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Two Poems, Carlyle Macphail

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Poetry by Carlyle MacPhail

Two Poems, Scott R. Honeycutt

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Poetry by Scott R. Honeycutt

Two Poems, Sarah Switzer

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Poetry by Sarah Switzer

Three Poems, Basma Kavanagh

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Poetry by Basma Kavanagh

Three Poems, Renée Jackson-Harper

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Poetry by Renée Jackson-Harper

Rag Cosmology By Erin Robinsong, Camilla Nelson

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Review of Erin Robinsong's Rag Cosmology.

The Terranauts By T.C. Boyle And The Addlands By Tom Bullough, Carly E. Thomas

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Review of T.C. Boyle's The Terranauts and Tom Bullough's The Addlands.

Islands Of Grass By Trevor Herriot And The Long Walk By Jan Zwicky, Gillian Harding-Russell

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Review of Trevor Herriot's Islands of Grass and Jan Zwicky's The Long Walk.

Blood Fable By Oisín Curran, Michael Occhionero

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Review of Oisín Curran's Blood Fable.

Anthropocene Feminism By Richard Grusin, Stephanie Eccles

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Review of Richard Grusin's Anthropocene Feminism.

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography Of A Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder By Ma-Nee Chacaby With Mary Louisa Plummer, Emily Leung-Pittman

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Review of A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer.

All The Names Between By Julia Mccarthy And The Girls With Stone Faces By Arleen Paré, Erin Renee Wahl

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Review of Arleen Paré's The Girls with Stone Faces and Julia McCarthy's All the Names Between.

Exposed: Environmental Politics & Pleasures In Posthuman Times By Stacy Alaimo, Nathan Tebokkel

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Review of Stacy Alaimo's Exposed: Environmental Politics & Pleasures in Posthuman Times.

Permanent Weekend: Nature, Leisure, And Rural Gentrification By John Michels, Cameron M. Butler

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Review of John Michels' Permanent Weekend: Nature, Leisure, and Rural Gentrification.

Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, And Environmental Narrative By Alexa Weik Von Mossner, David Tagnani

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Review of Alexa Weik von Mossner's Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative.

Better Nature By Fenn Stewart, Claire Caldwell

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Review of Fenn Stewart's Better Nature.

Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights By Alan Smart And Josephine Smart, David Shaw

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Review of Alan Smart and Josephine Smart’s Posthumanism: Anthropological Insights.

The Microbial State: Global Thriving And The Body Politic By Stefanie R. Fishel, Dustin Purvis

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Review of Stefanie R. Fishel's The Microbial State: Global Thriving and the Body Politic.

The Wilds Of Poetry: Adventures In Mind And Landscape By David Hinton, Joel Weishaus

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Review of David Hinton’s The Wilds of Poetry: Adventure’s in Mind and Landscape.

While Glaciers Slept: Being Human In A Time Of Climate Change By M Jackson, Stephen Siperstein

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Review of M. Jackson's While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change.

Fault Lines: Life And Landscape In Saskatchewan’S Oil Economy By Valerie Zink And Emily Eaton, Matthew Zantingh

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Review of Valerie Zink and Emily Eaton's Fault Lines: Life and Landscape in Saskatchewan's Oil Economy.

Cleaner, Greener, Healthier: A Prescription For Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws And Policies By David R. Boyd, Alex D. Ketchum

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Review of David R. Boyd's Cleaner, Greener, Healthier: A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies.

Lines Of Flight: An Atomic Memoir By Julie Salverson, Ashley E. Reis

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Review of Julie Salverson’s Lines of Flight: An Atomic Memoir.

Birdmania: A Remarkable Passion For Birds By Bernd Brunner, Mozart's Starling By Lyanda Lynn Haupt, And Birds Art Life By Kyo Maclear, Nancy Lee Menning

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Review of Bernd Brunner's Birdmania: A Remarkable Passion for Birds, Lyanda Lynn Haupt's Mozart's Starling, and Ky Maclear's Birds Art Life.

Literary Societies Of Wofford College, Phillip Stone, Luke Meagher

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Less than two months after Wofford College opened, on Aug. 1, 1854, eight students met to organize a literary society. Their primary purpose was to practice their skills in debating, oratory, parliamentary procedure and writing, all of which were important skills for college students to develop.

As the college grew, so did the number of societies, with a second one being organized in 1858, a third in 1905 and a fourth in 1920. Over the college’s first century, the literary societies were integral to student life, and they made many lasting contributions. The oldest societies established libraries, began building the …

Dust Or Fire By Alyda Faber, Brandi Estey-Burtt

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Review of Alyda Faber's Dust or Fire.

Culture Jamming: Activism And The Art Of Cultural Resistance By Marilyn Delaure And Moritz Fink, Bart H. Welling

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Review of Marilyn DeLaure and Moritz Fink's Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance.

Caribou Run By Richard Kelly Kemick, Emily Mcgiffin

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Review of Richard Kelly Kemick's Caribou Run.

The Wolf Is Back By Robert Priest, Kelly Shepherd

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Review of Robert Priest's The Wolf is Back.

Excerpts From The Novel, Bear War-Den, Vivian Demuth

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A woman park warden who works in Rocky Mountain National Park spends her time on such tasks as bear patrol, locating tourists who are lost or in other physical danger, and policing park rules. She has a particular affinity for grizzly bears, largely stemming from an experience she had in a Neolithic cave in Spain. During her work and her travels, she observes various ways in which bears are mistreated in parks, sometimes even by researchers with seemingly good intentions. While an out-of-control fire rages through the national park, the woman park warden, with two grizzly bear skulls in hand, …