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  | | Hunger(Reprint) An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell, Basic Books Inc Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2006 by Basic Books Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-465-07165-4, ISBN: 0-465-07165-1 "Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger is both a natural and an unnatural human condition. In Hunger, Sharman Apt Russell explores the range of this primal experience. Step by step, Russell takes us through the physiology of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to three days to seven days to thirty days. In quiet, elegant prose, she asks a question as big as history and as everyd ..." |
 | | Knocking on Heaven's Door(1st Edition) A Novel by Sharman Apt Russell Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2016 by Yucca ISBN-13: 978-1-63158-068-0, ISBN: 1-63158-068-X "Winner in Published Fiction, Arizona Authors Association Literary AwardsWinner in Science Fiction, New Mexico/Arizona Book AwardsOn a hotter and more volatile earth in the twenty-third century, humans like Clare and Jon live in utopia, hunting and gathering in small tribal bands, engaged in daily art and ritual, reunited with old friends like the shaggy mammoth and giant ground sloth. Even better, they still have solar- powered laptops ..." |
 | | Standing in the Light(Reprint) My Life as a Pantheist by Sharman Apt Russell Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-01380-7, ISBN: 0-465-01380-5 ""Everything is connected, and the web is holy.” So wrote Marcus Aurelius, the starting point of Sharman Apt Russell’s wise and haunting new memoir about her life as a pantheist.In Standing in the Light, Russell explores the history of this tradition from the Stoic philosophers to the Transcendentalists while reflecting on her own life during a year spent in the mountains and desert of southwestern New Mexico. Nature provides the inspira ..." |
 | | Standing In The Light(2nd Edition) My Life A A Pantheist by Sharman Apt Russell Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 2016 by Horseshoe Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9974162-0-6, ISBN: 0-9974162-0-3 ""Everything is connected, and the web is holy.” So wrote Marcus Aurelius, the starting point of Sharman Apt Russell’s wise and haunting new memoir about her life as a pantheist. In Standing in the Light, Russell explores the history of this tradition from the Stoic philosophers to the Transcendentalists while reflecting on her own life during a year spent in the mountains and desert of southwestern New Mexico. Nature provides the inspi ..." |
 | | Teresa of the New World by Sharman Apt Russell Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by Yucca Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-63158-042-0, ISBN: 1-63158-042-6 "-Winner of the Arizona Author's Association Award for Children's Literature-Runner-up for the Arizona Book of the Year-IndieFab Finalist-Finalist for the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards-Finalist, WILLA Award for Children's Literature-May Sarton Award, Finalist In 1528, the real-life conqu ..." |
 | | An Obsession With Butterflies(1st Edition) Our Long Love Affair With A Singular Insect by Sharman Apt Russell Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2004 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-07160-9, ISBN: 0-465-07160-0 "A delightful look at the science of butterflies-and our obsession with them-by an acclaimed nature writer. Butterflies have always served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation, but as Sharman Apt Russell points out in this lyrical meditation, butterflies are above all objects of obsession. She reveals the logic behind our endless fascination with butterflies and introduces us to the legendary collectors and dedicated scienti ..." |
 | | Anatomy Of A Rose(Updated) Exploring The Secret Life Of Flowers by Sharman Apt Russell, Basic Books Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2002 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7382-0669-1, ISBN: 0-7382-0669-5 "The flower, paleontologists tell us, is an ancient innovation in the endless struggle of adaptation and survival; the earliest fossil flowers date to some 120 million years ago, long after the arrival of other forms of plant life (and, for that matter, insects). Their arrival heralded a new way for plants to go forth and multiply that was so successful that countless animal and insect species now depend on flowers for food, and flow ..." |
 | | Diary of a Citizen Scientist(1st Edition) Chasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the World by Sharman Apt Russell Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2014 by Oregon State University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87071-752-9, ISBN: 0-87071-752-9 "Winner of the 2016 John Burroughs Medal, the 2015 WILLA Award for Best Creative Nonfiction, and finalist for the 2015 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards In the exploding world of citizen science, hundreds of thousands of volunteers are monitoring climate change, tracking bird migrations, finding stardust for NASA, and excavating mastodons. The sheer number of citizen scientists, combined with new technology, has begun to shape how research ..." |
 | | Hunger(1st Edition) An Unnatural History by Sharman Apt Russell Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2005 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-07163-0, ISBN: 0-465-07163-5 "A subject as big as history and as everyday as skipping lunch-hunger and how it works-is explored in this thought-provoking, kaleidoscopic blend of science, anthropology, and personal reflection Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger explores the range of this primal experience. Sharman Apt Russell, the highly acclaimed author of Anatomy of a Rose and An Obsession with Butterflies, here takes us on a tour of ..." |
 | | Frederick Douglass Abolitionist Editor (Black Americans of Achievement (Hardcover)) by Sharman Apt Russell, Dr Heather Lehr Wagner, Nathan Irvin Huggins Hardcover, 98 Pages, Published 2004 by Chelsea House Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-7910-8157-0, ISBN: 0-7910-8157-5 "Frederick Douglass was a former slave who escaped to the North and became a leading abolitionist. Founder of the abolitionist paper, the North Star, Douglass was also renowned for his public-speaking skills." |
 | | An Obsession With Butterflies(1st Edition) Our Long Love Affair With A Singular Insect by Sharman Apt Russell Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2003 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7382-0699-8, ISBN: 0-7382-0699-7 "Sharman Apt Russell again blends her lush voice and keen scientific eye in this marvelous book about butterflies. From Hindu mythology to Aztec sacrifices, butterflies have served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation. Even during World War II, children in a Polish death camp scratched hundreds of butterflies onto the walls of their barracks. But as Russell points out in this rich and lyrical meditation, butterflies are abov ..." |
 | | When the Land was Young(Reprint) Reflections on American Archaeology. by Sharman Apt Russell Paperback, 230 Pages, Published 2001 by Bison Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-8987-1, ISBN: 0-8032-8987-1 "... ring chronology. Dates before 5500 B.C. are outside this calibration range. Finally, I would like to thank my editor, Sharon Broil, for her good cheer and energy, as well as my agent, Felicia Eth. My husband, Peter, and my two children, Maria X ACKNOWLEDGMENTS." |
 | | Songs Of The Fluteplayer(Reprint) Seasons Of Life In The Southwest by Sharman Apt Russell Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1992 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-201-60821-2, ISBN: 0-201-60821-9 "From the flooding of southern New Mexicos Mimbres River in the summer, to the year-round search for community in rural America, Sharman Apt Russell recounts her experiences in creating a life for herself in the remote southwestern desert. She, along with her husband, chose to leave a faster lane in order to find a way of life not possible in a larger urban area: building their own adobe home, giving birth to their first child at home, ..." |
 | | The Humpbacked Flute Player by Sharman Apt Russell Paperback, 162 Pages, Published 2016 by Horseshoe Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9974162-2-0, ISBN: 0-9974162-2-X "From the flooding of southern New Mexico's Mimbres River in the summer, to the year-round search for community in rural America, Sharman Apt Russell recounts her experiences in creating a life for herself in the remote southwestern desert. She, along with her husband, chose to leave a faster lane in order to find a way of life not possible in a larger urban area: building their own adobe home, giving birth to their first child at home, ..." |
 | | The Last Matriarch (Paperback) by Sharman Apt Russell Paperback, Published 2016 by Horseshoe Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9974162-3-7, ISBN: 0-9974162-3-8 "Over eleven thousand years ago the plains of the great Southwest were covered with sweet long-season grass and inhabited by camels, bison, mammoths, dire wolves, and the hunter gatherers we now call the Clovis people. This story of Willow, Jak, Etol, and their clan takes place in a land that we unconsciously recognize, and shows us people whose needs, hopes, and fears are our own. They live in a world where communication with animals, p ..." |
 | | Standing in the Light(1st Edition) My Life as a Pantheist by Sharman Apt Russell Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2008 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-00517-8, ISBN: 0-465-00517-9 "Everything is connected, and the web is holy.” So wrote Marcus Aurelius, the starting point of Sharman Apt Russell's wise and haunting new memoir about her life as a pantheist. Perhaps no other religious philosophy is as simple and inclusive as pantheism. What is, right now, is divine; there is no god apart from the universe itself. In Standing in the Light, Russell explores the history of this tradition from the Stoic philosophers to ..." |
 | | Songs of the Fluteplayer Seasons of Life in the Southwest by Sharman Apt Russell Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2002 by Bison Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-8989-5, ISBN: 0-8032-8989-8 "In Songs of the Fluteplayer, the charm and challenge of the spectacularly beautiful American Southwest are irresistibly captured by a woman who risked much to discover a new life and greater meaning there. Sharman Apt Russell and her husband moved to the Mimbres Valley in southwestern New Mexico in order to lead a simpler yet more substantial life. Their efforts to be self-sufficient-building an adobe house, giving birth at home, growin ..." |
 | | Kill the Cowboy A Battle of Mythology in the New West by Sharman Apt Russell Paperback, 217 Pages, Published 2001 by Bison Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8032-8985-7, ISBN: 0-8032-8985-5 "Rising larger than life against the Western horizon, the cowboy sits astride his horse right in the middle of American mythology, husbanding our ideals of freedom, independence, and valor. And grazing his cattle on the wide-open land, he leaves a dusty trail: weeds spring up, scrub brush flourishes, wildlife declines, ground compacts, soil erodes, streambeds turn into dry gullies. Treading a fine line between the idyllic myth and the ha ..." |
 | | Kill the Cowboy A Battle of Mythology in the New West by Sharman Apt Russell Paperback, Published 2016 by Horseshoe Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9974162-1-3, ISBN: 0-9974162-1-1 "To environmentalists, wilderness is a valuable resource and a sacred place; to many ranchers, wilderness means eviction and government interference. Russell, herself a westerner, here tackles the complex and controversial issues of land health and wildlife in the West. A provocative and enlightening account."-Publishers Weekly Rising larger than life against the Western horizon, the cowboy sits astride his horse right in the middle of A ..." |
 | | Anatomy of a Rose(1st Edition) The Secret Life of Flowers by Sharman Apt Russell Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2001 by William Heinemann Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-434-00848-3, ISBN: 0-434-00848-6 "The flower, paleontologists tell us, is an ancient innovation in the endless struggle of adaptation and survival; the earliest fossil flowers date to some 120 million years ago, long after the arrival of other forms of plant life (and, for that matter, insects). Their arrival heralded a new way for plants to go forth and multiply that was so successful that countless animal and insect species now depend on flowers for food, and flowerin ..." |
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