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    Hunting for Hope: A Father’s Journeys

    Scott Russell Sanders

    These essays look for powerful reasons for optimism in a dark age. They open with a confrontation between father and son as they embark together on a trip through America…

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    Earth Works: Selected Essays

    Scott Russell Sanders

    In 30 of his finest essaysnine never before collectedScott Russell Sanders tackles such vital issues as the disruption of Earths climate, the impact of technology, the mystique of money, the…

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    Secrets of the Universe: Essays on Family, Community, Spirit, and Place

    Scott Russell Sanders

    Ranging from an autobiographical tour-de-force that describes a childhood spent with an alcoholic father to Looking at Women, a reflection on male yearning and confusion, to a look at the…

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    Writing from the Center

    Scott Russell Sanders

    A Lannan Literary Award-winning authorOs search for a centered life.

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    Bad Man Ballad

    Scott Russell Sanders

    The time is 1813, during America’s last war with England; the place is the Ohio Valley, the thickly wooded highway of western settlement. Wolves still howl at midnight on village…

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    The Force of Spirit

    Scott Russell Sanders

    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…

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    The Way Of Imagination: Essays

    Scott Russell Sanders

    Prize-winning essayist Scott Russell Sanders explores the role of imagination in art, science, and ethics. He shows that bold acts of imagination are key to healing our divided society and…

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    Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World

    Scott Russell Sanders

    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.

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    Dancing in Dreamtime

    Scott Russell Sanders

    First time Sanders’ sci fi has been collected in one place. 2. Themes of pollution, climate change, and deforestation are very topical for readers. 3. Very well-written stories from a…

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    Meeting Trees

    Scott Russell Sanders

    By capturing the delicate details of bark, branches, and leaves, Meeting Trees enchants readers with the beauty of the natural world, showing them how they can get acquainted with some…

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    The Engineer of Beasts: A Novel

    Scott Russell Sanders

    Beautifully written, The Engineer of Beasts brings together the best of Scott Russell Sanders’s environmental wisdom with skilled world-building and beloved characters.

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    Small Marvels: Stories

    Scott Russell Sanders

    In Limestone, Indiana, a city tucked away among forested hills, peculiar things happen, often in the vicinity of a jack-of-all-trades named Gordon Mills. Centaurs and nymphs shelter in a local…

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    Small Marvels: Stories

    Scott Russell Sanders

    In Limestone, Indiana, a city tucked away among forested hills, peculiar things happen, often in the vicinity of a jack-of-all-trades named Gordon Mills. Centaurs and nymphs shelter in a local…

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    Crawdad Creek

    Scott Russell Sanders

    Watch whirligig beetles and water striders skate across the water, follow animal tracks along the bank, and count the turtles sunning themselves on moss-covered logs. There’s a wild and beautiful…

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    A Conservationist Manifesto

    Scott Russell Sanders

    Practical, ecological, and philosophical grounds for a conservation ethic

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    The Country of Language

    Professor Scott Russell Sanders (Indiana University)

    Scott Russell Sanders argues that people need to find a sense of at-homeness in nature because moments of interaction with the non-human world restore sanity and courage through life’s trials.

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    Terrarium

    Scott R. Sanders

    Tells a love story, wrapped inside the tale of a high-tech conspiracy, wrapped inside a vision of earth’s future. During the 21st century, humans withdraw from the poisoned biosphere into…

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    Stone Country: Then and Now

    Scott Russell Sanders

    It is an up-close look at a singular point on the planet where the miracles of geology have yielded a special kind of stone, and where landscape, towns, and the…

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    Burger Chef

    Scott Russell Sanders

    Frank P. Thomas Jr., Donald J. Thomas, and Robert E. Wildman, owners of the General Equipment Company, entered into the fast-food business by opening a 15cents hamburger restaurant called Burger…

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    For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays And Other Writings

    Aldo Leopold

    A collection of previously unavailable essays by environmentalist Aldo Leopold, building on the tradition of ethical land use and developing the concept of land health and the practical measures landowners…

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    Historic Preservation in Indiana: Essays from the Field

    An essential book for everyone who cares about preserving the past for future generations.

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    Speak to the Earth: Pages from a Farmwife’s Journal

    Rachel Peden

    A book of rural virtues and a naturalist’s philosophy

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