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People Habitat
People Habitat: 25 Ways to Think About Greener, Healthier Cities© 2014 F. Kaid Benfield304 pages The built environment can have an enormous effect on human happiness, facilitating it or obstructing it; think of the frustration of taking care of errands … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged cities, essays, Politics-CivicInterest, sustainability, urbanism
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Chasing New Horizons
Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto© 2019 Alan Stearns & David Grinspoon320 pages For most of my life, and I’ll warrant for most of yours, Pluto was the Great Unknown in the solar system. Take any … Continue reading
The World-Ending Fire
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry© 2018 Wendell Berry and Paul Kingsnorth360 pages What a way to finish 2022, in reading this superb collection of Wendell Berry’s essays. Berry has published no small amount of essay collections himself, and … Continue reading
A year’s end…
Welcome to the liminal space between the years, as we all recover from Christmas and brace ourselves for a weekend full of fireworks. Reading activity is definitely ebbing down for me, and has been for much of December — I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged arts-entertainment, Port William, Southern Literature, Wendell Berry
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Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley© Peter Kreeft 1982 182 pages The scene: ….well, we’re not sure. Somewhere out in the ether. The players: C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley, … Continue reading
Postcards from Ed
Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast© 2007 ed. David Petersen337 pages “Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.” Although I was first drawn to Ed Abbey by his nature … Continue reading
Lost on Purpose
Lost on Purpose: The Adventures of a 21st Century Mountain Man© 2015 Patrick Taylor187 pages The real adventure for me was letting go of everything I had defined as important and conducting another experiment with my life. Lost on Purpose … Continue reading
Unsettled
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters© 2021 Steve Koonin320 pages Over the last twenty years, ‘climate change’ has been subject to the same abuse as ‘terrorism’: it’s levied so often with such enthusiasm … Continue reading
Sean of the South and the Old Man’s Boy
Sean Dietrich and his wife Jamie’s collective world was shaken when their doctor said the C word. Cancer. The emperor of all maladies, the ticking timebomb in each of us. Rather than crumbling into a weeping ball of woe-is-me, … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged American South, bicycles, humor, Of Boys and Men, Sean Dietrich, Southern Literature, sports and outdoors, travel
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Sid Meier’s Memoir
Sid Meier’s Memoir: A Life in Computer Games© 2020 Sid Meier304 pages Dear readers, I cannot tell you how much of my life has been spent in worlds of Sid Meier’s making – discovering his talent for historically-grounded but still-compelling … Continue reading