I don't read as much as I'd like to..
But here's my current list I'd like to share:
Books everyone should Read:
- "A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive" by Dave Pelzer
- "The Tooth Fairy: A Novel" by Graham Joyce
Books I enjoyed, that others might not:
- "Alas, Babylon" by Pat Frank - set in 1960s Eastern US, after a multi-national nuclear strike.
- "The Odyssey" by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles - A historically important classic that is readable by anyone interested. The introduction and the additional information provided ensure that all basics are covered.
- "One foot in the grave" by W. M. Simmons - Vampires, wearwolves and other creatures that go bump in the night.
- "Starship Troopers" by Robert A. Heinlein - good movie, Great book!
- "Wyrm" by Mark Fabi - Set in 1999 with one hell of a new year disaster approaching. Some action takes place in MUDs.
Authors:
- Robin Hobb, author of the Farseer trilogy, Soldier's Son trilogy, and others
- Carol Berg, author of the Books of the Rai-kirah and more
- John Darnton, author of Neanderthal and The Experiment
- Clive Barker, author of numerous horror/fantasy stories
- Christopher Rowley, author of the Bazil Broketail series, among others
I'm waiting to find the time to read:
- Nonfiction
- 'SETI 2020: A Roadmap for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence' edited by Ron Ekers, Kent Cullers, John Billingham, and Louis Scheffer
- 'What Philosophers Think' edited by Julian Baggini & Jeremy Stangroom
- 'Great American Folklore' compiled by Kemp P. Battle
- Jacques Berlinerblau 'The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously'
- Ian Ayres 'Super Crunchers'
- John Barrow 'The Book of Nothing : Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas About the Origins of the Universe'
- Scott A. Bonar, Duane L. Shroufe, & Duane L. Shroufe 'Conservation Professional's Guide to Working with People'
- Lisa Seachrist Chiu 'When a Gene Makes you Smell Like a Fish... and Other Tales about the Genes in Your Body'
- Jared Diamond 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed'
- John Dinneen 'Practical Jokers Handbook'
- James Dovard 'Attention Deficit Democracy' (Political commentary)
- Patty Duke 'A Brilliant Madness' (Manic Depression/Bipolar Disorder info)
- Robert Ehrlich 'Eight Preposterous Prepositions'
- Andrew Ferguson 'Land of Lincon: Adventures in Abe's America'
- Charles Fishman 'The Walmart Effect'
- Richard Fobes 'The Creative Problem Solvers' Toolbox' (BF449.F69 1993)
- Thomas C. Foster 'How to read literature like a professor: a lively and entertaining guide to reading between the lines.'
- Michel Foucault 'Abnormal' (Pub. Picador)
- S. David Freeman 'Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How'
- James George Frazer 'The Golden Bough'
- Thomas J. Glover & Richard Allen Young 'Measure for Measure' (conversions)
- Mim Harrison 'Words at Work: An insider�s guide to the language of professions'
- Robert E. Hartley & David Kenney 'Death Underground: The Centralia and West Frankfort Mine Disasters' (ISBN 0-8093-2706-6, Southern Illinois University Press)
- Richard W. Heinberg 'Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World'
- Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison 'An Unquiet Mind" - Bi-polar disorder, authored by a bi-polar psychologist (or psychaitrist, I can't remember)
- Bruce Eric Kaplan 'NO ONE YOU KNOW : A Collection of Cartoons'
- Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver 'Think Globally, Eat Locally: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle:A year of food life'
- Richard Kluger 'Seizing Destiny' - Negative perspective on Manifest Destiny
- Steve Lance and Jeff Woll 'The Little Blue Book of Advertising' ('52 small ideas that can make a big difference')
- Steven D. Levitt 'Freakonomics'
- Richard J. Lutz and Aloysius A. Lutz 'Jadwiga's Crossing: a story of the Great Migration'
- Jon Meacham 'American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House'
- Bill O'Hanlon 'Thriving Through Crisis'
- Nina Planck 'Real Food: What to eat and why'
- R.A. Ratcliff 'Delusions of Intelligence' -WWII code breaking analysis
- John Rawls, Erin Kelly 'Justice as Fairness: A Restatement'
- Dan Savage 'Skipping Towards Gomorrah; The seven deadly sins, and the persuit of happiness in America'
- Steven Jay Schneider ' 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die'
- James Scurlock 'Maxed Out: Hard times, easy credit, and the era of predatory lenders' (also a documentary called 'Maxed Out')
- Lewis Spence 'History and Origins of Druidism'
- John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton 'Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: Lies, damn lies and the public relations industry'
- Jon Stewart 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (the book)'
- Stanley Stewart 'In The Empire of Genghis Kahn'
- Tiziano Terzani 'A Fortune-Teller Told Me'
- Laurence Urdang 'The New York Times Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, Mispronounced Words'
- Arthur Edward Waite 'A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry'
- Jeffrey A. Wands 'Another Door Opens'
- Philip Zimbardo ' The Lucifer Effect:Understanding how good people turn evil'
- Ben .... 'Among the Bears'
- Educational Resources
- In Accord with Nature: Helping students form an environmental ethic using outdoor experience and reflection
by Clifford E. Knapp. A resource for educators and youth leaders to help middle and high school students understand and define their relationship to nature. Includes suggested activities. 1999. $17.95. ERIC�CRESS, Appalachia Educational Laboratory, P.O. Box 1348, Charleston, WV 25325-1348. Tel. 304-347-0437
- http://www.skippingstones.org/honors_98.htm
Award winning books that feature Multicultural messages, and ecological issues.
- Scientific Interests
- Lois Gresh and Robert Weinberg 'The Science of Super Heros'
- Thomas P. Hughes 'Human-Built World'
- David J. Linden 'The Accidental Mind: How brain evolution has given us love, memory, dreams, and god'
- Bill Mckibben 'Enough; Staying human in an engineered age' (Pub. Times Books/Henry Holt)
- Michael Shermer 'Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time'
- Simon Singh 'Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe'
- Peter D. Ward 'Under A Green Sky: Global warming, the mass extinctions of the past and what they can tell us about our future'
- Marlene Zuk 'Riddled With Life: Friendly worms, ladybug sex, and the parasites that make us who we are'
- Specifically dealing with Education
- M. M. Cohn & R. B. Kottkamp 'Teachers:The missing voice in education.'
- W. M. Evers 'What's gone wrong in America's classrooms'
- H. J. Freiberg & A. Driscoll 'Universal teaching strategies'
- Howard Gardner 'Changing Minds'
- G. E. Greenwood & H. T. Fillmer 'Educational psychology cases for teacher decision making'
- Dr. Frank Lawlis 'The ADD Answer'
- Patricia O. Quinn 'ADD & The College Student: A guide for high school and college students'
- K. Ryan & J. M. Cooper 'Those who can, Teach'
- Janice Vancleave 'Engineering For Every Kid: Easy activities that make learning science fun'
- George Watson '190 Ready-to-use Activities that make math fun'
- Related to Travel
- Randy Kennedy 'Subwayland: Adventurers in the World Beneath New York'
- Biography/people centered...
- Esther Keyser 'Paddling My Own Canoe' (from Jamestown?)
- Charles Fergus 'A Hunter's Book of Days'
- Ed Vidler 'Hometown Tales: Beyond the awning' (from East Aurora)
- Michael Chorost 'How Becoming Part Computer Made me More Human'
- Fictional/Fantasy
- David Almond 'Clay' (children's book)
- Jon Armstrong 'Grey' (Moral in futuristic setting...)
- Clive Barker 'Weaveworld'
- Susanna Clarke 'Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell' (Johnny recomended)
- Greg Costikyan 'One Quest, Hold the Dragons'
- George Alec Effinger 'Maureen Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson'
- Alan Dean Foster 'Drowning World' (and the following books in the series)
- Neil Gaiman 'Stardust'
- Mary Gentle 'Grunts!: A Fantasy With Attitude'
- William Goldman 'The Princess Bride'
- Harry Harrison 'Warriors of the Way' (alternate history with vikings)
- Henry Ansgar Kelly 'Satan: A biography'
- Megan Lindholm 'Cloven Hooves'; 'Wizard of the Pigeons'
- Cormac McCarthy 'The Road' (Johnny recomended, postapocalyptic)
- Jack McDevitt 'The Engines of God' (and the 3 following)
- Christopher Moore 'You Suck: A love story' (vampires)
- Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle 'The Mote in God's Eye'
- Christopher Rowley 'The Shast War'; 'The War for Eternity'; 'The Black Ship';
'The Starhammer'; 'The Vang: The millitary form'; & 'The Vang: The battle master'
- Timothy Paul Smith 'Hidden Worlds'
- T.H.White ' The Once and Future King' and 'The Book of Merlyn'
- 'Don Quixote' translated by Edith Grossman
- 'Hitler Victorious' edited by gregory benford & Martin H Greenberg
- 'Watership down'
- 'Stranger in a strange land'
- 'War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches' by ?
- 'Jumper' by Steven Charles Gould
Futuristic Sci-fi
- Harlan Ellison & Isaac Asimov 'I, Robot"'
- Keith E. Stanovich 'The Robot's Rebellion'
- Nancy Kress 'Beggers in Spain'
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- I forgot what these are about...
- Robert A. Heinlein 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress'
- Joanna Lipper 'Growing up Fast' (Pub. Picador)
- Gary Jennings 'Black Magic, White Magic'
- Articles
- 'Guidelines for Windfarms' National Research Council Science News June 9, 2007 Vol 171 p365
in the 'Of Note' -energy section.
- 'Beyond Hemp and ...' in What's New/Recreation Tech Trend Popular Science Sept 2007, pg 26
- Related News:Shades of Green Popular Science Sept 2007, pg 26
negative impacts of corn based plastics and bamboo...
- 'Thorium Fuel for Nuclear Energy' American Scientist V91, p408, Sept-Oct 2003
- 'The Importance of Context in Genetics' American Scientist V91, p416, Sept-Oct 2003
- 'The Outlook for Hydrogen' Popular Scientist Oct. 93
- A letter to the magazine about the above article Jan. 94, p5
- 'Hydrogen + Natural Gas = Hythane' Popular Scientist Mar. 94, p34
- 'The fuel cells are coming' Popular Scientist Jun. 94, p34
- 'Hydrogen goes to work' Popular Scientist Oct. 94, p36
- 'Vehicle of Change' Scientific American (before feb 2003)
- 'Fuel-Cell Follies?' Scientific American Feb. 2003, p8-9
- 'Separate and Combined effects on cognitive function' Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry March 1993 v32 n2, p333(10)
- 'The Truth About Denial' by Sharon Begley - Newsweek Aug 13, 2007, pg 20-29
Global warming denial, its supporters and funding...
- 'The Shadow of drought' Geophys.Res.Lett. 34, L15702 (2007)
[Research Highlights in Nature magazineVol 448|23 August 2007]
"The worldwide cloud of aerosols produced by the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 (Pictured)(Picture not included) led to a remarkable slowing of Earth's hydrological cycle, according to researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
Kevin Trenberth and Aiguo Dai show that 1992 was deficient in both precipitation over land and streamflow to a degree unseen in 55 years of records, probably as a result of reduced incoming solar radiation leading to reduced evaporation. The effect remained significant even when the impact of a near-concurrent El Nino event was factored out.
The authors warn that 'geoengineering' projects designed to offset greenhouse warming by reducing the amount of incoming solar radiation on a global scale may have similar consequences."
- 'Divided we fall' by Alan McHughen, D.Phil - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News Monday, September 18, 2006 link here Divisions in our society.
- 'Cellulosic Boifuels Abound with Promise' by Gail Dutton - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, June 1, 2007, p 14-16.
- 'Biofuel; A burden on the food supply?' by Valerie Yeager - Today's Dietitian, June 07, p 42-45. Direct link here
- 'Formula 1 racing: Power games' by Andreas Trabesinger - Nature no. 7147 447, 885-1030, 21 June 2007, p 900-903. Summary: Formula 1 racing will encourage regenerative breaking by 2009, and recapture of exhaust heat by 2011. Additional green requirements such as biofuel my be added then or later.
- 'Chemical engineering: Hybrid routes to biofuels' by Lanny D. Schmidt & Paul J. Dauenhauer - Nature no. 7147 447, 885-1030, 21 June 2007, p 914-915. Summary: 'Traditional methods for making fuels from biomass come in two forms � biological or chemical. The latest approach combines the best of both worlds, and heralds the advent of a second generation of biofuels.' The second generation being 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF).
- 'China looks for alternative fuel options' from News in Brief - Nature no. 7147 447, 885-1030, 21 June 2007, p 897. Summary: 'China is likely to stop growing food crops such as corn to make biofuels. China plans to have 15% of it's fuel from renewable sources by 2020. In place of corn, the China Oil + Food Corporation says it will focus on 'sorghum' to make ethanol.'
- 'Beyond Ethanol: Synthetic fuel offers promising alternative' by D. Castelvecchi - Science News vol. 171, June 23, 2007, p 389-390. Summary: essentially a summary of the article in Nature talking about DMF. Direct link here
- 'Heal thyself--again and again' from Of Note by S.W. - Science News vol. 171, June 23, 2007, p 398. Summary: a new material can repair repeated damage to the same location. A catalyst in a microscopic network of capillaries hardens and seals the break creating a 'scar'. The specifics will appear in an upcoming Nature Materials.
- 'Biofuel Bonanza' by Stephen K. Ritter - Chemical & Engineering News vol. 85, no.25 June 25, 2007, p15-24. Summary: US and Brazil's partnership to develop biofuels, and what the US delegation learned from their trip there. Direct link here
- 'US Coal Reserves Called Uncertain' from Government & Policy Concentrates section - Chemical & Engineering News vol. 85, no.25 June 25, 2007, p38. Summary: 'More research into the magnitude and characteristics of U.S. recoverable coal reserves is needed, says a report by the National Research Council, released last week. The NRC report "Future of Coal R&D" is available at www.nas.edu.'
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16399617/site/newsweek/
- Blogs and Editorials
- "Do Environmentalists walk their own talk?" by Janisse Ray Orion Sept/Oct 2007
Since I'm not a speed reader, and other things catch my attention before a book does, this list will likely continue to grow much larger. But I keep this list here to share with you, and for my own purposes. (My previous method of writing the names of books and authors that sounded interesting on scraps of paper wasn't working well.) Anyway, I figure I'll have time to read these later, possibly during summer vacations.
- Books Shirley is interested
- Bob Greene 'The best life diet'
- 'Stop Walking on Egg Shells'
- David Burns 'The Feeling Goodhandbook'
- Shirley and Rox
- Cupcake Brown 'A Piece of Cake'
- Augusten Burroughs 'Possible Side Effects'
- Augusten Burroughs 'Running with Scissors: A Memoir'
- Bernard A DeVoto 'The Journals of Lewis & Clark'
- Adam Hochschild 'King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror & Heroism in Colonial Africa'
- Haven Kimmel 'A Girl Named Zippy: Growing up Small in Mooreland, Indiana'
- Haven Kimmel 'She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana'
- Erik Larson 'The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, & Madness at the Fair that Changed America'
- Frank McCourt 'Angela's Ashes: A memoir'
- Laurie Notaro 'Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club: True Tales from a Magnificent & Clumsy Life'
- Aron Ralston 'Between a Rock & a Hard Place'
- David Sedaris 'Me Talk Pretty One Day'
- Hampton Sides 'Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission'
- Brian Weiss 'Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a prominent Psychiatrist, his young Patient, & the Past-Life Therapy that changed both their Lives'
- Jim Wooten 'We are all the Same: A Story of a boy's Courage & a Mother's Love'
- Shirley & I
- Jared Diamond 'Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed'
Laurence Gonzales 'Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, & Why'
- Kenneth C Davis 'Don't Know Much About History: Everything you need to know about American history but never learned'
- Sam Harris 'The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, & The Future or Reason'
- Stephen Hawking 'A Brief History of Time: The updated & expanded tenth anniversary edition'
- Sidney Poitier 'The Measure of a Man'