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  The Age of Loneliness - Essays

  Laura Marris

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  In this debut essay collection, Laura Marris reframes environmental degradation by setting aside the conventional,catastrophic framework of the Anthropocene in favor of that of the Eremocene, the age of loneliness,marked by the dramatic thinning of wildlife populations and by isolation between and among species. Sheasks: how do we add to archives of ecological memory? How can we notice and document what's missing inthe landscapes closest to us?Filled with equal parts alienation and wonder, each essay immerses readers in a different strange landscape ofthe Eremocene. Among them are the Buffalo airport with its snowy owls and the purgatories of commuter flights,layovers, and long-distance relationships; a life-size model city built solely for self-driving cars; the coasts ofNew England and the ever-evolving relationship between humans and horseshoe crabs; and the Connecticutwoods Marris revisits for the first time after her father’s death, where she participates in the annual ChristmasBird Count and encounters presence and absence in turn.Vivid, keenly observed, and driven by a lively and lyrical voice, The Age of Loneliness is a moving examination ofthe dangers of loneliness, the surprising histories of ecological loss, and the ways that community sciencewhichrelies on the embodied evidence of “ground truth”can help us recognize, and maybe even recover, what we’velearned to live without

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  Uncle Remus

  Joel Chandler Harris

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  Many readers will already be familiar with Uncle Remus’ favorite animal characters – Br’er Rabbit and Br’er Fox among them – and some of the popular tales concerning them. (To this day, “tar baby” as an expression for a particularly sticky situation that is almost impossible to solve, has passed into the English language and common use.) Even people who have never read any of these tales will know exactly why you don’t throw a rabbit into a briar patch, mainly because Walt Disney produced his first movie ever to use professional actors with animation, called “Song of the South”, based on the Uncle Remus tales. 
      Joel Chandler Harris, a newsman in Georgia, grew up listening to folktales told by the local black population. Later, he published his version of these tales in a series of stories printed in the “Atlanta Constitution.” The tales of, and by, Harris’ chief character Uncle Remus, an old black man scrabbling to make his living in the post-Civil War South, were extremely popular and widely read. Harris’ use of innovative spelling to give the reader a sense of the black dialect was considered novel.    While this is not a book that will pass a current political correctness test, due to its use of labels for black folks which have gone out of polite conversation, Uncle Remus is a largely sympathetic look at post-war plantation life. Uncle Remus himself is a warm, folksy man of good humor and dry wit, and after finishing his animal stories, the remaining sayings and tales are a moment of history frozen in amber. (Summary by Mark)

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  The Dog Who Couldn't Stop Loving...

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

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  Dog lovers get ready – Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, international bestselling author of Dogs Never Lie About Love (which the San Francisco Chronicle calls ""winning and wise,"" and ""a charming paean to our best friends""), is back with an inspiring, heart-warming, and deeply personal exploration of the unique relationship between humans and dogs. As in When Elephants Weep, The Face on Your Plate, an The Pig Who Sang to the Moon, Masson blends cultural mythology, scientific research, and stories of his own experiences to tackle deep questions about the emotional lives of humans and animals. His compelling, elegant, and often humorous narrative about the love people feel for dogs (perfect for fans of John Grogan's Marley & Me) gives a new perspective on the extraordinary relationship between our species.

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  The Market Gardener - A...

  Jean-Martin Fortier

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  “Few books have grabbed my attention as dramatically as this one—because it’s ultimately do-able for thousands of would-be food and farm healers.” —Joel Salatin, Polyface Farm  Grow better not bigger with proven low-tech, human-scale, biointensive farming methods   Making a living wage farming without big capital outlay or acreages may be closer than you think. Growing on just 1.5 acres, Jean-Martin and Maude-Helene feed more than 200 families through their thriving CSA and seasonal market stands. The secret of their success is the low-tech, high-yield production methods they’ve developed by focusing on growing better rather than growing bigger, making their operation more lucrative and viable in the process.  The Market Gardener is a compendium of proven horticultural techniques and innovative growing methods. This complete guide is packed with practical information on:   ·       Setting-up a micro-farm by designing biologically intensive cropping systems, all with negligible capital outlay ·       Farming without a tractor and minimizing fossil fuel inputs through the use of the best hand tools, appropriate machinery and minimum tillage practices ·       Growing mixed vegetables systematically with attention to weed and pest management, crop yields, harvest periods and pricing approaches.   Inspired by the French intensive tradition of maraichage and by iconic American vegetable grower Eliot Coleman, author and farmer Jean-Martin shows by example how to start a market garden and make it both very productive and profitable.   “Very well done and should be of great use to market growers everywhere.” —Eliot Coleman, organic farming pioneer and author of The New Organic Grower   “Both visionary and practical, it is a work of rare intelligence.” —Charles Herve-Gruyer, permaculture teacher and grower at la Fermedu BecHellouin, France

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  Lake Wobegon USA: Fertility

  Garrison Keillor

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  These News from Lake Wobegon monologues are grouped by theme. Fertility includes "The Krebsbachs' Vacation," "Prophet," "The Six Labors of Father Wilmer," and "Fertility."

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  An Audience with an Elephant -...

  Byron Rogers

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  An Audience with an Elephant is a compendium of the oddest and most eccentric travels—a travel book to set alongside Norman Lewis and Eric Newby for the sheer unpredictability of its encounters and its surreal comedy. But Bryon Rogers didn’t venture to the ends of the earth to find singular custom and heroic idiosyncrasy: he had no need to. These are journeys to the heart of the strange and distant land of Britain. On his travels he meets the Turkish POW in British hands—an ancient tortoise captured at Gallipoli and now resident in Great Yarmouth—and the teenaged elephant who has opened more fetes and supermarkets than any TV celebrity. Here, too, are such bizarre figures as the octogenarian triathlete, the man who (before such things were banned) held every world eating record, and the last hangman in his untroubled retirement. Whether exploring the middle of England in the forgotten county of Northamptonshire or accompanying the last tramp through the wilder reaches of Wales, Byron Rogers chronicles a secret history of Britain that is touching, hilarious, magical and the extraordinary lives or ordinary people.

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