Nature as It Should Be: Biodesign Out For A Walk Published by Outskirts Press
Outskirts Press announces the latest highly anticipated nature and ecology book from Saint Helena, CA, author Lowell Harrison Young.
Saint Helena, CA, June 30, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Biodesign Out For A Walk by Lowell Harrison Young. The author's most recent book to date is a 6 x 9 paperback in the nature and ecology category and is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Biodesign Out For A Walk is also available in a 6 x 9 hardback edition with jacket. The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/biodesign was launched simultaneously with the book's publication.
Going for a walk should be fun. So should studying biology. After all, without it we wouldn’t be alive to experience the rapture, sorrow and mystery of the universe.
Biodesign Out For A Walk is a story of how spirit-sensitive students reprogrammed a left-brained biology teacher and took him on a twenty-four year odyssey. Following the footsteps of John Muir, they slept on the top of Yosemite’s famous Half Dome. They followed Loren Eiseley and John Wesley Powell to the bottom of Grand Canyon. Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck led them into forests and tide pools of California’s beautiful Mendocino coast. Abraham Maslow challenged them to redefine science and religion. Ralph Emerson challenged them to write their own Bibles. They traced the origins of human spirituality back 100,000 years.
The class was dedicated to studying biology by exercising the illimitable freedom of the human mind. Plato urged them to actively search for truth, beauty and goodness. They studied the works of scientists, sages, poets and saints to add to their growing concept of Mother Nature. Many synchronicities were discovered that were either playful, mysterious or scary. Socrates’, “The unexamined life is not worth living” and Thoreau’s, “I went to the woods to live deliberately” became mottos.
Although each class lasted one academic year, the teacher was guided by students for twenty-four years and his adventure ended when a modern-day Moses mysteriously met him on top of Half Dome.
299 pages in length, Biodesign Out For A Walk is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the nature and ecology category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Biodesign Out For A Walk meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $15.95 and $26.95 for the paperback and hardback editions, respectively.
Additionally, Biodesign Out For A Walk can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore.
ISBN: 9781432772857
Format: 6 x 9 paperback cream
SRP: $15.95
ISBN: 9781432772871
Format: 6 x 9 hardback w/ jacket
SRP: $26.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/biodesign.
About the author:
Lowell Young and his wife Christie have lived in California’s Napa Valley for over forty years. Mr. Young taught high school biology for nearly forty years before he retired. The class that evolved into Biodesign was a creative, collaborative project where the roles of teacher and student were often reversed. It was well known by the students that although Mr. Young represented the physical nature of the class, Christie’s silent spiritual guidance was often felt in their classroom circles, as well as along the many miles of trails they walked. The Biodesign class may be the only one of its kind taught in a public high school in the country. The author can be contacted at: biodesignoutforawalk@gmail.com or www.facebook.com/biodesignoutforawalk
About Outskirts Press, Inc.
Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.
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Outskirts Press, Inc., 10940 S. Parker Rd - 515, Parker, Colorado 80134
http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
Going for a walk should be fun. So should studying biology. After all, without it we wouldn’t be alive to experience the rapture, sorrow and mystery of the universe.
Biodesign Out For A Walk is a story of how spirit-sensitive students reprogrammed a left-brained biology teacher and took him on a twenty-four year odyssey. Following the footsteps of John Muir, they slept on the top of Yosemite’s famous Half Dome. They followed Loren Eiseley and John Wesley Powell to the bottom of Grand Canyon. Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck led them into forests and tide pools of California’s beautiful Mendocino coast. Abraham Maslow challenged them to redefine science and religion. Ralph Emerson challenged them to write their own Bibles. They traced the origins of human spirituality back 100,000 years.
The class was dedicated to studying biology by exercising the illimitable freedom of the human mind. Plato urged them to actively search for truth, beauty and goodness. They studied the works of scientists, sages, poets and saints to add to their growing concept of Mother Nature. Many synchronicities were discovered that were either playful, mysterious or scary. Socrates’, “The unexamined life is not worth living” and Thoreau’s, “I went to the woods to live deliberately” became mottos.
Although each class lasted one academic year, the teacher was guided by students for twenty-four years and his adventure ended when a modern-day Moses mysteriously met him on top of Half Dome.
299 pages in length, Biodesign Out For A Walk is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the nature and ecology category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Biodesign Out For A Walk meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $15.95 and $26.95 for the paperback and hardback editions, respectively.
Additionally, Biodesign Out For A Walk can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/bookstore.
ISBN: 9781432772857
Format: 6 x 9 paperback cream
SRP: $15.95
ISBN: 9781432772871
Format: 6 x 9 hardback w/ jacket
SRP: $26.95
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/biodesign.
About the author:
Lowell Young and his wife Christie have lived in California’s Napa Valley for over forty years. Mr. Young taught high school biology for nearly forty years before he retired. The class that evolved into Biodesign was a creative, collaborative project where the roles of teacher and student were often reversed. It was well known by the students that although Mr. Young represented the physical nature of the class, Christie’s silent spiritual guidance was often felt in their classroom circles, as well as along the many miles of trails they walked. The Biodesign class may be the only one of its kind taught in a public high school in the country. The author can be contacted at: biodesignoutforawalk@gmail.com or www.facebook.com/biodesignoutforawalk
About Outskirts Press, Inc.
Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.
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Outskirts Press, Inc., 10940 S. Parker Rd - 515, Parker, Colorado 80134
http://outskirtspress.com 1-888-OP-BOOKS
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