A engaging analysis of food production in the United States emphasizing that sustainable agricultural development is important to community health.
B.B. French knew just about everything and everyone in the sweep of American history from the Age of Jackson to the Civil War and Reconstruction. His recollections shed light on the personalities, events, manners, and politics of the times.
A distinctive American subculture responds to the forces of social change.
Now in paperback, the New York Times best-selling biography of the legendary Revolutionary War patriot and America's first spy
The updated edition of a classic contemporary account of Vermont's environmental history, told through the interaction of natural and human components
Short stories explore cultural change and class conflict in contemporary West Virginia.
A leading Frost critic guides the reader through some of the poet's most challenging verse.
Keith Thomas's earlier studies in the ethnography of early modern England, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, were all attempts to explore beliefs, values, and social practices in the centuries from 1500 to 1800. In Pursuit of Civility continues this quest by examining what English people thought it meant to be "civilized" and how that condition differed from being "barbarous" or "savage." Thomas shows that the upper ranks of society sought to distinguish themselves from their social inferiors by distinctive ways of moving, speaking, and comporting themselves, and that the common people developed their own form of civility. The belief of the English in their superior civility shaped their relations with the Welsh, the Scots, and the Irish, and was fundamental to their dealings with the native peoples of North America, India, and Australia. Yet not everyone shared this belief in the superiority of Western civilization; the book sheds light on the origins of both anticolonialism and cultural relativism. Thomas has written an accessible history based on wide reading, abounding in fresh insights, and illustrated by many striking quotations and anecdotes from contemporary sources.
Thirty-six artists, scientists, and renowned writers go wild about the virtues, pleasure, and importance of dirt!
Wang Wei was one of the most celebrated poets of China's Tang Dynasty (618-907). An influential painter and practitioner of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, many of his poems contain concise and evocative descriptions of nature whose elegant minimalism offers subtle expression of a transcendence from everyday life. While this purity of poetic expression is what Wang Wei's reputation is built upon, he lived a courtly life of highs and lows in a tumultuous era, suffering demotions and exile, imprisonment and rehabilitation, all of which are evidenced in his verse. Wang Wei's poems grapple with the trappings of worldly life and the quest for enlightenment, painting a complex picture of both his psyche and his Chan discipline. Laughing Lost in the Mountains includes translations of poems running the spectrum of Wang Wei's subjects, as well as an extensive introduction that sheds light on Wang Wei's craft, spirituality, and historical context.
Recent work on best management practices for sound and light in national parks
Libby Burton's brilliant debut is the winner of the 2017 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize
The wild, zany, and forgotten history of the NFL's now-premier franchise
Five rings to rule them all! A history of the modern Patriots as seen through the lens of their Super Bowl games, by the bestselling author of From Darkness to Dynasty
The story of one of the most outrageous national championship teams of the swashbuckling '70s
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