Autor: Wendell Berry

The pioneering environmental activist presents her most influential writings-with an informative introduction by Wendell Berry.Motivated by agricultural devastation in her home country of India, Vand …

"[A] beautiful book about a state that has just about everything except a beach: mountains, swamps, rivers, plains, and, of course, the lovely bluegrass." -Baton Rouge Advocate Kentucky’s a …

Why the university should focus on community: "An enlightening interpretation of Wendell Berry’s philosophy for the pursuit of a holistic higher education." -Publishers Weekly Prominent aut …

Robinson Forest in eastern Kentucky is one of our most important natural landscapes—and one of the most threatened. Covering fourteen thousand acres of some of the most diverse forest region in tempe …

Gene Logsdon’s The Man Who Created Paradise is a message of hope at a time when the very concept of earth stewardship is under attack. The fable, inspired by a true story, tells how Wally Spero looke …

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For decades, Logsdon and his family have run a viable family farm. Along the way, he has become a widely influential journalist and social critic, documenting in hundreds of essays for national and r …

For more than four decades, the self-described “contrary farmer” and writer Gene Logsdon has commented on the state of American agriculture. In Letter to a Young Farmer, his final book of essays, Log …

Collected essays by two of America’s earliest environmental authors retain relevance today William Summer founded the renowned Pomaria Nursery, which thrived from the 1840s to the 1870s in central So …

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‚The traditional neighborly work of killing a hog and preparing it as food for humans is either a fine art or a shameful mess. It requires knowledge, experience, skill, good sense, and sympathy, ‚ wr …

Diese brandaktuelle Sammlung von Essays, geschrieben von Leitfiguren der Spiritualität und des Umweltschutzes rund um die Welt, beleuchtet den grundlegenden Zusammenhang unserer gegenwärtigen ökologi …

L’unico mondo che abbiamo è l’ultima raccolta di scritti inediti di Wendell Berry. Qui Berry passa in rassegna i temi caratteristici della sua opera e i problemi principali del nostro tempo, forse gl …

‚Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her un …

Kentucky’s abundance of plant and animal life, from the bottomland swamps in the west to the rich Appalachian forests in the east, is extraordinary as well as beautiful. Glades, prairies, forests, we …

Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention …

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Sabbath is one day a week when we should rest from our otherwise harried lives, right? In Living the Sabbath, Norman Wirzba leads us to a much more holistic and rewarding understanding of Sabbath-kee …

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A classic is back in print! One of the favorite books of 1970s back-to-the-landers, The Toilet Papers is an informative, inspiring, and irreverent look at how people have dealt with their wastes thro …

A fordító huszonöt amerikai költő összesen százegy versét válogatta kétnyelvű antológiába. Olyan költők verseit, akik kortársaink a második ezredforduló tájékán. Igyekezett színes képet kapni – és mu …

If you stop and look around you, you’ll start to see. Tall marigolds darkening. A spring wind blowing. The woods awake with sound. On the wooden porch, your love smiling. Dew-wet red berries in a cup …

‚He is unlike anybody else writing today … After Donald Trump’s election, we urgently need to rediscover the best of radical America. An essential part of that story is Wendell Berry. Few of us can …

‚Do I wish to keep up with the times? No. My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can’The great American poet, novelist and environmental activist argues for a life lived slowly.Penguin Moder …

‚A woven time-travelling book, about love, land, life … Short stories that link together like trees in a forest‘ Jackie Morris On a clear Kentucky night in 1888, a young woman risks her life to sav …

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More and more of us are realizing we are now facing humanity’s greatest challenge. Over the next two decades, the global warming climate crisis threatens to bring about the end of our Anthropocene Ep …

‚The traditional neighborly work of killing a hog and preparing it as food for humans is either a fine art or a shameful mess. It requires knowledge, experience, skill, good sense, and sympathy, ‚ wr …

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“Excellent” poetry and prose about physicians and their patients, by Raymond Carver, Kay Redfield Jamison, Rachel Naomi Remen, and more (Library Journal).  A Life in Medicine co …

Daily Meditations and Prayers from Around the World  “…I hope that people of all faiths as well as those who do not believe in a religion will find inspiration and understanding here that in s …

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Fifty-two readings to spark weekly group discussion on putting Jesus’ most central teachings into practice. Jesus’ most famous teaching, the Sermon on the Mount, possesses an irresistible quality . W …

Harlan Hubbard (1900–1988), a Kentucky writer, environmentalist, and artist, spent many years trying to rediscover and revive the vanishing language of landscape in his watercolor paintings. Known fo …

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.From the ravages of the global economy to the great pleasures of growing a garden, Wendell Berry’s powerful essays …

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The first edition of this book fostered the emergence of the "Spiritual Ecology Movement, " which recognizes the need for a spiritual response to our present ecological crisis. It drew an o …

By examining the life and work of celebrated painter, Harlan Hubbard, author Wendell Berry creates the perfect vehicle for emphasizing the themes of his other writings: the value of self-sufficiency, …

With his striking photographs, James Baker Hall powerfully conveys the physical experience of a Kentucky tobacco harvest. He captures the process from the tractor ride out to the field, where rows of …

Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continues the work he began in The Hidden Wound (1970) and The Unsettling of America (1977), demanding a car …

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