Go to to see upcoming speaking events, and for a more extensive biography. He lives with his wife, flocks of nuthatches, red tail hawks, and coyotes in the Cascade Canyon watershed in Northern California. He has served on the board of several environmental organizations including Point Foundation (publisher of the Whole Earth Catalogs), Center for Plant Conservation, Trust for Public Land, Conservation International, and National Audubon Society. that relied solely on sustainable agricultural methods. He founded several companies including Erewhon, the first food company in the U.S. His writings have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Resurgence, New Statesman, Inc, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, and Orion. He has appeared on the Today Show, Larry King, Talk of the Nation, Charlie Rose, Bill Maher and been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Washington Post, Business Week, and Esquire. Title, Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation Author, Paul Hawken Edition, illustrated Publisher, Penguin Books, 2021 ISBN, 0141998911. Paul Hawken has written eight books published in over 50 countries in 32 languages including five national and NYT bestsellers-The Next Economy, Growing a Business, The Ecology of Commerce, Blessed Unrest, Drawdown, and Regeneration.
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The story of colonization, up to and including the present day, as King demonstrates to great effect, is essentially a continuing tale of mass murder (inside and outside the artifice of war), greed, dispossessing violence, deceit, duplicity, corruption, tragedy, mistreatment, willful indifference, cold-hearted theft, damning contempt, and dehumanization, to name just a few of its pejorative aspects. King’s narrative is beautifully written, intelligent, critical, finely detailed, and historically solid, wrapped in personal, personable, and at times ironically humorous presentation. NAIS 1:1 SPRING 2014 Reviews 113 MAGGIE WALTER The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King University of Minnesota Press, 2013 THIS BOOK PRESENTS THE NARRATIVE of Anglo-French (but particularly Anglo) colonization, historic and contemporary, of the North American continent. 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Yet, in recent years, there have been unmistakable signs of chronic illness. We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, andĬhoose the ones that are most thought-provoking. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. Something Blue by Emily Giffin About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, ― Paullina Simons, quote from The Girl In Times Square My mother’s beauty when she was young was so extreme that she didn’t understand how every man who met her didn’t love her in extremis.” That’s first, everything else is secondary. You fall in love with a woman’s face, with her body, with her hair, with her smell. “But it doesn’t matter, don’t you see? 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While it’s often “cast as a narcissistic Western peculiarity,” she argues that “ancestor hunger circles the globe” as people have increasingly begun to search for “a deeper sense of community, less ‘I’ and more ‘we.’ ” Newton, though, was raised on fanciful stories of her relatives-including a grandfather with 13 ex-wives, and her great-aunt Maude (the inspiration behind Newton’s writing pseudonym), who died young in an institution-and tales of murder, witchcraft, and spiritual superstition, all of which she interrogates here with a shrewd eye. Newton debuts with a masterful mix of memoir and cultural criticism that wrestles with America’s ancestry through her own family’s complex past. “He’s sort of a version of myself that is buried somewhere inside. Clowes created him as a sort of cathartic outlet, the Id side of his personality, as he puts it: That protagonist is actually an antagonist in this case, an outspoken misanthrope, the kind of guy without boundaries, whose lack of filter in unsolicited encounters with people cuts through the bull of our conventionality with some riotous consequences. The difficulty in relating for societal outliers previously touched on in Ghost World and Art School Confidential are maxed out in the character of Wilson, the latest of Clowes’ offbeat protagonists to find cinematic vitality. In Wilson, the third illustrated story of artist and writer Daniel Clowes to be adapted for the screen, we are again nudged to pay attention to the overlooked and misunderstood. 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