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24 produkter
Earth Works
Selected Essays
Häftad, 2012
313 kr
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In the hands of award-winning writer Scott Russell Sanders, the essay becomes an inquisitive and revelatory form of art. In 30 of his finest essays—nine never before collected—Sanders examines his Midwestern background, his father's drinking, his opposition to war, his literary inheritance, and his …
Dancing in Dreamtime
Av Scott Russell Sanders, Gregory Frost m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
217 kr
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Fans today may be surprised to learn Scott Russell Sanders was previously one of the brightest science-fiction newcomers of the 1980s. In Dancing in Dreamtime, he returns to his roots, exploring both inner and outer space in a speculative collection of short stories. At a time when humankind faces …
Stone Country
Then and Now
Häftad, 2017
453 kr
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Quarrying, cutting, and carving limestone has provided work for thousands of people in Indiana for nearly two centuries. Along highways and backroads, the brawny machinery these workers use to finesse the stone, the humpbacked mills where they shape it, and the rails and roads where they ship it …
Crawdad Creek
Inbunden, 2018, 6-9 år
200 kr
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There's always something happening at Crawdad Creek.That's what Lizzie and Michael call the stream that runs behind their house. Come pan for gold, hunt for fossils, find an arrowhead in the mud or a crayfish under a stone. Watch whirligig beetles and water striders skate across the water, teasing …
Crawdad Creek
E-bok, 2018, 6-9 år
107 kr
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There's always something happening at Crawdad Creek.That's what Lizzie and Michael call the stream that runs behind their house. Come pan for gold, hunt for fossils, find an arrowhead in the mud or a crayfish under a stone. Watch whirligig beetles and water striders skate across the water, teasing …
Crawdad Creek
E-bok, 2018
112 kr
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There’s always something happening at Crawdad Creek. That’s what Lizzie and Michael call the stream that runs behind their house. Come pan for gold, hunt for fossils, find an arrowhead in the mud or a crayfish under a stone. Watch whirligig beetles and water striders skate across the water, teasing …
Meeting Trees
Inbunden, 2018, 6-9 år
200 kr
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Young Scott and his father have a personal way of learning the trees and remembering their names. It's a game they like to play, one you'll want to play too!Learn the name of the swallowtail butterfly who loves to sit on the dogwood branch, see the majestic beauty of the black-and-yellow Argiope …
Engineer of Beasts
A Novel
Häftad, 2019
185 kr
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After 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 machines in the new world's mechanized zoos, called disneys. Orlando Spinks prides himself on keeping …
Small Marvels
Stories
Inbunden, 2022
843 kr
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In 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, alligators lurk in the sewers, warm snow falls on the Fourth of July, cornstalks rise higher than …
Small Marvels
Stories
Häftad, 2022
233 kr
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In 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, alligators lurk in the sewers, warm snow falls on the Fourth of July, cornstalks rise higher than …
Terrarium
Häftad, 1996
185 kr
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With 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." Having poisoned the biosphere, we've had to close ourselves off from the Earth. The cities of the …
Writing from the Center
Häftad, 1997
251 kr
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" . . . essays of substance and beauty, and they belong beside the work of Annie Dillard, Samuel Pickering, and Wendell Berry." —Library Journal"[Sanders] eloquently expresses his love of the land and the responsibility he feels for preventing further erosion of our natural resources . . . " …
Bad Man Ballad
Häftad, 2004, 9-12 år
186 kr
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The time is 1813, during America's last war with England; the place is the Ohio Valley, the thickly wooded, hilly, creek-carved highway of western settlement. Wolves still howl at midnight on village greens. Each log cabin is a fortress, and no one travels without a knife and gun. Through this …
Conservationist Manifesto
Häftad, 2009
261 kr
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As 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, instead of devouring it. How might we shift to a more durable and responsible way of life? What changes …
Hunting for Hope
A Father''s Journeys
E-bok, 2000
228 kr
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After an angry confrontation with his son on a hiking trip intended to restore their relationship, Scott Sanders realizes that his own despair has darkened his son''s world. In Hunting for Hope he sets out to gather his own reasons for facing the future with hope, finding powers of healing in …
Secrets of the Universe
Essays on Family, Community, Spirit, and Place
Häftad, 1992
329 kr
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Paradise of Bombs
E-bok, 2016
197 kr
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This award-winning collection moves from the dark and technically astonishing title essay—on growing up within the confines of a huge Army arsenal in Ohio—to reflections on mountain hikes, limestone quarries, and fathers teaching their sons.
Way of Imagination
Essays
E-bok, 2020
184 kr
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Prize-winning essayist turns to the imagination as a spiritual guide and material method of living through climate disruption, as climate change and broad extinction forever alter our place on the planet and our lives together. Imagination breaks the shell of the status quo, summoning up objects …
