Annie Proulx follows the success of 'Close Range' with this collection of short stories set in Wyoming.
Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2
" --Stephen King "This book is not simply the great American novel; it's the great novel oflas Americas. It's the great world novel! This is the international story of our times. Masterful.
From two of the world’s top scientists and one of the world’s top science writers (all parents), Dirt Is Good is a q&a-based guide to everything you need to know about kids & germs. “Is it OK for my child to eat dirt?” That’s just ...
Man and the Earth. New York: Fox, Duffield. Swift, J. 1977. Sahelian pastoralists: Underdevelopment, desertification, and famine. Annual Review of Anthropology 6:457-78. Syvitski, J. P. M., C. J. Vörösmarty, A. J. Kettner, and P. Green.
This was one of central beliefs of the sewage debate, as Crook has stressed: “As matter, 'dirt' was neither good nor bad. It all depended on where it was: on city streets it was bad (dirt as such), but on outlying fields it was good ...
Because “hearing and understanding” is a continual process, good soil can be corrupted and become bad soil. Conversely, bad soil can be transitioned into good soil. If the soil is poor and needs to be enhanced, it takes a commitment to ...
This is the classic book that's made countless ordinary mortals want to transform into lawless rock stars, and created countless spin-off books for Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil, and Mick Mars, who hold nothing back in this outrageous, ...
This is work by an author writing at the peak of her craft.
We've been told dirt is bad, germs are bad, bugs are bad, and weeds are bad. And we've taken all the necessary precautions against these interlopers. We bleach away germs, we inoculate our kids against microbes, we treat infections with ...
Annie Proulx, Bad Dirt (London: Fourth Estate, 2004), p. 11. Wes Berry, 'Capitalism vs. Localism: Economies of Scale in Annie Proulx's Postcards and That Old Ace in the Hole', in Alex Hunt (ed.), The Geographical Imagination of Annie ...