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The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land |  | Creators: Norman Wirzba, Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Counterpoint
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 200140
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 1593760434
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.1
EAN: 9781593760434
ASIN: 1593760434
Publication Date: August 5, 2004
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Agrarian philosophy, a compelling worldview with advocates around the globe, encourages us to develop practices and policies that promote the sustainable health of the land, community, and culture. In this remarkable anthology are 15 essays from Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, Wes Jackson, Gene Logsdon, Brian Donahue, Eric Freyfogle, David Orr, and others. The Essential Agrarian Reader calls us to celebrate the gifts of the earth, through honest work and respect for the land.
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 an essential resource for all earth dwellers May 12, 2007
David Robinson (washington, DC)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This collection of writings provides a full spectrum of academic approaches to the subject of living on earth - sustainably. It identifies the consequences of choices, those that are, ultimately, unsustainable, and those that could lead to a liveable future.
The fact that my copy was eagerly borrowed by a graduate student economist will serve as an indication of its value and relevance.
The agrarian ethic is essential to our survival January 14, 2004
Robert L. Rose (Blooming Glen, PA, 18911-0064, Bucks County,United States))
12 out of 30 found this review helpful
Editor Norman Wirzba's counsel that we cannot live well if we do not attend to the human and non-human "bonds of relationship" is of deep import in an age of mindless surfeit masquerading as self-realization.
 Mixed bag August 10, 2007
Lisa (Oregon)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'm only about half way through but I think it's okay. Maybe a bit self-satisified. My Dad from Massachsetts, much more conservative, hated it and found it unreadable. He particularly complained about the article on growing food on the commons; it was in Weston, MA - one of the richest towns in a rich state, which lost all credibility.
 The Essential Agrarian Reader March 15, 2005
Douglas Albert (Maine)
5 out of 45 found this review helpful
Did not like, thought stories were full of Idealistic nonsense. Unrealistic options for the family farmer.
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