Thursday, June 7, 2018

6/18 CCC: June books

6/18 Creation Corner Column:  June Books

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

Biophylia.  E. O. Wilson.

The Biophylia Hypothesis.  S.R. Kellert and E.O. Wilson, eds.

The Book of Caterpillars: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from Around the World.  David G. James, ed. 

Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North.  Mark C. Serreze.

Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants (updated and expanded edition).  Douglas W. Tallamy.

California Greenin': How the Golden State Became an Environmental Leader.  David Vogel.

Carleton Watkins: Making the West American.  Tyler Green.

Celebrating Wendell Berry in Music, vol. 1, and vol. 2  All The Earth Shall Sing.  wendellberrymusic.org

Client Earth.  James Thornton and Martin Goodman.

A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America.  Sam White.

Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum.  James Delbourgo.

Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics.  Darren Frederick Speece.

Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (with a new Afterword 2011).  Bill McKibben.

The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism.  Keith Makoto Woodhouse.

Energy: A Human History.  Richard Rhodes. 2018.

The Experience of Landscape.  Jay Appleton.

Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change.  Ashley Dawson.

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire.  Kyle Harper.

Fertile Ground: Scaling Agroecology from the Ground Up.  Steve Brescia, editor.  Also in French and Spanish.

French 'Ecocritique': Reading Contemporary French Theory and Fiction Ecologically.  Stephanie Posthumus.

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

Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth.  James Lovelock.

Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone.  Richard Lloyd Parry.

Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale.  Matt Hern and Am Johal.

The Global Warming Express. Marina Weber. (For young readers).

Green Japan: Environmental Technologies, Innovation Policy, and the Pursuit of Green Growth.  Carin Holroyd.

Growing a Sustainable City?  The Question of Urban Agriculture.  Christina D. Rosan and Hamil Pearsall.

Healing Earth: An Ecologist's Journey of Innovation and Environmental Stewardship.  John Todd (forthcoming).

Healing Gaia: Practical Medicine for the Planet.  James Lovelock.

A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov.  Peter J. Bowler.

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet.  Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore. (Spoiler Alert:  Nature, Money, Work, Care, Food, Energy, Lives).

Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People.  Timothy Morton.

The Infinite Desire for Growth.  Daniel Cohen.

Insult to Our Planet & the Florida Keys: Explore the Environment of the Past...Confront the Future.  Jerrold J. Weinstock, M.D. 

Interwoven: Junipers and the Web of Being.  Kristen Rogers-Iversen.

The Last Utopians: Four Late 19th Century Visionaries and Their Legacy.  Michael Robertson.  (Note: the four are Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman).

Life at the Edge of Sight: A Photographic Exploration of the Microbial World.  Scott Chimileski & Roberto Kolter.

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

Mourning Animals: Rituals and Practices Surround Animal Death.  Margo DeMelio. 

A New Basis for Animal Ethics: Telos and Common Sense.  Bernard E. Rollin.

Nonviolent Direct Action as a Spiritual Path.  Richard K. Taylor.

Our Place: Can We Save Britain's Wildlife Before It's Too Late?  Mark Cocker.

Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis.  George Monbiot.

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

The Plant Messiah: Adventures in Search of the World's Rarest Species.  Carlos Magdalena.

Proving Ground: Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes.  Edward Slavishak.

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

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore.  Elizabeth Rush.

Science Comics Series (Get to Know Your Universe graphic non-fiction novels for the middle-grade reader, available in soft or hard-cover).  Latest 128-page issue is Trees: Kings of the Forest, by Andy Hirsch.  Other titles include Coral Reefs, Volcanoes, Plagues, Sharks, Robots & Drones, Dogs, etc.

Sinking Chicago: Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment.  Harold L. Platt.

Symbiosis in Cell Evolution.  Lynn Margulis.

Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet.  Varun Sivaraam.

The Taste of Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World.  Lizzie Collingham.

Toward a Better Worldliness: Ecology, Economy and the Protestant Tradition.  Terra Schwerin Rowe.

The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife.  Lucy Cooke.

Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World.  Andrea Barnet.

Whose Dog Are You?  The Technology of Dog Breeds and the Aesthetics of Modern Human-Canine Relations.  Martin Wallen.

Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm.  Isabella Tree.

Wildlife Crime: From Theory to Practice.  William D. Moreto, editor.

Win-Win Ecology: How the Earth's Species Can Survive in the Midst of Human Enterprise.  M. L. Rosenzweig. 

Women Who Dig:  Farming, Feminism, and the Fight to Feed the World.  Trina Moyles.

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Post-Script to my  May "Creation Corner Column" on Plastics, see the June issue of The National Geographic magazine: