8/19 Creation Corner Column: Books, CDs and DVDs, Announcements
Books
Adapt: How We Can Learn from Nature's Strangest Inventions. Amina Khan.
Adventures of a Young Naturalist: The Zoo Quest Expeditions. David Attenborough.
Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body. Hugh Aldersey-Williams.
Animal Messengers: An A-Z Guide to Signs and Omens in the Natural World. Regula Meyer.
Bees: A Natural History. Christopher O'Toole.
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst. Robert M. Sapolsky.
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017. Hope Jahren. Tim Folger, series editor.
Bloomsbury Pocket Guides To:
Butterflies, by Bob Gibbons
Garden Birds, by Nigel Blake
Insects, by Bob Gibbons
Tracks and Signs, by Gerard Gorman
Trees and Shrubs, by Bob Gibbons
Wild Flowers, by Bob Gibbons
The Birder's Companion. Stephen Moss.
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World. Noah Strycker.
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire, and the Birth of an Obsession. Andrea Wolf.
The Butterflies of North America: Titian Peale's Lost Manuscript. American Museum of Natural History, Titian Ramsay Peale, illus.
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees. Thor Hanson.
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History. Bill Schutt.
Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming. Mark Bowen.
Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming. James Hoggan with Richard Littlemore.
The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. Jeremy Narby.
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? Alan Wiseman.
Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils. Anthony J. Martin.
The Discovery of Global Warming. Spencer R. Weart.
A Dog's History of America: How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent. Mark Derr.
Eager: The Surprising Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter. Ben Goldfarb.
The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge. Hubert Krivine.
Eating Animals. Jonathan Safran Foer.
Ecovillages Around the World: 20 Regenerative Designs for Sustainable Communities. Frederica Miller, ed.
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory. Brian Greene.
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II. Vicki Constantine Croke.
Encounters With Nature Spirits: Co-creating with the Elemental Kingdom. R. Ogilvie Crombie.
The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm. John Connell.
A Field Guide to Your Own Backyard. John Hanson Mitchell.
Fifty Places to Go Birding Before You Die: Birding Experts Share the World's Greatest Destinations. Chris Santella.
The Findhorn Garden Story: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation. The Findhorn Community.
Finding Sanctuary in Nature: Simple Ceremonies in the Native American Tradition for Healing Yourself and Others. Jim PathFinder Ewing.
Flowering Plants: A Pictorial Guide to the World's Flora. V. H. Heywood, et al.
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation. Andrea Wolf.
Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature. Julie J. Morley.
Good Birders Still Don't Wear White: Passionate Birders Share the Joys of Watching Birds. Lisa A. White & Jeffrey A. Gordon, eds.
The Grand Food Bargain: and the Mindless Drive for More. Kevin D. Walker.
The Great Conversation and the Care of the Soul. Belden Lane.
The Guide to Walden Pond: An Exploration of the History, Nature, Landscape, and Literature of One of America's Most Iconic Places. Robert M. Thorson.
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life. Edward O. Wilson.
The Heart That Is Loved Never Forgets: Recovering From Loss When Humans and Animals Lose Their Companions. Kaetheryn Walker.
Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind. Lyall Watson.
The Hidden Life of Dogs. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.
Historical Perspectives on Climate Change. James Rodger Fleming. 1998.
How Animals Talk: And Other Pleasant Studies of Birds and Beasts. William J. Long. Foreword by Rupert Sheldrake.
How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain: The New Science of Transformation. Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman.
Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature is Thriving in an Age of Extinction. Chris D. Thomas.
The Invention of Nature. Andrea Wolf.
Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places. Julian Hoffman.
Katz on Dogs: A Commonsense Guide To Training and Living With Dogs. Jon Katz.
The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature. Nick Haddad.
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Richard Louv.
The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures. William DeBuys.
The Last Whalers: Three Years in the Far Pacific with a Courageous Tribe and a Vanishing Way of Life. Doug Bock Clark.
Look Big, and Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds. Rachel Levin.
Losing Earth: A Recent History. Nathaniel Rich. 2019.
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves. Frans De Waal.
Man Kind: Our Incredible War on Wildlife. Cleveland Amory. 1974.
Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food. Benjamin Aides Wurgaft.
Meditations with Meister Eckhart. Edited by Matthew Fox.
Menagerie Manor. Gerald Durrell.
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator. Timothy C. Winegard.
Of Moths and Men: The Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth. Judith Hooper.
Moving Heaven and Earth: Copernicus and the Solar System. John Henry.
Mozart's Starling. Lyanda Lynn Haupt.
Natural Attractions: A Field Guide to Friends, Frenemies, and Other Symbiotic Animal Relationships. Iris Gottlieb.
The Natural Explorer: Understanding Your Landscape. Tristan Gooley.
The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, A Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History. Darrin Lunde.
Nature is the Worst: 500 Reasons You'll Never Want to Go Outside Again. E. Ried Ross (black humor).
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honey Bees, the Natural History of Where We Live. Rob Dunn.
The New Work of Dogs: Tending to Life, Love, and Family. Jon Katz.
An Ocean Garden: The Secret Life of Seaweed. Josie Iselin.
Penguins and Other Seabirds. Matt Sewell.
Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America. Nathan Pieplow.
Peterson Field Guide to Finding Mammals in North America. Vladimir Dinets.
Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat. Barry Estabrook.
Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness. Michael P. Branch.
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies. Geoffrey West.
Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate. Stephen Schneider.
Seeing Seeds: A Journey Into the World of Seedheads, Pods, and Fruit. Teri Dunn Chace.
The Shepherd's View. James Rebanks.
Silence: A Social History of One of the Least Understood Elements of Our Lives. Jane Brox.
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief. Lewis Wolpert.
Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us. Ruth Kissinger.
The Small Heart of Things: Being at Home in a Beckoning World. Julian Hoffman.
The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of Our Most Elusive Sense. Barney Shaw.
The Storm of the Century: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster/The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900. Al Roker.
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. Raj Pate.
Tales From Concrete Jungles: Urban Birding Around the World. David Lindo.
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor and Power in the Age of Automation. Carl Benedikt Frey.
Things That Are: Essays. Amy Leach (Nature Writing).
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. John Vaillant.
The Turbulent Universe. Paul Kurtz.
Underland: A Deep Time Journey. Robert Macfarlane (see other titles by this author).
An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field. Terry Tempest Williams.
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World. Andrea Barnet.
What I Don't Know About Animals. Jenny Diski.
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto (Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering are Necessary). Stewart Brand.
Wild Moms: Motherhood in the Animal Kingdom. Carin Bondar.
The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wildness. John Hanson Mitchell.
Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry. Julie Guthman.
The World Without Us. Alan Weisman.
Note that two books earlier cited in this blog, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (blog for June 2019) and Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben (blog for April 2019) are reviewed together in the 8/15/2019 issue of The New York Review of Books, as "Burning Down the House" by Alan Weisman.
The Wallace-Wells book, The Uninhabitable Earth, is reviewed in the 8/1/2019 issue of the London Review of Books, pages 35-36, as "All the News is Bad" by Francis Gooding.
The Uninhabitable Earth is also reviewed in the August issue of Sojourners magazine, page 43, as "The Faith to Change (Is climate change too big for our faith?)" by Beth Norcross. She is the executive director of the Center for Spirituality in Nature and an adjunct faculty member at Wesley Theological Seminary.
Compact Discs and DVDs
Anote's Ark. Directed by Matthieu Rytz, re: Kiribati Nation endangered by climate change.
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. Michael Pollan.
Nature's Treasures: Collector's Edition. Madacy Entertainment.
Announcements
Michael Mann, climate scientist at Penn State University, is one of two winners of the prestigious 2019 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. He shares this so-called "Nobel Prize for the Environment" with Warren M Washington of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO.
The Elders Climate Action effort is a project of the Elders Action Network.
Yale Environment 360 is an on-line publication from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
"This summer the Bruderhof community celebrates the beginning of its hundredth year of living together in full community of goods," writes Peter Mommsen, quoted from the editorial "The Economics of Love" in the summer 2019 Plough Quarterly, p. 8. Beyond being inspired by the Sermon on the Mount, Acts 2 and 4 provide the lodestar for this international Christian movement.
Proverbs 1:20-29 is quoted in full before the table of contents in Nathaniel Rich's Losing Earth: A Recent History, 2019.
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