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  | | A Conservationist Manifesto(9th Edition) by Scott Russell Sanders Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2009 by Indiana University Press Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22080-6, ISBN: 0-253-22080-7 "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 in values and behavior will be required? Ranging geographically from sout ..." |
 | | Staying Put(Updated) Making a Home in a Restless World (Concord Library) by Scott Russell Sanders Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1994 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6341-5, ISBN: 0-8070-6341-X ""In the tradition of Wendell Berry, Sanders champions fidelity to place, informed by ecological awareness, arguing that intimacy with one's home region is the grounding for global knowledge. "Reflective, rhapsodic, luminous essays. . . . A wise and beautifully written book." -Publishers Weekly, starred review " |
 | | The Force of Spirit(1st Edition) by Scott Russell Sanders Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2001 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6297-5, ISBN: 0-8070-6297-9 "Scott Russell Sanders reveals how the pressure of the sacred breaks through the surfaces of ordinary life-a life devoted to grown-up children and aging parents, the craft of writing, and the natural world. Whether writing to his daughter and his son as each prepares to get married, or describing an encounter with a red-tailed hawk in whose form he glimpses his dead father, or praising the disciplines of writing and carpentry and teachin ..." |
 | | Writing from the Center(Reprint) by Scott Russell Sanders Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 1997 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21143-9, ISBN: 0-253-21143-3 "Exile is a romantic notion for many American writers; those who don't make it to Paris or Tokyo gravitate to New York or Los Angeles, as if pulled by some sort of undertow to the country's edge. Scott Russell Sanders spent some time abroad, but he found that he answered less to the lure of foreign soil than the gentle tug of his native Midwest. Just as Sanders is nourished by living in the landscape that he most considers home, so ..." |
 | | The Way of Imagination Essays (Paperback) by Scott Russell Sanders Paperback, Published 2020 by Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-64009-365-2, ISBN: 1-64009-365-6 |
 | | Meeting Trees(Reprint) by Scott Russell Sanders, Robert Hynes Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2018 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-03478-6, ISBN: 0-253-03478-7 "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 spider, or see what makes the beech tree so special (its bark is smooth and gray just like the skin of a hippo).Featuring beautiful paintings b ..." |
 | | Earth Works(1st Edition) Selected Essays by Scott Russell Sanders Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 2012 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-00095-8, ISBN: 0-253-00095-5 "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 feeling for wildness. He also tackles such vital issues as the disruption of Earth's climate, the impact of technology, the mystique of mo ..." |
 | | Secrets of the Universe(Reprint) Essays on Family, Community, Spirit, and Place by Professor Scott Russell Sanders Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1992 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6331-6, ISBN: 0-8070-6331-2 "Essays on Family, Community, Spirit, and Place Scott Russell Sanders. grade math. Proverbs warned: “Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder. Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things." Woe, woe. Dismayingly often, these biblical drunkards stirred up trouble for their own kids. Noah made fresh wi ..." |
 | | Crawdad Creek(Reprint) by Scott Russell Sanders, Robert Hynes Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2018 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-03474-8, ISBN: 0-253-03474-4 "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 the fish below, and count the turtles sunning themselves on moss-covered logs. Follow tracks along the bank, then sit in quiet amazement as d ..." |
 | | Crawdad Creek by Scott Russell Sanders, Robert Hynes Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 1999 by National Geographic Children's Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7922-7097-3, ISBN: 0-7922-7097-5 "In the same enchanting manner as Meeting Trees, this book invites young readers to learn about the amazing wildlife that can be found in and around a backyard creek." |
 | | Terrarium(Reprint) by Scott Russell Sanders Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1996 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21021-0, ISBN: 0-253-21021-6 "oA keen eye, a sensuous and exact imagination, and a buoyant spirit.O NUrsula K. Le Guin This novel tells a love story, wrapped inside the tale of a high-tech conspiracy, wrapped inside a vision of earthOs future. During the 21st century, humans withdraw from the poisoned biosphere into a global network of domed cities known as the Enclosure. Connected by a web of travel tubes, some of those cities rest on land, others float on the ocea ..." |
 | | In Limestone Country(Reprint) (Concord Library) by Scott Russell Sanders Paperback, 188 Pages, Published 1991 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6335-4, ISBN: 0-8070-6335-5 "From a patch of land in southern Indiana has come the stone for many of the country's most famous buildings, including the Washington Cathedral, the Pentagon, the Empire State Building, and Chicago's Tribune Tower. If you live anywhere within the lower forty-eight states you probably live within walking distance of library, bank, monument, church, house or skyscraper built with Indiana limestone. In Limestone Country is the story of the ..." |
 | | The Engineer of Beasts A Novel by Scott Russell Sanders Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 2019 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04587-4, ISBN: 0-253-04587-8 "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 his father’s disney spotless and orderly, until 13-year-old Mooch explodes into his life and down the throat of a mechanized lion..Mooch quic ..." |
 | | Wonder and Other Survival Skills(1st Edition) by Diane Ackerman, Susanne Antonetta, Rick Bass, Michael P. Branch, John Calderazzo, Anthony Doerr, Chris Dombrowski, Brian Doyle, David Gessner, Aleria Jensen, Amy Leach, Teddy Macker, Scott Russell Sanders, Georgian Valoyce-Sanchez, Ann Zwinger, Kristi Dranginis, H. Emerson Blake Paperback, 107 Pages, Published 2012 by The Orion Society ISBN-13: 978-1-935713-02-9, ISBN: 1-935713-02-7 "Is wonder really a survival skill? Between the urgency of the problems facing our planet and the chaos of our own busy lives, it might seem naive to place "cultivate wonder" at the top of a list of priorities. Yet that is exactly what the authors in this collection suggest: that wonder is necessary, that it might just be what saves us. Readers have long turned to Orion to be reminded of the things that really matter, to build their inne ..." |
 | | A Private History of Awe(1st Edition) by Scott Russell Sanders Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2007 by North Point Press ISBN-13: 978-0-86547-734-6, ISBN: 0-86547-734-5 "An original and searching memoir from "one of America's finest essayists" (Phillip Lopate)When Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe--"the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything." He says, "The search for communion with this power has run like a bright thread through all my days." A Private History of Awe is an account of this search, told as a ..." |
 | | A Private History of Awe by Scott Russell Sanders Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2006 by North Point Press ISBN-13: 978-0-86547-693-6, ISBN: 0-86547-693-4 "An original and searching memoir from “one of America’s finest essayists” (Phillip Lopate)When Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe—“the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything.” He writes, “The search for communion with this power has run like a bright thread through all my days.” A Private History of Awe is an account of his search, tol ..." |
 | | The Force of Spirit(1st Edition) by Scott Russell Sanders Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2000 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6296-8, ISBN: 0-8070-6296-0 ""Sanders writes with the kindness of E. B. White and the reverence of the poet . . . James Wright."-Frances Lefkowitz, New Age"[Sanders] looks so wisely at the grain of his life that we can't help consider the timbre of our own. . . .Here's the work of a quiet torch bearer." -Ron Charles, The Christian Science Monitor" |
 | | Hunting for Hope(Updated) A Father's Journeys by Scott Russell Sanders Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1999 by Beacon Press Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6425-2, ISBN: 0-8070-6425-4 "Author Scott Russell Sanders has written numerous award-winning books (including Staying Put and Secrets of the Universe) about the environmental and moral crises of the late 20th century--inspiration and fuel for all who care about the state of the world. Well, almost all. On a backpacking trip in the Colorado Rockies, he learns he has passed on to his teenage son Jesse not hope, but a paralyzing unease. "You make me feel th ..." |
 | | Aurora Means Dawn(1st Edition) by Scott Russell Sanders, Jill Kastner Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 1989 by Atheneum ISBN-13: 978-0-02-778270-7, ISBN: 0-02-778270-0 "The Sheldon family traveled through the Ohio River Valley in a covered wagon in the 1800s, planning to settle in the town of Aurora. Focusing on this family's hopes and the hardships they faced, Sanders makes history personal and immediate. Full-color illustrations." |
 | | Divine Animal(1st Edition) by Scott Russell Sanders Paperback, 370 Pages, Published 2014 by Earth Works Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-9913102-2-7, ISBN: 0-9913102-2-5 |
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