Diane Ackerman, Author . HarperCollins $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-019986-9
In a generous and jauntily haphazard excursion through the four seasons of her Ithaca, N.Y., backyard landscape and the innumerable interests of her fertile mind, poet and naturalist Ackerman (A Natural History of the Senses; A Natural History of...
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Diane Ackerman, Author . HarperCollins $22.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-06-019988-3
Celebrated for her wide-ranging and personal essays on nature, art and love, Ackerman (A Natural History of the Senses; Deep Play) has also maintained a career as a poet; this latest volume of short poems "emerged, hot off the heart" (as...
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Diane Ackerman, Author . Scribner $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4672-9
Ackerman's latest foray (after Cultivating Delight
) is ostensibly about the "crowded chemistry lab" of the human brain, but fans of her writings on the natural world will find many familiar pleasures. All is not pastoral sweetness;...
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Diane Ackerman, Author . Norton $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-393-06172-7
Ackerman (A Natural History of the Senses
) tells the remarkable WWII story of Jan Zabinski, the director of the Warsaw Zoo, and his wife, Antonina, who, with courage and coolheaded ingenuity, sheltered 300 Jews as well as Polish resisters in their...
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Diane Ackerman, Author Vintage Books USA $15.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-679-73566-3
Physiology and philosophy mesh in this poetic investigation of the five senses; essays explore synesthesia, food taboos, kissing and the power and diversity of music. ``Rooted in science, enlivened by her own convincing sense of wonder, Ackerman's...
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Diane Ackerman, Author Vintage Books USA $13 (272p) ISBN 978-0-679-74304-0
Ackerman, author of A Natural History of the Senses , here offers new poems and reprises some from previous collections. (Aug.)
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Diane Ackerman, Author Vintage Books USA $12.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-679-77623-9
Naturalist and poet Ackerman visits remote places, from Hawaii to Brazil, observing animals and their ecosystems. (Jan.)
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Diane Ackerman, Author Random House (NY) $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-44879-2
In a meandering meditation, poet and naturalist Ackerman (A Natural History of the Senses, etc.) employs the term ""deep play"" to refer to a combination of what others sometimes call ""flow"" or ""the zone"" and what anthropologists call ""sacred...
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Diane Ackerman, Author Random House (NY) $23 (358p) ISBN 978-0-679-40347-0
Following up her well-received A Natural History of the Senses , poet and journalist Ackerman less successfully attempts to limn the complex emotion of love for the general reader. Her perspective is both long--beginning with the first writings...
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Diane Ackerman, Author Random House (NY) $23 (184p) ISBN 978-0-679-40346-3
For several years, Ackerman (A Natural History of the Senses) has traveled to remote places to see rare animals and threatened ecosystems. In each case, she observed animals in their natural habitat and worked with dedicated scientists in the field.
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Diane Ackerman, Author Random House (NY) $24 (305p) ISBN 978-0-679-44877-8
Both a sensuous road map through depression, despair and loss of self, and a homage to the wonder, multiplicity and rejuvenating power of nature, this new book from the author of A Natural History of the Senses is, quite simply, wonderful. Ackerman...
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Diane Ackerman. Norton, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-393-24074-0
Ackerman (One Hundred Names for Love) addresses a currently vogue topic, the Anthropocene—the geologic age humans have shaped by altering the world’s ecosystems—and in doing so raises the bar for her peers. “We’ve subdued 75 percent of the land...
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Diane Ackerman, Author, Sam Vaughan, Editor Random House (NY) $20 (249p) ISBN 978-0-394-58574-1
With unfettered curiosity and a high degree of engagement, poet and naturalist Ackerman ( A Natural History of the Senses ) sported among penguins in subantarctic rookeries and herds of alligators on a Florida alligator farm, gathering experience...
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Diane Ackerman, Author, Peter Sis, Illustrator , illus. by Peter Sís. Knopf $14.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-375-82384-8
This quirky collection of animal poems is organized around the five senses but young readers will have difficulty distinguishing between Ackerman's (A Natural History of the Senses) flights of fancy and the facts of nature she weaves throughout...
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Diane Ackerman, Author, Ackerman, Author Vintage Books USA $14.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-679-74226-5
In these four lively, information-packed accounts, Ackerman makes vivid the qualities and appeal of animals and the natural world they inhabit. Author tour. (Oct.)
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