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A Tree or a Person or a Wall: Stories

Author : Matt Bell
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616955236
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book A Tree or a Person or a Wall: Stories written by Matt Bell and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here we have Matt Bell at his most inventive and uncanny: parents and children, murderers and monsters, wild renditions of the past, and stunning visions of the present, all of which build to a virtuoso reimagining of our world. A 19th-century minister builds an elaborate motor that will bring about the Second Coming. A man with rough hands locks a boy in a room with an albino ape. An apocalyptic army falls under a veil of forgetfulness. The story of Red Riding Hood is run through a potentially endless series of iterations. A father invents an elaborate, consuming game for his hospitalized son. Indexes, maps, a checkered shirt buried beneath a blanket of snow: they are scattered through these pages as clues to mysteries that may never be solved, lingering evidence of the violence and unknowability of the world. A Tree or a Person or a Wall brings together Bell’s previously published shorter fiction—the story collection How They Were Found and the acclaimed novella Cataclysm Baby—along with seven dark and disturbing new stories, to create a collection of singular power.

Someday a Tree

Author : Eve Bunting
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395764787
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (647 download)

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Book Synopsis Someday a Tree by : Eve Bunting

Download or read book Someday a Tree written by Eve Bunting and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996-02-16 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl, her parents, and their neighbors try to save an old oak tree that has been poisoned by pollution.

This Book Was a Tree

Author : Marcie Chambers Cuff
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0399165851
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book This Book Was a Tree written by Marcie Chambers Cuff and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At no time in human history have we been more disconnected with what lies outside our front doors. Within just a century, our relationship with our surroundings has transformed from one of exploration to one of disassociation. In This Book Was a Tree, science teacher Marcie Cuff issues a call for a new era of pioneers—not leathery, backwoods deerskin-wearing salt pork and hominy pioneers, but strong-minded, clever, crafty, mudpie-making, fort-building individuals committed to examining the natural world and deciphering nature’s perplexing puzzles. Within each chapter, readers will discover a principle for reconnecting with the natural world around them, from learning to be still to discovering the importance of giving back. With a mix of science and hands-on crafts and activities, readers will be encouraged to brainstorm, imagine, and understand the world as inventive scientists—to touch, collect, document, sketch, decode, analyze, experiment, unravel, interpret, compare, and reflect.

Entangled Life

Author : Merlin Sheldrake
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525510338
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Entangled Life written by Merlin Sheldrake and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems. “Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Time, BBC Science Focus, The Daily Mail, Geographical, The Times, The Telegraph, New Statesman, London Evening Standard, Science Friday When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave. In the first edition of this mind-bending book, Sheldrake introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life. This exquisitely designed volume, abridged from the original, features more than one hundred full-color images that bring the spectacular variety, strangeness, and beauty of fungi to life as never before. Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works. Winner of the Wainwright Prize, the Royal Society Science Book Prize, and the Guild of Food Writers Award • Shortlisted for the British Book Award • Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize

My Side of the Mountain

Author : Jean Craighead George
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593115007
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book My Side of the Mountain written by Jean Craighead George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-05-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book

Finding the Mother Tree

Author : Suzanne Simard
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525656103
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Finding the Mother Tree written by Suzanne Simard and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. In this, her first book, now available in paperback, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard writes--in inspiring, illuminating, and accessible ways—how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved, how they learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies--and at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. And Simard writes of her own life, born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest and how she came to love and respect them. And as she writes of her scientific quest, she writes of her own journey, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology, that it is about understanding who we are and our place in the world.

Tree Story

Author : Valerie Trouet
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421437783
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Tree Story written by Valerie Trouet and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the stories of trees and people are more closely linked than we ever imagined? Winner of the World Wildlife Fund's 2020 Jan Wolkers PrizeOne of Science News's "Favorite Books of 2020" A New York Times "New and Noteworthy" BookA 2020 Woodland Book of the YearGold Winner of the 2020 Foreword INDIES Award in Ecology & EnvironmentBronze Winner of the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Award in Environment/Ecology People across the world know that to tell how old a tree is, you count its rings. Few people, however, know that research into tree rings has also made amazing contributions to our understanding of Earth's climate history and its influences on human civilization over the past 2,000 years. In her captivating book Tree Story, Valerie Trouet reveals how the seemingly simple and relatively familiar concept of counting tree rings has inspired far-reaching scientific breakthroughs that illuminate the complex interactions between nature and people. Trouet, a leading tree-ring scientist, takes us out into the field, from remote African villages to radioactive Russian forests, offering readers an insider's look at tree-ring research, a discipline known as dendrochronology. Tracing her own professional journey while exploring dendrochronology's history and applications, Trouet describes the basics of how tell-tale tree cores are collected and dated with ring-by-ring precision, explaining the unexpected and momentous insights we've gained from the resulting samples. Blending popular science, travelogue, and cultural history, Tree Story highlights exciting findings of tree-ring research, including the fate of lost pirate treasure, successful strategies for surviving California wildfire, the secret to Genghis Khan's victories, the connection between Egyptian pharaohs and volcanoes, and even the role of olives in the fall of Rome. These fascinating tales are deftly woven together to show us how dendrochronology sheds light on global climate dynamics and uncovers the clear links between humans and our leafy neighbors. Trouet delights us with her dedication to the tangible appeal of studying trees, a discipline that has taken her to austere and beautiful landscapes around the globe and has enabled scientists to solve long-pondered mysteries of Earth and its human inhabitants.

Tree

Author : David Suzuki
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1926685539
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Tree written by David Suzuki and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Only God can make a tree,” wrote Joyce Kilmer in one of the most celebrated of poems. In Tree: A Life Story, authors David Suzuki and Wayne Grady extend that celebration in a “biography” of this extraordinary — and extraordinarily important — organism. A story that spans a millennium and includes a cast of millions but focuses on a single tree, a Douglas fir, Tree describes in poetic detail the organism’s modest origins that begin with a dramatic burst of millions of microscopic grains of pollen. The authors recount the amazing characteristics of the species, how they reproduce and how they receive from and offer nourishment to generations of other plants and animals. The tree’s pivotal role in making life possible for the creatures around it — including human beings — is lovingly explored. The richly detailed text and Robert Bateman’s original art pay tribute to this ubiquitous organism that is too often taken for granted.

The Overstory: A Novel

Author : Richard Powers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635538
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Overstory: A Novel written by Richard Powers and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." —Ann Patchett The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

The Tree and the Vine

Author : Dola De Jong
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9781558611412
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The Tree and the Vine written by Dola De Jong and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1996 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lesbian love story set during the Nazi occupation in Holland.

Night Tree

Author : Eve Bunting
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152001216
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Night Tree written by Eve Bunting and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family makes its annual pilgrimage to decorate an evergreen tree with food for the forest animals at Christmastime.

Be a Tree!

Author : Maria Gianferrari
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647003075
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Be a Tree! written by Maria Gianferrari and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical, gorgeously illustrated look at the majesty of trees—and what humans can learn from them Stand tall. Stretch your branches to the sun. Be a tree! We are all like trees: our spines, trunks; our skin, bark; our hearts giving us strength and support, like heartwood. We are fueled by air and sun. And, like humans, trees are social. They “talk” to spread information; they share food and resources. They shelter and take care of one another. They are stronger together. In this gorgeous and poetic celebration of one of nature’s greatest creations, acclaimed author Maria Gianferrari and illustrator Felicita Sala both compare us to the beauty and majesty of trees—and gently share the ways in which trees can inspire us to be better people.

The Rats in the Walls

Author : H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher : SAMPI Books
ISBN 13 : 6561332423
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book The Rats in the Walls written by H.P. Lovecraft and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Rats in the Walls" by H.P. Lovecraft, a man restores his ancestral estate in England, only to be haunted by mysterious noises within the walls. As he investigates, he uncovers horrifying secrets about his family's dark past and the ancient horrors lurking beneath the mansion.

How They Were Found

Author : Matt Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982151259
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book How They Were Found written by Matt Bell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt Bell's often non-realist, always genre-bending stories combine sci-fi, mystery, and horror into innovative literary fiction.

The Tree Shepherd's Daughter

Author : Gillian Summers
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0738717231
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Tree Shepherd's Daughter written by Gillian Summers and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mother dies, fifteen-year-old Keelie Heartwood must leave California to live with her nomadic father at a renaissance festival. Playacting the Dark Ages is an L.A. girl’s worst nightmare. But then Keelie starts seeing fairies and uncovers her connection to a community of elves.

We Planted a Tree

Author : Ruth Owen
Publisher : Ruby Tuesday Books
ISBN 13 : 9781788562195
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book We Planted a Tree written by Ruth Owen and published by Ruby Tuesday Books. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful, science-packed picture book, readers will join two very different groups of young friends as they each plant a tree. In a city garden, one group of children plants an oak tree and learns how it will become a maker of oxygen, a cleaner of the air, a feeder of the soil, and a home for millions of tiny creatures. And in the Sahel region of Africa, another group of young friends plants a tree as part of Africa's Great Green Wall. Their tree will be part of a green barrier that will create a place for people and animals to live and grow crops on the edge of the Sahara Desert. This uplifting celebration of trees will encourage young readers to not only notice, value, and enjoy these giants of the plant kingdom, but also want to plant a tree themselves.

Far from the Tree

Author : Robin Benway
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062330640
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Far from the Tree written by Robin Benway and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Winner, PEN America Award Winner, and New York Times Bestseller! Perfect for fans of This Is Us, Robin Benway’s beautiful interweaving story of three very different teenagers connected by blood explores the meaning of family in all its forms—how to find it, how to keep it, and how to love it. Being the middle child has its ups and downs. But for Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovering that she is a middle child is a different ride altogether. After putting her own baby up for adoption, she goes looking for her biological family, including— Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister, who has a lot to say about their newfound family ties. Having grown up the snarky brunette in a house full of chipper redheads, she’s quick to search for traces of herself among these not-quite-strangers. And when her adopted family’s long-buried problems begin to explode to the surface, Maya can’t help but wonder where exactly it is that she belongs. And Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother. After seventeen years in the foster care system, he’s learned that there are no heroes, and secrets and fears are best kept close to the vest, where they can’t hurt anyone but him. Don't miss this moving novel that addresses such important topics as adoption, teen pregnancy, and foster care.