"Every decision about energy involves its price and cost. The price of gasoline and the cost of buying from foreign producers; the price of nuclear and hydroelectricity and the costs to our ecosystems; the price of electricity from coal-fired plants and the cost to the atmosphere. Giving life to inventions, lifestyle changes, geopolitical shifts, and things in-between, energy economics is of high interest to Academia, Corporations and ..."
Harvest An Adventure into the Heart of America8217;s Family Farms by RichardHoran Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2012 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-209031-7, ISBN: 0-06-209031-3
""Richard Horan has brought us a welcome view of America to defy the prevailing political and financial nastiness. This is a timely and important book."--Ted Morgan, author of Wilderness at Dawn"A lively visit with the dauntless men and women who operate America's family farms and help provide our miraculous annual bounty. Richard Horan writes with energy and passion."--Hannah Nordhaus, author of The Beekeeper's Lament"Horan's new book e ..."
Harvest An Adventure into the Heart of America's Family Farms by RichardHoran 336 Pages, Published 2012 by Harper Collins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-209032-4, ISBN: 0-06-209032-1
"An Adventure into the Heart of America's Family Farms Richard Horan ... “I'm
looking for Richard or Deb,” I informed her. ... Richard Andres, about five foot ten,
fortyeight, has a round face, a lithe and wellbalanced physique, shining gray
eyes, ..."
Seeds One Man's Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton by RichardHoran 384 Pages, Published 2011 by Harper Collins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-207915-2, ISBN: 0-06-207915-8
"There is a very old tulip tree growing out of the algae- covered rocks of a low- lying stone wall at the apex of the East Cemetery Hill Battlefield. Tulip seeds are hardy little blades, incredibly numerous, and though they usually fall as a cluster still ..."
Seeds(Reprint) One Man's Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton (P.S.) by RichardHoran Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2011 by Harper Perennial Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-06-186168-0, ISBN: 0-06-186168-5
""Seeds" is the chronicle of novelist Richard Horan's quest to gather seeds from trees at the homes of America's most beloved authors. A heartfelt paean to the writers of America's past, "Seeds" is equally a wise, funny, and enthralling memoir of one man's reconnection with nature. Horan crisscrosses the country while also traversing the wide gamut of American literature, from the wooded road of yellow hemlocks leading to L. Frank Baum's ..."
"The World’s Room explores one family’s experiences with grief. When Erich, the 17-year-old son of Willy and Lorna Hoffman, commits suicide in 1969, his younger brother asks to serve his memory by taking on his dead brother’s name. Told two decades later by the surviving Erich, the book, written in memoir style, is the true story of that renaming, and of how the love for the missing can replace the love for the living. Covering ground fr ..."
Goose Music(1st Edition) A Novel by RichardHoran Paperback, 275 Pages, Published 2001 by Steerforth ISBN-13: 978-1-58642-017-8, ISBN: 1-58642-017-8
"After a 20-year exile, Leslie, son of doughnut magnate Jacob Siconski, returns home for his estranged father’s funeral and the reading of his will. It seems the old man has left all of his $27 million estate to his daughter Mary and his reclusive, agoraphobic older son Charlie, who has vanished without a trace. When a badly beaten corpse found near the Circus World Museum is identified as Charlie, Leslie sets out to discover the truth b ..."
Life in the Rainbow(1st Edition) by RichardHoran Hardcover, 164 Pages, Published 1996 by Steerforth Press ISBN-13: 978-1-883642-02-0, ISBN: 1-883642-02-7
"Interrupting his cross-country walk to Alaska to take a job as a nurse's aide at the Rainbow, a Chicago "home" for public-funded mental patients, a young man encounters a colorful cast of clients who are threatened by the greed of the ..."
Seeds One Man's Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton by RichardHoran, Diana Wynne Jones, Ana T. Forrest Published 2011 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-978-006-186-9, ISBN: 978-006-186-X