Imagine a lion who decides one day that he will no longer survive off eating animals. This is the premise of Erasmus Joseph Lion by Marvin Rollick, one of a number of new books out in the world.
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Erasmus Joseph Lion
by Marvin Rollick
Erasmus Joseph Lion, the proud and powerful king of the savanna, has everything—a vast pride, unchallenged dominion, and the freedom to hunt at will. Yet an emptiness lingers within him. In a moment of reflection, he makes a life-altering decision: he will never kill or consume another animal again. But how can a mighty lion, bound by the brutal law of survival of the fittest, endure without his natural instincts and need for nourishment? As he embarks on a spiritual journey in search of a more compassionate and fulfilling existence, he faces trials of danger, heartbreak, and moments of doubt—along with humor and spiritual wisdom.
Along the way, Erasmus meets other animals with very colorful personalities, each on their own quest for inner peace. Together, they explore spiritual truths that challenge the harsh realities of their world. But can animals, like humans, evolve beyond their nature to become more loving and forgiving? As Erasmus confronts his greatest challenges, we, too, are invited to reflect on our own struggles with inner peace. In a world of great external progress, why do we continue to destroy one another and ourselves? What if there is another way? Join Erasmus as he finds the way on his transformative journey—one that leads through darkness into the light of the heavenly realm.
Nature’s Greatest Success: How Plants Evolved to Exploit Humanity
By Robert N. Spengler
The 15,000-year story of how grass seduced humanity into being its unwitting labor force–and the science behind it.
Domesticated crops were not human creations, and agriculture was not simply invented. As Robert N. Spengler shows, domestication was the result of an evolutionary process in which people played a role only unwittingly and as actors in a numberless cast that spanned the plant and animal kingdoms. Nature’s Greatest Success is the first book to bring together recent scientific discoveries and fascinating ongoing research to provide a systematic account of not only how agriculture really developed but why.
Through fifteen chapters, this book dives deep into the complex processes that drove domestication and the various roles that plants and animals, including humans, played in bringing about those changes. At the intersection of popular history, archaeology, and evolutionary biology, Nature’s Greatest Success offers a revolutionary account of humanity not at the apex of nature but deeply embedded in the natural world and the evolutionary processes that continue to guide it even today.
Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration
Today environmental restoration is a global pursuit. Governments, nonprofits, and corporations spend billions of dollars each year to remove invasive species, build wetlands, and reintroduce species driven from their habitats.
In Wild by Design, historian Laura J. Martin uncovers the origins of restoration science and policy. She explores how restorationists struggled with the problem of caring for biodiversity without romanticizing nature as an untouched Eden. Could humans intervene in nature for nature’s own sake? What natural baselines should be restored? Was it possible to design nature without destroying wildness? In illuminating restoration’s past, Wild by Design not only provides vital lessons for our future in a changing climate–it makes an urgent call for environmental restoration that is socially just.
The Midnight Project
By Christy Climenhage
When enigmatic billionaire Burton Sykes walks into Re-Gene-eration, a bespoke reproduction assistance clinic run by Raina and Cedric, two disgraced genetic engineers struggling to get by, they know they have a very unusual client. When Sykes asks them to genetically engineer a way for humanity to survive the coming ecological apocalypse, Raina is tempted. Bees are dying, crops are failing, and she knows her research is partly to blame. Could she help in some way? Though troubled, Cedric agrees to take part when it becomes clear their benefactor will do this with or without them. How else can he be sure their work won’t fall into the wrong hands? But can they really trust Mr. Sykes?
In this near-future science fiction thriller, Christy Climenhage has created a frighteningly real world on the verge of collapse. As disaster strikes, the two friends need to decide whether to cling to their old life or to let go and embrace a new path for humanity.
The Vanishing Birds
By Claire Datnow
Why birds vanish with the changing seasons remained a mystery until 1822, when a German teenager shot down a white stork with a three-foot Mozambican spear impaling its neck. It was the first important clue in solving the puzzle of seasonal bird migration . . .
In the newest eco mystery featuring the Sizzling Six, migratory birds connect teenagers living on different continents in a way they never could have imagined. Teens across time periods and cultures uncover more clues to unravel the mysteries of bird migration. But birds that once filled the skies are now fighting for their lives. Can the teens band together to solve the problems besetting the miraculous migrants?
Albatross: An Anthology of Animal Rights Poetry
By Noël Sweeney
Albatross combines the hard-hitting triad of An Animal’s Charter and Blue-bird sings the Blues and Jungle Judge Justice.
Together the anvil striking poems and tough calling-down prose encapsulate the practice and use in all aspects of our animal abuse. The subjects run the gamut suffered by our subjects from abattoirs to zoos, from trophy hunting to killing kangaroos and from fast fading mist gorillas to the appearance of serial killers.
John is co-author, with Midge Raymond, of the Tasmanian mystery Devils Island. He is also author of the novels The Tourist Trail and Where Oceans Hide Their Dead. Co-founder of Ashland Creek Press and editor of Writing for Animals (also now a writing program).
