I hope you'll post your list. I've read the other two, but not
"Invasion Biology." Since my reading list gets bigger and bigger
with time, I may not get around to it, but I am one who has lost
friends over such heresy. However, while I do suspect that too few
really understand the subject and too many react emotionally with
respect to this issue, I hope that such critiques will bring balance
rather than counterbalance. The book's website should be considered
a dot-com rather than a dot-org, since all it includes is a table of
contents--not even an abstract, much less a sample chapter. In that
it is missing a bet, as the issue could use a central location for
data, analysis, and discussion--of the dispassionate sort--about
issues not personalities and "positions." Yes, specificity. I know
there is a lot more I need to know on the subject, especially about
why observable phenomena (e.g. changes in populations over time,
sometimes a very long time).
WT
PS: Baker and Stebbins' "The Genetics of Colonizing Species" might be
a good read, but as I recall, I was a bit too thick to absorb it all.
At 11:52 AM 2/25/2008, Kelly Stettner wrote:
I am looking for authors who challenge the conservation
paradigm. Whether it be chaos theory or another paradigm-shift with
a catchy name, I'm looking for renegades and rogues, the Don
Quixotes of modern preservationist/conservationist theory.
So far, I have David Theodoropoulos' "Invasion Biology: Critique
of a Pseudoscience" and possibly a Mark Sagoff book. I'm also
planning to read Aldo Leopold's "Sand County Almanac" and
"Consilience" by E.O. Wilson, as "giants" in the field.
Other suggestions would be welcome!
Many thanks,
Kelly Stettner
Undergrad, mom, wife, nonprofit director, and Girl Scout
volunteer -- perfect candidate for the nuthouse
Black River Action Team (BRAT)
45 Coolidge Road
Springfield, VT 05156
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.blackriveractionteam.org
~Making ripples on the Black River since 2000! ~
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