Books by Mary MacDonald

The English poet, William Blake said, "joy and woe are woven fine." So it is in The Crooked Thing. In tales delicate and steely, a troubled young ferryman finds himself with an unexpected passenger, a songbird finds its voice, a mother learns to let go of her son and, after a chance encounter, an aging ballerina dances again. In her debut story collection, Mary MacDonald brings each narrator to face their own existence, taking the reader into darkness, passing through fear and resistance, to seek redemption and freedom. At their core these are love stories; they move us, disturb us, and upend our beliefs, to show us characters not all that different from ourselves.

The negative environmental impacts of energy use, particularly soil and water pollution, continue to present serious policy dilemmas. This title explores the issues raised by the use of low-grade fuels such as peat, wood, biomass, lignite, oil shale and municipal and industrial wastes.

A collaboration between the Stockholm Environment Institute and the Earth Council, this book examines the problem definitions, objectives, principles, priorities, and actions proposed on eleven of the major agendas for the environment proposed after the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro.