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Poetry Comes Up Where It Can by Brian Swann 9780874806441
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.87Walk with this book to find some of the unexpected places where poetry can flourish. Discover poetry growing "where it can," in the infinite and in the microscopic: in the "star-gazing,... -
James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian Literature by Ted Olson 9780786430765
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19Best known as the author of the acclaimed novel River of Earth (1940), Alabama native James Still is one of the most critically acclaimed writers of Appalachian literature. This compilation of... -
Sabbath: The hidden heartbeat of our lives by Nicola Slee
Booksplease Price: £9.99Deep within the woods, amid the harry and hassle of endlessly proliferating demands - from work and loved ones, social media and new technologies, as well as by church and other organisations to... -
Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place Brooks Lamb 9780300280104
Booksplease Price: £15.80A moving exploration of presence and place told through the stories of small-scale farmers who, despite intense adversity, continue caring for their land “An excellent work of environmental writing... -
Invisible Conversations: Religion in the Literature of America by Professor Roger Lundin
Booksplease Price: £46.19American literature offers exceptional resources for understanding the complex role religion has played in the life of the culture and in the experience of its people. In recent decades, however, the... -
Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present by John Gatta 9780195165067
Booksplease Price: £51.83In this book, John Gatta argues that the religious import of American environmental literature has yet to be fully recognized or understood. Making Nature Sacred explores how the quest for 'natural... -
How to Burn a Goat: Farming with the Philosophers by Scott H. Moore 9781481311533
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.13The ancient Roman orator Cicero famously believed, "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." Contemporary philosopher Scott H. Moore agrees and puts this celebrated aphorism... -
New Roots for Agriculture by Wes Jackson
Booksplease Price: £17.09"The plowshare may well have destroyed more options for future generations than the sword," writes Wes Jackson in a review of practices that have brought U.S. agriculture to the edge of disaster... -
Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope by Eric T. Freyfogle 9780813124391
Booksplease Price: £28.12Every society expresses its fundamental values and hopes in the ways it shapes and inhabits its landscapes. In this literate and wide-ranging exploration, Eric T. Freyfogle raises difficult questions... -
The Engineer of Beasts: A Novel by Scott Russell Sanders 9780253045874
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65After decades of abuse transforms the world into a toxic wasteland, people flee into the safety of a global network of domed cities. Within these safe, orderly spaces, the only animals allowed are... -
Coffin Honey by Todd Davis
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £13.44In Coffin Honey, his seventh book of poems, celebrated poet Todd Davis explores the many forms of violence we do to each other and to the other living beings with whom we share the planet. Here... -
A Conservationist Manifesto by Scott Russell Sanders
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90As an antidote to the destructive culture of consumption dominating American life today, Scott Russell Sanders calls for a culture of conservation that allows us to savor and preserve the world,... -
Poems of the American South by David Biespiel 9781841597959
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly... -
Reading Texts, Reading Lives: Essays in the Tradition of Humanistic Cultural Criticism in Honor of Daniel R. Schwarz by Daniel Morris 9781611493443
Booksplease Price: £100.58Our culture attempts to separate competing ideological factions by denying relationships between multiple perspectives and influences outside of one's own narrow interpretive community. The... -
The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement Toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America Allan C. Carlson 9780765805904
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The self-sufficiency and regional outlook of farm life characterized the United States until the Civil War period. With the triumph of the industrial North over the rural South, the expansion of... -
The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature Alexander Menrisky 9781041023883
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The Routledge Introduction to American Environmental Literature offers an overview of the different ways diverse writers in the United States have represented the nonhuman world and human... -
Amber Waves and Undertow: Peril, Hope, Sweat, and Downright Nonchalance in Dry Wheat Country by Steve Turner
Booksplease Price: £21.93Adams County, Washington, is home to farmlands on the Columbia Plateau that produce more crops than might be expected of its semiarid soils. But while unique in its geography and history, it also... -
Grounded Vision: New Agrarianism and the Academy by William H. Major 9780817317348
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £27.10Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Issues of ecology--both as they appear in the works of nature writers and in the works of literary writers for whom place and the land are central... -
The Wilderness Debate Rages on: Continuing the Great New Wilderness Debate by Michael P. Nelson 9780820331713
RRP: £53.95Booksplease Price: £51.79This title features writings from the battlefront of ideas over nature and wildness. Ten years ago, ""The Great New Wilderness Debate"" began a cross-disciplinary conversation about the varied... -
Communion of Radicals: The Literary Christian Left in Twentieth-Century America by Jonathan McGregor 9780807175828
Booksplease Price: £46.24Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian leftist thought and creative work. In Communion of Radicals,... -
Short Stories and Political Philosophy: Power, Prose, and Persuasion by Kimberly Hurd Hale 9781498573658
Booksplease Price: £90.87Short Stories and Political Philosophy: Power, Prose, and Persuasion explores the relationship between fictional short stories and the classic works of political philosophy. This edited volume... -
Ecotheology in the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Divine and Nature by Melissa Brotton 9781498527934
Booksplease Price: £102.21This book is a collection of essays about the interaction between God, humans, and nature in the context of the environmental challenges and Biblical studies. Chapters include topics on creation care... -
Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Stages for Being by Ralph Eugene Meatyard
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £27.60How Meatyard made a stage set of his native Kentucky to portray his circle of friends and compose his eerie tableaux Stages for Being examines the photography that Ralph Eugene Meatyard created in... -
Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing by Mary Weaks-Baxter 9780807131299
Booksplease Price: £44.76In this stimulating study, Mary Weaks-Baxter views the Southern Renaissance, 1900-1960, from a fresh perspective. Many writers in the South began consciously to create new myths for the region at the... -
Locales: Poems from the Fellowship of Southern Writers by Fred Chappell 9780807128640
Booksplease Price: £18.45The Fellowship of Southern Writers was founded in 1987 under the inspiration of Cleanth Brooks for the purpose of encouraging excellence and recognizing distinction in southern letters. Membership is... -
Sun House: A Novel by David James Duncan 9780316129374
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.51A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit Jesuit into crisis. A boy's mother dies on his fifth birthday, sparking a lifetime of repressed... -
A New History of Kentucky by James C. Klotter 9780813176307
Booksplease Price: £44.21When originally published, A New History of Kentucky provided a comprehensive study of the Commonwealth, bringing it to life by revealing the many faces, deep traditions, and historical milestones... -
The New Sentience: Reimagining Animal Poetry by Ashley Capps 9781595343031
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.84As our treatment of nonhuman animals is increasingly implicated in planetary crises-from climate change to global pandemics to unprecedented rates of biodiversity loss and species extinction-it's... -
Ecotheology in the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Divine and Nature by Melissa Brotton 9781498527958
Booksplease Price: £51.20This book is a collection of essays about the interaction between God, humans, and nature in the context of the environmental challenges and Biblical studies. Chapters include topics on creation care... -
Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings by Liberty Hyde Bailey 9781501705670
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.10"Nature-study not only educates, but it educates nature-ward; and nature is ever our companion, whether we will or no. Even though we are determined to shut ourselves in an office, nature sends her... -
Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings by Zachary Michael Jack 9780801447099
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.51"Nature-study not only educates, but it educates nature-ward; and nature is ever our companion, whether we will or no. Even though we are determined to shut ourselves in an office, nature sends her... -
Plough Quarterly No. 46 – The Call of Beauty Peter Mommsen 9781636081908
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Nature is so beautiful it must mean something. Christians have seen in the beauty of creation a sign of the beauty of the Creator; the natural world teaches us to know the "author of beauty." But... -
History and Hope: The Agrarian Wisdom of Isaiah 28-35 by Daniel Stulac 9781575067896
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.76History and Hope examines the rhetorical function of Isaiah 28-35, a relatively overlooked series of six woe oracles, in relation to reading the book of Isaiah as a whole. These eight chapters rely... -
James Still in Interviews, Oral Histories and Memoirs by Ted Olson 9780786436989
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19One of the most admired and influential authors to work in and write about Appalachia, James Still excelled in every genre of literature in which he worked, from novels and short stories to... -
Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond by Lawrence Buell 9780674012325
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.38The environmental imagination does not stop short at the edge of the woods. Nor should our understanding of it, as Lawrence Buell makes powerfully clear in his new book that aims to reshape the field... -
Loving God's Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature by Jeffrey Bilbro 9780817318574
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £36.40Analysing writings ranging from the Puritans to the present day, Loving God's Wildness traces the effects of Christian theology on America's ecological imagination, revealing the often conflicted... -
Leading from Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead Sam M. Intrator (Smith College) 9780787988692
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £14.58Leading from Within is a wonderful collection of ninety-three poems from well-loved poets, each of which is accompanied by a brief personal commentary from a leader explaining the significance and... -
Gather at the River: Notes from the Post-Millennial South by Hal Crowther 9780807131008
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.82To read Hal Crowther is to find yourself agreeing with views on topics you never knew you cared so much about. In Gather at the River, Crowther extends the wide-angle vision of Southern life... -
From the Mountain, From the Valley: New and Collected Poems by James Still 9780813191324
Booksplease Price: £18.78James Still first achieved national recognition in the 1930s as a poet. Although he is better known today as a writer of fiction, it is his poetry that many of his essential images, such as the... -
Ditch Memory: New and Selected Poems Todd Davis 9781611865103
Booksplease Price: £43.43In an age when many find themselves disconnected from the natural world, celebrated poet Todd Davis offers the possibilities of reconnection, of listening to the earth's labored breathing, to the...