First of all, thank you to everyone who posted a reply to me! For those who are new to the list or who don't recall, I has asked for book recommendations for my next and final semseter. My focus will be on exploring the different aspects of various schools of environmental/ecological thinking. I may NEVER get through all of these titles, and I may end up borrowing some from the library, but it's worth it to have a huge list to choose from (and to build upon for years to come)! In addition to the half-dozen nature journalling books I already bought (which seem to range from 'how to' to 'why should I'), I've done some research and am waiting with 'bated breath for my first shipment of books: ~ Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature by William Cronon. ~ Environmental Ethics: Divergence and Convergence by Susan J. Armstrong. ~ Invasion Biology: Critique of a Pseudoscience by David Theodoropoulos. ~ Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold. ~ Nonequilibrium Ecology by Klaus Rohde. ~ Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-first Century by Daniel Botkin. ~ Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson. ~ Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lombert. ~ Boundaries: A Casebook in Environmental Ethics by Christine E. Gudorf. ~ The Nearsighted Naturalist by Ann Zwinger. ~ Faith in Nature: Environmentalism As Religious Quest by Thomas Dunlap. ~ Forces of Change: A New View of Nature by Daniel Botkin. ~ The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Literature in America by Dana Phillips. ~ Run, River, Run: A Naturalist's Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the American West by Ann Zwinger. ~ The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature by David Quammen. ~ The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology by Cheryll Glotfelty. More on my Wish List include: ~ Watersheds 4: Ten Cases in Environmental Ethics by Lisa Newton. ~ Environmental Philosophy: Reason, Nature and Human Concern by Christopher Belshaw. ~ Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas by Donald Worster. ~ The Theory of Island Biogeography by Robert MacArthur & E.O. Wilson. ~ No Man's Garden: Thoreau and a New Vision for Civilization and Nature by Daniel Botkin. ~ Ecology and Design by Robert Melnick et al. ~ The War Against the Greens: The "Wise Use" Movement, the New Right, and the Browning of America by David Herlvarg. ~ Let the People Judge: Wise Use and the Private Property Rights Movement by Grant Ferrier et al. ~ Ecocriticism by Greg Garrard. ~ Life is a Miracle by Wendell Berry. ~ Naturalist by E.O. Wilson. ~ The Biophilia Hypothesis by Scott McVay. ~ Ecology by Stanley Dodson (BIG textbook!). ~ Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water by Kathleen Dean Moore. ~ The Gift of Rivers: True Stories of Life on the Water by Pamela Michael (ed). ~ The New Nature: Winners and Losers in Wild Australia by Tim Low ~ Feral Future by Tim Low. ~ The Balance of Nature?: Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and Communities by Stuart Pimm. ~ Conservation by Sustainable Use edited by Prins, Grootenhuis, and Dolan. (Set in Africa, but looks to address a variety of issues from myriad viewpoints all working together.) ~ a variety of issues from the Opposing Viewpoint series. ~ a variety of articles by Mark Sagoff.
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