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Nature/Environment

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Looking for Hickories

The Forgotten Wildness of the Rural Midwest

By Thomas Springer
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Nature/Environment, Literature, Cultural Studies

A masterfully written collection that establishes a new voice for the spirit of the upper Midwest and Michigan and offers a fresh look at the landscape as well as the everyday lives of the people who make up the region's small communities

The Era of Great Disasters

Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes

By Makoto Iokibe
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Nature/Environment, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Uncovering the humanity and wisdom within the tragedy of Japan’s disaster responses to three major earthquakes

Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia

Edited by Karl Hutterer, A. Terry Rambo, A. Terry Rambo, and George Lovelace
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Gathers seventeen diverse perspectives on human ecology in Southeast Asia with a conceptual framework—cultural values—designed to bridge social and natural science paradigms

Risk Criticism

Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty

By Molly Wallace
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Novels, films, theater, poetry, visual art, websites, news reports, and essays give context to environmental risk

Ecoambiguity

Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures

By Karen Thornber
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Nature/Environment

Delving into the complex, contradictory relationships between humans and the environment in Asian literatures

Imagining the Forest

Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest

By John R. Knott
Subjects: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Nature/Environment

How the meaning of the forest developed in the Great Lakes

Imagining Wild America

By John R. Knott
Subjects: Literary Studies, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

Sheds light on notions of wilderness as reflected in the works of American authors from Audubon to Mary Oliver

Dripping Dry

Literature, Politics and Water in the Desert Southwest

By David Nathan Cassuto
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literature and Science, American Literature, Cultural Studies, Nature/Environment, Natural Resources
Series: Studies in Literature and Science

Explores the convergences of U.S. water policy and the literature of the American West

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