The Serviceberry

'Exquisite... a beautiful book, one of the finest meditations on animal companionship that I have ever read' Kathryn Hughes, Guardian An instant New York Times bestseller, this is an unforgettable story about love, loss and redemption from a highly acclaimed writer Caleb Carr lived with cats ever since he was a young boy. He grew up in a turbulent household ? where famous Beat poets, artists and addicts came and went ? and his steadiest companions were pets. Since then he had many feline companions, with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones. But only after building a three-story home in rural, upstate New York did he encounter someone extraordinary: Masha, a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten and was languishing in a shelter. She had hissed and fough...

Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their words have endured, becoming the classics that define the environmental movement today. In The Democracy of Species Robin Wall Kimmerer guides us towards a more reciprocal, grateful and joyful relationship with our animate earth, from the wild leeks in the field to the deer in the woods.Podmiot odpowiedzialny za bezpieczeństwo produktu: Penguin Random House Ireland Limited, Nassau Street 32 Morrison Chambers, Dublin (IE), adres elektroniczny: www.penguin.co.uk

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two ways of knowledge together. Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings - asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass - offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness r...

Głos naszej planety, za którego wysłuchanie jesteśmy odpowiedzialni Posłuchaj opowieści o kobiecie, która przybyła z nieba. Zwierzęta ofiarowały jej błoto z dna morza, a ona stworzyła ląd. Kiedy tańczyła, ląd się rozrastał. A gdy ofiarowała ziemi nasiona, dzikie trawy, kwiaty i drzewa rozprzestrzeniły się wszędzie. Tak powstała Ziemia - dzięki współpracy człowieka i przyrody. Dziś jednak trudno nam usłyszeć jej wołanie. Jako ludzie Zachodu zapomnieliśmy, że Ziemia to nasz dom. Ale nie jest jeszcze za późno. Posłuchaj pieśni Ziemi. Robin Wall Kimmerer, profesor botaniki i członkini plemienia Potawatomi, pokazuje, że nie jest za późno, by naprawić relację z otaczającym nas światem. Łącząc obszerną wiedzę naukową z rdzenną mądrością pr...