Product Description: Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Animal Studies. We live on a rapidly urbanizing planet, ever more enmeshed in technological artifacts, electronic communication devices and disembodied "virtual" worlds, far more separated from the natural world than any previous generations of humans...read more

Product Description: In Delusions of Normality: Sanity, Drugs, Sex, Money and Beliefs in America, J P Harpignies argues convincingly that many of the unspoken assumptions underlying our media's discourse about our society are at serious odds with the reality of our lives...read more

'23 leading experts reveal the ways that psychoactive plants allow nature's 'voice' to speak to humans and what this communication means for our future'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Archiving corn strains to guard against genetic pollution … Coating chainsaw blades with mushroom spores to speed forest regeneration … Growing crops that literally suck heavy metals out of damaged soil ... These are not utopian fantasies but proven strategies developed by experts who have discovered how to exploit the innate intelligence of living systems to create “true biotechnologies...read more

Product Description: Political Ecosystems is an unusual and highly original appeal to left-progressives and environmentalists and those sympathetic to those movements. It urges them to engage in more thorough self-examination, to assess more realistically their strengths, weaknesses and blind spots, and to learn to look at the darkened American political panorama through a variety of far more sophisticated lenses, and with a broader, longer, more nuanced view of history, culture and social change...read more

An overview of the emerging movement known as Ecological Medicine looks at the overlapping worlds of environmental restoration and holistic healing, and how human health is dependent on the health of the environment. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Nonfiction. Science. Biology. Prophetically anticipated by Aldous Huxley in his dysutopian 1932 novel Brave New World, genetic "engineering" is, along with nuclear power, the most radical technology ever devised. While cybernetics garners the lion's share of attention as the sexy techne of the age, it is bioengineering that is more likely to produce the most shocking changes to sentient life...read more