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Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From MindBodyGreen's Senior Sustainability Editor and the co-author of The Spirit Almanac comes a four-color guide to reconnecting with the outdoors, with new research on how nature heals us as well as tools for becoming stewards of the earth that nurtures us"--
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Black Landscapes Matter probes the very timely issue of how race, memory, and meaning intersect in the American landscape. The book provides examples of how African American landscapes are rejected and erased in a variety of places across the US--from Charlotte, NC, to New Orleans, LA, Detroit, MI, and Milwaukee, WI--along with calls to action"--
Author
Publisher
Price Stern Sloan, An Imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Discover the alphabet from a bird's-eye view! Geographer and designer duo Benedikt Gross and Joey Lee have taken the alphabet to new heights-literally! Using satellite imagery and computer technology, the pair has discovered "accidental letters" all over the world: in roads, rivers, buildings, lakes, and more. Take a journey around the Earth in 26 letters with this special book.
Author
Publisher
Penfield Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Marcia Wegman's pastels have been selected in many juried exhibitions. She has been an honored finalist in the INTERNATIONAL ARTIST MAGAZINE. In recent years, three of her pastel paintings have been selected in Annual Members Juried Exhibitions by the Pastel Society of America. Her pastels are in many private collections, and she is represented in the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. In addition to landscapes, not only of Iowa, she has a pastel series...
13) Lion lullaby
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The sun begins to set on the savanna, and ten little lions must find their way home before dark. One by one, lion cubs emerge from trees, past bouncing monkeys and braying zebras. They cross a stream, watch a herd of thundering wildebeest, and explore the darkening beauty of the landscape. As the moon rises, ten little lion cubs curl up together just in time for bedtime, under their mothers' watch in a space that is cozy and warm.
14) The hills reply
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Tarjei Vesaas's final work before his death, this episodic novel drifts between dream-like abstraction and vivid description of seemingly ordinary yet heightened scenes of the Norwegian countryside. The first story finds a young boy and his father clearing a logging road deep in snow, as their surroundings give way to an expression of power and resignation between the two. Commentary on human behavior continues to meet the quiet power of the natural...
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"My name is Earth / but people call me Little Earth." In the fourth installment of their award-winning Madre Tierra / Mother Earth series of trilingual picture books about the natural world, Jorge Argueta and Felipe Ugalde Alcántara collaborate again to introduce Mother Earth, who is "full of all the colors / and all the flavors." She is the mother of water, fire, wind and earth. Some call her planet, others nature or creation. "I am Mother Earth...
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Journey to the planets most magnificent places with Lonely Planet's Beautiful World, a thought provoking portrait of our world. It [w]ill help you see the planet as you have never seen it before, renewing your relationship with the place we call home.
Publisher
North Carolina Museum of Art
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals traces Hassam's artistic exploration of Appledore Island, the largest island of the Isles of Shoals off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire, where he traveled nearly every summer for thirty years"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Introduces readers to works of art featuring "places" by such esteemed artists as Vincent van Gogh, Juan Gris, Paul Klee, Katsushika Hokusai, Raoul Dufy, Wassily Kandinsky, L.S. Lowry, Abraham Ortelius, Stuart Davis, Rene Magritte and provides instruction for "place" centered art projects.
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