“Walden. Yesterday I came here to live.” That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to “live deliberately” in a small woods at the edge of his hometown of Concord has been a touchstone for individualists and seekers since the publication of Walden in 1854.But there was much more to Thoreau than his brief experiment in living at Walden Pond. A member o...

"The sage of Walden Pond is himself in the mix with a quote-a-day compendium from Thoreau biographer Laura Dassow Walls of some of his best observations." — Wall Street Journal"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each."Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units. Henry David Thoreau subverted both clock and calendar, us...

The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism offers an ecclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture, science, and politics.

Henry David Thoreau spent his life as an intellectual vagrant, jumping fences, pushing boundaries, and crossing borders. How, why, and to what end are the questions asked by contributors to this new volume of essays, whose work crosses national and disciplinary borders to think about Thoreau anew.Deliberately invoking Thoreau's commitment to “living a border life,” a life located between the world of nature and that of the polis, these varied essays explore the writer's th...

Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of “pure” nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work—how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire and how he is able to focus on both the timeless and the timely. Contributors from the United States and Europe explore Thoreau’s modernity and give a much-needed reassessment of his work in a global context....

A snapshot of ecocriticism in action, Coming into Contact collects sixteen previously unpublished essays that explore some of the most promising new directions in the study of literature and the environment. They look to previously unexamined or underexamined aspects of literature's relationship to the environment, including swamps, internment camps, Asian American environments, the urbanized Northeast, and lynching sites. The authors relate environmental discourse to practice, in...

City of Light and La Ville-Lumière refer to Paris being one of the first European cities to adopt widespread street lighting during the Great Exhibition of 1889. Early gas lamps with their soft, romantic glow became bright, electrified updates. These varied and often beautifully crafted historic structures bear long and silent witness to Parisian life by day and night. And at last, they speak!This anthology of short stories and poems tell of love, suffering, art, crime, war, death ...

Abbey Brown didn't attend school like a normal teenager, she was a Draini a creature that possessed great power. With the help of her two friends Eddie and Eva they are sent after to stop a witch with a secret.

This acclaimed biography captures the inspiring life and philosophy of an influential American thinker: "a moving portrait of a brilliant, complex man" ( The New York Times).Henry David Thoreau's attempt to "live deliberately" in the woods outside his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, has inspired individualists since the publication of Walden in 1854. But there was much more to Thoreau than his brief experiment in living at Walden Pond. A member...

Despair, excruciating emotional pain, and loss—and yet glorious triumph. After an initial failed attempt to bring this book to life, this group of entrepreneurs felt as if their wings had been clipped. What to do?Once again, they embraced the lessons contained in this book—stories of grit, determination, redemption, and joy. This collection of stories is a reminder of the light within us all. We can all take flight, overcome the darkness, and reclaim our strength and joy!

The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism offers an ecclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture, science, and politics.

The German naturalist and explorer chronicles his 1799 expedition to Central and South America in this classic work of natural history.While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks of naturalists. Humboldt's 1799–1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aimé Bonpland not only set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth...