An Obsession With Butterflies : Our Long Love Affair With a Singular Insect

Russell, Sharman Apt

Arrow Books, Ltd.

When The Land Was Young: Reflections on American Archaeology

Sharman Apt Russell skillfully weaves together the stories of our land—from the ancient burial site of a gentle people who lived in eastern Florida seven to eight thousand years ago, to the Hopewell Indians in Ohio—with the personalities and techniques of present-day archaeology.As Russell explains, American archaeology has reached a crossroads. In a discipline that is caught between science and humanities, ancient sites can be seen as sources of data—or as nonrenewable resources that must be conserved. Moreover, many Native Americans consider excavation to be a form of desecration. Who owns the past?American archaeology is full of such intense questions, controversies, and emotional debates—from when humans first entered North America to the angst inherent in the field—can we ever really know the past? A lyrical tale of flesh and blood as well as dust and bones, When the Land Was Young brings to life as never before the study of the past.

When The Land Was Young: Reflections On American Archaeology

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

Basic Books

Recounts the author's experiences living in rural New Mexico, including building an adobe house, giving birth at home, and using the irrigation system

Songs Of The Fluteplayer: Seasons Of Life In The Southwest

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Kill The Cowboy: A Battle Of Mythology In The New West

Argues that the mythology of the cowboy should be replaced by new icons reflecting the realities of the modern West, including water shortages, overgrazing, and the need to protect western wildlife and wilderness

History

Americas

From the flooding of southern New Mexicos Mimbres River in the summer, to the year-round search for community in rural America, Sharman Apt Russell recounts her experiences in creating a life for herself in the remote southwestern desert. She, along with her husband, chose to leave a faster lane in order to find a way of life not possible in a larger urban area: building their own adobe home, giving birth to their first child at home, and developing self-reliance and a deepening commitment to each other. Her reverence for the land, its history, and native inhabitants always informs her writing, and her intelligence and strong narrative voice ring clearly throughout this remarkable work. Like the best personal memoirs, the book is also about the events, people, myths, and emotions that define the days and seasons. Songs of the Fluteplayer, called an enchanting book by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, marks an exciting literary debut.

Songs of the Fluteplayer: Seasons of Life in the Southwest

Regional U.S.

What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Columbia University Press

This study of butterfies through their life cycles helps reveal the logic behind our fascination with butterflies. It explains the passion of legendary collectors such as the tragic Eleanor Glanville and brilliant Henry Bates and takes us inside some of the most prestigious natural history museums.

William Heinemann

Everything is connected, and the web is holy.” So wrote Marcus Aurelius, the starting point of Sharman Apt Russell's wise and haunting new memoir about her life as a pantheist. Perhaps no other religious philosophy is as simple and inclusive as pantheism. What is, right now, is divine; there is no god apart from the universe itself. In Standing in the Light, Russell explores the history of this tradition from the Stoic philosophers to the Transcendentalists while reflecting on her own life during a year spent in the mountains and desert of southwestern New Mexico. A season of banding birds, the migration of sandhill cranes, the panicked charge of a young javelina-nature provides the inspiration for meditations on subjects ranging from Buddhist thought to the death of her father, from the Quaker tradition to the sadness of children leaving home, from global warming to the ineffable loneliness of human experience. With a humane heart, an inquisitive mind, and luminescent prose, Sharman Apt Russell invites skeptics, scientists, and seekers everywhere to join her in her exploration of the soul of pantheism.

Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist

Religion & Spirituality

"Everything is connected, and the web is holy.” So wrote Marcus Aurelius, the starting point of Sharman Apt Russell's wise and haunting new memoir about her life as a pantheist.
In Standing in the Light, Russell explores the history of this tradition from the Stoic philosophers to the Transcendentalists while reflecting on her own life during a year spent in the mountains and desert of southwestern New Mexico. Nature provides the inspiration for meditations on subjects ranging from Buddhist thought to the death of her father, from global warming to the ineffable loneliness of human experience.
With a humane heart, an inquisitive mind, and an astounding fluency of prose, Sharman Apt Russell invites skeptics, scientists, and seekers everywhere to join her in her exploration of the soul of pantheism.

Leaders & Notable People

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An Obsession With Butterflies : Our Long Love Affair With a Singular Insect

When The Land Was Young: Reflections On American Archaeology

Songs Of The Fluteplayer: Seasons Of Life In The Southwest

Kill The Cowboy: A Battle Of Mythology In The New West

Songs of the Fluteplayer: Seasons of Life in the Southwest

What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs

What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs

An Obsession With Butterflies : Our Long Love Affair With a Singular Insect

Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist

Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist