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Intro -- Other Books by This Author -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. Northern Light -- 2. Harvard -- 3. John -- 4. Parachute Jump -- 5. Nightingales, Gods, and Demons -- 6. Entering the Fortress Culture -- 7. Learning to Wait -- 8. Touching Base -- 9. Historian -- 10. Climates of the Mind -- 11. Action Versus Contemplation -- 12. Learning on the Job -- 13. A Different Choice.

The new environmentalisms / Jill Ker Conway, Kenneth Keniston, and Leo Marx -- As the world runs out of breath: metaphorical perspectives on the heavens and the atmosphere in the ancient world / Gregory Nagy -- Climate and history: lessons from the Great Plains / Donald Worster -- Consumed by either fire or fire: a prolegomenon to anthropogenic fire / Stephen J. Pyne -- Only a world perspective is significant: settlement frontiers and property rights in early modern world history / John F. Richards -- Environmentalism and Indian peoples / Richard White -- Indigenous rights, environmental protection, and the struggle over forest resources in the Amazon: the case of the Brazilian Kayapo / Terence Turner -- Grassroots environmental activism: the toxics movement and directions for social change / Barbara Epstein -- Russian environmental movements / Oleg N. Yanitsky -- Gender and environmental action / Bina Agarwal -- Gender, environment, and nature: two episodes in feminist politics / Jill Ker Conway and Yaakov Garb -- Modernity and the environment as a public issue in today's Russia / Anton Struchkov -- Modernity and literary theory / Louis Menand -- Environmental degradation and the ambiguous social role of science and technology / Leo Marx