CCC 6/2021: Pandemic Books & Environmental Features

 CCC 6/2021: Pandemic Books and Environmental Features

Pandemic Book Titles

Averting Catastrophe: Decision Theory for COVID-19, Climate Change, and Potential Disasters of All Kinds.  Cass R. Sunstein.

The Beautiful Cure: The Revolution in Immunology and What it Means for Your Health.  Daniel M. Davis.

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Control.  Laurie Garrett.

The Corona Transmissions: Alternatives for Engaging with COVID-19---from the Physical to the Metaphysical.  Edited by Sherri Mitchell, Richard Grossinger, and Kathy Glass.

Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19.  Edited by Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, Elize Massard Da Fonseca, and Andre Peralta-Santos.

The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How to Stop it Happening Again, 2nd edition.  Richard Horton.

A COVID Charter, A Better World.  Toby Miller.

Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910.  Richard J. Evans.

Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning through COVID-19. Ryan A. Bourne.

The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It.  Jonathan D. Quick.

Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle with Coronavirus.  Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott. 

Fighting the First Wave: Why the Coronavirus Was Tackled So Differently Across the Globe.  Peter Baldwin.

From Here to There: War, Peace, Pandemic---A Memoir.  Romy Wyllie.

The Great Inoculator: The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and his Medical Revolution.  Gavin Weightman.

How to Make a Vaccine: An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond.  John Rhodes.

Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic Science, Engineering, and Medicine.  Eve Higginbotham and Maria Lund Dahlberg, editors.

Intensive Care: A GP, a Community and Covid-19.  Gavin Francis.

The Monster Enters: COVID-19 and the Plagues of Capitalism.  Mike Davis (an update of his 2005 book on the avian flu).

New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives.  Alex de Waal.

On Immunity: An Inoculation.  Eula Biss.

Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost.  Slavoj Zizek.  (also titled as PANdemiC!)

Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts From the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History.  Catharine Arnold.

Pandemic Prayers: Devotions and Prayers for a Crisis.  Beth Felker Jones.

Pandemic Societies. Edited by Jean-Louis Denis et al.

A Planet of Viruses, third edition.  Carl Zimmer.

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story.  Michael Lewis.

Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science.  Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD.

The Psychology of Pandemics: Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak of Infectious Diseases.  Steven Taylor.

Public Health: A Very Short Introduction.  Virginia Berridge.

Rebuilding Trust in Healthcare: A Doctor's Prescription for a Post-Pandemic America.  Paul Pender, MD.

Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy.  Adam Tooze.  Forthcoming.

Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them.  Seema Yasmin.

VIRUS: Vaccinations, the CDC, and the Hijacking of America's Response to the Pandemic.  Nina Burleigh.

Web site of value at MayoClinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19 .

Web site on the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines, from the Center for Science in the Public Interest (now celebrating 50 years), as part of its participation in the Biden administration's "We Can Do This" campaign:  cspinet.org/covidvaccines .

Special Cover Environmental Feature Issues of Two Periodicals

Creatures: The Nature Issue, for the Summer 2021 Plough Quarterly: Stories/Ideas/Culture, published by the Bruderhof community.

The Solving Plastic issue, for the Summer 2021 magazine YES!: Journalism for People, Building a Better World, published by the Positive Futures Network.

New Newsletter from Greenpeace

The Summer 2021 update, "Compass," draws our attention to their "Just Recovery Agenda" (recovering from fossil fuels dependence), climate campaign divesting from the bad and investing in the good, environmental racism, the Brazil Pantanal on fire, the Greenpeace 2021 Indian Ocean voyage, five ways nature supports life on earth, progress reports for people, wildlife, and the planet, as well as a link for how supermarkets ranked on efforts to reduce single-use plastics: 

greenpeace.org/usa/shopping-for-plastic-2012 .

For the general reader of the popular press:

The Good Housekeeping Sustainable Living Guide can be seen in their April 2021 magazine issue and on-line.  Also therein is an article by Meryl Davids Landau on "Five Ways to Breathe Easier" regarding advice for responding to the changes in our climate that are affecting our air quality, food and water supply, and making us more vulnerable to illness.

A "20-5-3 Nature Cure" is highlighted in the June issue of Men's Health because "Americans today spend 92 percent of their time indoors, and their physical and mental health are suffering."  The "nature pyramid" devised by Rachel Hopman, Ph.D. neuroscientist advises 20 minutes of time three days a week being spent outside in nature such as a neighborhood park, 5 hours a month spent in semi-wild nature, like a forested state park, and 3 days a year (the top of the pyramid) lived off-the-grid in nature, camping or renting a cabin (with friends or solo).  The magazine article is adapted by the author of the book The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self, by Michael Easter.

Quotation

Some people, in order to find God, will read a book.  But there is a great book, the book of created nature.  Look carefully at it top and bottom, observe it, read it.  God did not make letters of ink for you to recognize him in; he set before your eyes all these things he has made.  Why look for a louder voice?

Augustine of Hippo

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Mike Ochs finds common ground between religion and politics in his concern for the environment.

Politically he self-published the first "Greens Bibliography" of the English-language literature on the international Green Party movement (1989), the project for his Master of Liberal Arts in International Studies degree at Lock Haven (PA) University. He also helped plant the seeds for the Green Party of PA at that time, and remains a cyber-activist with it.

For a monthly newsletter of the ecumenical United Churches of Lycoming County (PA), he has written the "Creation Corner Column" since 1997.  It became a blog in 2011 at 

http://lutheransrestoringcreationblog.blogspot.com/

He received a B.A. degree from Gettysburg College in 1965.