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Author : John Chipman Gray
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Essays: Agricultural and Literary, by John C. Gray written by John Chipman Gray and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619020807
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book A Continuous Harmony written by Wendell Berry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is broad and leisurely and important. Something like the river itself on which Wendell Berry lives. It is full of wide and flowing thoughts and one thing leads to another in the manner that nature intended―or used to. The language ranges from the grave and beautiful to the sharp and specific, depending on the need to express the vast variety of subjects he presents."—The Nation The title of this book is taken from an account by Thomas F. Hornbein on his travels in the Himalayas. ""It seemed to me,"" Horenbein wrote, ""that here man lived in continuous harmony with the land, as much as briefly a part of it as all its other occupants."" Wendell Berry's second collection of essays, A Continuous Harmony was first published in 1972, and includes the seminal ""Think Little,"" which was printed in The Last Whole Earth Catalogue and reprinted around the globe, and the splendid centerpiece, ""Discipline and Hope,"" an insightful and articulate essay making a case for what he calls ""a new middle."
Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640091696
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Gift of Good Land written by Wendell Berry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of this book is the interdependence, the wholeness, the oneness of people, land, weather, animals, and family. To touch one is to tamper with them all. We live in one functioning organism whose separate parts are artificially isolated by our culture. Here, Berry develops the compelling argument that the “gift” of good land has strings attached. We have it only on loan and only for as long as we practice good stewardship.
Author : Justin Isherwood
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Book of Plough written by Justin Isherwood and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A farmer with an extraordinary gift for language and a writer with the field still fresh on his boots, Justin Isherwood is irresistibly compelling. His writing is possessed by a poetry. As he moves effortlessly from the profound to the practical, he turns the ordinary experiences of farm life into a feast for your senses. Distributed for Martin Communications and Marketing
Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582439249
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)
Download or read book The Art of the Commonplace written by Wendell Berry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him." —The Washington Post Book World The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. Grouped around five themes—an agrarian critique of culture, agrarian fundamentals, agrarian economics, agrarian religion, and geobiography—these essays promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety, disease, and destructiveness of contemporary American culture. Why is agriculture becoming culturally irrelevant, and at what cost? What are the forces of social disintegration and how might they be reversed? How might men and women live together in ways that benefit both? And, how does the corporate takeover of social institutions and economic practices contribute to the destruction of human and natural environments? Through his staunch support of local economies, his defense of farming communities, and his call for family integrity, Berry emerges as the champion of responsibilities and priorities that serve the health, vitality and happiness of the whole community of creation.
Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640091742
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Think Little written by Wendell Berry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1972, “Think Little” is cultural critic and agrarian Wendell Berry at his best: prescient about the dire environmental consequences of our mentality of greed and exploitation, yet hopeful that we will recognize war and oppression and pollution not as separate issues, but aspects of the same. “Think Little” is presented here alongside one of Berry’s most popular and personal essays, “A Native Hill.” This gentle essay of recollection is told alongside a poetic lesson in geography, as Berry explains at length and in detail, that what he stands for is what he stands on. Each palm–size book in the Counterpoints series is meant to stay with you, whether safely in your pocket or long after you turn the last page. From short stories to essays to poems, these little books celebrate our most–beloved writers, whose work encapsulates the spirit of Counterpoint Press: cutting–edge, wide–ranging, and independent.
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Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bibliographies and Literature of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noel Perrin
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 156792574X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)
Download or read book Best Person Rural written by Noel Perrin and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, Noel Perrin, a 35-year-old professor of English at Dartmouth College, bought an 85-acre farm in Thetford Center, Vermont. For the next forty years he spent half his time teaching, half writing, and half farming. "That this adds up to three halves I am all too aware," he said, sounding a characteristic, self-deprecating note of bittersweet amusement at the chalk on his coat, the sweat on his brow, and the mud (and worse) on his boots. "I love this farm," he wrote shortly before his death in 2004, "every acre of it. The maples, the apple trees, the cattle, the wild turkeys. I love the brick farmhouse, which I believe to be about 190 years old ... and the two barns. I love the view from the kitchen window ... and the grander view to be had if you climb Bill Hill, the farm's in-house mini-mountain. The thing that delights me most, though, is that the farm really is a farm. It produces a little food every year, and most years a little fuel as well." It also produced four volumes of essays, beginning with the best-selling First Person Rural (1978). Some of Perrin's pieces are practical (how to build a stone wall), others philosophical (why to build a stone wall). One pretends to be about amateur sugar making, but it is really a metaphor for reality and illusion. Another pretends to be about the country as a retreat, but is really about the country as a place to meet the world head-on. One is a dangerous character sketch of a sow – dangerous, because as Roy Blount said after reading it, "It almost made me decide to go ahead and get pigs." In short, these essays are as good as the literature of farming gets. Best Person Rural is a harvest feast, bringing together twenty of Perrin's best-loved pieces and five previously uncollected items, including his moving "Farewell to a Thetford Farm."
Author : Adaline May Conway
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Essay in American Literature written by Adaline May Conway and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. G. Street
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Farmer's Glory written by A. G. Street and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Farmer's Glory" by A. G. Street. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Thomas Gisborne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Essays on Agriculture written by Thomas Gisborne and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allen Mendenhall
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739186345
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Literature and Liberty written by Allen Mendenhall and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic theories of Karl Marx and his disciples continue to be anthologized in books of literary theory and criticism and taught in humanities classrooms to the exclusion of other, competing economic paradigms. Marxism is collectivist, predictable, monolithic, impersonal, linear, reductive — in short, wholly inadequate as an instrument for good in an era when we know better than to reduce the variety of human experience to simplistic formulae. A person’s creative and intellectual energies are never completely the products of culture or class. People are rational agents who choose between different courses of action based on their reason, knowledge, and experience. A person’s choices affect lives, circumstances, and communities. Even literary scholars who reject pure Marxism are still motivated by it, because nearly all economic literary theory derives from Marxism or advocates for vast economic interventionism as a solution to social problems. Such interventionism, however, has a track-record of mass murder, war, taxation, colonization, pollution, imprisonment, espionage, and enslavement — things most scholars of imaginative literature deplore. Yet most scholars of imaginative literature remain interventionists. Literature and Liberty offers these scholars an alternative economic paradigm, one that over the course of human history has eliminated more generic bads than any other system. It argues that free market or libertarian literary theory is more humane than any variety of Marxism or interventionism. Just as Marxist historiography can be identified in the use of structuralism and materialist literary theory, so should free-market libertarianism be identifiable in all sorts of literary theory. Literature and Liberty disrupts the near monopolistic control of economic ideas in literary studies and offers a new mode of thinking for those who believe that arts and literature should play a role in discussions about law, politics, government, and economics. Drawing from authors as wide-ranging as Emerson, Shakespeare, E.M. Forster, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Henry Hazlitt, and Mark Twain, Literature and Liberty is a significant contribution to libertarianism and literary studies.
Author : John C. GRAY (Fellow of the American Academy.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Essays, agricultural and literary written by John C. GRAY (Fellow of the American Academy.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Kittredge
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Owning It All written by William Kittredge and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a deeply felt and highly informed essay collection about life in the American west by one of the finest writers ever to emerge from that region. As the Seattle Times has said of Owning It All: "You may never again see the American west in quite the same way if you take the time to view it through the eyes of William Kittredge. [This is a] stunning book." Having grown up on his family's cattle ranch in eastern Oregon, Kittredge directly confronts the contradictions and myths that lie at the heart of the Western experience: male freedom and female domesticity, the wild and the tame, self-interest and love of the land.
Author : M. M. Postan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521088466
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Essays on Medieval Agriculture and General Problems of the Medieval Economy written by M. M. Postan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes The economic foundations of medieval society, The rise of a money economy, The chronology of labour services and The charters of the villeins.
Author : Thomas Gisborne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Essays on agriculture, repr. from the Quarterly review written by Thomas Gisborne and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Percy
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1555977596
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Thrill Me written by Benjamin Percy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In fifteen essays that challenge the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive turns to Cormac McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, and others to discover how contemporary writers engage plot, character, dialogue, and suspense"--Page 4 of cover.
