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Idiocy, Ltd.
Idiocy, Ltd. gathers the very best from three decades of Eric Mader's work in the short prose form pioneered by Max Jacob, Daniil Kharms and Russell Edson. Prose poems, flash fiction, fables, brief essays and other assorted pieces that will twist your head and make you laugh aloud. . . . Two parts Kafka, one part Monty Python. Available while there are still books. "Eric Mader is a steady hand on the helm and a level eye on the sea of balance. He knows the serious and the unserious waves that we all need." --Afaa M. Weaver, author of The Government of Nature and Multitudes "[In Idiocy, Ltd.] we are playfully and seriously moved to open our eyes wider and our ears to hear the delight of words. --John Poch, author of Dolls, Fix Quiet and winner of the 2014 New Criterion Poetry Prize "Unpredictability is Mader's stock in trade . . . an endlessly fascinating eccentric." --Bradley Winterton
Ueki No Te Ire: the Japanese Art of Giant Bonsai
The first comprehensive guide to ornamental pruning of Japanese-style landscape trees in the English language. Ideal for bonsai and Japanese garden enthusiasts as well as landscape designers, and professional gardeners. Includes a brief history of Asian topiary as well as step-by-step guidelines to pruning and training landscape trees in several formal Japanese styles.
Vanishing Bees
In 2005, beekeepers in the United States began observing a mysterious and disturbing phenomenon: once-healthy colonies of bees were suddenly collapsing, leaving behind empty hives full of honey and pollen. Over the following decade, widespread honeybee deaths—some of which have come to be called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)—have continued to bedevil beekeepers and threaten the agricultural industries that rely on bees for pollination. Scientists continue to debate the causes of CCD, yet there is no clear consensus on how to best solve the problem. Vanishing Bees takes us inside the debates over widespread honeybee deaths, introducing the various groups with a stake in solving the myste...
A Taipei Mutt
Fiction. Asian American Studies. Longtime Taipei resident Eric Mader-Lin recreates the streets of a vibrant, tawdry and little-known Asian city. In this picaresque novel loosely based on the Circe episode of the Odyssey, a young American on his way to teach English is fatally captivated by an older woman who takes him home to become one of her kennel of former lovers. All now dogs. When misfortune overtakes their mistress, the dogs are left to fend for themselves on the streets of a busy modern Chinese city, where they meet uncountable adventures. Future critics will consecrate Mader-Lin as the Defoe of Dogdom.
Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land
How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversity Because climatic uncertainty has now become "the new normal," many farmers, gardeners and orchard-keepers in North America are desperately seeking ways to adapt their food production to become more resilient in the face of such "global weirding." This book draws upon the wisdom and technical knowledge from desert farming traditions all around the world to offer time-tried strategies for: Building greater moisture-holding capacity and nutrients in soils Protecting fields from damaging winds, drought, and floods Harvesting water from uplands to use in rain gardens and terraces filled with perennial...
Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat
Once adjunct teaching was considered a temporary solution to faculty shortages in institutions of higher education. Now it is a permanent and indispensable feature of such institutions, not just in the U.S. but worldwide. This book takes stock of this new development, concentrating primarily on the situation in the humanities. It looks at its impact on the lives of the highly-educated scholars and teachers from many parts of the world; scholars waking up to the sobering fact that higher education presents them with a two-tiered labour market in which they themselves are permanently barred from moving up to the higher tier. To them, being an adjunct teacher means experiencing frustration and ...
Saving Farmland
Saving Farmland shows how sustainability, ecosystems and biodiversity transcend the paradox of man-made losses. Chambers details how to overcome obstacles, choose models, identify vital farmland, build community and raise funds. Stories of commonly shared land, international trusts, regained farmland and several real heroes provide inspiration that a future is possible where local farming and sustainable development will deliver good eating - forever.--COVER.
A Taipei Mutt
Arriving in Taiwan to begin a stint teaching English, Louis K. allows himself to be seduced by a mysterious woman in a bank. Back at her apartment, she turns out to be a witch, and after changing him into a Scotch terrier mutt, adds him to her backyard kennel of previous conquests, all now dogs. This is the improbable beginning of Eric Mader's novel of canine life in Taiwan's capital. Once set loose on Taipei's streets, Louis embarks on the almost impossible mission of getting himself changed back. But as the weeks turn into months, he finds that his human personality is slipping away, swallowed up by ever sharper canine senses and an ever weakening grip on his once human self. A zany, multi...
