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Gather at the River: Notes from the Post-Millennial South by Hal Crowther 9780807131008
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $52.30To 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... -
Urban Pastoral: Natural Currents in the New York School by Timothy Gray 9781587299094
RRP: $58.40Booksplease Price: $51.95Were the urbane, avant-garde poets of the New York School secretly nature lovers like Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, and Annie Dillard? In `Urban Pastoral', Timothy Gray urges us to reconsider our... -
American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land by Brian Donahue 9780300188042
Booksplease Price: $81.63A rich and evocative collection of agrarian writing from the past two centuries, reflecting how shifting views on agriculture have shaped American society, from the first European settlers to the... -
Educating for Eco-justice and Community by Chet A. Bowers 9780820323060
RRP: $75.95Booksplease Price: $56.69We believe in social justice. We support educational reform. Yet unless we reframe our approaches to both, says C. A. Bowers, the social justice attained through educational reform will only lead to... -
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Lex Williford
Booksplease Price: $30.99From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers... -
Terrarium by Scott Russell Sanders
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.82With round-the-clock drugs, games, and eros parlors to entertain them and virtual weather to sustain them, humans live inside a global network of domed cities known collectively as "the Enclosure."... -
Governing Animals: Animal Welfare and the Liberal State by Kimberly K. Smith 9780199895755
Booksplease Price: $108.58What is the role of government in protecting animal welfare? What principles should policy makers draw on as they try to balance animal welfare against human liberty? Much has been written in... -
Ditch Memory: New and Selected Poems by Todd Davis 9781611865110
Booksplease Price: $185.84In 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... -
Swimming to the Top of the Tide by Patricia Hanlon
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Four seasons of immersion in New England's Great Marsh"Like Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely resonant prose her patient observations of... -
Christian Ethics: An Introductory Reader Samuel Wells (Duke University, USA) 9781405168878
RRP: $60.35Booksplease Price: $58.03CHRISTIAN ETHICS CHRISTIAN ETHICSAN INTRODUCTORY READER"The selection of readings is excellent and I'd happily have my students devour them." Esther Reed, University of Exeter"Clear, sharply focused,... -
The Center of the World: Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time by June Howard 9780192871695
Booksplease Price: $50.86Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of the United States and considers the place of the genre in world literature. Regionalism... -
What This River Keeps: A Novel by Gregory Schwipps 9780253002365
Booksplease Price: $37.73In the rolling hills of southern Indiana, an elderly couple copes with the fear that their river bottom farm-the only home they've ever known-will be taken from them through an act of eminent domain... -
Finding All Things in God: Pansacramentalism and Doing Theology Interreligiously by Hans Gustafson 9780718894900
RRP: $69.23Booksplease Price: $64.78In Finding All Things In God, Hans Gustafson proposes pansacramentalism as holding the potential to find the divine in all things and all things in the divine. Such a proposition carries significant... -
Christian Ethics: An Introductory Reader by Samuel Wells 9781405168861
RRP: $165.65Booksplease Price: $152.51CHRISTIAN ETHICS CHRISTIAN ETHICSAN INTRODUCTORY READER"The selection of readings is excellent and I'd happily have my students devour them." Esther Reed, University of Exeter"Clear, sharply focused,... -
Small Marvels: Stories by Scott Russell Sanders 9780253061980
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $86.83In Limestone, Indiana, a city tucked away among forested hills, peculiar things happen, often in the vicinity of a jack-of-all-trades named Gordon Mills. Centaurs and nymphs shelter in a local cave,... -
Voices from the Mountains by Guy Carawan 9780820318820
RRP: $64.25Booksplease Price: $63.96A rich mosaic of photographs, words, and songs, Voices from the Mountains tells the turbulent story of the Appalachian South in the twentieth century. Focusing on the abuses of the coal industry and... -
Reimagining Environmental History: Ecological Memory in the Wake of Landscape Change by Christian Knoeller 9781943859511
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.74Christian Knoeller presents a radical reinterpretation of environmental history set in the heartland of America. In an excellent model of narrative-based scholarship, this book dynamically reimagines... -
Small Marvels: Stories by Scott Russell Sanders
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.90In Limestone, Indiana, a city tucked away among forested hills, peculiar things happen, often in the vicinity of a jack-of-all-trades named Gordon Mills. Centaurs and nymphs shelter in a local cave,... -
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono 9781933392813
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $12.75'A book for children from 8 to 80. I love the humanity of this story and how one man's efforts can change the future for so many.' Michael Morpurgo, Independent '[This] simple classic may just... -
The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology by Douglas E. Christie
Booksplease Price: $99.31'There are no unsacred places,' the poet Wendell Berry has written. 'There are only sacred places and desecrated places.' What might it mean to behold the world with such depth and feeling that it... -
The Politics of Gratitude: Scale, Place & Community in a Global Age by Mark T. Mitchell 9781597976633
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $53.43Many Americans are longing for an alternative politics that is rooted in strong communities, a recognition of limits, and respect for the natural world. These issues are not the possession of one... -
Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth Charles Massy 9781603588133
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.37Part lyrical nature writing, part storytelling, part solid scientific evidence, part scholarly research, part memoir, the book is an elegant manifesto, an urgent call to stop trashing the Earth and... -
The Vision of the Soul: Truth, Beauty, and Goodness in the Western Tradition by James Matthew Wilson
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.82Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead-an age that claims mastery over the world but also claims to find the world as a whole absurd or... -
Literature of Place: Dwelling on the Land Before Earth Day 1970 by Melanie Louise Simo 9780813925004
Booksplease Price: $103.33In a world that is increasingly reliant on science, technology, and virtual relationships, our reciprocal and intimate connection to place has often been overlooked. This concern is now at the... -
African American Environmental Thought: Foundations by Kimberly K. Smith 9780700632664
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Choice Outstanding Book African American intellectual thought has long provided a touchstone for national politics and civil rights, but, as Kimberly Smith reveals, it also has much to say about our... -
Joy: 100 Poems by Christian Wiman 9780300248630
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $26.46One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet"Bursting with energy and surprising locutions. . . . Even the most familiar poets seem somehow... -
A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia Rose McLarney 9780820374505
RRP: $44.75Booksplease Price: $28.08Getting acquainted with local flora and fauna is the perfect way to begin to understand the wonder of nature. The natural environment of Southern Appalachia, with habitats that span the Blue Ridge to... -
The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology Douglas E. Christie 9780197802793
Booksplease Price: $34.71"There are no unsacred places," the poet Wendell Berry has written. "There are only sacred places and desecrated places." What might it mean to behold the world with such depth and feeling that... -
Secret Flower: and other stories by Jane Tyson Clement
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.22It won't take you long to see why Jane Tyson Clement's short stories have become perennial favorites for adults and children alike. Written with a measured beauty that recalls Tolstoy and Tolkien,... -
Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky: Thirty-Five Years at a Sandhills Oasis by Stephen R Jones 9781496230270
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44Winner of the 2023 Nebraska Book Award In the Nebraska Sandhills, ranchers on horseback and in pickup trucks share the range with pronghorn antelope, burrowing owls, and long-billed curlews. The... -
An Introduction to Christian Environmentalism: Ecology, Virtue, and Ethics by Kathryn D. Blanchard 9781481301732
Booksplease Price: $82.72Christians share a common concern for the earth. Evangelicals emphasize creation care; mainline Protestants embrace the green movement; the Catholic Church lists ""10 deadly environmental sins;"" and... -
Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter C. S. Lewis 9781636081700
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $26.58Easter is the high point of the year for millions of Christians around the world. And for most of them, there can be no Easter without Lent, the season that leads up to it. A time for self-denial,... -
Keeping the Feast: Metaphors for the Meal by Milton Brasher-Cunningham 9780819227898
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.53Accessible spiritual narratives of the meal as Communion, plus recipes, by a well-known blogger, widely-traveled musician, and retreat leader "This is a book about what nourishes us: food, faith,... -
The Man Who Created Paradise: A Fable by Gene Logsdon 9780821423066
Booksplease Price: $21.53Gene Logsdon's The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the very concept of earth stewardship is under attack. The fable, inspired by a true story, tells how Wally Spero... -
Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld by Lee Rozelle
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $51.32Explores 19th-century, modern, postmodern, and millennial texts as they portray the changing ecological face of America Lee Rozelle probes the metaphor of environmental catastrophe in American... -
Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter by C.S. Lewis
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $24.38Though Easter (like Christmas) is often trivialized by the culture at large, it is still the high point of the religious calendar for millions of people around the world. And for most of them, there... -
Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies from the Land by David Mas Masumoto 9781439182420
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $22.97David Mas Masumoto works a family farm, growing organic peaches, nectarines, and grapes. When Masumoto's father has a stroke on the fields of their eighty-acre farm, Masumoto confronts life's big... -
Following the Call: Living the Sermon on the Mount Together by Eberhard Arnold
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Fifty-two readings to spark weekly group discussion on putting Jesus' most central teachings into practice.Jesus' most famous teaching, the Sermon on the Mount, possesses an irresistible quality. Who... -
Lights on a Ground of Darkness: An Evocation of a Place and Time by Ted Kooser 9780803226425
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.65Like the yellow, pink, and blue irises that had been transplanted from house to house over the years, the stories of poet Ted Kooser's family had been handed down until, as his mother lay ill and... -
Upholding Mystery: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Poetry by David Impastato 9780195104004
Booksplease Price: $95.37From Andrew Hudgins's often humorous narratives to Geoffery Hill's darkly impassioned lyrics, from Denise Levertov's incisive personal and political insights to Wendell Berry's lovely evocations of...