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The Columbia Slough in Portland, Oregon, often gets a bad rap. It's been called a "swamp, " an "open sewer, " even the "slough of despond." But clean-up efforts in recent years have begun to rehabilitate the slough's reputation and restore its value as a thin ribbon of connectivity for migrating birds and year-round wildlife. In their environmental memoir, This Rough Magic: At Home on the Columbia Slough, Nancy Henry and Bruce Campbell take ...

Exuberant monotypes play with the effects of light and movement in the changing cityscapeBorn in London in 1943, Bill Jacklin moved to New York in 1985. Since then he has concentrated on making portraits of the city in all its guises, from large-scale compositions of crowds in flux to Seurat-like etchings depicting more intimate urban moments.

Moving to a log house bordering the Columbia Slough, a couple discovers a vest-pocket Valhalla within the city, a place where nature's rough magic captivates them. The rich floodplain that once nourished Chinookan peoples is gone, its wetlands channelized by 20th century landowners to form today's nineteen mile slough. As the authors walk, kayak, and bike an industrialized landscape, they celebrate a wealth of wildlife holding fast against t...

A treasure trove of wintery nature tales from storytellers across the globe, bringing a little magic and wonder to every dark night.

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Can a tiny vehicle provide the space to rebuild a life? Thunderstone: a sculpted & fearless memoir from the award-winning author of Fifty Words for Snow

Can a tiny vehicle provide the space to rebuild a life?Thunderstone: a sculpted & fearless memoir from the award-winning author of Fifty Words for Snow

An exploration of the life and artworks of the internationally renowned Cape Dorset artist Shuvinai Ashoona, whose fantastical drawings have overturned stereotypical notions of Inuit art and questioned contemporary understanding of Arctic-based Canadian culture.

Waterstones Non fiction Book of the Month November 2021‿A delightful compendium that brings together language, culture and adventure through frozen landscapes as it shares the meanings behind 50 words for snow, gathered from around the globe.‿ The HeraldSnow. Every language has its own words for the magical, mesmerising flakes that fall from the sky. In this exquisite exploration, writer and Arctic traveller Nancy Campbell digs deep into t...

Eine Reise um die Welt und durch den Schnee in fünfzig Wörtern --- "Das perfekte Geschenk." BBC Wenn in Island Hundslappadrífa vom Himmel fallen, ist das für die Kinder eine Riesenfreude, denn aus den "Flocken so groß wie Hundepfoten" lassen sich die perfekten Schneebälle nachen. Mit Seäáš, dem granulatartigen Schnee der Sámi, geht das weniger gut, dafür eignet er sich geschmolzen hervorragend als Trinkwasser - wie auch das Immiag, das geschm...

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Fifty international words for snow - explored by an award-winning writer - that will enchant readers this Christmas.

The history of an unnatural disaster—drug overdose—and the emergence of naloxone as a social and technological solution.For years, drug overdose was unmentionable in polite society. OD was understood to be something that took place in dark alleys—an ugly death awaiting social deviants—neither scientifically nor clinically interesting. But over the last several years, overdose prevention has become the unlikely object of a social movement, powe...

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When Annie Pootoogook won the Sobey Art Award in 2006, she cracked the glass ceiling for Inuit art, securing its place in contemporary Canadian art discourse and establishing herself as an artist of international importance. Her achievement sparked critical discussion around contemporary art as well as the absence, and growing presence, of Inuit art: an important conversation that continues to this day.The life and death of Annie Pootoogook is...

A vivid and perceptive book combining memoir, scientific and cultural history with a bewitching account of landscape and place, which will appeal to readers of Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin and Olivia Laing.

A vivid and perceptive book combining memoir, scientific and cultural history with a bewitching account of landscape and place, which will appeal to readers of Robert Macfarlane, Roger Deakin and Olivia Laing.

From the 1950s 'girl junkie' to the 1990s 'crack mom', Using Women chronicles the history of women and drug use, providing a critical policy analysis of the government's drug policies and recommendations these policies should take.