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| Mickey Glantz and Qian Ye's new book |
It's Banned Books week, so perhaps a it's a good time to read something different and thought-provoking.
Or, read or give a frequently challenged book to a child you know (most challenges in the U.S. are to children's and young readers' books).
Heck, read something on the list yourself - who couldn't use a re-reading of In the Night Kitchen?
On our table today:
Usable thoughts: Climate, water and weather in the twenty-first century
by Michael Glantz and Qian Ye, 2009
Our own Mickey and Qian collaged pithy quotes from WMO-sponsored publication Climate: Into the 21st Century to encourage thought and discussion on the climate system; variability, extremes, and change; and climate’s tangled relations to society and the environment. The UN distributed this book at COP 15.
Why we disagree about climate change: Understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity
by Mike Hulme, 2009
From a scientist on the front lines, an argument that climate change, rather than being treated as a problem or a threat, can act as a catalyst to revise our perception of ourselves and our place in the world. An Economist Book of the Year, 2009.
The Superorganism: The beauty, elegance, and strangeness of insect societies
by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson, 2008
John Hoffecker claims some inspiration during his writing of Landscape of the Mind from this book. An integrated look at social insects, from genetic to colony levels of analysis, alerts readers to the relentless environmental pressures on everything an insect is or does. The adaptive advantages of a species whose members exist as part of a social organization have led to a rare transition from an individual to a complex, communal life-cycle.Or, read or give a frequently challenged book to a child you know (most challenges in the U.S. are to children's and young readers' books).
Heck, read something on the list yourself - who couldn't use a re-reading of In the Night Kitchen?
On our table today:
Usable thoughts: Climate, water and weather in the twenty-first century
by Michael Glantz and Qian Ye, 2009
Our own Mickey and Qian collaged pithy quotes from WMO-sponsored publication Climate: Into the 21st Century to encourage thought and discussion on the climate system; variability, extremes, and change; and climate’s tangled relations to society and the environment. The UN distributed this book at COP 15.
Why we disagree about climate change: Understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity
by Mike Hulme, 2009
From a scientist on the front lines, an argument that climate change, rather than being treated as a problem or a threat, can act as a catalyst to revise our perception of ourselves and our place in the world. An Economist Book of the Year, 2009.
The Superorganism: The beauty, elegance, and strangeness of insect societies
by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson, 2008
Arctic discourses
edited by Anka Ryall, Johan Schimanski, Henning Waerp, 2010
Pull apart explorer’s accounts, opera, and poetry for awhile instead of data. This volume of literary criticism traces how the Arctic is imagined and reimagined in literature and music, and how these representations confirm or counter prevailing images of identity, environment, and Arctic peoples.
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