Environmental Science 110 Introduction to Environmental Science Spring 2013

Literature Reading Assignment

Here is a list of recommended books to start you thinking. Select something that will hold your interest—if you don’t enjoy the cover or the back, find another. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are recommended. If the book you are most interested in reading doesn’t happen to be on this list, come talk to us…

·  *Abby, Edward. Desert Solitaire. Ballentine Books: New York, 1985.

·  Arms, Myron. Riddle of the Ice: A Scientific Adventure into the Arctic. Anchor Books: New York, 1998.

·  Beavan, Colin. No Impact Man: The adventures of a guilty liberal who attempts to save the planet and the discoveries he makes about himself and our way of life in the process. Farrar, Strous and Giroux. 2009.

·  *Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of American Culture & Agriculture. Avon Books: New York, 1977.

·  Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods. Broadway Books: New York, 1998.

·  Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 1962.

·  Colborn, Theo, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peter Meyers. Our Stolen Future: How We Are Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival. Penguin Books: New York, 1997.

·  Cronin, William. Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. Hill and Wang: New York, 2003.

·  Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. Vintage Books: New York, 1998.

·  *Diamond, Jared, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Viking Press, 2004

·  Dillard, Annie, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, McGraw-Hill Companies, 1974

·  Duany, Andres, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. North Point Press: New York, 2000.

·  Flannery, Tim. The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. Atlantic Monthly Press: New York, 2005.

·  Freese, Barbara. Coal: A Human History. Penguin: New York, 2004.

·  Fromartz, Samuel. Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew. Harcourt, Inc.: Orlando, Florida, 2006.

·  Garrett Laurie. The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. Penguin: New York, 1994.

·  *Gelbspan, Ross. Boiling Point. Basic Books: New York, 2004.

·  *George, Rose, The Big Necessity: The unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters. Metropolitan Books, 2008.

·  Gleick, P. Bottled and sold: The story behind our obsession with bottled water. Washington DC: Island Press, 2010

·  Hertsgaard, Mark. Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future. Broadway Press, 1999.

·  Hertsgaard, Mark. Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. Mariner Books, 2011.

·  Hudson, John C. Across this Land: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, Maryland, 2002.

·  *Kingsolver, Barbara, Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Harper Collins: New York, 2007.

·  *Kolbert, Elizabeth. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006.

·  Kurlansky, Mark and Richard M. Davidson. Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World. Walker Publishing Company: 1997.

·  Lappe, Frances Moore and Anna Lappe. Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet. Penguin: New York, 2003.

·  Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. Oxford University Press: New York, 1974.

·  Lopez, Barry, Arctic Dreams, Bantam books, 1987

·  Luov, Richard. The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age, Algonquin, 2012.

·  Maclean, Norman. Young Men and Fire. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1992.

·  Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Knopf Publishing, 2005

·  *Mann, Charles, 1493: Uncovering the new world Columbus created. Vintage, 2012.

·  Masumoto, David M. Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm. Harper Collins: New York, 1995.

·  McDonough, W., & Braungart, M. Cradle to cradle: Remaking the way we make things. New York: North Point Press. 2002

·  McKibben, Bill, Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks, Crown Journeys, 2005

·  *McPhee, John. The Control of Nature. The Noonday Press: New York, 1993.

·  Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. Yale University Press: New Haven, Connecticut, 2001.

·  Pollan, Michael, Botany of Desire, Random House, 2001

·  *Pollan, Michael. Omnivore’s Dilemma. Penguin: New York, 2007.

·  Ponting, Clive. A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. Penguin: New York, 2007.

·  Ray, Janisse, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Milkweed Editions, 1999

·  Rampton, Sheldon and John Stauber. Trust Us We’re Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with your Future. Tarcher: 2002.

·  *Reisner, Mark. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. Penguin Books: New York, 1987.

·  *Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation. Houghton Mifflin Company: New York, 2001.

·  Stone, Christopher. Earth and Other Ethics: The Case for Moral Pluralism. Harper Collins: 1988.

·  Tarr, Joel. Devastation and Renewal: An Environmental History of Pittsburgh of Its Region. University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh, PA., 2003.

·  Thoreau, H.D. Walden. 1854. http://eserver.org/thoreau/walden00.html

·  Troesken, Werner. The Great Lead Water Pipe Disaster. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA., 2006.

·  Vailiant, John, The Tiger: A true story of vengeance and survival. Knopf 2010.

·  *Weidensaul, Scott. Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species. North Point Press: New York, 2003.

·  Worster, Donald. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West. Oxford University Press: New York, 1985.

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