The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don't have the words to express, until now--from the creator of the popular online project of the same name.Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass ...Show more
The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah by Masanobu Fukuoka
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
The celebrated pioneer of the 'do-nothing' farming method reflects on global ecological trauma and argues that we must radically transform our understanding of both nature and ourselves in order to have any chance of healing.
The Last Tree on Easter Island by Jared Diamond
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilization destroyed itself by exploiting its own natural resources - and why we must heed this warning.
The Mirror of Production by Jean Baudrillard
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
The most provocative work from the father of postmodernism. A spectre haunts the revolutionary imagination: the spectre of production. Revolutionary thought - from Marx to Deleuze - merely replicates the obsession with production of classical political economy. Jean Baudrillard's provocative early study ...Show more
The Most Dammed Country in the World by Dai Qing
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
The courageous, unflinching speeches and writings collected here detail the devastating human and environmental cost of China's economic rise.
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the Northern Hemisphere. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's account of these sought-after fungi offers insights into areas far bey ...Show more
The Well Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World by Sue Stuart-Smith
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
'The wisest book I've read for many years ... Much more than a gardening book, much more than a guide to mental health ... Hugely recommended' - STEPHEN FRY. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER How can getting outdoors help us to look after our mental health? In a powerful combination of contemporary neuroscie ...Show more
The World We Once Lived In by Wangari Maathai
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
From the Congo Basin to the traditions of the Kikuyu people, these lucid, incisive writings explore the sacred power of trees, and why humans lay waste to the forests that keep us alive.
The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
A rare work of nonfiction from Edith Wharton, The Writing of Fiction contains brilliant advice on writing from the first woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize - for her first novel The Age of Innocence. In The Writing of Fiction, Wharton provides general comments on the roots of modern fiction, the various ...Show more
There Is No Point of No Return by Arne Næss
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Emphasizing joy in the world, human cooperation and the value of all living things, this selection of his writings is filled with wit, learning and an intense connection with nature.
Think Like a Mountain by Aldo Leopold
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Green Ideas
In this lyrical meditation on the American wilderness, Leopold considers the different ways humans shape the natural landscape, and describes for the first time the far-reaching phenomenon now known as 'trophic cascades'.
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd (Editor); Anastasia Tolstoy (Editor)
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordina ...Show more