August 2015 Creation Corner
Column: Summer Reading, because learning about and caring for the environment
never takes a vacation.
Abbey in America: A
Philosopher's Legacy in a New Century. edited by John A. Murray.
The Accidental
Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution. Henry Gee.
Accommodating Nature:
The Photographs of Frank Gohlke. John Rohrbach, with essays by F. Gohlke and
Rebecca Solnit.
Addled. Joe-Ann Hart
(novel).
After Preservation:
Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans. Edited by Ben A. Minteer and
Stephen J. Pyne.
The Age of
Sustainable Development. Jeffrey D. Sachs. Foreword by Ban Ki-Moon.
The American Bird
Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation. Daniel J. Lebbin, Michael J. Parr, and
George H. Fenwick.
American Earth:
Environmental Writing Since Thoreau. Bill McKibben, editor.
Animals in
Photographs. Arpad Kovacs.
Another Politics:
Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements. Chris Dixon.
Arctic Voices:
Resistance at the Tipping Point. Subhankar Banerjee, editor.
The Art of the
Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry. Norman Wirzba, editor.
Bananas: How the
United Fruit Company Shaped the World. Peter Chapman.
Bats: A World of
Science and Mystery. M. Brock Fenton and Nancy B. Simmons.
Beach Devotions:
Refreshing Your Soul with Lessons from the Beach. Laura Vae Gatz (with
photographs).
A Beautiful Question:
Finding Nature's Deep Design. Frank Wilczek.
Bee Time: Lessons
from the Hive. Mark L. Winston.
The Bees. Laline
Paull (fiction).
Before the Law:
Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame. Cary Wolfe.
Bird Watch: A Survey
of Planet Earth's Changing Ecosystems. Martin Walters.
The Birds of Costa
Rica: A Field Guide, Second Edition. Richard Garrigues and Robert Dean.
Black Nature: Four
Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. Camille Dungy, editor.
The Book of Barely
Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary. Caspar Henderson.
The Book of Beetles:
A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred of Nature's Gems. Patrice Bouchard.
The Book of Fungi: A
Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World.
Peter Roberts and Shelley Evans.
The Book of the Green
Man: A Poem by Ronald Johnson.
The Book of
Naturalists: An Anthology of the Best Natural History. William Beebe, editor.
Butterflies: Ecology
and Evolution Taking Flight. edited by Carol L. Boggs, Ward B. Watt and Paul R.
Ehrlich.
Can Animals Be Moral?
Mark Rowlands.
Can We Survive Our
Origins?: Readings in Rene Girard's Theory of Violence and the Sacred. Pierpaolo
Antonello & Paul Gifford, editors.
Caring Economics:
Conversations on Altruism and Compassion Between Scientists, Economists, and
the Dalai Lama. Edited by Tania Singer and Matthieu Ricard.
Cheap and Clean: How
Americans Think about Energy in the Age of Global Warming. Stephen Ansolabehere
and David M. Konisky.
Chicago Gardens: The
Early History. Cathy Jean Maloney.
Climate Intervention:
Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth. National ResearchCouncil/NationalAcademy
Press.
Climate Shock: The Economic
Consequences of a Hotter Planet. Gernot Wagner & MartinL. Weitzman.
Coal and Empire: The
Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America. Peter A. Shulman.
Concrete Jungle: New
York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future. Niles Eldredge and
Sidney Horenstein.
A Country Called
Childhood: Children and the Exuberant World. Jay Griffiths.
The Cultural Lives of
Whales and Dolphins. Hal Whitehead and Luke Rendell.
Dark Green Religion:
Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future. Bron Taylor.
Darwin in the
Twenty-First Century: Nature, Humanity, and God. Edited by Phillip R. Sloan,
Gerald McKenny, and Kathleen Eggleson.
Deceptive Beauties:
The World of Wild Orchids. Christian Ziegler.
Degrowth: A
Vocabulary for a New Era. Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria and GiorgosKallis.
Dispatches From
Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten. Kate Brown.
Divine Animal. Scott
Russell Sanders (fiction).
Dodging Extinction:
Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth. Anthony D. Barnosky.
Dog's Best Friend:
Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship. Mark Derr.
Don't Even Think
About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change. George Marshall.
Dreams of Earth and
Sky. Freeman Dyson.
Eager To Love: The
Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi. Richard Rohr, O. S. F.
Earth's Deep History:
How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters. Martin J. S. Rudwick.
Eating People Is
Wrong, and Other Essays on famine, Its Past, and Its Future. Cormac O Grada.
Ecological Imperialism:
The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (new edition). Alfred W. Crosby.
Ecology and
Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis. Chris Williams.
EcoMind: Changing the
Way We Think, to Create the World We Want. Frances Moore Lappe.
The Edge of
Extinction: Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands. Jules Pretty.
The Education of a
Gardener. Russell Page; preface by Robin Lane Fox.
Elephant Don: The
Politics of a Pachyderm Posse. Caitlin O'Connell.
Empire of Water: An
Environmental and Political History of the New York City Water Supply. David
Soll.
The Enculturated
Gene. Duana Fullwiley.
The End of Plenty:
The Race to Feed a Crowded World. Joel K. Bourne, Jr.
The Energy of Nature.
E. C. Pielou.
Energy Revolution: The
Physics and the Promise of Efficient Technology. Mara Prentiss.
Enough is Enough:
Building A Sustainable Economy in A World of Finite Resources. Rob Dietz and
Dan O'Neill.
The Essential
Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land. Norman Wirzba,
editor.
Ethics and Animals:
An Introduction. Lori Gruen.
Everglades: America's
Wetland. Mac Stone.
Excellent Beauty: The
Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of the World. Eric Dietrich.
Extractive
Imperialism in the Americas: Capitalism's New Frontier. Edited by James Petras
and Henry Veltmeyer.
Faith versus Fact:
Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible. Jerry A. Coyne.
Fantasy Islands:
Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis. Julie Sze.
Feral: Rewilding the
Land, the Sea, and Human Life. George Monbiot.
A Field Guide to
Coastal Fishes: From Maine to Texas. Val Kells and Kent Carpenter.
Field Guide to the
Natural World of Washington, D. C. Howard Youth, with illustrations and
photographs.
Field Guide to the
Neighborhood Birds of New York City. Leslie Day, with illustrations and
photographs.
Fishes of the Open
Ocean: A Natural History and Illustrated Guide. Julian Pepperell.
Flying Dinosaurs: How
Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds. John Pickrell.
Foragers, Farmers,
and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve. Ian Morris.
Forests Forever:
Their Ecology, Restoration, and Preservation. John J. Berger.
Fragile Web: What's
Next for Nature? Edited by Jonathan Silvertown.
Frederick Law Olmsted:
Plans and Views of Public Parks. Edited by Charles E. Beveridge, Lauren Meier,
and Irene Mills.
Fresh Water. E. C.
Pielou.
Fruits of Eden: David
Fairchild and America's Plant Hunters. Amanda Harris.
Fuels Paradise:
Seeking Energy Security in Europe, Japan, and the United States. John S.
Duffield.
Gems and Gemstones:
Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World. Lance Grande and Allison
Augustyn.
A General History of
Quadrupeds: The Figures Engraved on Wood (first published in 1790). Thomas Bewick.
Getting Energy Prices
Right: From Principle to Practice. Ian Perry, Dirk Heine, Eliza Lis, and
Shanjun Li.
Global Crisis: War,
Climate Change and Catastrophe in the 17th Century. Geoffrey Parker.
Global Environmental
Politics. edited by Kate O'Neill and Stacy D. VanDeveer (an MIT Press journal).
God's Planet. Owen
Gingerich, foreword by Randy Issac.
Gone Tomorrow: The
Hidden Life of Garbage. Heather Rogers.
A Great Aridness:
Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest. William deBuys.
The Great Transition:
Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy. Lester R. Brown, et al.
Green Gone Wrong: How
Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution. Heather Rogers.
The
"Greening" of Costa Rica: Women, Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, and
the Remaking of Nature. Ana Isla.
H is for Hawk. Helen
Macdonald.
A History of the
Arctic: Nature, Exploration and Exploitation. John McCannon.
A History of the
Garden in Fifty Tools. Bill Laws.
How Animals Grieve.
Barbara J. King.
How Culture Shapes
the Climate Change Debate. Andrew J. Hoffman.
How To Clone a
Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction. Beth Shapiro.
How To Find a
Habitable Planet. James F. Kasting.
How To Raise a Wild
Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature. Scott D. Sampson.
How to Think
Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism. Roger
Scruton.
The Human Age: The
World Shaped By Us. Diane Ackerman.
Hybrid: The History
and Science of Plant Breeding. Noel Kingsbury.
Ice: The Nature, the
History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance. Mariana Gosnell.
Imaginary Animals:
The Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human. Boria Sax.
In the Steps of St.
Francis. Ernest Raymond.
Infectious Disease
Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and Disease on Ecosystems. Richard S.
Ostfeld, et al.
Infested: How the Bed
Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World. Brooke Borel.
Infinite City: A San
Francisco Atlas. Rebecca Solnit.
Integrating Climate,
Energy, and Air Pollution Policies. Robert Duffy.
The Invaders: How
Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction. Pat Shipman.
Invisible Beasts.
Sharona Muir (fiction).
The Kingdom of Fungi.
Jens H. Petersen.
The Land of Love and
Drowning. Tiphanie Yanique (fiction).
The Land of Milk and
Uncle Honey: Memories from the Farm of My Youth. Alan Guebert with Mary Grace
Foxwell.
Landmarks. Robert
Macfarlane.
The Language of Food:
A Linguist Reads the Menu. Dan Jurafsky.
The Last Walk: Reflections
on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives. Jessica Pierce.
Latin for Gardeners:
Over 3, 000 Plant Names Explained and Explored. Lorraine Harrison.
A Line in the Tar
Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice. Edited by Toban Black, Stephen
D'arcy, Tony Weiss, Joshua K. Russell.
Long Man. Amy Greene
(fiction).
The Long and the
Short of It: The Science of Life Span and Aging. Jonathan Silvertown.
The Long Thaw: How
Humans Are Changing the Next 100, 000 Years of Earth's Climate. David Archer.
Mammals of North
America. Roland Kays and Don E. Wilson.
Marx and Nature: A
Red and Green Perspective. Paul Burkett; foreword by John Bellamy Foster.
Masterminding Nature:
The Breeding of Animals, 1750-2010. Margaret E. Derry.
Material Politics: Disputes
Along the Pipeline. Andrew Barry.
The Meaning of Human
Existence. Edward O. Wilson.
Melting Away: A
Ten-Year Journey Through Our Endangered Polar Regions. Camille Seaman.
Milk Money: Cash,
Cows, and the Death of the American Dairy Farm. Kirk Kardashian.
Mining and
Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory. edited by Arn
Keeling and John Sandlos.
The Most Good You Can
Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically. Peter
Singer.
My Mother is Now Earth.
Mark Anthony Rolo.
The Narrow Edge: A
Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey. Deborah Cramer.
Nation-States and the
Global Environment: New Approaches to International Environmental History.
edited by Erika Maris Bsumek, David Kinkela, and Mark Atwood Lawrence.
A Natural History of
Time. Pascal Richet.
Nature Writings: The
Story of My Boyhood and Youth, First Summer in the Sierra, etc. Essays. John
Muir.
Nature's Palette: The
Science of Plant Color. David Lee.
The New Wild: Why
Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation. Fred Pearce.
New York City
Gardens. Veronika Hofer and Betsy Pinover Schiff.
Nonsense on Stilts:
How to Tell Science from Bunk. Massimo Pigliucci.
Oceans: An
Illustrated Reference. Dorrik Stow.
Oil, Islam, and
Conflict: Central Asia since 1945. Rob Johnson.
The Oldest Living
Things in the World. Rachel Sussman.
The One-Straw
Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming. Masanobu Fukuoka; with
contributions from Francis Moore Lappe and Wendell Berry.
Onward and Upward in
the Garden. Katharine S. White; intro. by E. B. White.
An Orchard Invisible:
A Natural History of Seeds. Jonathan Silvertown.
Orchids of Tropical
America: An Introduction and Guide. Joe E. Meisel, Ronald S. Kaufmann and
Franco Pupulin.
Our Magnetic Earth:
The Science of Geomagnetism. Ronald T. Merrill.
Oxford Atlas of the
World.
The Oxford Companion to Food. Alan Davidson.
The Oxford Companion to Food. Alan Davidson.
Paradise Found:
Nature in America at the Time of Discovery. Steve Nicholls.
Pictograph. Melissa
Kwasny (poetry).
The Place of Hope in
an Age of Climate Disaster: An issue of Tikkun (30:2); Michael
Lerner, editor.
Planet of the Bugs:
Evolution and the Rise of Insects. Scott Richard Shaw.
A Planet of Viruses.
Carl Zimmer.
Planet Without Apes.
Craig B. Stanford.
Plankton: Wonders of
the Drifting World. Christian Sardet.
Pleasures of the
Garden: A Literary Anthology. edited by Christina Hardyment.
The Point of View of
the Universe. Peter Singer and Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek.
Poisonous Plants: A Guide
for Parents and Childcare Providers. Elizabeth A. Dauncey.
Power Over Peoples:
Technology, Environments and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present. Daniel
R. Headrick.
The Powers That Be:
Global Energy for the Twenty-first Century and Beyond. Scott L. Montgomery.
Practical Botany for
Gardeners: Over 3, 000 Botanical Terms Explained and Explored. Geoff Hodge.
Presidents and the
American Environment. Otis L. Graham, Jr.
Primates of the
World: An Illustrated Guide. Jean-Jacques Petter.
Pure and Modern Milk:
An Environmental History since 1900. Kendra Smith-Howard.
Rain: A Natural and
Cultural History. Cynthia Barnett.
Rainforest. Lewis
Blackwell, editor (photographs).
Rediscovering
National Parks in the Spirit of John Muir. Michael Frome.
Relics: Travels in
Nature's Time Machine. Piotr Naskrecki (photographs and essays).
Remarkable Plants
That Shape Our World. Helen Bynum and William Bynum.
The Rights of Nature.
Roderick Frazier Nash.
Sapiens: A Brief
History of Humankind. Yuval Noah Harari.
Savage Grace: A
Journey in Wildness. Jay Griffiths.
Science on Ice: Four
Polar Expeditions. Chris Linder.
Scripture, Culture,
and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible. Ellen F. Davis.
The Sea: Marine
Ecosystem-Based Management, vol. 16. Michael J. Fogarty and James J. McCarthy.
Secrets of the
Universe: How We Discovered the Cosmos. Paul Murdin.
Seeing Green: The Use
and Abuse of American Environmental Images. Finis Dunaway.
Sex, Drugs, and Sea
Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter. Ellen Prager.
The Shared Society: A
Vision for the Global Future of Latin America. Alejandro Toledo.
Sharing the Earth: An
International Environmental Justice Reader. Elizabeth Ammons and Modhumita Roy,
editors.
A Significant Life:
Human Meaning in a Silent Universe. Todd May.
The Soul of the
Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage. Chet Raymo.
Storytelling Apes:
Primatology Narratives Past and Future. Mary Sanders Pollock.
Subterranean Estates:
Life Worlds of Oil and Gas. edited by Hannah Appel, Arthur Mason, and Michael
Watts.
A Ted Hughes
Bestiary. Alice Oswald, editor (poetry).
Teilhard De Chardin's
Cosmic Christology and Christian Cosmology. Rev. Donald Goergen (dvd or cd
set).
The Territories of
Science and Religion. Peter Harrison.
The Triumph of Seeds.
Thor Hanson.
The Tusk That Did The
Damage. Tania James (novel).
This Changes
Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate. Naomi Klein.
Thomas Berry:
Selected Writings on the Earth Community.
To Repair the World:
Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation. Paul Farmer.
Too Many People?
Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis. Ian Angus and Simon
Butler; Forewords by Betsy Hartman and Joel Kovel.
Tropic of Chaos:
Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence. Christian Parenti.
Underwater Eden:
Saving the Last Coral Wilderness on Earth. edited by Gregory S. Stone and David
Obura.
Unfathomable City: A
New Orleans Atlas. Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedeker.
The Unfeathered Bird.
Katrina Van Grouw.
The Upright Thinkers:
The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos. Leonard
Mlodinow.
Van Gogh and Nature.
Richard Kendall, Sjraar van Heugten and Chris Stolwijk.
Violence Over the
Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West. Ned Blackhawk.
Virginia Climate
Fever: How Global Warming Will Transform Our Cities, Shorelines, and Forests.
Stephen Nash.
The Wallcreeper. Nell
Zink (novel).
The Warbler Guide.
Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle.
Wasted World: How Our
Consumption Challenges the Planet. Rob Hengeveld.
The Water Museum.
Luis Alberto Urrea (short stories).
Ways to the West: How
Getting Out of Our Cars is Reclaiming America's Frontier. Tim Sullivan.
The Weather
Experiment: The Pioneers who Sought to See the Future. Peter Moore.
Western Rider: Views
from a Car Window. Chuck Forsman.
When Science and
Christianity Meet. edited by David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers.
Where Are the Trees Going?
Venus Khoury-Ghata, translated by Marilyn Hacker (poetry).
Where Roads Will
Never Reach: Wilderness and Its Visionaries in the Northern Rockies. Frederick
H. Swanson.
Why Are We Waiting?:
The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change. Nicholas Stern.
Why Evolution Is
True. Jerry A. Coyne.
The Wild Cat Book:
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Cats. Fiona and Mel Sunquist.
Photographs by Terry Whittaker.
Wild Life: The
Institution of Nature. Irus Braverman.
Wild World: A Journey
in Sound to the World's Wildest Places. 2 compact discs, Univ. of Chicago
Press/British Library.
Windfall: The Booming
Business of Global Warming. McKenzie Funk.
Wolves on the Hunt:
The Behavior of Wolves Hunting Wild Prey. L. David Mech, Douglas W. Smith, and
Daniel L. Macnulty.
Wonders of the Plant
Kingdom: A Microcosm Revealed. Wolfgang Stuppy, Rob Kesseler, and Madeline
Harley.
A World in One Cubic
Foot: Portraits of Biodiversity. David Littschwager; foreword by E. O. Wilson.
The World Is a
Waiting Lover. Trebbe Johnson.
The World's Rarest
Birds. Erik Hirschfeld, Andy Swash, and Robert Still.
Zoologies: On Animals
and the Human Spirit. Alison Hawthorne Deming.
Orion Readers Book
Series collects
landmark Orion essays into short, themed, volumes for personal reading, reading
groups, and academic course adoption. A free, downloadable teacher's guide
consisting of key discussion questions is at www.
orionmagazine. org/books .
The Orion series
includes:
To Eat with Grace,
including Barbara Kingsolver, Gary Paul Nabhan, Jane Hirshfield, Maxine Kumin;
foreword by Darra Goldstein.
Animals and People,
including Mary Oliver, Craig Childs, David Gessner, Pattiann Rogers, et al;
foreword by Jane Goodall.
Leave No Child
Inside, including John Elder, David Sobel, Belle Boggs, Elise Rymer, Anne
Valley-Fox, et al; foreword by Louise Chawla.
Change Everything
Now, including Derrick Jensen, Sandra Steingraber, Bill McKibben, Rebecca
Solnit, et al; foreword by Jennifer Sahn.
Thirty-Year Plan,
including Elizabeth Kolbert, Richard Louv, Andrew Revkin, Pete Seeger, Terry
Tempest Williams, Carl Safina, Simran Sethi, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Ralph
Nader; foreword by Jennifer Sahn.
Wonder and Other
Survival Skills, including Anthony Doerr, Diane Ackerman, Scott Russell
Sanders, Ann Zwinger; foreword by H. Emerson Blake.
Place-Based
Education. David Sobel.
Beyond Ecophobia.
David Sobel.
The Hidden Natural
Histories series from the University of Chicago Press includes such titles
as:
Herbs. Kim Hurst.
Trees. Noel
Kingsbury.
The Animal series
from Reaktion Books includes titles on the Ape, Rhinoceros, Shark, Penguin, Lobster,
Tortoise, Snake, Duck, Pigeon, Hare, Moose, etc.
Papal encyclical on
the environment (Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home) by Pope Francis,
summer 2015.
This encyclical letter is
also available in paperback from The Word Among Us Press (189 pages, $12. 95).
The six chapters are titled
as
1. What is happening to our
common home?
2. The gospel of creation.
3. The human roots of the
ecological crisis.
4. Integral ecology.
5. Lines of approach and
action.
6. Ecological education and
spirituality.
An introduction precedes the
chapters, and prayers follow.
A study guide from the
publisher, for discussion and reflection, concludes the book. It correlates
with the contents of the chapters.
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