Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West
9 best books like Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West (Rebecca Solnit): White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, Mountains and Rivers Without End, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History), Danger on Peaks: Poems, The Late Bourgeois World, The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and The Practice of the Wild, The Hatred of Poetry
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially,...
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects...
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 1887178570 |
When this landmark work was first published, Gary Snyder was honored with the Bollingen Poetry Prize, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Orion Societys John Hay Award. Publishers Weekly named Mountains and Rivers Without End one of the best books of 1996. On April 8, 1956, Gary Snyder...
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
| Author | Silvia Federici |
| ISBN | 1570270597 |
Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She shows how the battle against...
| Author | Alfred W. Crosby |
| ISBN | 0521546184 |
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain because in many cases they were achieved by using firearms against spears. Alfred Crosby,...
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 1593760809 |
As a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, bioregional activist, Zen Buddhist, and reluctant counterculture guru, Gary Snyder has been a major artistic force in America for over five decades, extending far beyond the Beat poems that first brought his work into the public eye.
Danger on Peaks begins...
| Author | Nadine Gordimer |
| ISBN | 0140056149 |
Liz Van Den Sandt's ex-husband, Max, an ineffectual rebel, has drowned himself. In prison for a failed act of violence against the government, he had betrayed his colleagues. Now Liz has been asked to perform a direct service for the black nationalist movement, at considerable danger to herself. Can...
The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and The Practice of the Wild
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 1582436290 |
Gary Snyder joined his old friend, novelist Jim Harrison, to discuss their loves and lives and what has become of them throughout the years. Set amidst the natural beauty of the Santa Lucia Mountains, their conversations—harnessing their ideas of all that is wild, sacred and intimate in this world—move...
| Author | Ben Lerner |
| ISBN | 0865478201 |
No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that...
