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This issue of Plough Quarterly explores our relationship with the natural world. Hear from leading scientists, farmers, writers, activists, theologians, and artists who have set their hearts and minds and hands to caring for the earth for generations to come. Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, fiction, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus'' message into practice and find common cause with others.

Presents an anthology of the best science and nature writing published in the previous year, selected from American periodicals.

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Tate Britain, Mar. 14-June 4, 2000.

" ... A fascinating portrait of a man in midlife pushing his body and soul to the breaking point ... coming to terms with the limits of the flesh [as he trains to enter cross-country ski races and deals with his father''s illness]."--Jacket.

Im Jahr 1989 warnte Bill McKibben mit seinem Buch »Das Ende der Natur« als einer der ersten vor dem Klimawandel. Sein neuer Aufruf ist umso dringender und weitreichender – die Menschheit ist dabei, nicht weniger als ihr Fortbestehen aufs Spiel zu setzen. Der Klimawandel ist heute, so McKibben, ein Hebel, der unsere Welt von Grund auf verändert. Die konzentrierte wirtschaftliche Macht in den Händen einiger weniger Spieler ist ein weiterer. Genauso die radikalen Konsequenzen der modernen Genetik sowie das Streben der Tech-Mogule nach künstlicher Intelligenz, das nach dem Sinn menschlichen Daseins gar nicht mehr fragt. In »Die taumelnde Welt« tritt Bill McKibben einen großen Schritt zurück, um dieses gesamte »Spiel der Menschheit« zu betrachten: Welchen Lauf nimmt es, wer macht die Regeln, und wie wollen wir es in Zukunft spielen?

As a poet and novelist in nineteenth-century Scotland, George MacDonald became an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer whose work has inspired such prominent writers and artists as C. S. Lewis and Maurice Sendak. This extensive collection of MacDonald''s personal correspondence offers privileged insights into the inner thoughts and visionary ideas of one of Scotland''s greatest storytellers. An Expression of Character draws from more than 3,000 of MacDonald''s letters to friends and family members, many not previously published. Highly regarded as a MacDonald scholar, Glenn Edward Sadler has arranged the most significant of MacDonald''s letters chronologically, dividing his life into significant stages: his boyhood in Huntly and student days at Aberdeen University; his marriage and fatherhood; his career as a novelist; his lecture tour in America in 1872; and his later days in Bordighera, Italy. Sadler skillfully introduces each section, summarizing the significant milestones in MacDonald''s life. Sixteen pages of photographs, including many of the MacDonald family, also help capture this intriguing literary figure. Fascinating, at times lyrical, and often moving, these letters provide a window into MacDonald''s personal and spiritual life. Most of his letters are earthy and practical, showing his concern for the events of everyday life, his warm attachment to friends, and the importance of his role as husband and father. Other letters reveal MacDonald''s spiritual approach to life and the develop ment of his religious views. Especially significant was his firm belief in what C. S. Lewis defined as "good Death" and in the glorious life hereafter. Readers of MacDonald will find inthese letters penetrating glimpses of a deeply religious and sensitive man. To the specialist and general reader alike the letters speak with heartfelt sincerity and warmth. Those familiar with MacDonald''s fiction and poetry will find the best portrait yet of the man himself.

The twentieth century brought technological advances that led to improved quality of life for millions. But technology also brought devastation at Chernobyl, Bhopal, Minamata, Love Canal, and other places throughout the world now synonymous with the dark side of technology and human action. Vulnerable on this Earth is the first comprehensive book to explore the causes and consequences of fifteen major manmade environmental disasters in the twentieth century. Author Robert Emmet Hernan tells the story of toxic materials dumped into the sea, buried on land, and discharged into the air; of polluters recklessly advancing their own financial interests and ignoring dangers to others; and above all, of the determination and dignity of ordinary people who heroically fought for justice and change. Â From the preface by Bill McKibben: "In the years to come, the line that Hernan draws between natural and environmental disasters will blur. . . . What will remain the same, however, is human vulnerability. That vulnerability endangers us, of course-but it is closely related to the love, the shared concern, that might save us yet." Â Robert Emmet Hernan is an assistant attorney general in the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Department of Law and has served as trial counsel in numerous toxic waste cases, including the Love Canal case. Â Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature and Wandering Home . A prolific writer on environmental issues, McKibben is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College.

Bill McKibben has written his first book about Lewis, a boy who lives on the coast of Maine near a lighthouse. Enjoy the tale of Lewis'' exciting adventure as he races to save a ship on a stormy night. With just enough suspense for young readers, this fun read-a-loud book is illustrated with lively art by Robert Logan.

This new series highlights low-traffic scenic roads, both dirt and paved, suitable for riding on both mountain and road bikes.

It is said there are 20,000 species of bees, a genus 50 million years old, but in the fertile imagination of the world''s poets, there is no beginning or end to the bee buzz. Virgil wrote of bees, as did Rumi, Shakespeare, Burns, Coleridge, Emerson, Mandelstam, Neruda, Whitman--a lyrical hum heard well into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in poems by Yeats, Lawrence, Plath, Mary Oliver, Carol Ann Duffy, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sherman Alexie, among many others. The title of this book is from Emily Dickinson: To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, / One clover, and a bee, / And revery. / The revery alone will do / If bees are few. Her conclusion resonates with a terrible poignancy today, as bees are indeed becoming few--hives collapsing, wild species disappearing. Amid this crisis, the poems collected here speak with a quiet urgency of a world lost if bees were to fall silent. If anyone can save the bees, it is entomologist Dr. Marla Spivak and the hive of bee scientists and beekeepers at the Bee Lab at the University of Minnesota. A portion of the author proceeds from this anthology will be donated to support research at the Bee Lab.

Traditional Chinese edition of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. Our planet is the only one we have, but it is no longer the big blue, but the big polluted. If we continue to turn a blind eye to this problem, it will catch up with us sooner rather than later. The book substantiate the conclusions through facts and figures on agriculture, weather, natural resources... and behooves humans to take immediate actions to restore our planet. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

From the groundbreaking author of "The End of Nature" comes a provocative, compelling, and environmentally sound argument for saving the planet through voluntary population control.

Esta obra clásica sobre nuestra crisis medioambiental cuenta con una nueva introducción del autor, que repasa tanto los avances como el terreno perdido en la lucha por salvar la Tierra. Este apasionado alegato a favor de un cambio radical y renovador de la vida sigue considerándose hoy una obra pionera en los estudios medioambientales. El argumento de McKibben de que la supervivencia del planeta depende de un cambio filosófico fundamental en nuestra forma de relacionarnos con la naturaleza es más pertinente que nunca. McKibben escribe sobre el cataclismo medioambiental de nuestra Tierra, abordando cuestiones fundamentales como el efecto invernadero, la lluvia ácida y el agotamiento de la capa de ozono. Su nuevo prólogo aborda algunos de los últimos problemas medioambientales que han surgido durante las últimas dos décadas. El libro también incluye un nuevo apéndice de datos y cifras que analiza el progreso del movimiento ecologista. Más que un simple manual de supervivencia o un catálogo catastrofista de predicciones científicas, este clásico y conmovedor lamento sobre la naturaleza es una lectura obligada tanto para los entusiastas del medio natural como para los activistas y los ciudadanos preocupados por el medio ambiente.

Om de katastrofale konsekvenser det kan få for os selv og for naturen, hvis vi ikke skærer drastisk ned på udslippet af kuldioxid og andre drivhusgasser.