This essay collection brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. The essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems and their solutions have grown from the Earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards.
This essay collection brings to us out of one of history's darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. The essays are grounded in...
Shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. This title is part memoir, part journalistic investigation, and is full of original recipes.
Shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. This title is part memoir, part journalistic investigation, and is ful...
When six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen, and her mother's belief in her, lead to a man's dramatic rescue. But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws her into a conflict of historic proportions.
When six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen, and her mother's belief in her, lead...
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling...
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Afri...