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Book Review: Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases that Changed the World by Oliver Houck

January 14, 2014 by Midge Raymond

Oliver A. Houck’s Taking Back Eden is one of those books that can offer great hope during tough environmental times. Published by Island Press in 2011, this book’s relevance is only going …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Nonfiction, Oceans

Book Review: We Animals by Jo-Anne McArthur

January 9, 2014 by Shel Graves
We Animals by Jo-Anne McArthur

Contributors to the Indiegogo campaign received We Animals, photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur’s beautifully designed coffee table book, just before the New Year. Published by Lantern Books, it features photos of individual …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Book Review: Moby-Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville

January 6, 2014 by John Yunker

It is difficult to separate Moby-Dick, the book, from Moby-Dick, the whale. Both are epic in scale, and both have been met with wildly different perceptions and interpretations. You only need …

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Categories Animal Rights, Birds, Book Reviews, Endangered Species, Fiction, Oceans

Happy New Year from EcoLit Books

January 1, 2014 by Midge Raymond

Happy new year, readers and writers! We are looking forward to a new year of eco-literature and already have a great lineup of new reviews coming soon. For all of …

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Categories Animal Rights, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Events, Fiction, Oceans

Book Review: Stung! by Lisa-ann Gershwin

December 27, 2013December 26, 2013 by JoeAnn Hart

Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean, by Lisa-an Gershwin (The University of Chicago Press, 2013)   They’re here, and we’ve not just cleared out the guest …

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Categories Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Oceans

Book Review: Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story by Dame Daphne Sheldrick

December 17, 2013 by Mindy Mejia

Let’s start with a friendly reviewer disclaimer. I usually read fiction because I enjoy stories about uncompromising people who do extraordinary things. Memoir, biography, and autobiography don’t typically interest me …

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Book Review: The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen

December 12, 2013December 12, 2013 by Shel Graves

The Snow Leopard (1978), a beautiful true account of a wildlife research trek into the Himalayas, reads like a novel. It’s rich with sensory detail — capturing the sights, tastes, …

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Categories Book Reviews, Endangered Species, Nonfiction

Book Review: Animal Liberation by Peter Singer

November 29, 2013November 28, 2013 by Shel Graves
Animal Liberation

Firstly, in March, you can take a free online course on Practical Ethics taught by Peter Singer author, ethicist and professor of bioethics at Princeton University — how fantastic! — …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Call for Writers: Voices for Biodiversity

November 19, 2013 by John Yunker

Anthropologist Tara Waters Lumpkin is founder and executive director of a nonprofit project and e-zine called Voices for Biodiversity. Our goal is to provide a multimedia platform where citizen eco-reporters can …

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Book Review — Collared: Politics and Personalities in Oregon’s Wolf Country

November 17, 2013 by Beckie Elgin

Wolves–will they ever cease to create controversy and incite emotion? After all, they are just another four-legged, fur-covered predator–powerful, but certainly not the “beast of waste and desolation,” that Teddy …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, Wolves

Book Review: Countdown by Alan Weisman

October 22, 2013 by Midge Raymond

Alan Weisman’s Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? follows his fascinating book The World Without Us, this time asking the question: What will become of the …

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