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[Hardcover] - $21.95
Absence and Light
Meditations from the Klamath Marshes
by John R. Campbell
"In order to accept the enormous responsibility that comes of being in the world, we must first conceive, in spite of all the obstacles, the state of actually being the world.... more

[Paperback] - $21.95
Arid Waters
Photographs from the Water in the West Project
Edited by Peter Goin,
Text by Ellen Manchester
Arid Waters is a photographic response to the growing crisis of water scarcity, which exists because our culture thinks of water as a commodity, or an abstract legal right, rather than the most basic physical source of life.... more

[Hardcover] - $24.95
Believing in Place
A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin
by Richard V. Francaviglia
The austere landscape of the Great Basin has inspired diverse responses from the people who have moved through or settled in it.... more

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[Paperback] - $18.95
Between Grass and Sky
Where I Live and Work
by Linda M. Hasselstrom
An important collection of personal essays from one of the most widely published American environmental writers addresses the effects of ranching on the environment.... more

[Paperback] - $12.95
Bonelight
Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest (essays)
by Mary Sojourner
Deeply passionate and personal reflections about damage, loss, and renewal—of the earth and of the writer herself.... more

[Paperback] - $15.00
Cactus Thorn
A Novella
by Mary Austin
Set primarily in the lonesome southwest desert lands of the 1920s, this novella is a powerful story in which landscape reflects and defines character.... more

[Paperback] - $19.95
Cattle in the Cold Desert
Expanded Edition
by James A. Young, B. Abbott Sparks
Cattle in the Cold Desert brilliantly combines a lively account of the development of the Great Basin grazing industry with a detailed scientific discussion of the ecology of its sagebrush/grassland plant communities.... more

[Hardcover] - $34.95,
[Paperback] - $24.95
Conservation Fallout
Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon
by John Wills
One of the most controversial atomic projects of the US nuclear industry during the 1960s and 1970s was the construction of a nuclear power plant at Diablo Canyon, a relatively unsettled and biologically rich part of the central California coast.... more