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Book Review: Iron and Water: My Life Protecting Minnesota’s Environment

July 16, 2018 by Stephanie Hemphill

Environmental crusader shares his perspectives in highly readable memoir.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues Tagged With: Lake Superior, memoir, minnesota, policy

Book Review: Sustaining Lake Superior by Nancy Langston

March 28, 2018 by Stephanie Hemphill

Recent history offers lessons about how to clean up and protect the Greatest Lake.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Resource Management Tagged With: Lake Superior, resource management

Book Review: Psalms of the Early Anthropocene

December 6, 2017 by Laurie Allmann

Kathleen Heideman: A Michigan poet you want to know

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Poetry Tagged With: Michigan, poetry

Book Review: The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

May 21, 2017 by Stephanie Hemphill

A vivid history and sober analysis of the many threats the Great Lakes face.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Fish, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Issues, Research, Resource Management, Water quality Tagged With: Great Laks, Lake Superior, resource management

Book review: What Should a Clever Moose Eat? by John Pastor

June 13, 2016 by Stephanie Hemphill

Author John Pastor illustrated his book on the complexities of North Woods ecosystems.

Ecologist John Pastor poses and answers fascinating questions about North Woods ecosystems.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Science Tagged With: conservation, Nature, Northern Minnesota

Book Review: Amethyst and Agate: Poems of Lake Superior

March 7, 2016 by Stephanie Hemphill

At the Shore, by Duluth print artist Cecilia Lieder.

Poets and visual artists contemplate Lake Superior.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Art, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: Lake Superior, poetry

Book Review: Plain Radical by Robert Jensen

December 14, 2015 by Stephanie Hemphill

Robert Jensen

Book celebrates Minnesota peace, justice campaigner.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features Tagged With: lifestyle, minnesota

North Shore: A Natural History of Minnesota’s Superior Coast

August 15, 2015 by Stephanie Hemphill

Chel Anderson and Adelheid Fischer’s new book is vast in scope, thought-provoking, and poetic in places.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features

Fate and the Lake: Seven Ideas about “The Lighthouse Road”

December 13, 2012 by Greg Seitz

The Lighthouse Road by Peter Geye Unbridled Books, 2012 Hardcover, 304 pages I: Odd Rex Fate and free will have been debated since the ancient Greeks believed that oracles, channeling the gods, could foretell our lives. Oedipus would kill his own father and sleep with his own mother, no matter the actions of lowly humans. […]

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features

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