Western U.S./ Canada Peterson Field Guides   1999   560p   4.5 x 7 A massive guide with 590 species, illustrated in lifelike positions on beautiful new color plates. With descriptions of all the butterflies that occur west of the 100th meridian in the United States and Canada, this guide has accurate information on ranges, habitats, … Continue reading Butterflies →

Peterson Field Guides   1998   128p   4 x 7 This slender book is a basic field guide for beginning observers of moths and butterflies. Containing dozens of water-color illustrations of north american moths and butterflies. $4-10 Other works involving field guides, insects, animals, the wild, nature

Peterson Field Guides     1998     400p     4.5 x 7 Includes descriptions of the habits, habitats, tracks, signs, and ranges of North American mammals. More than 1,000 illustrations show individual tracks, different track patterns, animals in their habitats, droppings, and gnawed trees. $5-15 Other works invovling field guides, animals, the wild, … Continue reading Animal Tracks →

The True Story of Labor’s Martyred Pioneers in the Coalfields Anthony Bimba     1932     144p     5 x 8 A forgotten chapter in the history of American labor, revealing the true nature of the so-called Molly Maguires as pioneers and martyrs in a determined struggle of the Pennsylvania anthracite region miners … Continue reading The Molly Maguires →

An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Daniel Quinn     1992     263p     5 x 8 The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local newspaper from a teacher looking for serious pupils, only to find himself alone in an … Continue reading Ishamael →

Jon Krakauer     1996     207p     5 x 8 Krakauer’s version of Alexander Supertramp’s adventurous and, ultimately, tragic life. Disillusioned with his middle class life, after graduating college Supertramp drops off the map and strikes off on an ascetic adventure: hitch-hiking across the country, canoeing to mexico, train-hopping up and down … Continue reading Into the Wild →

Origins of North American Dropout Culture Ron Sakolski     1994     382p     6 x 9 An absolutely incredible subversive history of america and many of its inhabitants attempts to subvert race and have a healthier relationship with nature. Viewed through cracks in the cartographies of control, including ‘tri-racial isolate’ communities, buccaneers, … Continue reading Gone to Croatan →

Alan Moore & David Lloyd     1989     296p     7 x 10 Remember, remember the fifth of November… A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and … Continue reading V For Vendetta →

The Warriors and Legacy of Oka Loreen Pindera & Geoffrey York     1991     425p     6 x 9 In 1990, after the announcement to expand the local 9-hole golf course to an 18-hole one right through a Mohawk cemetery, a small band of women blocking the development and years of disappointment, manipulation, exploitation and genocide soon inspire … Continue reading The People of the Pines →

Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation Silvia Federici     2004     393p     6.5 x 9.5 Marx says that Capitalism comes into the world dripping with blood from the enclosure of common lands, the enslavement of europeans to the wage and the extermination and enslavement of africans and native americans. Foucault looks … Continue reading Caliban and the Witch →