Guardians of Being
By Marjorie Kehe | 11.20.09
If you are one of those organized people interested in completing your holiday shopping as quickly and unerringly as possible, I have a suggestion for you: Pick up a copy of Guardians of Being by Eckhart Tolle with illustrations by Patrick McDonnell. In fact, while you’re at it, you might just as well grab a copy for everyone on your list, because this is a book likely to speak to dog lovers, cat lovers, art lovers, spiritual seekers, those who like to read, those who don’t like to read, and pretty much anyone interested in the art of life. (more…)
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Eating Animals
By Michael O'Donnell | 11.16.09
The birth of his first child posed a painful quandary for novelist Jonathan Safran Foer: Would he serve turkey at his son’s first Thanksgiving?
In Eating Animals, a work of nonfiction, Foer (author of “Everything is Illuminated” and “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”) confesses to a lifelong ambivalence toward eating meat. Yet he cherishes memories of childhood meals at his grandmother’s house. At what point, he wonders, should ethical decisionmaking supplement, rather than supersede, rich and important traditions at table? (more…)
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Hope for Animals and Their World
By Marjorie Kehe | 10.14.09
Throughout the course of her 75 years, Jane Goodall has communed with humankind’s closest wild relatives and watched them, as a species, tumble almost to oblivion. Along with chimpanzees, with which her name is famously synonymous, Goodall has witnessed the forces of modernity push dozens of other animals to the edge of their vanishing points. (more…)
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Homer’s Odyssey
By Marjorie Kehe | 08.29.09
There’s almost nothing that I would rather read than a true story about the animal-human bond. Write a book about life with your beloved coyote, parrot, pig, or neurotic dog and I will be all over it. But a blind cat? Doesn’t that sound – well, let’s be frank – kind of icky and drenched in bathos? (more…)
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Nature’s Great Events
By Todd Wilkinson | 05.28.09
In an age of astonishingly short attention spans, with rumors circulating that the primitive communication device known as “the book” is headed for extinction, it’s a gutsy, bold experiment to pitch a coffee-table tome in tandem with an exhilarating television series. (more…)
