Peterson Field Guides   1998   128p   4 x 7 This slender book is a basic field guide for beginning observers of fish. Containing dozens of water-color illustrations of north american fishes. $3-10 Other works involving field guides, fishes, animals, the wild, nature

North Eastern/ Central North America Peterson Field Guides   2005   440p   4.5 x 7 Since 1956, when the late Boughton Cobb wrote his field guide to ferns, this book, unchanged in all the years since, has become the classic on the subject. Now the New England Wild Flower Society (NEWFS) has completely updated … Continue reading Ferns →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Fredy Perlman   1983   296p   5 x 8 How Civilization encroached on free peoples. On every continent scribes, traders and kings promoted division of labor, professional armies, social discipline, national, ethnic and class fervor.  $7-15 Other works involving fredy perlman, civilization, the wild, technology, recuperation, progress, primitivism, heresy, patriarchy, first nations struggles, peasant revolts, monarchs, nature, slave … Continue reading Against His-Story, Against Leviathan →

Helen Ellerbe   1995   227p   5 x 8 How did the Church manage to stay alive and a major player on the political and imperial level for 1500 years? Ellerbe explains: by crushing or absorbing everything that stood in its way. While Dark Side of Christian History covers a lot of the same … Continue reading The Dark Side of Christian History →