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Wild things: forget deconstruction - today's hippest literary critics have gone green

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Enovironmental literature and nature writing is fast gaining acceptance in the academic circles. Also, Academies and universities are increasing their recognition of the subject as well as the emergence of the ecocriticism, which involves identifying the most important works in the field.

Author: McNamee, Gregory
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1997
Criticism and interpretation, Literature, Ecology

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Asphalt jungle

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Ecologists are turning their attention to the unique environmental problems of cities. Among other things, urban ecologists have discovered that cities can generate their own weather microenvironments and that trees can affect the heating of buildings, as well as water supply quality.

Author: McNamee, Gregory
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1999
Research, Cities and towns, Water-supply, Water supply, Trees, Urban ecology

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The walking cure: when shoe leather is the best medicine

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A writer reveals how walking helped sharpen his senses and in tune with the world. Walking helped him gain insight into the nature of reality as well as helped him solve a career problem.

Author: McNamee, Gregory
Publisher: LENS Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1997
Psychological aspects, Walking

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