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Into the Heart of Borneo

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 9:56:24 PST

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'We've left a lot of men in Borneo - know what I mean?' With their SAS trainer's warnings ringing in their ears, the naturalist, Redmond O'Hanlon, and the poet, James Fenton, set out to rediscover the lost rhinoceros of Borneo. They were loaded with enough back-breaking kit to survive two months in a steaming 95degree (in the shade) jungle of creeping, crawling, biting things. O'Hanlon could also ...

In One Person

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:58:23 PST

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A tale inspired by the U.S. AIDS epidemic in the 1980s follows the experiences of individuals torn by devastating losses and political upheavals whose perspectives on tolerance and love are also irrevocably shaped by awareness of what might ...

Chroniques de Jérusalem

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:57:21 PST

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Theft

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:56:30 PST

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Willa Robbins is a master tracker working to reintroduce the Mexican wolf, North America's most endangered mammal, to the American Southwest. But when Colorado police recruit her to find her own brother, Zeb, a confessed murderer, she knows skill alone will not sustain her. Willa is thrown back into the past, surfacing memories of a childhood full of intense love, desperate mistakes, and gentle r ...

Paul au parc

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 3:28:36 PST

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Field Notes on Science and Nature

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 3:25:16 PST

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Once in a great while, as the New York Times noted recently, a naturalist writes a book that changes the way people look at the living world. John James Audubon's Birds of America, published in 1838, was one. Roger Tory Peterson's 1934 Field Guide to the Birds was another. How does such insight into nature develop? Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their native habitat ...

Creative Workshop

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 3:24:47 PST

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This book is based on a seminar crafted to help students and working designers gain broad exposure to a wide range of design disciplines and develop the depth ...

Dialogue Mapping

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 3:24:06 PST

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In contrast to the use of agendas and restrictive structures, dialogue mapping is a facilitation technique that allows the intelligence and learning of the group to emerge naturally. Each participant can see how their comments contribute (or don't) to the coherence and order of the group's thinking. The first full-length book to bring dialogue mapping to a wider audience, Dialogue Mapping provide ...

Le Vicomte de Bragelonne

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 3:23:50 PST

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L'homme de la Saskatchewan

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 3:23:24 PST

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The Nature Principle

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:35:56 PST

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ChiRunning

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 9:33:11 PST

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This new edition is fully updated with fresh insights and innovative training techniques from one of the sport's leading voices.

Prodigal Summer

Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:13:07 PST

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現代文学について語る限り、バーバラ・キングソルヴァーと比べる作家が見つからない。会話にはスパイスの効いたウイットと気取らない詩心がちりばめられている。その描写は日々の暮らしに根ざしながら、普遍的で奥深い概念にもつながっている。『Prodigal Summer』では、前作『The Poisonwood Bible』の舞台コンゴから、「農場と荒野の間にある地図上の皺のような場所」――すなわちアパラチア山脈南部のへんぴな土地にステージを移し、ひとつならず 3つもの複雑な物語を紡いでみせる。華麗で、豪華で、騒々しい。この小説に描かれた夏は「贅沢な繁殖の季節」だ。ウシガエルは不注意にも草むらにジェリー状のかたまりのような卵を産みつけておいて、「卵はオタマジャクシとなって小さな精子のように草むらを泳いでいくもの」と信じきっている。女たちが自分の肌に年齢を感じ、コヨーテ一家がセブロン谷から山に移 ...

Sunset Park

Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:11:39 PST

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These are just some of the elements Auster magically weaves together in this immenselymoving novel about contemporary America and its ghosts.

Ru

Wed, 4 May 2011 10:25:41 PST

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RU est composé de très courts récits liés un peu comme dans une ritournelle : la première phrase du chapitre reprend le plus souvent l?idée qui terminait le chapitre précédent, permettant ainsi de faire le pont entre tous les événements que la narratrice a connus : sa naissance au Vietnam pendant la guerre, la fuite avec les boat people, son accueil dans une petite ville du Québec, ses études, se ...

L'indésirable

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 9:02:55 PST

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Hundreds Hall n’est plus que l’ombre de lui-même ; depuis longtemps les glaces ternies ont cessé de refléter ces fêtes qui animaient le manoir au temps de sa splendeur. Victime elle aussi des ravages de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et des tensions qui déchirent le tissu social de l’Angleterre, la famille Ayres, qui habite Hundreds depuis des générations, est abandonnée à son triste sort. Malgré la ...

Player One

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 3:48:53 PST

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International bestselling author Douglas Coupland delivers a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde incapable of true human contact; and finally ...

Vers une démocratie écologique

Sat, 8 Jan 2011 15:46:03 PST

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Les dégradations que nous infligeons à la planète menacent l’avenir et la survie de l’humanité. Or l’urgence de la situation ne débouche pas sur des décisions fermes et concrètes. Jusqu’à quand? Contrairement à ce que l’on pourrait croire, cet attentisme s’explique d’abord par une inaptitude politique: la démocratie représentative n’est pas en mesure de répondre aux problèmes écologiques contempo ...

La jeunesse mélancolique et très désabusée d'Adolf Hitler

Fri, 7 Jan 2011 11:10:10 PST

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Cette fiction s'intéresse à l'enfance et la jeunesse d'Hitler, montrant la banalité du personnage, ses origines incertaines, etc. L'auteur décrit un enfant peu fascinant appelé à devenir un homme ordinaire.

Becoming Animal

Fri, 5 Nov 2010 11:22:46 PST

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Abram ("The Spell of the Sensuous") returns with a startling exploration of human entanglement with the rest of nature.

Nikolski

Mon, 1 Nov 2010 8:36:42 PST

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La Constellation du Lynx

Mon, 1 Nov 2010 8:33:40 PST

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What Technology Wants

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 1:47:55 PST

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La Trilogie berlinoise

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 1:47:40 PST

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Désabusé et courageux, perspicace et insolent, Bernie est à l'Allemagne nazie ceque Philip Marlowe est à la Californie de la fin des années 1930 : un ...

Les Larmes de Saint Laurent

Sat, 9 Oct 2010 2:55:14 PST

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L'esprit du Nord

Fri, 3 Sep 2010 21:08:15 PST

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Pour Jean Désy, le Nord est magnétique et ne cesse de l’habiter. L’homme est aussi fasciné par le nomadisme, cet état d’être, avec lequel, il se sent en parfaite harmonie. « L’idée de la mort habite en permanence le nomade. Il voudrait mourir en expédition, sur un haut sommet ou dans une baie cachée de la taïga ou entre deux rochers noirs de la toundra. Ce que souhaite le vagabond-nomade, c’est ...

Le comte de Monte-Cristo

Fri, 3 Sep 2010 21:03:09 PST

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Rework

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 3:32:30 PST

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Asap is poison. Underdo the competition. Meetings are toxic. Fire the workaholics, emulate the drug dealers. Pick a fight. Planning is guessing. Inspiration is perishable.

Dreaming Up America

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 8:13:12 PST

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“His voice is appealing, and the brevity and scope of his tale are bracing.”—Publishers Weekly "A thoughtful and provocative meditation on our history. . . . [Banks] should be heeded, or whatever noble dream we had will be lost forever.”—Howard Zinn With America ever under global scrutiny, Russell Banks contemplates the questions of our origins, values, heroes, conflicts, and contradictions. He ...

Eaarth

Sun, 2 May 2010 4:17:39 PST

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The book to move McKibben from the ranks of greatly admired, much-touted-by- enviros-kind-of-writer to the ranks of bestselling, blockbuster writers (agrave; ...

Les Maisons-Nature de Pierre Thibault, Architecte

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 9:45:58 PST

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Land Art avec les enfants

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 1:07:41 PST

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Lettres à un jeune poète

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 1:07:04 PST

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Le roi de Kahel

Fri, 9 Apr 2010 2:39:20 PST

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La Peste

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 4:44:26 PST

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Food Rules

Fri, 8 Jan 2010 3:11:10 PST

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A pocket compendium of food wisdom-from the author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food Michael Pollan, our nation's most trusted resource for ...

I Love Dirt!

Fri, 8 Jan 2010 3:09:53 PST

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I Love Dirt! presents 52 open-ended activities to help you engage your child in the outdoors. No matter what your location—from a small patch of green in the city to the wide-open meadows of the country—each activity is meant to promote exploration, stimulate imagination, and heighten a child's sense of wonder. To learn more about the author, Jennifer Ward, visit her website at jenniferwardbook ...

On Dialogue

Fri, 8 Jan 2010 3:09:23 PST

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On Dialogue is the most comprehensive documentation to date of best-selling author David Bohm's dialogical world view. Bohm explores the purpose, methods and meanings of the multi-faceted process he referred to simply as "dialogue", suggesting that dialogue offers the possibility of an entirely new order of communication and relationship with ourselves, our fellows, and the world around us. Boh ...

Dialogue

Fri, 8 Jan 2010 3:09:04 PST

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Modern conversation is a lot like nuclear physics, argues William Isaacs. Lots of atoms zoom around, many of which just rush past each other. But others collide, creating friction. Even if our atomic conversations don't turn contentious, they often just serve to establish each participant's place in the cosmos. One guy shares a statistic he's privy to, another shares another fact, and on and on. ...

Immunity to Change

Fri, 8 Jan 2010 3:08:46 PST

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I said to people, "You know, if I had four hours in which to take all of my personal development work and all of my training in California and all of that, ...

Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day

Fri, 8 Jan 2010 3:08:23 PST

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"Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day" distills the renowned bakinginstructor' s professional techniques down to the basics, delivering artisan bread ...

Veganomicon

Fri, 8 Jan 2010 3:07:38 PST

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Who knew vegetables could taste so good? Moskowitz and Romero's newest delicious collection makes it easier than ever to live vegan. You'll find more than 250 recipes--plus menus and stunning color photos--for dishes that will please every palate. All the recipes in Veganomicon have been thoroughly kitchen-tested to ensure user-friendliness and amazing results. And by popular demand, the Veganom ...

Winter World

Fri, 1 Jan 2010 23:15:49 PST

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From flying hot-blooded squirrels and diminutive kinglets to sleeping black bears and torpid turtles to frozen insects and frogs, the animal kingdom relies on staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who alter the environment to accommodate physicallimitations, most animals are adapted to an amazing range of conditions. In Winter World: The Ingenuity ...

Why We Run

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 9:27:38 PST

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In "Why We Run, " biologist, award-winning nature writer, and ultramarathoner Bernd Heinrich explores a new perspective on human evolution by examining the phenomenon of ultraendurance and makes surprising discoveries about the physical, spiritual -- and primal -- drive to win. At once lyrical and scientific, "Why We Run" shows Heinrich's signature blend of biology, anthropology, psychology, and ...

Last Night in Twisted River

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 9:27:11 PST

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Summer World

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 9:26:06 PST

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In Summer World: A Season of Bounty, Bernd Heinrich brings us the same bottomless reserve of wonder and reverence for the teeming animal life of backwoods New England that he brought us in Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival. Now he is focusing on the animal kingdom in the extremes of the warmer months, with all its feeding, nesting, fighting, and mating. Whether presenting disquisiti ...

Creative Explorations

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 9:25:27 PST

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How do you picture identity? What happens when you ask individuals to make visual representations of their own identities, influences, and relationships? Drawing upon an array of disciplines from neuroscience to philosophy, and art to social theory, David Gauntlett explores the ways in which researchers can embrace people's everyday creativity in order to understand social experience. Seeking an ...

Invisible

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 0:05:33 PST

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Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, "Invisible" opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence th ...

Les Chaussures italiennes

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 6:10:59 PST

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A soixante-six ans, Fredrik Welin vit reclus depuis une décennie sur une île de la Baltique avec pour seule compagnie un chat et un chien et pour seules visites celles du facteur de l’archipel. Depuis qu’une tragique erreur a brisé sa carrière de chirurgien, il s’est isolé des hommes. Pour se prouver qu’il est encore en vie, il creuse un trou dans la glace et s’y immerge chaque matin. Au solstice ...

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

Wed, 9 Dec 2009 22:24:36 PST

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No wonder people everywhere are so cynical about "another meeting," having attended so many they considered poorly led, counter-productive, and time-wasting. The purpose of "Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!" is to outline the ten principles for structuring and managing meetings. Whether it is a meeting in your community, in a board rooms, with work teams, in offices, schools, factories, or h ...

The Road

Wed, 9 Dec 2009 22:20:41 PST

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A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They ha ...

Hungry Planet

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 4:52:07 PST

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On the banks of Mali s Niger River, Soumana Natomo and his family gather for a communal dinner of millet porridge with tamarind juice. In the USA, the Ronayne-Caven family enjoys corndogs-on-a-stick with a tossed green salad. This age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglome ...

Le sumo qui ne pouvait pas grossir

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 3:17:19 PST

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Parfum de Poussière

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 3:14:42 PST

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The Spell of the Sensuous

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 0:13:59 PST

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David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates the sensual foundations of language, which--even at its most abstract--echoes the ...

Le jeu de l'Ange

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:00:41 PST

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Barcelone, années 1920. Après l'échec de son premier roman, David est contacté par un éditeur parisien, Corelli, pour écrire un texte fondateur, une sorte de nouvelle Bible. Du jour où il accepte le contrat, une étrange mécanique du meurtre se met en place autour de David, qui va se lancer dans une enquête sur ce curieux éditeur.

Open Space Technology

Wed, 2 Sep 2009 22:42:50 PST

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Open Space Technology: A User's Guide is just what the name implies: a hands-on, detailed description of facilitating Open Space Technology (OST). Written by the originator of the method - an effective, economical, fast, and easily-repeatable strategy for organizing meetings of between 5 and 1,000 participants - this is the first book to document the rationale, procedures, and requirements of OST ...

Wave Rider

Wed, 2 Sep 2009 22:40:30 PST

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The Natural Step for Communities

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 4:06:32 PST

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Sustainability might seem like one more buzzword, and cities and towns like the last place to change, but this book provides inspiring examples of communities that have made dramatic chjanges towards sustainability, and explains how others can emulate their success. The book first clarifies the concept of sustainability, offering guiding principles that help identify sustanable action in any are ...

Arctic Dreams

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 4:06:01 PST

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Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece. Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world-its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. But what turns this marvelous work of natural history into a breathtaking study of profound originality is his ...

Elégie pour un Américain

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 9:08:43 PST

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World as Lover, World as Self

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:14:58 PST

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Un monde sans fin

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:12:50 PST

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Profondeurs

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:12:33 PST

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L'anglais n'est pas une langue magique

Thu, 21 May 2009 10:29:43 PST

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Francis, le petit frère de l'écrivain Jack Waterman, est " lecteur sur demande ". Un coup de fil et il arrive chez vous dans sa Mini Cooper. Il aime les textes qui parlent des Indiens, de la traite des fourrures, de la place immense que le français a déjà occupé en Amérique. Sa cliente principale est Limoilou, une jeune fille de Québec qui porte encore aux poignets les cicatrices qu'elle avait à ...

La part de l'autre

Thu, 21 May 2009 10:28:54 PST

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Paul à Québec

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:49:56 PST

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Mr Vertigo

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 22:24:43 PST

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Ethical Know-How

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:22:37 PST

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The Tree of Knowledge

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:21:55 PST

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The Nature of Design

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:21:55 PST

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The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "progress." The Nature of Design, on the other hand, is about starting things, specifically an ecological design revolution that changes how we provide food, shelter, energy, materials, and livelihood, and how we deal with waste. Ecological design is an emerging field that aims to recalibrate what humans d ...

Peter Reinhart's Whole Grain Breads

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:21:55 PST

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With this whole grain follow-up to the acclaimed BREAD BAKER'S APPRENTICE, home and professional bakers will be making whole grain loaves so delicious that they put white breads to shame. After much tinkering and trial and error (with help from more than 250 recipe testers), beloved baking instructor Peter Reinhart has improved and simplified his groundbreaking delayed fermentation method to ...

Sustainable Urbanism

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:21:55 PST

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Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "sustainable urbanism"--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure ...

Même le mal se fait bien

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 4:31:29 PST

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Civil Disobedience And Other Essays the Collected Essays of Henry David Thoreau

Fri, 2 Jan 2009 11:28:41 PST

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Thoreau has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves and to find meaning and beauty in nature. This sampling includes five of his most frequently read and cited essays: "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849), "Life without Principle" (1863), "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854), "A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1869) and "Walking" (1862).

Pour une Gauche Efficace

Fri, 2 Jan 2009 11:23:03 PST

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Last Child in the Woods

Fri, 5 Dec 2008 11:04:43 PST

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Richard Louv was the first to identify a phenomenon we all knew existed but couldn't quite articulate: nature-deficit disorder. His book "Last Child in the Woods" created a national conversation about the disconnection between children and nature, and his message has galvanized an international movement. Now, three years after its initial publication, we have reached a tipping point, with Leave N ...

L'Espion Qui Venait Du Froid

Wed, 3 Dec 2008 4:23:43 PST

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Cronopes et Fameux

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:02:28 PST

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Apprendre à parler à une pierre

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:00:52 PST

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Deep Economy

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 8:56:27 PST

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“Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding.”—Los Angeles Times In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the compelling case for moving beyond “growth” as the paramount economic ideal and pursuing prosperity in a more local direction, with regions producing more o ...

L'Oeuvre au Noir

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 9:40:05 PST

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L'éléphant s'évapore

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:02:25 PST

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Man in the Dark

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 7:06:17 PST

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A new novel with a dark political twist from “one of America’s greats.”* Man in the Dark is Paul Auster’s brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter’s house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push ba ...

Sans sang

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 7:01:41 PST

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"Le pays allait de l'avant, bien loin de la guerre, à une vitesse incroyable, en oubliant tout. Mais il y avait tout un monde qui n'en était jamais sorti, de la guerre, et qui dans ce pays heureux n'arrivait pas à redémarrer." Ce monde va se livrer bataille à la vieille ferme de Mato Rujo, où vivent Manuel Roca et ses deux enfants. Habités par la vengeance, trois hommes viennent débusquer celui ...

City

Mon, 6 Oct 2008 21:11:18 PST

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From the author of the international bestseller Silk (“A riveting, lyrical love story” —Alan Cheuse, NPR) and the acclaimed Ocean Sea (“Astonishing . . . vividly erotic”—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times) comes an entirely new species of fiction: a panoramic Cartesian comic book of a novel—with superheroes, boxers, cowboys, and one bed-wetting prodigy expected to win the Nobel Prize. Baricco’s wi ...

Solving Tough Problems

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 8:30:49 PST

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Adam Kahane spent years working in the world's hotspots, and came away with a new understanding of how to resolve conflict in a way that seems reasonable - and doable - to all parties. The result is Solving Tough Problems. Written in a relaxed, persuasive style, this is not a "how-to" book with glib answers, but rather, a very personal story of the author's progress from a young "expert" convince ...

Paul dans le métro

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 8:21:45 PST

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Paul à la pêche

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 8:21:43 PST

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Paul a un travail d'été

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 8:21:41 PST

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Paul en appartement

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 8:21:40 PST

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