H Wayne,
They did post it a while back, here is a copy with a couple additions.
The Song of the Dodo – David Quamman (on of my all time favorites)
A Sand County's Almanac - Aldo Leopold (required reading for all
environmental scientists in the US)
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World - Michael Pollan
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Micheal Pollan
Naturalist - Edward O. Wilson
Biophilia – E.O. Wilson
Consilience – E.O. Wilson
The Diversity of Life – E.O. Wilson
The Log from the "Sea of Cortez" (Penguin Modern Classics)- John
Steinbeck
Ismael – Daniel Quinn
Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood (fiction)
Encounters with the Arcdruid – John McPhee
The Control of Nature – John McPhee
Desert Solitare – Edward Abbey
The Monkey Wrench Gang – Edward Abbey (fiction, and a lot of fun).
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Win Win Ecology – Michael Rosensweig
Fragile Dominion – Simon Levine
Tears of the Cheetah: The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors-
Stephen J. O'Brien
Water, Ice & Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes- Bill
Green
Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and
Beneath the Seas - Carl Safina
Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival - Carl Safina
Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful
Spenders, and a Plan to Stop them All - Brian Czech
One River - Wade Davis
The Trees in My Forest - Bernd Heinrich
The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould - Stephen Jay
Gould
The Voyage of the Beagle - Charles Darwin
A Plague of Rats and Rubbervines: The Growing Threat Of Species
Invasions (Scope Series - Scientific Committee on Pro) - Yvonne Baskin
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change-
Elizabeth Kolbert
Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American
Prairie - Richard Manning
Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and
the Mind- David Quammen
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - Charles C. Mann
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can
Renew America - Thomas L. Friedman
Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams
Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago -
Douglas H. Erwin
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (P.S.) - Simon
Winchester
The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon - David Montgomery
Salmon Without Rivers: A History Of The Pacific Salmon Crisis - James
A. Lichatowich
Darwin's Dreampond: Drama on Lake Victoria- Tijs Goldschmidt
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion- Alan Burdick
Ravens in Winter - Bernd Heinrich
Arctic Dreams - Barry Lopez
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time - Jonathan
Weiner
The Shock Theory, The Economy of Disaster. by Naomi Klein
Deepening Democracy. Empowered participatory Governance, by Arkon
Fung and Olin Wright. The book if from a series of Books from Verso
Editors and prom the Real Utopias Project.
The end of Poverty, by Jeffrey Sachs ( is interesting par example to
contrast the change of direction in the thinking of Sachs, in
contrast with his role in the Schock Therapy used in Russia by the
WB and the IFM and led by him)
Also a selection of Books about Utopia could be Useful like Miltons
´The Lost Paradise, Skinner Walden II, Thoreau Walden, Cabet A Trip
to Icaria, Smith´s Memories of the Future, Huxley This Brave New World.
E=MC2 . A Biography of the world most famous equation. David
Bodanisby David Bodanis
Historia del Fuego ( una historia de America Latina) Eduardo
Galeano(Autor de Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina)
Guns, Germs and Steel. By Jared Diamond
The Next Fifty Years by Bruce Sterling ( a look in the Science of the
Future)
Los tres lbros de Dennis Meadows + Co: The limits of Growth, Beyong
the limits of Growth a a recent version ( issued a couple of years
ago). The three books give a trend of the use of the carrying
capacity of our planet.
On Mar 25, 2009, at 9:57 PM, Wayne Tyson wrote:
Recently there was a request for suggestions for titles. If the
requestor has assembled the list, could he or she please post it?
I have a couple to add, both by Temple Grandin: "Animals Make Us
Human" and "Animals in Translation."
WT
