The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
10 best books like The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (Wendell Berry): A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There, Desert Solitaire, Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation, Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World, Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology, The One-Straw Revolution
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0307279464 |
The Appalachian Trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America—majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you’re going to take a hike, it’s probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you’ll...
| Author | Aldo Leopold |
| ISBN | 0195007778 |
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's relationship to the land.
Written with an unparalleled understanding of the ways of nature, the book includes a section on the...
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| ISBN | 0345326490 |
First published in 1968, Desert Solitaire is one of Edward Abbey’s most critically acclaimed works and marks his first foray into the world of nonfiction writing. Written while Abbey was working as a ranger at Arches National Park outside of Moab, Utah, Desert Solitaire is a rare view of one man’s...
| Author | Bernd Heinrich |
| ISBN | 0060957379 |
From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich, an intimate, accessible and eloquent illumination of animal survival in Winter.
From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations...
| Author | Terry Tempest Williams |
| ISBN | 0679740244 |
In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its...
| Author | James K.A. Smith |
| ISBN | 0801035783 |
How does worship work? How exactly does liturgical formation shape us? What are the dynamics of such transformation? In the second of James K. A. Smith's three-volume theology of culture, the author expands and deepens the analysis of cultural liturgies and Christian worship he developed in his well-received...
| Author | James K.A. Smith |
| ISBN | 0801035775 |
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans–as Augustine noted–are "desiring agents," full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love.
James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy...
Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
| Author | Joel Salatin |
| ISBN | 0892968192 |
From farmer Joel Salatin's point of view, life in the 21st century just ain't normal. In FOLKS, THIS AIN'T NORMAL, he discusses how far removed we are from the simple, sustainable joy that comes from living close to the land and the people we love. Salatin has many thoughts on what normal is and shares practical...
Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology
In this culmination of his widely read and highly acclaimed Cultural Liturgies project, James K. A. Smith examines the political through the lens of liturgy. What if, he asks, citizens are not only thinkers or believers but lovers? Smith explores how our analysis of political institutions would...
| Author | Masanobu Fukuoka |
| ISBN | 8185569312 |
I legally downloaded the book in PDF form from http://www.soilandhealth.org/
This book made me realize that something else is possible.
The author writes that he is a farmer in Japan who gets rice yields that meet or eclipse the most highly productive regions in Japan, yet he:
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable,...
