Award Winning Books: Nature and the Environment

Environmental Ethics

Duties to and Values in the Natural World

Holmes Rolston, III

Holmes Rolston III, was been named the 2003 Templeton Prize laureate

A systematic account of values carried by the natural world

408 pages | 6 x 9

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A Guide to the Great Gardens of the Philadelphia Region

Text by Adam Levine, Photographs by Rob Cardillo

Received a Gold Award of Achievement for best book in the Garden Writers Association Media Awards Program, 2008
Received a Gold Award of Achievement for best photography (overall) in the Garden Writers Association Media Awards Program, 2008
Silver Award of Achievement for book photography in the Garden Writers Association Media Awards Program, 2008 (awarded to Rob Cardillo)

A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated guide, chock full of inside information

192 pages | 5.375 x 9.125 | 195 color photos, 1 map

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Latinx Environmentalisms

Place, Justice, and the Decolonial

Edited by Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray

Cowinners of the first Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited
Collection, 2023

Putting the environmental humanities into dialogue with Latinx literary and cultural studies

340 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 halftones

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Loving Orphaned Space

The Art and Science of Belonging to Earth

Mrill Ingram

2022 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Prize, American Association of Geographers

Providing a new vision for the ignored and abused spaces around us

194 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 24 color photos, 2 halftones, 5 maps

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The Magic of Children's Gardens

Inspiring Through Creative Design

Lolly Tai

Merit Award from the PA/DE American Society of Landscape Architects, 2017

An exploration of the purpose, beauty, and benefits of creating children’s outdoor environments in public gardens

376 pages | 8 x 10 | 697 color photos, 27 tables

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The Wild Animal Story

edited by Ralph H. Lutts

Association of American University Presses Book Jacket Award, 1999

An anthology of some of the most celebrated animal stories ever collected

328 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 figures, 15 halftones

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