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Wendell Berry

Home Economics: Fourteen Essays

Editura: Counterpoint LLC

Anul aparitiei: 2009

"Wherever we live, however we do so, we desperately need a prophet of responsibility; and although the days of the prophets seem past to many of us, Berry may be the closest to one we have. But, fortunately, he is also a poet of responsibility. He makes one believe that the good life may not only be harder than what we're used to but sweeter as well."-- The New York Review of Books In Home Economics , Berry explores this process and continues to discuss what it means to make oneself "responsibly at home." As he argues, a measure of the health of the planet is economics--the health of its households.

Wendell Berry

What Are People For?: Essays

Editura: Counterpoint LLC

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Ranging from America's insatiable consumerism and household economies to literary subjects and America's attitude toward waste, here Berry gracefully navigates from one topic to the next. He speaks candidly about the ills plaguing America and the growing gap between people and the land. Despite the somber nature of these essays, Berry's voice and prose provide an underlying sense of faith and hope. He frames his reflections with poetic responsibility, standing up as a firm believer in the power of the human race not only to fix its past mistakes but to build a future that will provide a better life for all.

Wendell Berry

Imagination in Place

Editura: Counterpoint LLC

Anul aparitiei: 2010

A writer who can imagine the "community belonging to its place" is one who has applied his knowledge and citizenship to achieve the goal to which Wendell Berry has always aspired--to be a native to his own local culture. And for Berry, what is "local, fully imagined, becomes universal," and the "local" is to know one's place and allow the imagination to inspire and instill "a practical respect for what is there besides ourselves." In Imagination in Place, we travel to the local cultures of several writers important to Berry's life and work, from Wallace Stegner's great West and Ernest Gaines' Louisiana plantation life to Donald Hall's New England, and on to the Western frontier as seen through the Far East lens of Gary Snyder. Berry laments today's dispossessed and displaced, those writers and people with no home and no citizenship, but he argues that there is hope for the establishment of new local cultures in both the practical and literary sense. Rich with Berry's personal experience of life as a Kentucky agrarian, the collection includes portraits of a few of America's most imaginative writers, including James Still, Hayden Carruth, Jane Kenyon, John Haines, and several others. ...

Wendell Berry

What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

Editura: Counterpoint LLC

Anul aparitiei: 2010

"The reasoned and insistent exhortations of a man with a cause who, rather than mellowing with age and wisdom, continues to grow in forcefulness and vision." --Booklist Over the years, Wendell Berry has sought to understand and confront the financial structure of modern society and the impact of developing late capitalism on American culture. There is perhaps no more demanding or important critique available to contemporary citizens than Berry's writings -- just as there is no vocabulary more given to obfuscation than that of economics as practiced by professionals and academics. Berry has called upon us to return to the basics. He has traced how the clarity of our economic approach has eroded over time, as the financial asylum was overtaken by the inmates, and citizens were turned from consumers -- entertained and distracted -- to victims, threatened by a future of despair and disillusion. For this collection, Berry offers essays from the last twenty-five years, alongside new essays about the recent economic collapse, including "Money Versus Goods" and "Faustian Economics," treatises of great alarm and courage. He offers advice and perspective as our society attempts to steer from ...

Wendell Berry

Imagination in Place: Essays

Editura: Counterpoint LLC

Anul aparitiei: 2011

"Berry's latest collection of essays is the reminiscence of a literary life. It is a book that acknowledges a lifetime of intellectual influences, and in doing so, positions Berry more squarely as a cornerstone of American literature . . . A necessary book. Here, Berry's place as the 'grandfather of slow food' or the 'prophet of rural living' is not questioned. This book ensures we understand the depth and breadth of Berry's art." --San Francisco Chronicle "[A] stellar collection . . . Foodies, architects, transportation engineers, and other writers are adopting and adapting [Berry's] concepts, perhaps leading to what he envisions will one day be 'an authentic settlement of our country.'" --The Oregonian A writer who can imagine the "community belonging to its place" is one who has applied his knowledge and citizenship to achieve the goal to which Wendell Berry has always aspired--to be a native to his own local culture. And for Berry, what is "local, fully imagined, becomes universal," and the "local" is to know one's place and allow the imagination to inspire and instill "a practical respect for what is there besides ourselves." In Imagination in Place, we travel to the local ...

Wendell Berry

The Poetry of William Carlos Williams of Rutherford

Editura: Counterpoint LLC

Anul aparitiei: 2011

In an effort to adapt his poetry to his place of Henry County, Kentucky, acclaimed essayist and poet Berry discovered an enduringly useful example in the work of William Carlos Williams' commitment to his place of Rutherford, New Jersey.

Wendell Berry

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Editura: Shoemaker & Hoard

Anul aparitiei: 2003

"Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him." --The Washington Post Book World The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. Grouped around five themes--an agrarian critique of culture, agrarian fundamentals, agrarian economics, agrarian religion, and geobiography--these essays promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety, disease, and destructiveness of contemporary American culture. Why is agriculture becoming culturally irrelevant, and at what cost? What are the forces of social disintegration and how might they be reversed? How might men and women live together in ways that benefit both? And, how does the corporate takeover of social institutions and economic practices contribute to the destruction of human and natural environments? Through his staunch support of local economies, his defense of farming communities, and his call for family integrity, Berry emerges as the champion of responsibilities and priorities that serve the health, vitality and happiness of the ...

Wendell Berry

The Long-Legged House

Editura: Shoemaker & Hoard

Anul aparitiei: 2003

First published in 1969 and out of print for more than 25 years, this was Berry's first collection of essays, the inaugural work introducing many of the central issues that have occupied him over the course of his career.

Wendell Berry

Standing by Words: Essays

Editura: Counterpoint LLC

Anul aparitiei: 2005

Wendell Berry

The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays

Editura: Shoemaker & Hoard

Anul aparitiei: 2006

A soulful, searching collection of essays that tackle the complexities of contemporary America from "the prophet of rural America" (New York Times). From the war in Iraq to Hurricane Katrina to the political sniping engendered by Supreme Court nominations--contemporary American society is characterized by divisive anger, profound loss, and danger. Wendell Berry, "the prophet of rural America" (New York Times) and one of the country's foremost cultural critics, responds with hope and intelligence in a series of essays that tackle the major questions of the day. Whose freedom are we considering when we speak of the free market or free enterprise? What is really involved in our national security? What is the price of ownership without affection? Berry answers in prose that shuns abstraction for clarity, coherence, and passion, giving us essays that may be the finest of his long career. "Everything in the book illumines." --Booklist "[Berry's] poems, novels and essays . . . are probably the most sustained contemporary articulation of America's agrarian, Jeffersonian ideal." --Publishers Weekly "Wendell Berry is one of those rare individuals who speaks to us always of responsibility, ...

Wendell Potter

Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Wendell Potter is the insurance industry's worst nightmare.In June 2009, Wendell Potter made national headlines with his scorching testimony before the Senate panel on health care reform. This former senior VP of CIGNA explained how health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they skew political debate with multibillion-dollar PR campaigns designed to spread disinformation.Potter had walked away from a six-figure salary and two decades as an insurance executive because he could no longer abide the routine practices of an industry where the needs of sick and suffering Americans take a backseat to the bottom line. The last straw: when he visited a rural health clinic and saw hundreds of people standing in line in the rain to receive treatment in stalls built for livestock.In Deadly Spin, Potter takes readers behind the scenes to show how a huge chunk of our absurd healthcare spending actually bankrolls a propaganda campaign and lobbying effort focused on protecting one thing: profits. Whatever the fate of the current health care legislation, it makes no attempt to change that fundamental problem. ...

Wendell Berry

Another Turn of the Crank

Editura: Counterpoint LLC

Anul aparitiei: 1996

Six essays on sustainability and stewardship appear in this edition. One of America's most important cultural critics, Wendell Berry, urges that people learn once more to care for their local communities, and so begin a healing that might spread over our entire nation and beyond. Provocative, intimate, and thoughtful, Another Turn of the Crank reaches to the heart of Berry's concern and vision for the future, for America, and for the world.

Wendell Minor, Jean Craighead George

Morning, Noon, and Night

Editura: HarperCollins

Anul aparitiei: 1999

Newbery Medalist Jean Craighead George's lyric greeting to the day celebrates how the earth turns to and then away from the sun. Starting at dawn on the East Coast, then moving to afternoon in the Midwest, and finally evening in the West, young readers meet a wide array of animals at work, rest, and play as the day progresses across America. Full color.

Wendell Minor, Florence Minor

Christmas Tree!

Editura: Katherine Tegen Books

Anul aparitiei: 2005

If you were a Christmas tree, what kind of tree would you be? A mighty tree or a tiny tree? A city tree or a country tree? A tree with curious features or a tree made just for creatures? Voyaging from cities to plains and in renderings of things miniature to grand, Wendell and Florence Minor lead young readers on an imaginative journey across America in tribute to one of our most beloved symbols -- the Christmas tree.

Florence Minor, Wendell Minor

If You Were a Penguin

Editura: Katherine Tegen Books

Anul aparitiei: 2009

In this simple, rhyming picture book, the youngest readers will learn about penguins. This is the perfect read-aloud for teachers and parents to share with young children as they imagine what life as a penguin is like! The short text by Florence Minor pairs perfectly with the gorgeous, detailed illustrations by acclaimed illustrator Wendell Minor. Fun facts about penguins are featured at the back of the book. As Booklist said, "Whether it's the comical waddle, the formal appearance of their plumage, or their well-documented devotion to their young, penguins hold an unending appeal for young children." Their review called If You Were a Penguin "dazzling," "vibrant," and "breathtaking"!

Jean Craighead George, Wendell Minor

Everglades

Editura: HarperCollins

Anul aparitiei: 1997

A lyrical creation tale of the Florida Everglades with stunning landscapes by Wendell Minor. Supports the Common Core State Standards

Wendell Minor

Yankee Doodle America

Editura: Puffin Books

Anul aparitiei: 2010

Journey through America in the days of its struggle for independence. Each striking illustration, painted on hand-carved replicas of colonial signs, introduces readers to the people, places, and events that gave birth to the nation. Full color.

Wendell Minor

Yankee Doodle America: The Spririt of 1776 from A to Z

Editura: Putnam Publishing Group

Anul aparitiei: 2006

Journey through America in the days of its struggle for independence. Each striking illustration, painted on hand-carved replicas of colonial signs, introduces readers to the people, places and events that gave birth to the nation. Full color.

Wendell Minor

My Farm Friends

Editura: Putnam Publishing Group

Anul aparitiei: 2011

Is there anything cuter than a little lamb or playful piglet? Farm animals are fascinating, and they are full of surprises, too. Naturally, cows make milk- but did you know they need to drink a bathtub-full of water every day? And of course turkeys gobble- but sometimes they purr like cats. Wendell Minor's bright, bold artwork and jaunty verse celebrate the wonders of our farm friends, and a list of fun facts gives curious animal-lovers even more to enjoy. Watch a Video

Wendell Minor

Pumpkin Heads!

Editura: Scholastic Paperbacks

Anul aparitiei: 2007

Using simple language and bold images, beloved illustrator Wendell Minor presents a delightful range of glowing pumpkins, from cowboys to witches to snowmen. Full color.