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Companions in wonder : children and adults exploring nature together / edited by Julie Dunlap and Stephen R. Kellert.

Dunlap, Julie. (Added Author). Kellert, Stephen R. (Added Author).

Summary:

Last Child in the Woods identifies a "nature deficit disorder" in children around the world.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780262516907
  • ISBN: 026251690X
  • Physical Description: xxii, 304 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. The farm / Rick Bass -- 2. My child's first garden / Michael P. Branch -- 3. Tracking our way / Joseph Bruchac III -- 4. Tidal: subtidal / Susan A. Cohen -- 5. The toad not taken / Jeffrey S. Cramer -- 6. Of the fittest / Janine DeBaise -- 7. A New England childhood / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- 8. Child's play: finding the green in the in-between / Carolyn Finney -- 9. The naturalistic necessity / Stephen R. Kellert -- 10. Children in the woods / Barry Lopez -- 11. Fathers and sons / Richard Louv -- 12. Moving through the landscape of healing / Stephen J. Lyons -- 13. Belonging on the land / David Mas Masumoto -- 14. A field guide to western birds / Kathleen Dean Moore -- 15. At home with belonging / Danyelle O'Hara -- 16. Animal allies / Brenda Peterson -- 17. Grandmother, grizzlies, and God / Brenda Peterson -- 18. Parents without children: confessions of a favorite uncle / Robert Michael Pyle -- 19. Raising Silas / Janisse Ray -- 20. Grandma's bawena / Enrique Salmon -- 21. Mountain music I / Scott Russell Sanders -- 22. Bowl of stones / Chiori Santiago -- 23. Colored memory / Lauret Savoy -- 24. We are distracted / Michael Shay -- 25. The big talk / Sandra Steingraber -- 26. On being "Indian," unsilent, and contaminated along the U.S.-Mexico border / Margo Tamez -- 27. The prophets of place / Stephen Trimble -- 28. Huckleberry country / Michael Umphrey -- 29. Scorched earth / Rick Van Noy -- 30. Children in the river / Gretel Van Wieren.
Subject:
Environmentalism.
Philosophy of nature.
Parent and child.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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