Books that I have been reading:
Currently Reading:
Cronon, William (ed.). 1995.
Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature. (New
York: WW Norton.
2008
MacLeod, Alistair. 1999. No
Great Mischief. Toronto: McClelland and Steward. One of my
all-time favorites.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. 1982.
The Minister's Wooing. New York: Library of America.
MacLean, Norman. 1992. Young Men
and Fire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Common, Michael and Sigrid Stagl.
2005. Ecological Economics: An Introduction.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
LeCarre, John. 1979.
Smiley's People. New York: Knopf.
LeCarre, John. 1977. The Honourable Schoolboy. New York: Knopf.
Sachs, Jeffrey. 2008.
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet.
New York: Penguin Press.
LeCarre, John. 1974.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. New York: Knopf.
Hornborg, Alf. 2001.
The Power of the Machine: Global Inequalities of Economy,
Technology, and Environment. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta
Mira Press.
Cather, Willa. One of
Ours.
New York: Library of America.
Chase, Mary Ellen. 1927.
Uplands. Boston: Little Brown
Cray, Ed. 1990. General of the Army George C. Marshall
Soldier and Statesman. New York: W.W. Norton.
Smil, Vaclav. 2003.
The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Hammett, Dashiell. 1999.
Complete Novels. New York: Library of America.
-The
Maltese Falcon
-The Glass Key
-The Thin Man
Strunk, Jr., William and E.B.
White. 1959. The Elements of Style. New York: Macmillan.
(This is a title one should read at least once a year.)
2007
Hammett, Dashiell. 1999.
Complete Novels. New York: Library of America. Red
Harvest; The Dain Curse
Judd, Richard. 1997.
Common Lands, Common People: The Origins of Conservation in Northern
New England. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Pollan, Michael. 2006.
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.
New York:Penguin.
Weiner, Tim. 2007.
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. New York:
Doubleday.
Copland, Aaron. 1957.
What to Listen for in Music. New York:
McGraw-Hill.
Smil, Vaclav. 2006.
Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their
Consequences. New York: Oxford University
Press.
Child, Julia. 2006.
My Life in France. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Smil, Vaclav. 2005.
Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867 -1914
and Their Lasting Impact. New York: Oxford University
Press.
Ashton, T.S. 1968. The
Industrial Revolution 1760-1860. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Hamilton, Edith. 1942.
Mythology. Boston: Little Brown.
Layard, Richard. 2005.
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science. New York:
Penguin Books.
Brown, Peter. 1971.
The World of Late Antiquity. New York: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich.
O'Brian, Patrick. 1970.
Master and Commander. New York: W.W. Norton.
Li, Laura Tyson. 2006. Madame
Chiang Kai-Shek: China's Eternal First Lady. New York:
Atlantic Monthly Press.
Obama, Barak. 2006.
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American
Dream. New York: Crown Publishers.
Stommel, Henry M. & Elizabeth
Stommel. 1983. Volcano Weather:The Story of 1916, The
Year Without A Summer. Newport, Rhode Island: Seven
Seas Press.
Penick, Harvey. 1996.
The Game for a Lifetime. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Nash, Roderick Frazier, 2001.
Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven: Yale
University Press.
Miller, Russell. 2002.
Behind the Lines: The Oral History of Special Operations in
World War II. New York: St Martin's Press.
Louv, Richard. 2005.
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature
Deficit Disorder. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books.
Rolvaag, O.E. 1972.
Giants in the Earth. New York: Harper & Brothers.
McNamara, Robert S. 1968.
The Essence of Security. New York: Harper &: Row.
Ward, Barbara. 1962.
The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations. New York:
W.W. Norton. Sometimes authors just get it right. So it
is with Barbara Ward's 1962 classic. Very little of this book
is dated and there is much wisdom still applicable to our
circumstance today, 45 years later.
Thoreau, Henry David. 1988.
The Maine Woods. New York: Penguin Books.
Strunk, Jr., William and E.B.
White. 1959. The Elements of Style. New York: Macmillan.
(This is a title one should read at least once a year.)
Cronon, William. 1983. Changes
in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England.
New York: Hill & Wang.
Munro, Alice. 2006.
The View from Castle Rock. New York: Knopf.
2006
Wodehouse, P.G. 1989.
The World of Jeeves. New York: Perenniel Library.
Layard, Richard. 2005.
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science. New York:
Penguin Press. This is an important book for thoughtful
environmentalists.
Churchill, Winston S. 1953.
The Second World War: Triumph and Tragedy.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Albright, Madeleine. 2006.
The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and
World Affairs. New York: HarperCollins.
Cronnon, William. 1991.
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York:
W.W. Norton.
McNeill, J.R. 2000. Something
New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth
Century World. New York: W.W. Norton. (another title that
deserves to be read more than once)
Cather, Willa. My Antonia.
New York: Library of America.
Olgilvie, Elisabeth. 1947.
Ebbing Tide. New York: Crowell.
Angell, Roger. 2006.
Let Me Finish. Orlando: Harcourt.
Olgilvie, Elisabeth. 1945.
Storm Tide. New York: Crowell.
McNeill, J.R and William H.
McNeill. 2003. The Human Web: A Bird's Eye View of Human
History. New York: WW Norton. (again...a book clearly worth
reading more than once)
Ogilvie, Elisabeth. 1944.
High Tide at Noon. New York: Crowell.
Nash, Roderick Frazier, 2001.
Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven: Yale
University Press.
MacNeil, Karen. 2001.
The Wine Bible. New York:; Workman Publishing.
Smil, Vaclav. 1999.
Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and
Civilization. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
Williams, Ben Ames. 1940.
Come Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Michaelson, Larry K., Arletta
Bauman Knight, and L. Dee Fink. 2004. Team-Based
Learning: A Transformative Use of Small Groups in College
Teaching. Sterling, Virginia: Stylus Publishing.
Rolde, Neil. 2001.
The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine's Wildlands.
Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House.
2005
Jensen, Johannes V. 1933.
The Long Journey. Translated from the Danish by A. G.
Chater. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Cohen, Joel. 1995. How Many
People Can the Earth Support? New York: W.W. Norton.
Rolvaag, O.E. 1972.
Giants in the Earth. New York: Harper & Brothers.
Sayers, Dorothy. 1936.
Gaudy Night. New York: Harper & Row.
Tuchman, Barbara W. 1984.
The March of Folly From Troy to Vietnam. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf.
Amis, Kingsley. 1954.
Lucky Jim. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company.
McKibben, Bill. 2003.
Enough Staying Human in an Engineered Age. New
York: Times Books.
Bird, Kai and Martin J. Sherwin.
2005. American Prometheus The Triumph and Tragedy of
Robert J. Oppenheimer. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Buchan, John. 1969.
Greenmantle. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons.
Manchester, William. 1988. The
Last Lion, William Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932 - 1940.
Boston: Little Brown.
Polk, William R. 2005.
Understanding Iraq. New York: HarperCollins.
Barris, Alex. 2001. Oscar Peterson: A
Musical Biography. Toronto: HapperCollins.
Brown, Craig. 2002. The Illustrated History of
Canada rev. ed. Toronto: Key Porter Books.
Christie, Agatha. 1976. Sleeping Murder. New
York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
Sayers, Dorothy L. 1986. Busman's Honeymoon.
New York: Harper & Row.
Manchester, William. 1983. The Last Lion William Spencer
Churchill Visions of Glory 19874 -- 1932. Boston: Little,
Brown and Company.
Speth, James Gustave (ed.).
2003. Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment.
Washington, D.C.: Island Press.
Mol, Arthur P. J. 2001.
Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological
Modernization of the Global Economy. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Moore, Ruth. 1956. Speak to the Winds. New York:
William Morrow & Co.
Clark, Robert P. Global Life
Systems: Population, Food, and Diseases in the Process of
Globalization. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
White, Theodore H. 1975.
Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon. New York: Atheneum.
Devine, T.M. 1999. The
Scottish Nation: A History 1700 -- 2000. New York: Viking.
McNeill, J.R and William H.
McNeill. 2003. The Human Web: A Bird's Eye View of Human
History. New York: WW Norton. (again...a book clearly worth
reading more than once)
Byrd, Richard W. 1938. Alone.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
2004
MacLeod, Alistair. 1999. No
Great Mischief. Toronto: McClelland and Steward. One of my
all-time favorites.
Ishiguro, Kazuo. 1988. The
Remains of the Day. New York: Vintage Books.
Sayers, Dorothy. 1986. Have
His Carcase. New York: Harper and Row.
Brinley, Gordon. 1935. Away to
the Gaspe. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart
Menaker, Daniel. 1987. The Old
Left and Other Stories. New York: Knopf.
Dodson, James. 2004. Ben
Hogan: An American Life. New York: Doubleday.
Smil, Vaclav. 2002. The
Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change. Cambridge:
MIT Press.
Crosby, Alfred W. America's
Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918. New York: Cambridge
University Press.
Black, Conrad. 2003. Franklin
Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom. New York: Public
Affairs Press.
McNeill, J.R and William H.
McNeill. 2003. The Human Web: A Bird's Eye View of Human
History. New York: WW Norton. (again...a book clearly worth
reading more than once)
Smil, Vaclav. 2003. Energy at
the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties.
Cambridge: MIT Press. Few writers on environmental issues bring
the breadth and depth that Vaclav Smil does. This is one of the
best books available on energy and the 21st Century.
Belanger, Pamela J. 1999.
Inventing Acadia: Artists and Tourists at Mount Desert.
Rockland, Maine: The Farnsworth Art Museum.
Easterbrook, Greg. 2003. The
Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse.
New York: Random House.
Diamond, Jared. 1999. Guns,
Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York:
W.W. Norton.
Herriot, James. 1986. James
Herriot's Dog Stories. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Clarke, Jeanne Nienabler. 1996.
Roosevelt's Warrior: Harold L. Ickes and the New Deal.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Starke, Linda (ed.). 2004.
State of the World 2004: The Consumer Society. New York: W.W.
Norton.
Tufte, Edward R. 2001. The
Visual Display of Quantitative Information. (Second Edition)
Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press.
Beston, Henry. 1948. Northern
Farm: A Chronicle of Maine. New York: Rinehart and Company.
McFalls, Jr., Joseph A. 2003.
"Population: A Lively Introduction." 4th Edition. Population
Bulletin. Vol. 58. No. 4.
2003
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Heilbroner, Robert. 1968. The
Future as History. New York: Harper Torchbooks.
Strunk, Jr., William and E.B.
White. 1959. The Elements of Style. New York: Macmillan.
(This is a title one should probably read at least once a year.)
Alexander, Caroline. 2003. The
Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty. New York:
Viking.
Rawls, John. 1971. A Theory of
Justice. Cambridge: Belknap Press.
Durant, Will and Ariel. 1961.
The Age of Reason Begins. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Halberstan, David. 2003. The
Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship. New York: Hyperion.
Halberstam, David. 1989.
Summer of '49. New York: William Morrow & Co.
McNeill, J.R and William H.
McNeill. 2003. The Human Web: A Bird's Eye View of Human
History. New York: WW Norton. (This work is excellent. It is
particularly interesting in terms of its relevance to the current
debate over globalization. Read this book!)
Otsuka, Julie. 2002. When the
Emperor Was Divine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
McIlwraith, Thomas F. and Edward K.
Muller (eds.). 2001. North America: The Historical Geography
of a Changing Continent. Lanham, MD.: Rowman and Littlefield.
Brinley, Gordon. 1940. Away to
Cape Breton. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
Crister, Greg. 2003. Fat
Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Landes, David S. 1970. The
Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development
in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present. London: Cambridge
University Press.
Maclean, Norman. 1976. A River
Runs Through It and Other Stories. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
Kline, Benjamin. 2000. First
Along the River: A Brief History of the U.S. Environmental Movement.
Lanham, MD: Acada Books.
Dietz, Thomas and Paul C. Stern
(eds.). 2002. New Tools for Environmental Protection:
Education, Information, and Voluntary Measures. Washington,
D.C.: National Academy Press.
Tolkein, J.R.R. 1973. The Lord
of the Rings: Part III The Return of the King. New York:
Ballentine Books.
Kimber, Robert. 2002. Living
Wild and Domestic: The Education of a Hunter-Gardener.
Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press.
Tolkein, J.R.R. 1973. The Lord
of the Rings: Part II The Two Towers. New York: Ballentine
Books.
Steindll-Rast, David. 1984.
Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer. New York: Paulist Press.
Tolkein, J.R.R. 1973. The Lord
of the Rings: Part I The Fellowship of the Ring. New York:
Ballentine Books.
2002
Rubenstein, Lorne. 2001. A
Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands. New
York: Simon and Schuster.
MacKenzie, Compton. 1951. The
Monarch of the Glen. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
MacLeod, Alistair. 1999. No
Great Mischief. Toronto: McClelland and Steward.
Strunk, Jr., William and E.B.
White. 1959. The Elements of Style. New York: Macmillan.
(This is a title one should probably read at least once a year.)
Chesterton, G.K. 1935. The Man
Who Was Thursday. New York: Dodd, Mead & Companay.
Braudel, Fernand. 1967.
Capitalism and Material Life 1400 -- 1800. New York: Harper
and Row.
Yergin, Daniel and Joseph
Stanislaw. 1998. The Commanding Heights : The Battle Between
Government and the Marketplace That is Remaking the Modern World.
New York : Simon & Schuster.
2001
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. 1987.
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. New York: Simon and Schuster.
MacLeod, Alistair. 2001.
Island: The Complete Stories. New York: W.W. Norton.
Perlstein, Rick. 2001. Before
the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American
Consensus. New York: Hill and Wang.
Armstrong, Joe C.W. 1987.
Champlain. Toronto: MacMillan of Canada.
Williams, Ben Ames. 1942. Time
of Peace. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Watkins, T.H. 1999. The Hungry
Years A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America.
New York: Henry Holt and Company.
McNeill, J.R. 2000. Something
New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth
Century World. New York: W.W. Norton.
Catton, Bruce. 1965. Never
Call Retreat. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Co.
Hertsgaard, Mark. 1998.
Earth Odyssey Around the World in Search of Our Environmental
Future. New York: Broadway Books. A
most important book which should be read by anyone interested in the
environment.
Catton, Bruce. 1963. Terrible
Swift Sword. New York: Doubleday & Co.
Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur M. 2000.
A Life in the 20th Century: Innocent Beginning, 1917--1950.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Frazier, Charles. 1997. Cold
Mountain. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
Darwin, Charles. 1993. The
Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection or The Preservation
of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. New York: The Modern
Library.
2000
MacLeod, Alistair. 1999. No
Great Mischief. Toronto: McClelland and Steward.
Catton, Bruce. The Coming Fury.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co.
Collier, Christopher and James
Lincoln Collier. 1986. Decision in Philadelphia: The
Constitutional Convention of 1787. New York: Random House.
Portney, Paul and Robert Stavins
(eds.). 2000. Public Policies for Environmental Improvement.
2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: RFF Press.
McKibben, Bill. 1989. The End of
Nature. New York: Random House.
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. 1960.
The Divine Milieu. New York: Harper Torchbooks.
Schoffman, Alan and Allan Tordini.
2000. ISO 14001: A Practical Approach. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1948.
Crusade in Europe. New York: Doubleday & Co.
Hanna, Susan S., Carl Folke, and
Karl-Goran Maler. 1996. Rights to Nature: Ecological,
Economic, and Political Principles of Institutions for the
Environment. Washington, D.C. Island Press.
Ungerer, Tomi. 1983. Far Out
Isn't Far Enough. New York: Grove Press.
Junger, Sebastian. 1997. The
Perfect Storm. New York: W. W. Norton.
Tryon, Thomas. 1992. In the
Fire of Spring. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Goodall, Jane. 1999. Reason for
Hope: A Spiritual Journey. New York: Warner Books.
Johnson, Dick and Glenn Stout.
1991. Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures. New
York: Walker.
Pelletier, Cathie. 1986. The
Funeral Makers. New York: Macmillan.
Kennedy, David M.. 1999. Freedom
From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1925-1945.
New York: Oxford University Press. (A superb history of the most
important years in the 20th Century for America. I recommend this
book highly.)
Fay, Laurel E. 2000.
Shostakovich: A Life. New York: Oxford University Press.
Strunk, Jr., William and E.B.
White. 1959. The Elements of Style. New York: Macmillan.
(This is a title one should probably read at least once a year.)
Davidson, John Wells (ed.). 1956.
A Crossroads of Freedom: The 1912 Campaign Speeches of Woodrow
Wilson. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Fumento, Michael. 1997. The Fat
of the Land. New York: Viking.
1999
Schama, Simon. 1995. Landscape
and Memory. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Wodehouse, P.G. 1996. The Golf
Omnibus. Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco Press.
Zamiatin, Eugene. 1952. We.
New York: E.P. Dutton.
Orwell, George. 1961. 1984.
New York: New American Library.
Huxley, Aldous. 1968. Brave New
World. New York: Bantam Books.
Cronon, William. 1983. Changes
in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England.
New York: Hill & Wang.
Norton, Bryan. 1991. Toward
Unity Among Environmentalists. New York: Oxford University
Press.
Dubos, René. 1981. Celebrations
of Life. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Cohen, Joel. 1995. How Many
People Can the Earth Support? New York: W.W. Norton.
Marshall, Robert. 1999. The
Haunted Major. Hopewell, N.J.: Ecco Press.
EES Program Coordinator Mark
W. Anderson Congratulates 2006 Boyle Prize Winners Julia McGuire and
Erica Bickford.
