Books To Read

 

A list of possible books to read is listed below.  You may select another book but please get my permission if you select a book other than one on the list.

 

Microcosmos                                                              L. Margulis, Dorion Sagan

What is Life?                                                               L. Margulis, Dorion Sagan

Guns, Germs, & Steel (Pulitzter Prize Winner)         Jared Diamond

The Third Chimpanzee                                               Jared Diamond

Collapse                                                                      Jared Diamond

Other titles by Jared Diamond

The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the

Ultimate Forensic Evidence For Evolution                 Sean Carroll

Endless Forms Most Beautiful:  The New

Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the’

Animal Kingdom                                                          Sean Carroll

An Inconvenient Truth                                                 Al Gore

Biodiesel                                                                     Greg Pahl

The Queen of Fats                                                      Susan Allport

The Omega Diet                                                         A.P. Simopoulos & J. Robinson

The Closing Circle                                                      B. Commoner

other titles by B. Commoner

The Origin of Species                                                 C. Darwin

Voyage of the Beagle                                                  C. Darwin

Undaunted Courage                                                    S. Ambrose

In The Shadow of Man                                                J. Goodall

Silent Spring                                                                R. Carson

The Sea Around Us                                                    R. Carson

other titles by Rachel Carson

A Sand County Almanac                                             A. Leopold

Desert Solitaire                                                           E. Abbey

A Guide To the New England Landscape                   Jorgensen

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History

Of Four Meals                                                             M. Pollan

Diet For A Small Planet                                              F. M. Lappe

Other titles by F.M. Lappe

The Double Helix                                                         James Watson

DNA                                                                             James Watson

Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice                                M. Plotkin

Lives of Cell                                                                L. Thomas

other titles by Lewis Thomas

After the Ice Age                                                          E.C. Pielou

The World of Northern Evergreens                            E. C. Pielou

Four Wings and a Prayer – Caught in the

Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly                                Sue Halpern

The Original Vermonters                                            W. Haviland & M.Powers

From Lucy To Language                                            Johanson, Edgar, & Brill

The Ghost Map

The Family That Couldn’t Sleep

The Survival of the Bark Canoe                                  J. McPhee

The Pine Barrens                                                        J. McPhee

Oranges                                                                      J. McPhee

Indian New England Before The Mayflower                H. Russell

Changes In The Land                                                 W. Cronin

The Nature of Vermont  (1998 Edition)                       C. Johnson

The Story of Vermont                                                  C Klyza, S. Trombulak

Population Bomb                                                        P. Ehrlich

Human Natures                                                           P. Ehrlich

other titles by P. Ehrlich

Wonderful Life                                                             S. J. Gould

Dinosaur in a Haystack                                               S. J. Gould

other titles by S.J. Gould

Life on Earth                                                                D. Attenborough

The Life of Birds                                                          D. Attenborough

The First Eden                                                            D. Attenborough

other titles by D. Attenborough

Krakatau                                                                      I. Thurnton

Exploring New Ethics For Survival                             G. Hardin

My First Summer in the Sierra                                    John Muir

The Mountains of California                                        John Muir

Becoming a Doctor                                                     M. Konner

Plants That Changed The World                                Bertha Dodge

Tree Crops                                                                  J. Russell Smith

The Diversity of Life                                                    E.O. Wilson

other titles by E.O. Wilson

Seed To Civilization                                                    C.B. Heiser, Jr.

The Sunflower                                                             C. B. Heiser, Jr.

An Island Called California                                          E. Bakker

The Biotechnology Century                                        J. Rifkin

Other titles by Desmond Morris

Born Free                                                                    J. Adamson

Never Cry Wolf                                                           F. Mowatt

other titles by Farley Mowatt

Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed

The World                                                                   M. Kurlansky

Salt                                                                              M. Kurlansky

Design With Nature                                                    I. McHarg

Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the

World’s Most Revered and Reviled Bird                     A. Blechman

Pox Americana – The Great Smallpox

Epidemic of 1775-82                                                   Elizabeth Fenn

The Great Gulf – Fishermen, Scientists, and

The Struggle To Revive the World’s

Greatest Fishery                                                         David Dobbs

The Northern Forest                                                   David Dobbs & Richard Ober

The Language of God                                                 Francis Collins

The Selfish Gene                                                        Richard Dawkins

The Eternal Frontier                                                    Tim Flannery

Riddled With Life: Friendly worms, Ladybug Sex,

And The Parasites That Make Us Who We Are         Marlene Zuk

John James Audubon: The Making of an

American (Pulitzer Prize Winner)                               Richard Rhodes

Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest

People In The World                                                   Greg Critser

Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye –View of the

World                                                                          Michael Pollan

The Descent of Woman                                             Elaine Morgan

Breeding Better Vermonters – The Eugenics

Project in the Green Mountain State                           Nancy Gallagher

Earth in the Balance                                                   Al Gore

The End of Nature                                                       Bill McKibben

Other titles by Bill McKibben

The Unsettling of America                                          Wendell Berry

the Harwood Library currently has a display of

numerous books about the 1918 flu

epidemic/pandemic – you need my approval

before you select a specific one