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Want to read
and discuss stories of nature? Concerned about sustainability of fossil carbon
based economy?
Do you wonder what's going on in the world of
retail today?
Then join us for our book club
at O'Naturals (83 Exchange Street in Portland,
321-2050)
on Friday evenings from 5:30 - 7:30 pm!
We will begin by understanding the problems and end with some solutions (and
have some fun conversations in the process)!
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Friday, February 8, 2008
Ravens in Winter
by Bernd
Heinrich
PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION
Why should ravens--which are usually solitary
birds--share valuable food in the dead of winter? How clever are these
birds? Do they have a language? These are some of the riddles that noted
sociobiologist Bernd Heinrich, author of Bumblebee Economics and winner of
the John Burroughs Medal, explores in this intriguing book.
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Friday, March 14, 2008
The Snow Leopard
by Peter Matthiessen
PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION
A vivid memoir of a five-week journey through Nepal
with George Schaller in search of the magnificent leopard. As perceptive,
wonderful and acutely descriptive as any of Matthiessen's writing.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Cod
by
Mark Kurlansky
PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION
A delightful romp through
history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography
of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this
humble fish as its recurring main character. As we make our way through the
centuries of cod history, we also find a delicious legacy of recipes, and
the tragic story of environmental failure, of depleted fishing stocks where
once their numbers were legendary. In this lovely, thoughtful history, Mark
Kurlansky ponders the question: Is the fish that changed the world forever
changed by the world's folly?
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Friday, May 9, 2008
The Creation
by
Edward O. Wilson
PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION
In this daring work, Edward O. Wilson proposes an
alliance between science and religion to save Earth's vanishing
biodiversity.
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Uncommon Carriers
by John McPhee
PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION
What John McPhee's books all have in common is that
they are about real people in real places. Here, at his adventurous best,
he is out and about with people who work in freight transportation.
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Friday, July 11, 2008
Voyage of the Turtle
by Carl Safina
PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION
The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its
survival says about our future, from the award-winning writer and
naturalist. Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her
creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated. The distressing
decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in
the Atlantic illuminate what can go both wrong and right from our
interventions, and teach us the lessons that can be applied to restore
health to the world's oceans and its creatures. As Carl Safina's
compelling natural history adventure makes clear, the fate of the
astonishing leatherback turtle, whose ancestry can be traced back 125
million years, is in our hands.
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