Just as there is love at first sight between people, Václav Cílek writes, there can be love at first sight between a person and a place. A landscape is more than a location, it is one party in a relationship—even when the spirit of a certain setting is not perceptible to those who visit. But […]
In The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature’s Salvation, Pearce goes on a journey across six continents to rediscover what conservation in the twenty-first century should be about.
With spring here and Earth Day fast approaching, there are lots of new books coming out on environmental topics for the readers concerned about green living and sustainability. Here is a sampling… Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different […]
Curious Critters: Marine is the latest release showcasing the award-winning photography and writing of Ohio-based David FitzSimmons. The book features FitzSimmons’ stunning portraits of 20 of North America’s most incredible marine animals, including a black sea bass, a giant Pacific octopus, a roseate spoonbill, and a one-in-a-million blue lobster, among other creatures found along the coasts of the United […]
Globalization: The Crucial Phase (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, $62.01), a new collection of essays edited by University of Pennsylvania anthropologist Brian Spooner, explores the anthropological roots of current globalization trends. “The number of people interacting in a single arena has continually increased and now that over 50 percent of world population lives […]
In Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland (Cornell University Press, $28.45), University of Cincinnati historian David Stradling and Raleigh News & Observer editor Richard Stradling recount how Carl Stokes, the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city, worked to transform Cleveland in the early 1970s (where pollution set the Cuyahoga River on […]
New from Dawn Publications this spring are three fun and informative illustrated books designed to connect kids and nature… In Martha Sullivan’s Pitter and Patter (with illustrations by Cathy Morrison), young readers or listeners can hitch a ride through the watershed with two charismatic raindrops, Pitter and Patter, as they tumble from the sky, careen off a leaf, plunge […]
Harvard development studies professor Peter Timmer’s new book, Food Security and Scarcity: Why Ending Hunger Is So Hard (University of Pennsylvania Press, $51.80), shows how so many countries are mismanaging their food and agriculture programs, in the process leaving billions of people around the world without access to enough food or proper nutrition. Taking into account decades […]
Whether you journey abroad to find orchids in the wild, raise them in your home, or admire them from afar, this new book from Joe Meisel offers fascinating insights into the diversity and natural history of one of Earth’s most enchanting flowering plants. Beyond the plant and flower descriptions and abundant full color photography, Orchids of Tropical […]
In his new book The Edge of Extinction: Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands, University Essex Environment and Society professor Jules Pretty documents his visits to 12 different environments around the world where traditional human cultures are hanging on despite the pressures to modernize. Pretty does an admirable job showing that we would be […]
