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Anatomy Of A Rose: Exploring The Secret Life Of Flowers
by Russell, Sharman Apt
Synopsis: Combining graceful writing with a scientist's clarity, Russell reveals that the science behind these intelligent plants--how they evolved, survive, heal--is even more awe-inspiring than their fleeting beauty.
Copyright Date: 2001
Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist Editor
by Russell, Sharman Apt and Wagner, Heather Lehr
Synopsis: A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the anti-slavery movement of the early nineteenth century.
Copyright Date: 2005
The Humpbacked Fluteplayer
by Russell, Sharman Apt
Synopsis: While on a school field trip, May and Evan find themselves transported to an alternative reality and are made slaves by one of the warring Indian tribes who live in the Arizona desert.
Copyright Date: 1994
Hunger: An Unnatural History
by Russell, Sharman Apt
Synopsis: A subject as big as history and as everyday as skipping lunch -- how does hunger work? -- is explored in this thought-provoking, kaleidoscopic blend of science, anthropology, and personal reflection.
Copyright Date: 2005
Kill The Cowboy: A Battle Of Mythology In The New West
by Russell, Sharman Apt
Synopsis: On ranching, environmentalism, and change -- life and thought in the West, seen through the eyes of some of the players.
Copyright Date: 1993
The Last Matriarch
by Russell, Sharman Apt
Synopsis: This novel recreates the life of a family group in southern New Mexico 11,000 years ago, when humans shared the grassy plains with mammoths, camels, and lions.
Copyright Date: 2000
An Obsession With Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair With A Singular Insect
by Russell, Sharman Apt
Synopsis: Sharman Apt Russell again blends her lush voice and keen scientific eye in this marvelous book about butterflies. From Hindu mythology to Aztec sacrifices, butterflies have served as a metaphor for resurrection and transformation.
Copyright Date: 2003
Songs Of The Fluteplayer: Seasons Of Life In The Southwest
by Russell, Sharman Apt
Synopsis: From the flooding of southern New Mexico's Mimbres River in the summer, to the year-round search for community in rural America, Sharman Apt Russell recounts her experiences in creating a life for herself and her family.
Copyright Date: 1991
Standing In The Light: My Life As A Pantheist
by Russell, Sharman Apt
Synopsis: Everything is connected, and the web is holy. So wrote Marcus Aurelius, the starting point of Sharman Russell's wise and haunting new memoir about her life as a pantheist. Perhaps no other religious philosophy is as simple and inclusive as pantheism.
Copyright Date: 2008
When The Land Was Young: Reflections On American Archaeology
by Russell, Sharman Apt
Synopsis: A history of archaeology in America that takes the study of the nation's ancestors out of the museum and shows the immediate, human implications of forays into the past.
Copyright Date: 1996