Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees

Author: William Bryant Logan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393609421
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
Winner of the 2021 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing "This deeply nourishing book invites us to reclaim reciprocity with the living world." —Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass Once, farmers and rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople felled their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again. Pruning the trees didn’t destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and diverse woodlands that we have ever known. Arborist William Bryant Logan offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach. He recovers the lost tradition that sustained human life and culture for ten millennia.

Sprout

Author: Dale Peck
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1599906244
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
When Sprout and his father move from Long Island to Kansas after the death of his mother, he is sure he will find no friends, no love, no beauty. But friends find him, the strangeness of the landscape fascinates him, and when love shows up in an unexpected place, it proves impossible to hold. An incredible, literary story of a boy who knows he's gay, and the town that seems to have no place for him to hide.

The Gold Machine

Author: Iain Sinclair
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0861540719
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2021 ‘Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.’ Barry Miles ‘The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in compelling company.’ TLS From the award-winning author of The Last London and Lights Out for the Territory, a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors. In The Gold Machine, Iain Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by – and in reaction to – an ill-fated colonial expedition led by his great-grandfather, Arthur Sinclair. The incursions of Catholic bounty hunters and Adventist missionaries are contrasted with today’s ecotourists and short-cut vision seekers. The family history of a displaced Scottish highlander fades into the brutal reality of a major land grab. The historic thirst for gold and the establishment of sprawling coffee plantations leave terrible wounds on virgin territory. What might once have been portrayed as an intrepid adventure is transformed into a shocking tale of the violated rights of indigenous people, secret dealings between London finance and Peruvian government, and the collusion of the church in colonial expansion. In Sinclair’s haunting prose, no place escapes its past, and nor can we.

Oak: The Frame of Civilization

Author: William Bryant Logan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393327787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
Explores the role that the oak tree has played throughout history and in shaping the modern world.

The Sprout Book

Author: Doug Evans
Publisher: St. Martin's Essentials
ISBN: 125022618X
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
A National Bestseller, The Sprout Book is the book on the power of sprouts as an ultra-food for health, weight loss, and optimum nutrition. Written by Doug Evans, a pioneer in the plant-based health movement for over 20 years, and with a foreword by Joel Fuhrman, M.D., The Sprout Book empowers readers to embark on a plant-based way of eating that’s low-cost and accessible. The book shows us how easy it is to boost the nutrition of any snack, smoothie, or meal with sprouts. Among the mind-blowing qualities of sprouts: ― they have 20–30 times the phytonutrients of other vegetables and 100 times those of meat ― they pack cancer-fighting properties and help to protect us from cardiovascular disease and environmental pollutants ― they aid in digestion ― they are a simple way to grow your own vegetables and are compatible with all diets ― they are incredible for regulating insulin levels The forty recipes inside feature sprouts on top of raw vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, spices, sea vegetables, and top-quality cold-pressed vegetable oils for the healthiest diet possible. The Sprout Book includes informative interviews with leaders in functional medicine and nutrition including Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Josh Axe, Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Joel Kahn and more. Use this book to change your diet and super-charge your health with one of the most nutrient-dense, sustainable foods on earth!

The Rice Sprout Song

Author: Ailing Zhang
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520210883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
In this "first of three novels written in English in the 1950s and 1960s by Eileen Chang," the author touches "on subjects hitherto unnoticed in her works: the politics of writing and writing about politics."--Foreword, p. vii-viii.

Development of Unused Lands

Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description

Dot.

Author: Randi Zuckerberg
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062287524
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description
*NOW A HIT TV SERIES* Meet Dot in this debut picture book by CEO and founder of Zuckerberg Media, editor-in-chief of Dot Complicated, and former Marketing Director of Facebook, Randi Zuckerberg! Dot's a spunky little girl well versed in electronic devices—she’s a technophile. She knows how to tap . . . to swipe . . . to share . . . and she pays little attention to anything else. Dot's tech-savvy expertise, mingled with her resourceful imagination, proves Dot knows lots and lots. But will she be able to unplug for one second to tap…swipe…and share with her real-life friends? Find out in this wonderful story about the day when Dot sets off on an interactive adventure with the world surrounding her.

Dirt

Author: William Bryant Logan
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
"A gleeful, poetic book...Like the best natural histories, Dirt is a kind of prayer." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

Bulletin

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description