoval, Paula MacKay, Marybeth Holleman, Beth Lyons ...
    A unique anthology of articles and essays to inspire animal-themed creative writingDespite all we know about the sentience of animals, society tends to view and treat nonhuman animals as lesser creatures. And for society to change its views, writers must change their views. We must look closely at how we depict animals and ask ourselves difficult questions. For example, are we using animals for ... Read more

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  • Inside Animal Hearts and Minds

    Bears That Count, Goats That Surf, and Other True Stories of Animal Intelligence and Emotion

    by Belinda Recio ...
    As Charles Darwin suggested more than a century ago, the differences between animals and humans are of degree and not of kind.” Not long ago, ethologists denied that animals had emotions or true intelligence. Now, we know that rats laugh when tickled, magpies mourn as they cover the departed with greenery, female whales travel thousands of miles for annual reunions with their gal pals, seals ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Beyond Words

    What Animals Think and Feel

    by Carl Safina ...
    The New York Times BestsellerOrion Book Award WinnerLannan Literary Award Winner“Dr. Safina is a terrific writer, majestic and puckish in equal measure, with a contagious enthusiasm...Dr. Safina draws out haunting resonances between animal lives and our own... " —Gregory Cowles, The New York Times"I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they fe... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • No Time To Spare

    Thinking About What Matters

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, a collection of thoughts—always adroit, often acerbic—on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation.Ursula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: “If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.”On cultural perceptions of fantasy: “The direction of escape is toward ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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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  • When Elephants Weep

    The Emotional Lives of Animals

    by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Susan McCarthy ...
    This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall.The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morning America, and was profiled in People for his ground-breaking and fascinating study. Not since Darwin's The ... Read more

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  • The Wave in the Mind

    Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance art ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Moral Lives of Animals

    by Dale Peterson ...
    Wild elephants walking along a trail stop and spontaneously try toprotect and assist a weak and dying fellow elephant. Laboratory rats,finding other rats caged nearby in distressing circumstances, proceed torescue them. A chimpanzee in a zoo loses his own life trying to save anunrelated infant who has fallen into a watery moat.Theexamples above and many others, argues Dale Peterson, show that ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Thing with Feathers

    The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human

    by Noah Strycker ...
    **"[Strycker] thinks like a biologist but writes like a poet." -- Wall Street JournalAn entertaining and profound look at the lives of birds, illuminating their surprising world—and deep connection with humanity.**Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood. As we learn more about the secrets of bird life, we ... Read more

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  • Wonderbook

    The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction

    by Jeff VanderMeer ...
    Now expanded: The definitive visual guide to writing science fiction and fantasy—with exercises, diagrams, essays by superstar authors, and more.From the New York Times-bestselling, Nebula Award-winning author, Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hope Beneath Our Feet

    Restoring Our Place in the Natural World

    by Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, Alice Walker, Howard Zinn ...
    Series Book 67 - Io Series
    An inspiring anthology for anyone seeking guidance, hope, and strength in the midst of our current environmental crisis—featuring writings from Barbara Kingsolver and Barry LopezThe environmental “tipping point” we approach is more palpable each day, and people are seeing it in ways they can no longer ignore—we need only turn on the news to hear the litany of what is wrong around us. Serious ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Crafting The Personal Essay

    A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Non-Fiction

    by Dinty W. Moore ...
    Award winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders once compared the art of essay writing to "the pursuit of mental rabbits"-a rambling through thickets of thought in search of some brief glimmer of fuzzy truth. While some people persist in the belief that essays are stuffy and antiquated, the truth is that the personal essay is an ever-changing creative medium that provides an ideal vehicle for ... Read more

    $13.99 USD