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Exploring our relationship to nature and the role literature can play in shaping a culture responsive to environmental realities, this thematic, multi-genre anthology includes early writers such as John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, and Mary Austin, contemporary luminaries such as Gary Snyder and Terry Tempest Williams, and newer voices such as Michael Pollan and Sandra Steingraber. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. This page is a list of … In its exploration of the relationship between nature and culture, this collection focuses on four overlapping themes: how Caribbean texts inscribe the environmental impact of colonial and plantation economies; how colonial myths of edenic and natural origins are revisioned; what the connections are between histories of biotic and cultural creolization; and how a Caribbean aesthetics might usefully articulate a means to preserve sustainability in the context of tourism and globalization. For a number of years he served as professor of literature and environmental studies. Please try again. Scott Slovic has been a professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Reno, since 1995, where he directed the Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities from 1995 to 2002, co-founded the Graduate Program in Literature and Environment, … There are many ways to teach children to take care of the planet, and one simple yet powerful approach is through books. An adjunct professor at Linn-Benton Community College in Corvallis, Oregon, she holds a BA in English from the University of Utah (1975) and an MA in creation spirituality from Naropa University (2000). Previous page of related Sponsored Products. He served as the founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment from 1992 to 1995, and since 1995 has edited the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environmen t . Famine 1975! After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. (2004), and Going Away to Think (2008). Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey is Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Literature and the Environment: A Reader on Nature and Culture Plus MyLab Literature -- Access Card Package (2nd Edition) [Anderson, Lorraine, Slovic, Scott P., O'Grady, John P] on Amazon.com. Finding Pegasus: The Eddie Grant Series, Book 3 (Volume 3), Beneath the Same Stars: A Novel of the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. ISLE, ASLE’s flagship journal of ecocritical research and environmental writing, has been published since 1993.For sixteen years the journal appeared only in traditional paper format. Now he’s in the Catskill Mountains of New York, where he continues to write. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products. As climate-related disasters continue to make headlines, parents today are understandably concerned with raising kids who care about the environment. Fiction environmental books feature the environment as a prominent theme. Caribbean Literature and the Environment redresses this omission by gathering together eighteen essays that consider the relationship between human and natural history. What would you do in 1868? (18 contributors), indigenous studies; Australia; settler colonialism, Climate change: giant hurricane caused by nuclear explosion, This page was last edited on 19 September 2020, at 11:44.

He has written, edited, or co-edited nineteen books in the field of ecocriticism and environmental literature, including  Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing  (1992), What's Nature Worth? Coffee and Colonialism in Julia Alvarezs A Cafecito Story, Subjection and Resistance in the Transformation, A Long Bilingual Conversation Concerning Paradise, Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture, Clios Natur: vergleichende Aspekte der Umweltgeschichte. We’ve compiled a list of publications devoted in large part to eco-literature — essays, articles, short stories, poetry. The 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring has been regarded as particularly important in popularizing environmental science and helping to launch the modern environmental movement. Fateful Harvest: The True Story of a Small Town, a Global Industry, and a Toxic Secret, Feral: Searching for enchantment on the frontiers of rewilding, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer—And What You Can Do About It, The Frankenfood Myth: How Protest and Politics Threaten the Biotech Revolution, The Gene Revolution: GM Crops and Unequal Development, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World, Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism, The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans, The Great Barrier Reef: Biology, Environment and Management, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism, Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage, Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy, Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence, Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis, Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World, Heaven and Earth: Global Warming — The Missing Science, Hell and High Water: Global Warming — the Solution and the Politics — and What We Should Do, High and Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia's Future, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America, How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individual's Guide to Stopping Climate Change, Human Ecology, Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically Sustainable Future, The Hundred Year Lie: How Food And Medicine Are Destroying Your Health, The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate, The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives On a Cleaner Planet, An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, An Introduction to Sustainable Development, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our World, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder, The Lay of the Land: Metaphor As Experience and History in American Life and Letters, Living in the Hothouse: How Global Warming Affects Australia, The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century, The Machine in Neptune's Garden: Historical Perspectives on Technology and the Marine Environment, Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition, Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World, Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada, Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution, Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World, The Oyster Question: Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay since 1880, The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies, The Pesticide Question: Environment, Economics and Ethics, Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters, Population Control: Real Costs, Illusory Benefits, Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future, Power, Profit and Protest: Australian Social Movements and Globalisation, Putting biodiversity on the map: priority areas for global conservation, Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option, The Real Global Warming Disaster (Is The Obsession With 'Climate Change' Turning Out To Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History?

A three-time Fulbright Scholar (in Germany, Japan, and China), Scott has lectured and taught in many countries around the world. International intrigue and contemporary politics supercharged on espresso. The rise of environmental science, which has encouraged interdisciplinary approaches to studying the environment, and the environmental movement, which has increased public and political awareness of humanity's impact on the environment, have been highly influential. ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Scott Slovic is a professor of literature and environment at the University of Idaho.

She contains the imprint of the earth’s beauty in her cells. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape, A Science on the Scales: The Rise of Canadian Atlantic Fisheries Biology, 1898-1939, Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia, All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management, Alternative Energy: Political, Economic, and Social Feasibility, AP 42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors, An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, Aqueous Wastes from Petroleum and Petrochemical Plants, Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada, Babylon's Ark, The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo, Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future, A Big Fix: Radical Solutions for Australia's Environmental Crisis, Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World - Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan, Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Canada's Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System, The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England, The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity, Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change, Climate Change and Global Energy Security: Technology and Policy Options, Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action, Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet, Climber's Paradise: Making Canada's Mountain National Parks, 1906-1974, Coal River: How a Few Brave Americans Took on a Powerful Company–and the Federal Government–to Save the Land They Love, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists, Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment of Atomic Energy, Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, Diagnosis Mercury: Money, Politics and Poison, The Dirty Energy Dilemma: What's Blocking Clean Power in the United States, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, Ecodefense: A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900, The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat, The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World, Endemic Bird Areas of the World: Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation, Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths, Energy Autonomy: The Economic, Social & Technological Case for Renewable Energy, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology, Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well, Environmental Principles and Policies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction, Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands, The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850–1920, Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines, Factor 5: Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Increase in Resource Productivity. Part history, part guide, “How to Give Up Plastic” helps us understand our plastics addiction while giving us practical, ambitious steps to correct it.

*FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The 13-digit and 10-digit formats both work. In this book, Will McCallum, head of oceans at Greenpeace UK, frames the current state of global plastic pollution and the environmental consequences of our throwaway, single-use culture. The volume includes an extensive introduction by the editors and essays by Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Derek Walcott, Wilson Harris, Cyril Dabydeen, Trenton Hickman, Shona Jackson, LeGrace Benson, Jana Evans Braziel, George B. Handley, Renee K. Grossman, Isabel Hoving, Natasha Tinsley, Helen Tiffen, Hena Maes-Jelinek, Heidi Bojsen, Ineke Phaf-Reinberger, Eric Prieto, and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, as well as interviews with Walcott and Raphaël Confiant. Please try again. As an undergraduate he studied forestry, believing that this was a chance to dwell in deep groves and sequestered places, but when he realized resource management is not an appropriate practice for one who delights less in the chainsaw than in the standing oak, he moved on to pursue graduate studies in English. Здійснюйте пошук у найбільшій у світі електронній книгарні та починайте читати вже сьогодні в Інтернеті, на планшетному ПК, телефоні або пристрої для читання електронних книг (eReader). Non-fiction accounts are ones that are presented as factual, although often in the context of subjective argument.