Knocking on Heaven’s Door
In the 23rd century, humans live in utopia, hunting and gathering in tribal bands, reunited with old (cloned) friends like the mammoth, connected by solar-powered laptops, buoyed by the belief in a panpsychic universe in which consciousness pervades matter. A 150 years after the supervirus that killed off most of humanity, our return to a Paleoterrific lifestyle seems to our last, greatest achievement. But in this new Garden of Eden, one man and one woman—as well as a smarter-than-average dire-wolf--are faced with a decision that could literally transform the planet. Again. Will we repeat the cycle of curiosity and hubris? Or is our destiny even stranger than that?
More info →The Humpbacked Fluteplayer
When May touches the crude cave drawing of a fluteplayer, she and Evan are transported to an alternate reality, where they become pawns in a tense intertribal battle, and finding the humpbacked fluteplayer again is their only hope for escape.
More info →What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs
Did a red fox pass this way? Could that be a bobcat print in the dirt? Do those tracks belong to a domestic dog or a coyote? Combining lyrical memoir with an introduction to wildlife tracking, What Walks This Way explores the joys of learning to recognize the traces of the creatures with whom we share our world.
More info →Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide and the Revolution Taking Place to End It
A healthy Earth requires healthy children. Yet nearly one-fourth of the world's children are stunted physically and mentally due to a lack of food or nutrients. These children do not die but endure a lifetime of diminished potential.
During the past thirty years, says Sharman Russell, we have seen a revolution in how we treat these sick children. We have a new understanding of the human body and approach to nutrition, and new ways to reach out to hungry mothers and babies. We have gone from unwittingly killing severely malnourished children to bringing them back to health through the "miracle" of ready-to-eat therapeutic food.
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