Thoreau, Henry David
Contents: The texts of Walden, Civil disobedience, and other writings: Walden -- Civil disobedience -- Slavery in Massachusetts -- Walking -- Wild apples -- Journal: The Journal and Walden -- Selections from the Journal, 1845-54 -- Reviews and posthumous assessments -- Modern criticism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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Summary: Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1985
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Point Press 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Printed exclusively for members of the Bibliophile Society 1905
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.31 THOSummary: This unabridged collection covers a multitude of subjects, including philosophy, politics, turkeys, and dogs. It includes Ralph Waldo Emerson's ''Self Reliance''; Henry David Thoreau's ''Walking'' and ''Civil Disobedience''; Mark Twain's ''Hunting the Deceitful Turkey''; Benjamin Franklin's ''Reply to a Begging Letter''; and Thomas Paine's ''The American Crisis''. Also includes essays by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden Words 2012
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Summary: Thoreau's last important research and writing projects, published here for the first time, draws on Darwin's theory of natural selection to describe plant ecology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press/Shearwater Books 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Empire Books] 2011
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Summary: Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, Walls presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1906
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Summary: "From the international bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees. An illuminating manifesto on ancient forests: how they adapt to climate change by passing their wisdom through generations, and why our future lies in protecting them. In his beloved book The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben revealed astonishing discoveries about the social networks of trees and how they communicate....
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Publisher / Publication Date: David Suzuki Institute 2023
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Summary: For this collection, Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the lobster question. Then he wheedles his way into an L.A. radio studio, armed with tubs of chicken, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co. 2007
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Summary: For this collection, Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the lobster question. Then he wheedles his way into an L.A. radio studio, armed with tubs of chicken, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2005
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Summary: "The story of Henry David Thoreau's time at Walden Pond is contrasted with businessman Frederic Tudor's scheme to cut 180 tons of ice from Walden Pond and transport it to India"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.4 CLISummary: Filmed on location in and around Concord, Cambridge, and Cape Cod, this delightful program brings Henry David Thoreau's Walden and "Civil Disobedience" to life through the captivating delivery of Thoreau impersonator Jeffrey Hyatt. Long passages, as expressed by Hyatt, capture the energy and intensity of Thoreau's words, while presenter James H. Bride II and Thoreau specialists Lawrence Buell,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: "In an era of cell phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature--but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilizes near trees, the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses. Drawing on new scientific discoveries, The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 WOHForest, Christopher.
Summary: "Describes gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J932 CAPDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Summary: A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America. Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.81 DU BThreadgill, Henry.
Contents: Gateway (9:24) -- Over the River Club (9:24) -- Grief (10:11) -- Crea (8:47) -- Song out of my trees (8:15).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Saint 1994
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Summary: Introduces philosopher, writer, and environmentalist Henry David Thoreau, using selections from his own writings and an imaginary journey into the wilderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Pub. 2002
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Summary: A series of 24 lectures on the New England Transcendalist Movement delivered by Ashton Nichols, Professor of English at Dickinson College.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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Summary: "The United States has been fighting wars constantly since invading Afghanistan in 2001. This nonstop warfare is far less exceptional than it might seem: the US has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. In The United States of War, David Vine traces this pattern of bloody, near-permanent conflict from Columbus's 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2020
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Summary: Explores both the military and diplomatic events that focus on the actions of the British during the War of 1812, comparing it to other conflicts in Europe during this time frame.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2009