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John McPhee's career as a writer began during the 1960s when American nature writing was infused with the social and political urgencies of late-twentieth-century environmentalism. The modern age of environmental activism, ushered in by such writers as R...

John McPhee's career as a literary journalist has been tangled with the history of The New Yorker magazine since he became a staff writer in 1965. A list of classic literary journalism in the twentieth century would include several of McPhee's books, whi...

THE BOOK OF GENESTS relates how God created the earth and placed man on it. When man proved unworthy of the Garden of Eden, God expelled him to live by the sweat of his brow. Now, millennia later, John McPhee writes in The...

Signs of Fertility: The Personal Science of Natural Birth Control In the midst of contraceptive controversies that seem to go on interminably, it is refreshing to read this calm, straightforward guide to natural family planning. In a text of less than 100...

Little that's worth anything makes it out of Liberia's war-wrecked ports these days _ except rubber.Three years after a ruinous civil war bankrolled by stolen timber and diamonds, rubber is the first commodity to return to the export market. But the slow and violence-marred reform...