In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.\nWith honesty, passion and heart, Terry Tempest Williams's essays explore the impact of nuclear testing, the vital importance of environmental legislation, and the guiding spirit of conservation.\nOver the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.

The Clan of One-Breasted Women

Terry Tempest Williams

Penguin Classics

Emmet Gowin has been taking aerial photographs of the landscape in the United States, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Asia, and the Middle East for over twenty years. In his most compelling photographs, one witnesses how man’s footprint has visually scarred and continually altered the earth’s surface. This extraordinary book, published in conjunction with the first major touring exhibition of Gowin’s photographs in over ten years, focuses on images created after 1986. That was the year Gowin began to extend his aerial photography explorations in America by recording images of military test sites, missile silos, ammunition storage and disposal facilities, coal mining, pivot irrigation, offroad motor traffic, and more. The book also surveys his more recent works, which focus on other regions of the world, including the battlefields of Kuwait, new golf courses in Japan, and the chemo-petrol industries of the Czech Republic. Gowin’s richly toned black-and-white images have been characterized as “immorally gorgeous,” since at a distance even his most disturbing images can appear to be beautiful. In this exquisitely produced volume, Jock Reynolds provides an overview of Gowin’s aerial photography and places it in the context of his earlier work and that of such photographers as Carleton Watkins, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, and Frederick Sommer. Philip Brookman illuminates Gowin’s recent work in the Czech Republic, while Terry Tempest Williams discusses Gowin’s images from the American West, especially his Nevada Test Site series.

Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth

Arts & Photography

Philip Brookman

Jock Reynolds

Russell, Lord

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Yale University Art Gallery

Describes the different types and properties of snow through the vocabulary of the Alaskan Inuit people

The Secret Language of Snow

Children's Books

Ted Major

Geography & Cultures

Random House Children"s Books

Magic Lights and Streets of Shining Jet

William Morrow

This enduring story of life, adventure, and love in Alaska was written by a woman who embraced the remote Alaskan wilderness and became one of its strongest advocates. In this moving testimonial to the preservation of the Arctic wilderness, Mardy Murie writes from her heart about growing up in Fairbanks, becoming the first woman graduate of the University of Alaska, and marrying noted biologist Olaus J. Murie. So begins her lifelong journey in Alaska and on to Jackson Hole, Wyoming where along with her husband and others, they founded The Wilderness Society. Mardy's work as one of the earliest female voices for the wilderness movement earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Two in the Far North

Biographies & Memoirs

Murie, Margaret E.

Community & Culture

Alaska Northwest Books

Terry Tempest Williams presents a sharp-edged perspective on the ethics and politics of place, spiritual democracy, and the responsibilities of citizen engagement. By turns elegiac, inspiring, and passionate, The Open Space of Democracy offers a fresh perspective on the critical questions of our time.

The Open Space of Democracy

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

The Orion Society

Montana - Whitefish Review: Art, Literature, Photography of Mountain Culture, Volume 2, Issue 2, 0979708338, #4, Winter, 2008, Paperback - 2008 by Brian Schott (Editor)

Whitefish Review: Art, Literature, Photography Volume 2, Issue 2

Pete Fromm

Jay Cowan

Glen Pourciau

Gordon Wiltsie

Whitefish Review, Inc.

Pieces of White Shell

Sociology

San Val

Distinguished writers, including John McPhee, Barry Lopez, William Kittredge, Ann Zwinger, and Mark Strand, speak out on the necessity to protect and preserve America's wilderness habitats in the face of assaults on government-protected lands by miners, developers, and other industries. Original. IP.

Testimony: Writers of the West Speak on Behalf of Utah Wilderness

Science & Math

Stephen Trimble

Biological Sciences

MILKWEED EDITIONS *

Orion Magazine asked thirty writers and thinkers to name one thing we will increasingly need over the next thirty years if humans are going to find a way to live happily, sustainably, redeemably on earth. Here is the result. From "optimism' to "improvisation," from "young farmers" to "empty pockets," the responses collected here are as wide-ranging as they are compelling. Imbued with thoughtfulness and buoyed by a profound sense of justice, this thin volume makes an eloquent statement about the future of humanity.

Thirty-Year Plan

Charles Bowden

Pete Seeger

Ralph Nader

Richard Louv

Craig Childs

and 24 other writers

Orion Magazine

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