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The Lost Notebooks of Loren Eiseley by Loren Eiseley 9780803267473
Booksplease Price: $27.32This indispensable collection is filled with marvelous autobiographical glimpses of Loren Eiseley at different points in his life-as a young, inquisitive man during the Depression, as an astute... -
Unexpected Universe by Loren Eiseley
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.20Drawing from his long experience as a naturalist, the author responds to the unexpected and symbolic aspects of a wide spectrum of phenomena throughout the universe.Scrupulous scholarship and magical... -
The Firmament of Time by Loren Eiseley 9780803267398
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.69Loren Eiseley examines what we as a species have become in the late twentieth century. His illuminating and accessible discussion is a characteristically skillful and compelling synthesis of hard... -
The Invisible Pyramid by Loren Eiseley 9780803267381
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.18In 1910 young Loren Eiseley watched the passage of Halley's Comet with his father. The boy who became a famous naturalist was never again to see the spectacle except in his imagination. That... -
Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley 9780156849098
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $22.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156849098Author Loren EiseleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher... -
The Night Country by Loren Eiseley 9780803267350
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $21.25Toward the end of his life, Loren Eiseley reflected on the mystery of life, throwing light on those dark places traversed by himself and centuries of humankind. The Night Country is a gift of wisdom... -
All the Strange Hours: The Excavation of a Life by Loren Eiseley 9780803267411
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Loren Eiseley began his lifelong exploration of nature in the salt flats and ponds around his hometown and in the mammoth bone collection hoarded in the old red brick... -
Loren Eiseley: Commentary, Biography, and Remembrance by Hilda Raz 9780803219069
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.42Born, raised, and educated in Lincoln, Nebraska, Loren Eiseley (1907-77) was a highly respected writer and poet best known for explaining complex scientific concepts in poems easily read and... -
Loren Eiseley’s Writing across the Nature and Culture Divide by Qianqian Cheng
Booksplease Price: $111.49For the twentieth-century naturalist and poet Loren Eiseley, the relationship between human beings and the natural world has become unnatural, divided by the era of modern technology. Loren Eiseley's... -
Artifacts and Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley by Tom Lynch 9780803234031
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $33.95Loren Eiseley (1907-77) is one of the most important American nature writers of the twentieth century and an admired practitioner of creative nonfiction. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Eiseley was a... -
Loren Eiseley's Writing Across the Nature and Culture Divide by Qianqian Cheng 9781666902495
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666902495Author Qianqian ChengFormat PaperbackImprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher... -
Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos Vol. 2 (LOA #286): The Invisible Pyramid, The Night Country, essays from The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley 9781598535075
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $27.86An eminent paleontologist with the soul and skill of a poet, Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) was among the twentieth century's greatest inheritors of the literary tradition of Henry David Thoreau, Charles... -
Fox at the Wood's Edge: A Biography of Loren Eiseley by Gale E. Christianson 9780803264106
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.13Loren Eiseley challenges us to this day with his uneasy interpretation of humanity's place in the world. The haunting melancholy that pervades much of Eiseley's work grew out of a loveless childhood... -
Death and Anti-Death, Volume 5: Thirty Years After Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) by Charles Tandy 9781934297025
RRP: $77.34Booksplease Price: $55.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934297025Author Charles TandyFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Ria University PressPublisher... -
Deep Map Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains by Susan Naramore Maher 9780803245020
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $39.38Taking its name from the subtitle of William Least Heat-Moon's PrairyErth (a deep map), the "deep-map" form of nonfiction and environmental writing defines an innovative and stratigraphic literary... -
Integrating Body Self & Psychological Self David W. Krueger 9780415763363
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.66David W. Krueger illustrates a novel synthesis of fundamental psychodynamic principles with evolving advances in developmental, self, neuropsychological, and attachment theories. Focusing on action... -
Sexual Selection and the Descent of Man: The Darwinian Pivot Bernard Campbell 9780202308456
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $57.62Just over one hundred and thirty years ago Charles Darwin, in The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871), developed remarkably accurate conclusions about man's ancestry, based on a... -
The River Twice: Poems by Kathleen Graber 9780691193212
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.80An impressive new collection from a poet whose previous book was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle AwardTaking its title from Heraclitus's most famous... -
Bradbury Beyond Apollo by Jonathan R. Eller
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.68Celebrated storyteller, cultural commentator, friend of astronauts, prophet of the Space Age-by the end of the 1960s, Ray Bradbury had attained a level of fame and success rarely achieved by authors,... -
Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America by Erika Lorraine Milam
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.67How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species' unique capacity for murderAfter World War II, the question of how to define a universal human nature took on new... -
Before Adam by Jack London
Booksplease Price: $18.59A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of... -
Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America by Erika Lorraine Milam 9780691210438
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.41How Cold War America came to attribute human evolutionary success to our species' unique capacity for murderAfter World War II, the question of how to define a universal human nature took on new... -
The Celebration of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Tenth Anniversary International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts by Donald E. Morse 9780313278143
Booksplease Price: $99.08The Celebration of the Fantastic reaffirms the wide range and validity of the subject, treatment, and approach that the fantastic demands. Twenty-five essays, selected from among the more than 230... -
On the Shoreline of Knowledge: Irish Wanderings by Chris Arthur 9781609381127
RRP: $24.45Booksplease Price: $22.12The carefully crafted, meditative essays in On the Shoreline of Knowledge sometimes start from unlikely objects or thoughts, a pencil or some fragments of commonplace conversation, but they soon lead... -
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay 9780803280045
Booksplease Price: $23.90A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired, enchanted, and unsettled readers for decades. It is simultaneously an epic quest across one of the most unusual and... -
The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage by Chet Raymo 9781561012367
Booksplease Price: $17.11Probing the depths of science and faith, scientist Chet Raymo investigates the mysteries of human spirituality and meaning contained in astronomy. Ranging through the stars and the myths humans have... -
Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution by Gertrude Himmelfarb 9781566631068
Booksplease Price: $27.28In her enduring study of the impact of Darwinism on the intellectual climate of the nineteenth century, Gertrude Himmelfarb brings massive documentation to bear in challenging the conventional view... -
Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State by Federal Writers' Project 9780803269187
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.47First published in 1939, Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State was collaboratively written by the Federal Writers' Project (FWP). As part of the Works Project Administration, the FWP gathered... -
Where the Sky Touched the Earth: The Cosmological Landscapes of the Southwest by Don Lago 9781943859344
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52The landscapes of the American Southwest-the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, the Sedona red rocks-have long filled humans with wonder about nature. This is the home of Lowell Observatory, where... -
Sonoran Desert Journeys: Ecology and Evolution of Its Iconic Species by Theodore H. Fleming
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Lizards dashing rapidly between plants. Songbirds and woodpeckers flying to and from their nests. Hawks perched on saguaros. What kinds of journeys have these and many other animals and plants and... -
Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time by Susan Naramore Maher 9780803299580
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about... -
Gullies of My People: An Excavation of Landscape and Family by John Lane 9780820365442
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $31.45While scouting sites for geology field trips, poet and naturalist John Lane encountered deep gullies created between the Civil War and the 1930s contributed to by his mother's tenant farming family... -
A Great Plains Reader by Diane Dufva Quantic
Booksplease Price: $53.38The Great Plains are as rich and integral a part of American literature as they are of the North American landscape. In this volume the stories, poems, and essays that have described, celebrated, and... -
The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life Has Emerged and Evolved by Ursula Goodenough
Booksplease Price: $30.35For many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age--the Big Bang, evolution, quantum physics, relativity--point to an existence that is bleak, devoid of meaning, pointless. But in The...