Ralph Thurston: 5 books

Open Range is a navigational tool, guiding the reader on a difficult but rewarding journey through consciousness and subjective experience, making stops at the hidden but intense areas of grief, humor, music, and the self. Borrowing ideas from Whitehead, Bergson, and Bateson, the author explores the...

Loving Allis Chalmers follows decades of a reluctant, meandering journey that takes the reader from the backroads of impoverished rural Idaho to the backyards of the rich and famous in resort towns just hours away. Ascetic in a hawkers stall, Marxist in a capitalists guise, the author relates the...

NO SAGE "has a unique voice and perspective, it''s written with grace and economy, and it is full of wisdom. It made a deep impression on me and it has stayed with me...(it) rewards (the reader) with a complex view of agricultural life in relation to human ecology and the farmer''s psyche. It...

The seventeen essays of Leaving the Bucket:Searching for the Sacred in Addiction give a philosophical close-up of living inside, outside and around the context of rural alcoholism and other forms of addiction. The collection is an insightful look at what drives an individual toward change while paradoxically...

Disruption is striking everywhere, including the cut flower industry, where small local growers are trying to upend the decades-long rule of megafarm oligopolies. With disruption comes chaos though, with mimickers and charlatans to obfuscate the efforts of the earnest and honest, the inept and unprepared...