Popova, Maria
Summary: "Poetry and science, as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply." In 15 short essays on subjects ranging from the mystery of dark matter and the infinity of pi to the resilience of trees and the intelligence of octopuses, Popova tells the stories of scientific searching and discovery. Each essay is paired with a poem...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2024
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Summary: In a series of essays that progress from the tiniest earth dwellers to the most far flung celestial bodies{u2014}considering the similarity of gods to donkeys, the inexorability of love and vines, the relations of exploding stars to exploding sea cucumbers{u2014}Amy Leach rekindles a vital communion with the wild world, dormant for far too long.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2012
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Summary: "From the beloved author of How to Catch a Mole and Seed to Dust comes a highly original memoir of childhood, old age, and the restorative power of the garden. In this restorative little book, best enjoyed in a single sitting under a tree, an adventurous young boy who traveled the world in his mind meets the old man he becomes, and together they build a new garden from a neglected plot behind...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAMER, MARC HAMSummary: "How do we keep a love of nature and the wild alive in our increasingly human-dominated world? According to the scientists and writers in this book, doing so is of paramount significance; however, the answer is not necessarily blanket preservation of wild places, which is increasingly unrealistic. Rather, the answer to "how to care for nature" is more nuanced and often entails acceptance of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2024
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Summary: America's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams presents The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them. From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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Summary: "Thomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author's life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill Crane, Dickcissel: such species form a kind of rosary, a corrective to the rosaries that evoke Gannon's traumatic time in an Indian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press 2023
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Summary: Out of the Corner of Your Eye is about discovering the things that hide in plain sight: ripples in the sand, creeping hills, jumping spiders, singing sand, the sound of wind in poplars, life in the cracks of the sidewalk. Less a science book of explanations, it is more a book of reflections about nature, never shying away from poems, personal narratives, and stories that capture the essence and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 814 FIDOliver, Mary
Summary: A collection of essays follows the author as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor; her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her; and the responsibility she has inherited from the great thinkers and writers of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 OLIMacdonald, Helen
Summary: "In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 MACSummary: The essays in this year's Best American Science and Nature Writing probe at the ordinary and urge us to think more deeply about our place in the world around us. From a hopeful portrait of a future for people with Alzheimer's disease, to a fascinating exploration of the rise of nearsightedness in children, to the heroic story of a herd of cows that evaded a hurricane, these selections reveal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: "Alive! is a heart-stopping collection of survival stories from the archives of Reader's Digest's 'Drama in Real Life' series. Readers will be on the edge of their seats as they are drawn into the dramatic tales of everyday people suddenly cast into lifeor death situations. Editors have mined the Reader's Digest archives to bring readers Alive! Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary People Who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 ALIQuealy, Gerit
Summary: A captivating, beautifully illustrated, one-of-a-kind color compendium of the flowers, fruits, herbs, trees, seeds, and grasses cited in the works of the world's greatest playwright, William Shakespeare, accompanied by their companion quotes from all of his plays and poems. With a foreword by Dame Helen Mirren--the first foreword she has ever contributed. In this striking compilation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Contents: On the right-of-way -- The anniversary -- Cruising Princeton -- Nine flames of red -- Troubadours -- The golden city -- The well of memory -- Tokens -- Midnight sun -- A downtown bestiary -- At the millennium -- Nectar -- Refuge -- Splendors -- The catamount -- The purple road.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2005
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Summary: Romanoff introduces readers to twelve of the most easily foraged and delicious mushrooms, including the chanterelle, the morel, and the oyster. She describes the appearance, habits, and lore of each variety, and provides a recipe for each; her recipes include both refined kitchen creations and rustic dishes meant to be prepared over an open fire at the end of a successful hunt. Romanoff also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 579.6 ROMSummary: "Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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Contents: Nature ; addresses, and lectures -- Essays, first and second series -- Representative men -- English traits -- The conduct of life -- Uncollected prose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the U.S. 1983
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Summary: "This collection represents part of the enduring legacy of Barry Lopez, hailed as a 'national treasure' (Outside) and "one of our finest writers" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) when he died in December 2020. An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveler, and unrivaled observer of nature and culture in all its forms, Lopez lost much of the Oregon property where he had lived for over fifty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Summary: "In these wry and explosively funny essays, nature obsessive Charles Hood reveals his abiding affection for the overlooked and undervalued parts of the natural world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday 2021