Chelsea Green Spring 09 Rights List

Chelsea Green Publishing

Foreign Rights Catalog
Spring 2009

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The Politics and Practice of Sustainable Living • www.chelseagreen.com
Rights Manager • Brianne Goodspeed • bgoodspeed@chelseagreen.com

From the best-selling author of The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest, a revolutionary
guide for farmers to year-round harvests of fresh, organic produce—with little or no energy inputs.

Eliot Coleman’s Winter Harvest Handbook
Four-Season Vegetable Production for the 21st Century
Eliot Coleman

Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that’s taken hold throughout North
America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic
Grower, published 25 years ago, and he continues to lead the way, pushing the limits of the harvest
season while working his world-renowned organic farm in Harborside, Maine.

Now, with his long-awaited new book, Eliot Coleman’s Winter Harvest Handbook, anyone can have
access to his hard-won experience. Whether growing vegetables for market or for home, farmers can use
the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise
crops throughout the coldest of winters.

Building on the techniques that hundreds of thousands of farmers and gardeners adopted from The New
Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest, this new book focuses on growing produce of unparalleled
freshness and quality in customized unheated or minimally heated movable plastic greenhouses.

Coleman offers clear, concise details on greenhouse construction and maintenance, planting schedules,
crop management, harvesting practices, and even marketing methods in this complete, meticulous, and
illustrated guide. Readers have access to all the techniques that have proven to produce higher-quality
crops on Coleman’s own farm.

A passionate advocate for the revival of small-scale sustainable farming, Coleman provides a practical
model for supplying fresh, locally grown produce during the winter season even in climates where
conventional wisdom says it “just can’t be done.”

Eliot Coleman has more than 30 years of experience in all aspects of organic farming, including field
vegetables, greenhouse vegetables, rotational grazing of cattle and sheep, and free-range poultry. He is the
author of The New Organic Grower (the first edition published 25 years ago, on Chelsea Green’s first list
in 1989) and Four-Season Harvest (first edition published in 1992). He and his wife, Barbara Damrosch,
hosted The Learning Channel’s popular series Gardening Naturally. Today, Eliot and Barbara operate a
year-round commercial market garden and groundbreaking horticultural research projects at Four Season
Farm in Harborside, Maine.

Also by Eliot Coleman:
The New Organic Grower, Second Edition
Four-Season Harvest, Revised Edition

ISBN: 9781603580816
Sales of previous edition(s): New Organic Grower, 1st edition: 40,000; New Organic Grower, revised
edition: 61,454; Four-Season Harvest, 1st edition: 43,780; Four-Season Harvest, revised edition: 58,269
Price: $35.00 USD / $39.95 CDN
Trim: 8 x 10 • Page count: 304
Format: Paper • Features: Illustrations and Color Photos Throughout
Category: Gardening / Agriculture
Rights: World • Pub. date: April 2009

For the homeowner or community organizer, the essential guide to harnessing
clean and safe wind energy.

Wind Energy Basics, Second Edition
A Guide to Home- and Community-Scale Wind-Energy Systems
Paul Gipe

In terms of its potential effects on the world’s economies, environment, and advancement of peace, the
availability of clean, renewable power is without question going to be the defining challenge and goal of
the 21st century, and wind will lead the way.

Internationally acclaimed wind energy expert Paul Gipe is as soberly critical of past energy mistakes as he
is convincingly optimistic about the future. At a time when the overwhelming challenge of transforming
our world from one of fossil carbon to one of clean power seems daunting at best—and paralyzingly
impractical at worst—Wind Energy Basics offers a solution.

Wind power can realistically not only replace the lion’s share of oil-, coal-, and natural-gas-fired
electrical plants in the U.S. but also add enough extra power capacity to allow for most of the cars in the
nation to run on electricity. Gipe explains why such a startlingly straightforward solution would be cost-
effective and implementable in the near term, and have the capacity to resuscitate small and regional
economies.

Wind Energy Basics offers a how-to for home-based wind applications, including detailed lists of which
wind turbines to choose (for every type of installation, from small cabins to megwatt wind farms) and
which to avoid. He guides wind-energy installers through considerations as varied as battery banks to
renewable investment strategies and gives cautionary tales of wind applications gone wrong. And for the
activist, he suggests methods of prodding federal and state governments to promote energy independence.

Paul Gipe is internationally recognized for his expertise in wind energy. In 2008, he was awarded the
World Energy Association’s “World Wind Energy Award.” He has been honored as a “Pioneer” by the
World Renewable Energy Congress and as “Person of the Year” by the American Wind Energy
Association. Gipe’s previous books are Wind Energy Comes of Age and Wind Power: Renewable Energy
for Home, Farm, and Business. Gipe writes about wind energy and lectures extensively to both industry
and general audiences. He lives in Tehachapi, California.

Also by Paul Gipe: Wind Power, Revised Edition

Extensively revised and expanded by 70 percent. New topics include:
• Urban wind: Does it make sense? • Building-integrated wind: Is it real or not? • Rooftop mounting:
Should you avoid it? • New vertical-axis wind turbines: Are they ready? • Fantasy wind turbines: How to
spot them. • Ducted turbines: Can they deliver? • Community wind: A not-so-new way to harness the
wind. • Feed-in tariffs: Can they power a renewables revolution?

ISBN: 9781603580304
Sales of previous edition(s): 29,380
Price: $29.95 USD / $34.50 CDN
Format: Paper • Features: B+W Illustrations, Charts, and Tables Throughout
Category: Renewable Energy
Rights: World • Pub. date: April 2009

A sweeping view of money—past, present, and future—including a plan to democratize the economy and
restore the “credit commons.”

The End of Money and the Future of Civilization
Thomas H. Greco Jr.

Like the proverbial fish who doesn’t know what water is, we swim in an economy built on money that
few of us comprehend. And most definitely, what we don’t know is hurting us.

Very few people realize that the nature of money has changed profoundly over the past three centuries,
or—on the heels of the latest global financial crisis—the extent to which it has become a political
instrument used to centralize power, concentrate wealth, and subvert popular government. On top of that,
the economic growth imperative inherent in the present global monetary system is a main driver of global
warming and other environmental crises.

The End of Money and the Future of Civilization demystifies the subjects of money, banking, and finance
by tracing historical landmarks and important evolutionary shifts that have changed the essential nature of
money. Thomas H. Greco’s masterful work lays out the problems and then looks to the future for a next
stage in money’s evolution that can liberate us as individuals and communities from the current grip of
centralized and politicized money power.

Greco provides specific design proposals, exchange-system architectures, and prescriptions for local,
regional, national, and global financial systems. He offers strategies for their implementation and outlines
actions grassroots organizations, businesses, and governments will need to take to achieve success.

Ultimately, The End of Money and the Future of Civilization provides the necessary understanding—for
entrepreneurs, activists, and civic leaders—to implement approaches toward monetary liberation. These
approaches would empower communities, preserve democratic institutions, and begin to build economies
that are sustainable, democratic, and insulated from the financial crises that plague the dominant monetary
system.

Thomas H. Greco, Jr. is a leading authority on free-market approaches to monetary and financial
innovation, including cashless exchange systems. A former engineer, entrepreneur, and tenured college
professor, Greco is now a sought-after advisor and speaker at conferences internationally. His previous
books include Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender, New Money for Healthy
Communities, and Money and Debt: A Solution to the Global Crisis. Through his Web site,
reinventingmoney.com, and associated blogs and books, Greco offers an unprecedented wealth of
information on the interplay of economics and democracy. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area and
Tucson, Arizona.

Also by Thomas H. Greco Jr.:
Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender

ISBN: 9781603580786
Price: $19.95 USD / $22.95 CDN
Format: Paper • Features: B+W Photos, Tables, and Diagrams
Category: Economics / Politics
Rights: World • Pub. date: June 2009


Nostalgic and intoxicating, Libation—A Bitter Alchemy offers the bittersweet magic of perfume and
palate, of experience and place.

Libation—A Bitter Alchemy
Deirdre Heekin

For many years, Deirdre Heekin has been creating an unusual, revitalist wine archive of rare and
traditional Italian varietals at Osteria Pane e Salute, the nationally celebrated restaurant and wine bar she
shares with her chef husband, Caleb Barber. Self-taught in the world of Italian wines, she is known for
her fine-tuned work with scent and taste, her ability to pair wines and food in unexpected yet terroir-
driven ways.

In Libation—A Bitter Alchemy, a series of linked personal essays, Heekin explores the curious
development of her nose and palate, her intuitive education and relationship with wine and spirits, and her
arduous attempts to make liqueurs and wine from the fruits of her own land in northern New England.
The essays follow her as she unearths ruby-toned wines given up by the ghosts of long-gone wine makers
from the red soil of Italy, her adoptive land. They journey with her on a complicated pilgrimage to the
home of one of the world’s oldest cocktails, Sazerac, in Katrina-soaked New Orleans. They explore her
midsummer crafting of a brandy made from inherited roses, the results of an old Sicilian recipe she found
in a dusty bookstore in Naples.

From campari to alkermes, Heekin’s writing is as intoxicating, rich, and carefully crafted as the wines,
liquors, and locales she loves.

Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barber are the proprietors and, respectively, wine director and head chef of
Osteria Pane e Salute, a boutique restaurant and wine bar in Woodstock, Vermont, which has received
acclaim in Bon Appétit, the New York Times, and Attaché. Deirdre and Caleb grow much of their own
produce in addition to working with local farm partners. In preparation for his role as head chef of Osteria
Pane e Salute, Barber apprenticed with an artisanal baker and in a small trattoria in Tuscany.

Heekin has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is winner of the Italo Calvino Award for her fiction.
Her food writing appears regularly in Gastronomica: The Journal of Taste and Culture.

Heekin and Barber live in Barnard, Vermont, where Heekin produces artisanal after-dinner brandies and
micro-vintage garage wine for the osteria.

ISBN: 9781603580861
Price: $25.00 USD / $28.95 CDN
Format: Hardcover
Category: Food & Wine / Travel / Essays
Rights: World • Pub. date: May 2009

Also available:
Renewing America’s Food Traditions
Atlas of American Artisan Cheese
Javatrekker


Seasonal recipes and stories from an Italian kitchen.

In Late Winter We Ate Pears
A Year of Hunger and Love
Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barber, Proprietors of the Acclaimed Osteria Pane e Salute

Combing Italy for rare and traditional recipes, husband and wife Caleb Barber and Deirdre Heekin bring
the flavors and styles of many regions to their highly regarded restaurant, Osteria Pane e Salute (“bread
and health”). Now they share that same food and spirit with In Late Winter We Ate Pears.

More than a cookbook, In Late Winter We Ate Pears is a love affair with a culture and a way of life. In
vignettes taken from their years in Italy, Heekin and Barber offer glimpses of a young, vibrant Italy: of
rolling out pizza dough in an ancient hilltown at midnight while wild dogs bay in the abandoned streets;
of the fogged car windows of an ancient lovers’ lane amid the olive groves outside Prato.

The recipes in In Late Winter We Ate Pears are every bit as luscious as the memories. Selections such as
red snapper with fennel sauce, fresh figs with balsamic vinegar and mint, and frangipane and plum tart
capture the essence of Italy in their simple beauty. Following the tradition of Italian cuisine, the 80
recipes are laid out according to season, to take advantage of the freshest local ingredients.

Whether you are an experienced cook looking for authentic Italian recipes or a beginner wanting to
immerse yourself in the romance of a young couple’s culinary adventure, In Late Winter We Ate Pears
provides rich sustenance in the best tradition of travel and food writing.

Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barber are the proprietors and, respectively, wine director and head chef of
Osteria Pane e Salute, a boutique restaurant and wine bar in Woodstock, Vermont, which has received
acclaim in Bon Appétit, the New York Times, and Attaché. Deirdre and Caleb grow much of their own
produce in addition to working with local farm partners. In preparation for his role as head chef of Osteria
Pane e Salute, Barber apprenticed with an artisanal baker and in a small trattoria in Tuscany.

Heekin has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is winner of the Italo Calvino Award for her fiction.
Her food writing appears regularly in Gastronomica: The Journal of Taste and Culture.

Heekin and Barber live in Barnard, Vermont, where Heekin produces artisanal after-dinner brandies and
micro-vintage garage wine for the osteria.

ISBN: 9781603581011
Price: $25.00 USD / $28.95 CDN
Trim: 7 x 9½ • Page count: 296
Format: Paper • Features: 80 Recipes
Category: Food / Cooking / Travel


The garden that Nature intended; the beauty and bounty that gardeners desire.

Gaia’s Garden, Second Edition
A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Toby Hemenway
Foreword by John Todd

Praise for the first edition:
“Takes the native plants and organic gardening movement to the next level.”
—Joel M. Lerner, Washington Post

“A bold, wonderful, nature-embracing and completely sensible vision of the future.”
—Justin Siskin, Los Angeles Daily News

“Practical science for making your yard produce food and beauty.”
—Rose O’Donnell, Seattle Times

“A gardener’s blueprint for ecological abundance from the ground up.”
—Steve Spreckel, Acres USA

The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing
permaculture’s central message: working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant,
and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and
depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers.

Many people mistakenly think that ecological gardening—which involves growing a wide range of edible
and other useful plants—can take place only on a large, multiacre scale. As Hemenway demonstrates, it’s
fun and easy to create a “backyard ecosystem” by assembling communities of plants that can work
cooperatively and perform a variety of functions, including:
• Building and maintaining soil fertility and structure
• Catching and conserving water in the landscape
• Providing habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and animals
• Growing an edible “forest” that yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other foods

This revised and updated edition also features a new chapter on urban permaculture, designed especially
for people in cities and suburbs who have very limited growing space. Whatever size of yard or garden
you have to work with, you can apply basic permaculture principles to make it more diverse, more
natural, more productive, and more beautiful.

Toby Hemenway teaches permaculture and ecological design courses around the world and is on the
faculty of Portland State University. A former geneticist, Toby left the biotech industry in the 1990s and
spent ten years creating and living on a rural permaculture homestead in southern Oregon. He now lives
in Portland, Oregon, where he is developing several urban sustainability sites.

ISBN: 9781603580298
Price: $30.00 USD / $34.50 CDN
Format: Paper • Features: B+W Photos and Illustrations Throughout
Rights: World excluding UK • Pub. date: May 2009

A hopeful, compassionate, and cautious look at four possible futures, and what we can do to prepare for
them in the face of global warming and peak oil.

Future Scenarios
How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change
David Holmgren

The simultaneous onset of climate change and peaking of global oil supply represent unprecedented
challenges for human civilization. We now face less and less available energy each year, coupled with a
destabilized climate. The overall challenge is intensified due to the fact that each of the individual
challenges limits the effective options for responding to the other.

In Future Scenarios, permaculture co-originator and leading sustainability innovator David Holmgren
outlines four scenarios that bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural, and economic
implications of peak oil and climate change, and the generations-long era of “energy descent” that faces
us.

“Scenario planning,” Holmgren explains, “allows us to use stories about the future as a reference point for
imagining how particular strategies and structures might thrive, fail, or be transformed.”

Future Scenarios depicts four very different futures. Each is a permutation of mild or destructive climate
change, combined with either slow or severe energy declines. Probable futures, explains Holmgren, range
from the relatively benign Green Tech scenario to the near catastrophic Lifeboats scenario.

Future Scenarios fills a need for balanced consideration of the world’s options and will prove to be one of
the most important books of the year.

David Holmgren is best known as the co-originator, with Bill Mollison, of the permaculture concept
following the publication of their book Permaculture One in 1978. Since then he has written several more
books, including Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability, developed three
properties using permaculture principles, and conducted workshops and courses throughout the world.
Within the growing and international permaculture movement, David is respected for his commitment to
presenting permaculture ideas through practical projects and teaching by personal example. He shows that
a sustainable lifestyle is a realistic, attractive, and powerful alternative to dependent consumerism.
Holmgren lives with his partner, Su Dennett, and their son, Oliver, at Melliodora, a one-hectare
permaculture demonstration site at Hepburn Springs, Central Victoria, Australia.

Also by David Holmgren:
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability
Hepburn Permaculture Gardens: Ten Years of Sustainable Living

ISBN: 9781603580892
Price: $12.00 USD / $13.95 CDN
Format: Paper • Features: Color Illustrations and Graphs
Category: Sustainable Living
Rights: World English excluding Australia & New Zealand; UK rights sold
Pub. date: April 2009


From “pancake patch” to small farm, how to grow grain in your home garden.

Small-Scale Grain Raising, Second Edition
An Organic Guide to Growing, Processing, and Using Nutritious Whole Grains for Home
Gardeners and Local Farmers
Gene Logsdon

First published in 1977, this book—from one of America’s most famous and prolific agricultural
writers—became an almost instant classic among homestead gardeners and small farmers. Now fully
updated and available once more, Small-Scale Grain Raising offers a whole new generation of readers the
best introduction to a wide range of both common and lesser-known specialty grains and related field
crops, from corn, wheat, and rye to buckwheat, millet, rice, spelt, flax, and even beans and sunflowers.

More and more Americans are seeking out locally grown foods, yet one of the real stumbling blocks to
their efforts has been finding local sources for grains, which are grown mainly on large, distant corporate
farms. At the same time commodity prices for grains—and the products made from them—have
skyrocketed due to rising energy costs and increased demand. In this book, Gene Logsdon proves that
anyone who has access to a large garden or small farm can (and should) think outside the agribusiness
box and learn to grow healthy whole grains or beans—the base of our culinary food pyramid—alongside
their fruits and vegetables.

Starting from the simple but revolutionary concept of the garden “pancake patch,” Logsdon opens up our
eyes to a whole world of plants that we wrongly assume only the agricultural “big boys” can grow. He
succinctly covers all the basics, from planting and dealing with pests, weeds, and diseases to harvesting,
processing, storing, and using whole grains. There are even a few recipes sprinkled throughout, along
with more than a little wit and wisdom.

Never has there been a better time, or a more receptive audience, for this book. Localvores, serious home
gardeners, CSA farmers, and whole-foods advocates—in fact, all people who value fresh, high-quality
foods—will find a field full of information and ideas in this once and future classic.

Gene Logsdon is the author of twenty-five books (and counting) embracing ecology, art, farming,
cultural studies, and nature writing, including The Contrary Farmer and Farming at Nature’s Pace. He
has written hundreds of magazine articles, has a weekly newspaper column (which can be seen at
theprogressortimes.com), and contributes regularly to two quarterly magazines, Farming and The Draft
Horse Journal, and to the Web site organictobe.org. He and his wife, Carol, operate an experimental
garden farm in Wyandot County, Ohio. They have two children and three grandchildren.

Also by Gene Logsdon:
The Contrary Farmer
Living at Nature’s Pace: Farming and the American Dream
Good Spirits: A New Look at Ol’ Demon Alcohol

ISBN: 9781603580779
Price: $34.95 USD / $39.95 CDN
Trim: 6 x 9, Page count: 320
Format: Paper
Rights: World • Pub. date: June 2009


Business therapy for the soul of capitalism.

Living Above the Store
Building a Business That Creates Value, Restores Community, and Protects the Natural World
Martin Melaver
Foreword by Ray Anderson

Society is hungry for a new version of capitalism, where business is imbued with the values of ethical
behavior and service, lives in harmony with society and nature, is devoted to lifelong learning, and is
committed to restoring the health of community and nature. But how do we get there?

In Living Above the Store, Martin Melaver provides a roadmap for creating such a business. It’s not only a
“how to” but a “why to” that challenges business as usual to change.

Living Above the Store brings us into the story of Melaver, Inc., a third-generation, 70-year-old family
real estate business, as it evolves toward becoming a thought and product leader in sustainable business
practices. It is part business management theory and part case study, where sustainable principles meet
sustainable practices, always grounded in day-to-day practice.

Living Above the Store demonstrates how to:

• Adopt a business model that provides for economic success while contributing to society and the
environment
• Shape a business culture that is restorative to a workforce by helping employees realize their highest
potential
• Leverage an ethos within a business that “ripples outward” to foster restoration of both land and
community
• Embrace a notion of limits to growth
• Reframe ideas about competition, proprietary knowledge, and business success

Living Above the Store is for readers who care about issues of community and sustainability as well as for
those who want to learn more about how a socially responsible business can first redefine, and then find,
success.

Martin Melaver has been CEO of Melaver, Inc., since 1992. Never content with the well-trod path, he
has a PhD in literature from Harvard University and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg
School of Management. He is actively involved with numerous community organizations in and around
Savannah, Georgia. Melaver splits his time between Savannah and Tel Aviv, Israel.

ISBN: 9781603580854
Price: $27.95 USD / $31.95 CDN
Format: Hardcover • Features: Charts and Diagrams
Category: Ethical Business

Also available:
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
Companies We Keep
Finding the Sweet Spot

A scientific mystery. A political thriller. A matter of life and death.

Devil in the Milk
Illness, Health, and Politics in A1 and A2 Milk
Keith Woodford

This groundbreaking book is the first to be published internationally that examines the link between one
of the proteins in the milk we drink and a range of serious illnesses, including heart disease, Type 1
diabetes, autism, and schizophrenia.

These health problems are linked to a tiny protein fragment that is formed when we digest A1 beta-casein,
a milk protein produced by many cows in America and northern European countries. Milk that contains
A1 beta-casein is commonly known as A1 milk, whereas milk that does not is called A2. All milk was
once A2, until a genetic mutation occurred some thousands of years ago in some European cattle. Herds
in much of Asia, Africa, and parts of southern Europe remain naturally high in A2 cows. A2 milk from
selected cows is now marketed in parts of the U.S.

In Devil in the Milk, Keith Woodford brings together the evidence published in more than 100 scientific
papers. He examines the population studies that look at the link between consumption of A1 milk and the
incidence of heart disease and Type 1 diabetes; he explains the science that underpins the A1/A2
hypothesis; and he examines the research undertaken with animals and humans. The evidence is
compelling: we should be switching to A2 milk.

This is an amazing story, one that is not just about the health issues surrounding A1 milk, but also about
how scientific evidence can be molded and withheld by vested interests, and how consumer choices are
influenced by the interests of corporate business.

Keith Woodford is Professor of Farm Management and Agribusiness at Lincoln University in New
Zealand. A regular commentator in the news media, he was previously at the University of Queensland
(Australia) for 20 years. He has worked on agricultural topics—and pursued his passion for
mountaineering—in numerous countries around the world. He lives with his family in Christchurch, New
Zealand.

ISBN: 9781603581022
Price: $24.95 USD / $28.95 CDN
Format: Paper
Category: Food / Health / Politics
Rights: North America • Pub. date: April 2009

Also available:
Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA’s War on a Family Farm


Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas: A riveting biography of three women who went off to
probe humanity’s roots—and changed the face of modern field science in the process.

Now back in print!

Walking with the Great Apes
Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas
Sy Montgomery, with a New Introduction by the Author

Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the jungles of Africa and Borneo to
observe, nurture, and defend humanity’s closest cousins. Jane Goodall has worked with the chimpanzees
of Gombe for over 30 years; Dian Fossey died in 1985 defending the mountain gorillas of Rwanda; and
Birute Galdikas lives in intimate proximity to the orangutans of Borneo. All three began their work as
protégées of the great Anglo-African archeologist Louis Leakey, and each spent years in the field,
allowing the apes to become their familiars—and ultimately waging battles to save them from extinction
in the wild.

Their combined accomplishments have been mind-blowing, as Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas forever
changed how we think of our closest evolutionary relatives, of ourselves, and of how to conduct good
science. From the personal to the primate, Sy Montgomery explores the science, wisdom, and living
experience of three of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century.

“Part Indiana Jones, part Emily Dickinson,” as the Boston Globe describes her, Sy Montgomery is an
author, naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and radio commentator who has traveled to some of the
world’s most remote wildernesses for her work. She has worked in a pit crawling with 18,000 snakes in
Manitoba, been hunted by a tiger in India, swum with pink dolphins in the Amazon, and been undressed
by an orangutan in Borneo. She is the author of 13 award-winning books, including her national best-
selling memoir, The Good Good Pig. Montgomery lives in Hancock, New Hampshire.

Also by Sy Montgomery:
Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest
Spell of the Tiger: The Man-Eaters of Sundarbans

ISBN: 9781603580625
Price: $17.95 USD / $20.95 CDN
Trim: 5½ x 8½, Page count: 304
Format: Paper • Features: B+W Photo Insert
Category: Nature / Science / Biography
Rights: World; Japanese and Korean rights sold • Pub. date: August 2009


A quest to identify a new species leads to the heart of Asia’s wildlife traffic—
and to a historic discovery.

First paperback edition!

Search for the Golden Moon Bear
Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species
Sy Montgomery, with a New Introduction by the Author

Sy Montgomery has already shared with readers her amazing encounters with great apes, man-eating
tigers, and pink river dolphins, but her latest muse is an animal whose name and appearance evoke
another world altogether. Southeast Asia’s golden moon bear, with its luminous coat, lionlike mane, and
Mickey Mouse ears, was unknown to science—until Montgomery and her colleagues got on the trail at
the dawn of the new millennium.

Search for the Golden Moon Bear recounts Montgomery’s quest—fraught with danger and mayhem—to
reconstruct an evolutionary record and piece together a living portrait of her little-known subject. This
beautiful animal is not just a scientific eureka!; it is also a powerful symbol of conservation. Search for
the Golden Moon Bear is a field report from the frontiers of science and the ends of the earth, seamlessly
weaving together folklore, natural history, and contemporary research into fantastic travelogue.

“Part Indiana Jones, part Emily Dickinson,” as the Boston Globe describes her, Sy Montgomery is an
author, naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and radio commentator who has traveled to some of the
world’s most remote wildernesses for her work. She has worked in a pit crawling with 18,000 snakes in
Manitoba, been hunted by a tiger in India, swum with pink dolphins in the Amazon, and been undressed
by an orangutan in Borneo. She is the author of 13 award-winning books, including her national best-
selling memoir, The Good Good Pig. Montgomery lives in Hancock, New Hampshire.

ISBN: 9781603580632
Price: $19.95 USD / $19.95 CDN
Format: Paper • Features: Color Photo Insert
Category: Nature / Science
Rights: World • Pub. date: August 2009


Revolutionary common sense for home building from the leading proponent of earth-sheltered living.

The Earth-Sheltered House, Revised Edition
An Architect’s Sketchbook
Malcolm Wells, with a New Introduction by the Author

The Earth-Sheltered House, now revised and with a new introduction by the author, is a classic in the
annals of sustainable building books, written by a legend in the field of environmentally responsible
architecture. Malcolm Wells has a fundamentally different way of looking at the design and building
process, and his iconoclastic perspective has never been more apparent.

Wells’s work is revolutionary, but readers will find his message to be pure common sense. Earth
sheltering offers superior comfort with minimal energy input, and it is adaptable to diverse terrains as
well as architectural aesthetics.

Malcolm Wells, a pioneer of underground building and natural design, is widely known for his many
books, including How to Build an Underground Home and Gentle Architecture. His cartoons are featured
in Rob Roy’s Mortgage Free! Innovative Strategies for Debt-Free Home Ownership. He lives in the
Underground Art Gallery in Brewster, Massachusetts.

ISBN: 9781603581073
Price: $24.95 USD / $28.95 CDN
Trim: 11 x 8½ • Page count: 192
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The answer to the grandest philosophical question of all time requires thinking outside the boxes of
conventional religious teaching and conventional scientific wisdom.

The Purpose of Life
Science’s Surprising Answer to Religion’s Most Profound Question
A Sciencewriters Book
Dorion Sagan and Eric D. Schneider

What is the purpose of life? Some say it's to reproduce, others to glorify God. But behind these and other
proposed purposes lies a scientific purpose. In The Purpose of Life, science writer Dorion Sagan and
ecologist Eric D. Schneider lay out the fascinating evidence for life’s natural purpose—its function in an
energy-driven cosmos. New evidence shows that evolution is not at all random but has a clear direction.
And its direction is related to life's function as a natural system. Indeed, life shares its function—its
purpose—with that of certain other complex natural systems. While the answer is simple and not
exclusive—life may have other purposes—its profound implications may change the way we see
ourselves, our relationship to other living beings, and our future on this shared, energy-driven planet.

Sagan and Schneider provide a striking alternative to common scientific and religious views of this age-
old question. Written in an easy-to-read format that engages recent best sellers such as Rick Warren’s The
Purpose-Driven Life and Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth: Finding Your Life's Purpose, The Purpose of Life
goes beyond popular science, weaving literature, philosophy, and spirituality into a highly readable
narrative that no curious person can afford to miss.

Dorion Sagan is the author of twenty-one books translated into eleven languages, including Notes from
the Holocene and Microcosmos (with Lynn Margulis). A Humana Scholar, Lindisfarne Fellow, and
recipient of an EdPress Award in nonfiction, as well as an award-winning sleight-of-hand artist, Dorion
has written for the New York Times, Wired, and the New York Times Book Review. He currently resides in
Amherst, Massachusetts.

Eric D. Schneider lives in the mountains of southwest Montana and spends his time between science and
writing. He is best described as a biophysicist, synthesizing biology and physics at a fundamental level.
He has been chief scientist of the National Oceanic Administration and director of the National Marine
Quality Laboratory of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Schneider and Sagan coauthored Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life (University of
Chicago Press, 2006), which has been a scientific best seller.

Also by Dorion Sagan:
Notes from the Holocene
Dazzle Gradually (with Lynn Margulis)

ISBN: 9781933392387
Price: $15.95 USD / $18.50 CDN
Format: Paper
Category: Science / Philosophy
Rights: World •Pub. date: June 2009


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