Michael Pollan: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education


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In his articles and in best-selling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has established himself as one of our most important and beloved writers on modern man s place in the natural world. A new literary classic, Second Nature has become a manifesto not just for gardeners but for environmentalists everywhere. As delicious a meditation on one man s relationships with the Earth as any you are likely to come upon (The New York Times Book Review), Second Nature captures the rhythms of our everyday engagement with the outdoors in all its glory and exasperation. With chapters ranging from a reconsideration of the Great American Lawn, a dispatch from one man s war with a woodchuck, to an essay about the sexual politics of roses, Pollan has created a passionate and eloquent argument for reconceiving our relationship with nature."

Finally, there's a book with all the recipes and tips home cooks need to make every kind of pie. Old fashioned classics include Homestead Chess Pie, Slipped Custard Pie, and Deep Dish Sour Cherry Pie, while new creations include Chocolate Lava Pie and Watermelon Chiffon Pie. There are traditional favourites like Maple Pumpkin Pie, Pennsylvania Dutch Sour Cream Apple Pie, Coconut Cream Pie alongside easy and delicious refrigerator and freezer pies like Black Bottom Peanut Butter Cloud Pie and Ultimate Banana Split Pie. Novices and experienced pie bakers alike will find reassuring advice and time-tested tips on equipment, ingredients, judging baking times, rolling and shaping dough, and everything else needed to get through to the last scrumptious bite of home-made pie. Contemplation can and will transform the lives of busy working men and women in a turbulent world. Books on meditation and contemplation are numerous but the huge success of Laurence Freeman's book and his organisation show that he has something to offer which is entirely distinctive. God for the author is not a funk hole or an oxygen tank. We cannot escape the realities of our lives by swallowing pills or lying on a psychiatrist's couch talking endlessly about ourselves. Christianity needs to restore its contemplative dimension, and stop arguing about women priests, civil partnerships and the apostolic succession. God is within and is accessible to all. Through 'The World Community for Christian Meditation' as in this book, Fr Freeman goes out Summer Secrets download ebook pdf to meet busy people involved in industry, education, ecumenism, the caring professions. For he believes that society can be transformed by the transformation of the hearts and minds of ordinary mortals, who do not have to be cloistered behind monastic walls.


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Author: Michael Pollan
Number of Pages: 320 pages
Published Date: 12 Sep 2014
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
Publication Country: New York, NY, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780802140111
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