Hospital Issued Writing Notebook is a vehicle of catharsis for anyone who has ever journeyed to the edges of their own functional level of sanity. Flore holds the reader's hand as he takes them through a hospital stay and the aftermath, allowing all to look through the two-way mirror of his experience as an observer. This collection tests the constraints of mental health and uses them to shut down stigma and preconceived notions on the limitations those constraints may place on an...

**Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book AwardWinner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History LiteratureShortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Society Ralph Waldo Emerson AwardA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2022A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America.**In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the rem...

With its uncanny night howls, unrivaled ingenuity, and amazing resilience, the coyote is the stuff of legends. In Indian folktales it often appears as a deceptive trickster or a sly genius. But legends don’t come close to capturing the incredible survival story of the coyote. As soon as Americans—especially white Americans—began ranching and herding in the West, they began working to destroy the coyote. Despite campaigns of annihilation employing poisons, gases, helicopters, and engineered...

Winner: Western Heritage Book AwardSpur Award FinalistStubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book AwardAmerica’s Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago these creatures exi...

**The “engaging” (New Yorker), New York Times best-selling story of how coyotes took over North America—and are now taking over South America as wellFinalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award"A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation."—Wall Street Journal**Legends don’t come close to capturing the incredible survival story of the coyote. In the face of centuries of annihilation campa...

America’s Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago these creatures existed in such abundance that John James Audubon was moved to write, “it is impossible to describe or even conceive the vast multitudes of these animals.”In a work that is a...

In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years ago. This discovery vastly expanded America's known human history but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens presented to the continent's evolutionary richness.Distinguished scholar Dan Flores's ambitious history...

Floating on air currents over rural countryside and open city spaces, the Mississippi Kite presents a familiar sight to many people across the southern United States, although this graceful hawk is not well known by name. This engaging natural history, illustrated with superb color photographs, provides all a bird watcher needs to become acquainted with the kite, its life cycle, and its fascinating history with humans. Under various folk names, including Blue Darter, Grasshopper Hawk, and Mos...

This highly readable edited collection focuses on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. Each contributor to this volume explores a different facet of Proulx's striking attention to geography, place, landscape, regional environments, and local economies in her writing. Covering all of her novels and short story collections, scholars from the United States, Canada, and abroad engage in critical analyses of Proulx's new regionalism, use of geographical settings, and themes o...

This “marvelously humor-laced page-turner” about one of the world’s most influential species is “a masterpiece of a treatise on the natural world” (The Washington Post, “50 Notable Works of Nonfiction”).“Takes us inside the amazing world of nature’s premier construction engineer . . . and shows us why the restoration of an animal almost driven to extinction is producing wide-ranging, positive effects on our landscapes, ecology, and even our economy...

LA MASTURBATION EST-ELLE BÉNÉFIQUE POUR LA SANTÉ ?LE PORNO NOUS REND-IL (VRAIMENT) ADDICT ?LES SPERMATOZOÏDES FONT-ILS LA COURSE ?LES ALGORITHMES DE RENCONTRE VEULENT-ILS NOTRE ÉPANOUISSEMENT AMOUREUX ?Les neurosciences peuvent-elles améliorer notre vie amoureuse ? Est-ce que ChatGPT bouleverse nos relations sentimentales ? Et quels défi s éthiques pour les futurs robots sexuels ?Flore Cherry, journaliste spécialisée en sexualité, interroge des exper...

Les familles qui ont l'air heureux cachent parfois de sordides histoires. Savannah Flores évoque son enfance fissurée après des actes de viol répétés et le silence de sa propre famille. La quête irrésolue de réponses à ce non-sens la poursuivra toute sa vie. D'expériences sans limites la portant à la dérive jusqu'au salut trouvé dans l'écriture, elle retrouvera ses vrais rêves de l'enfant d'avant le mal. L'auteure nous offre un texte intime dans une langue expressive et sans fards qui perm...