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George B. Handley

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A Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University, George B. Handley's creative writing, literary criticism, and civic engagement focus on the intersection between religion, literature, and the environment. ...more

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	Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River 4.12 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If Truth Were a Child: Essays 4.46 avg rating — 65 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Fork 4.31 avg rating — 48 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lowell L. Bennion: A Mormon Educator 4.71 avg rating — 35 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning to Like Life: A Tribute to Lowell Bennion 4.44 avg rating — 36 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hope of Nature: Our Care for God's Creation 4.68 avg rating — 28 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stewardship and the Creation: LDS Perspectives on the Environment by George B. Handley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terry B. Ball (Editor), Steven L. Peck (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Postslavery Literature in the Americas : Family Portraits in Black and White 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Literature and Ecotheology it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Magnifica Humanitas – Annotated Multilingual Deluxe Edition (English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish & Portuguese): Encyclical Letter on ... in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

by Pope Leo XIV

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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

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Allegories of the Anthropocene

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“A river is water, yes, but it is also soil, plant, and animal life—a watershed. Seeing it requires something more than merely historical or aesthetic lenses. It requires the poet's eye.”
― George B. Handley, Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River

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“. . . it was the fact that in my memory he was always about to die but still alive that was the most difficult to bear.”
― George B. Handley, Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River

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“The brown [trout] are like so many Mormons in Utah Valley, nonnatives who thrive in a transplanted New World to the point where native elements and diversity of cultural life are squelched. Fisheries keep plopping more sport fish into Utah waters, which isn't the worst of all possible worlds, but it can create what some ecologists call the 'Frankenstein effect.' Predation results, diversity shrinks, and the health of watersheds declines.”
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