2/19 CCC: Winter Reading Suggestions

Creation Corner Column, February 2019:  Winter Reading Suggestions

"With hearts and minds uplifted, We plead, O Lord to see

The day of earth's redemption, That sets your people free!"

(last verse, Hymn 25, "Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers" Lutheran Book of Worship)

The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution.  Henry Gee.

All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings.  Gayle Boss.

American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic.

Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things.  Virginia Burrus.

Atlas of the World, 25th edition.  Oxford University Press.

A Barrel of Monkeys: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Animals.  Samuel Fanous, compiler.

Beasts at Bedtime: Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children's Literature.  Liam Heneghan.

Beautiful Beasts: A Collection of Creatures Past and Present.  Camilla de la Bedoyere (for readers 6 to 10).

Behold the Earth: A Film by David Conover.

Bizarre Botany: An A-Z Adventure Through the Plant Kingdom.  Christina Harrison and Lauren Gardiner.

The Book of Seeds: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World.  Paul Smith, ed.

Bringing The Outside In.  Mary McKenna Siddals (for readers up to 7).

The Butterflies of North America: Titian Peale's Lost Manuscript.  Am. Museum of Natural History.

Butterflies of the World.  Adrian Hoskins, F.R.E.S. 

Cao Jun: Hymns to Nature.  John Sallis, ed.  (Chinese Art).

Carbon Ideologies, Volume 1: No Immediate Danger.  William T. Vollmann.

Carbon Ideologies, Volume 2: No Good Alternative.  William T. Vollmann.

Caring for Creation: The Evangelical's Guide to Climate Change and a Healthy Environment.  Paul Douglas and Mitch Hescox. 

Championing Science: Communicating Your Ideas to Decision Makers.  Roger D. Aines & Amy L. Aines.

Climate: A New Story.  Charles Eisenstein.

A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for a Faith-Based Decision.  Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley.

Climate Change in a Nutshell: The Gathering Storm.  James Hansen.  Known as the Nutshell document, it helps form the basis of the "Our Children's Trust" climate case, Juliana v. the United States.

Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change.  Jim Antal.  Foreword by Bill McKibben.

Coming of Age at the End of Nature: A Generation Faces Living on a Changed Planet.  Julie Dunlap and Susan A. Cohen, editors. 

A Conspiracy of Ravens: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Birds.  Samuel Fanous, compiler.

Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink.  Irus Braverman.

Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene. Linda Russo & Marthe Reed, editors.

Deep Thinkers: Inside the Minds of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises.  Janet Mann, ed.

Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime.  Bruno Latour.

The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge.  Hubert Krivine.

EcoDharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis.  David R. Loy.

Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence: The Dalai Lama in Conversation with Leading Thinkers on Climate Change.  Edited by John Dunne and Daniel Goleman.

An Ecology of Happiness.  Eric Lambin (re: nature prescription for psychological well-being).

The Empire of the Eagle: An Illustrated Natural History.  Mike Unwin and David Tipling.

The End of the End of the Earth: Essays.  Jonathan Franzen. 

The Environment: A History of the Idea.  Paul Warde, Libby Robin, & Sverker Sorlin.

The Essential Plant-Based Pantry.  Maggie Green (re: vegan recipes).

Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life.  George Monbiot.

A Field Guide To Your Own Backyard. John Hanson Mitchell.

Fixing Your City: Creative Thriving Neighborhoods and Adapting to a Changing World.  George Crandall.

Flowering Plants: A Pictorial Guide to the World's Flora.  V.H. Heywood and others, editors.

Forces of Nature.  Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen.

Freedom Farmers:  Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement.  Monica M. White.

The Future of Conservation in America: A Chart for Rough Water.  Gary E. Machlis and Jonathan B. Jarvis.

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech.  Jamie Susskind.

The Genius of Birds.  Jennifer Ackerman.

The Global Economy, As You've Never Seen It (99 Infographics). Thomas Ramge, Jan Schwochow, et al.

Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology.  Adrienne Mayor.

Honeybee Hotel.  The Waldorf Astoria's Rooftop Garden and the Heart of NYC.  Leslie Day.

Hope on Earth: A Conversation. Paul R. Ehrlich and Michael Charles Tobias.

Human Universe.  Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen.

Introducing Evolution: A Graphic Guide.  Dylan Evans.

Know That What You Eat You Are.  Ellen Rosenbush & Giulia Melucci, editors.

Loren Eisely:  Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos.  William Cronon, editor.

The Lost Species: Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums.  Christopher Kemp.

The Lost Words: a Spell Book.  Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris (re: nature words deleted from the 2007 edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary).

Nature Is The Worst: 500 Reasons You'll Never Want To Go Outside Again.  E. Reid Ross ("black humor").

Nature's Trust: Environmental Law for a New Ecological Age. Mary Christina Wood. (Note: She argues for an "atmospheric trust", that government must protect the resources necessary for human survival. She addresses that and the Juliana v. United States lawsuit in an interview with her in the February 2019 issue of The Sun, "Before It's Too Late: Mary Christina Wood on Avoiding Climate Disaster", by Mary DeMocker).

Ocean Creatures Pocket Pops: A Three-Dimensional Expanding Pocket Guide.  Sarah Young (for children).

On the Future: Prospects for Humanity.  Martin Rees.

One of Ten Billion Earths: How We Learn About Our Planet's Past and Future from Distant Exoplanets.  Karel Schrijver. 

Our Once and Future Planet: Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century.  Paddy Woodworth.

The Paper Zoo: 500 Years of Animals in Art.  Charlotte Sleigh.

Personalities on the Plate: The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat.  Barbara J. King.

Planet of Microbes: The Perils and Potential of Earth's Essential Life Forms.  Ted Anton.

The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment: How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth.  Perrin Selcer.

Preaching As Resistance: Voices of Hope, Justice, and Solidarity.  Phil Snider, editor (ecology concerns included).

Pug: And Other Animal Poems.  Valerie Worth (for readers up to 7).

This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent.  Daegan Miller.

Raise Your Voice: Why We Stay Silent and How To Speak Up.  Kathy Khang.

The Ravenmaster: My Life With the Ravens at the Tower of London.  Christopher Skaife.

The Sea Around Us.  Rachel Carson.  New edition of the 1952 National Book Award. 

Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering: What Philosophy Can Tell Us about the Hardest Mystery of All.  Scott Samuelson (re: "the groaning of creation").

Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields.  Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Steve Rubin.

Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief.  Lewis Wolpert.

Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth.  Richard Conniff.

Star Struck: Seeing the Creator in The Wonders of Our Cosmos.  D. Bradstreet & S/ Rabeu/

Ten Species That Changed Our World.  Alice Roberts.

Things That Are: Essays.  Amy Leach (nature writing).

Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World.  Marcia Bjornerud.

Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands.  Zoltan Grossman.  Foreword by Winona LaDuke. 

Vast Expanses: A History of the Oceans.  Helen M. Rozwadowski.

We're Doomed. Now What?  Essays on War and Climate Change.  Roy Scranton.

Wild Hope: On the Front Lines of Conservation Success.  Andrew Balmford.

The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse: How to Design and Build a Net-Zero Energy Greenhouse.  Lindsey Schiller with Marc Plinke.

Compact Disc

Hymnody of Earth. A Ceremony of Songs composed and arranged by Malcolm Dalglish with inspiration and lyrics from Wendell Berry, with American Boy Choir, hammer dulcimer and percussion.

DVD

Unfractured: A Documentary on Activism, Family and the Fight Against Fracking.  Re: Sandra Steingraber in New York State; film director/producer is Chanda Chevannes.