Speaking for Nature

Speaking for NatureBeginning with Thoreau, nature writers not only have influenced our appreciation of the natural world but also have helped to preserve the American wilderness, from the Maine Woods to Yosemite and the Sierra. Writer and activist Paul Brooks presents narrative portraits of great literary naturalists, offering a 200 year history of the country's movement toward conservation. Profiles of leaders in the fight to protect the environment and safeguard our

Affordable reprint of rare 1909 catalog

This edition's fables include The Little Hen

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mathematical solutions

Keynes effectively dismantled the classical theory of probability

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It is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of fairyland

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"We want to lay the foundation stone for the house which will become the refuge of the Jewish nation