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245 0 0 _aListening to earth /
_c[edited by] Christopher Hallowell, Walter Levy.
260 _aNew York :
_bPearson Longman,
_cc2005.
300 _axii, 241 p. ;
_c21 cm..Pbk.;
490 1 _aA Longman topics reader
500 _a$33.32/- TB/2630/180320
505 _a1. Value of the Land -- John Muir, "The American Forests" -- Mary Austin, "My Neighbor's Field" -- Aldo Leopold, "The Land Ethic" -- Margaret L. Knox, "The Wilderness According to Cushman." -- Barry Lopez, "Caring for the Woods." -- 2. Urban Vision, Rural Reflections. -- Henry David Thoreau, "Walking." -- Peter Huber, "How Cities Green the Planet." -- Marie Winn, "The Regulars." -- Tara Hulen, "Dispatch from Toxic Town." -- 3. Local Landscapes. -- Sara Orne Jewett, "A White Heron." -- Sue Hubbell, "Winter." -- Joy Williams, "One Acre: On Devaluing Real Estate to Keep Land Priceless." -- Rebecca Solnit, "The Orbits of Earthly Bodies." -- 4. The Human Price. -- Rachel Carson, "The Human Price." -- Terry Tempest Williams, "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." -- Michael Pollan, "Behind the Organic-Industrial Complex." -- Darcy Frey, "How Green is BP?" -- 5. Personal Views. -- Edward Abbey, "The First Morning." -- Leslie Marmon Silko, "Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination." -- Sallie Bingham, "A Woman's Land." -- Steve Chapple, "Bugz." -- 6. Prospects for the Future. -- Edward O. Wilson, "The Environmental Ethic." -- Linda Hogan, "Walking." -- Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, "Once Upon a Planet." -- Christopher Hallowell, "Coming to Terms."
520 _aThis book focuses on environmental issues and conflicts in the United States, with readings that offer a range of personal and academic perspectives, as well as historic and contemporary voices. The essays, articles, and fictional selections in the book present ... arguments for ways that we can use, conserve, preserve, and find pleasure in our natural heritage.
650 0 _aHuman ecology in literature.
650 0 _aGeographical perception in literature.
700 1 _aHallowell, Christopher.
700 1 _aLevy, Walter.
830 0 _aLongman topics.
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