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Book review: They Have a Word for It

By Laurie Allmann | February 25, 2019 |

Rheingold’s classic, a book for our times.

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: books

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

By Stephanie Hemphill | July 16, 2018 |

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

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 28, 2018 |

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

By Laurie Allmann | December 6, 2017 |

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

By Stephanie Hemphill | May 21, 2017 |

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

By Stephanie Hemphill | June 13, 2016 |

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

By Stephanie Hemphill | March 7, 2016 |

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

By Stephanie Hemphill | December 14, 2015 |

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

By Stephanie Hemphill | August 15, 2015 |

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”

By Greg Seitz | December 13, 2012 |

Filed Under: Agate Book Review, Homepage Bottom Features

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