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Showing posts with label Books Environmental. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books Environmental. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Book Review: The Heat Will Kill You First. Jeff Goodell (2023).

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I read this climate change non-fiction book some months ago, and it’s taken me a while to get around to writing a review of it, but I believ...
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Book Review: The Overstory (2018). Richard Powers.

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I previously reviewed three books by Richard Powers, including his most recent novel, Bewilderment , and two older ones, The Echo Maker and...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Book Review: How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going (2022). Vaclav Smil.

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This latest book by Vaclav Smil, a distinguished Canadian emeritus scientist at the University of Manitoba, and author of over forty books, ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Book Review: Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? (2020). Bill McGibben.

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This is another in the genre of books about the accelerating global climate crisis, written by the noted environmental and climate change wr...
Friday, May 20, 2022

Book Review: Eager: The Surprising, Secret Lives of Beavers, and Why They Matter (2018). Ben Goldfarb.

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One of the best full-length books about nature and ecology that I've read recently, this book by writer and "Beaver Believer" ...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

Book Review: Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer (2019). Bren Smith.

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This fascinating autobiography recounts the unusual path by which the son of American ex-pat refugees from the Vietnam war draft, growing up...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

Book Review: The Ministry of the Future (2020). Kim Stanley Robinson.

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The New York Times opinion columnist Ezra Klein (in one of his   excellent podcasts on The Ezra Klein Show ) called this "the most impo...
Monday, May 2, 2022

Book Review: The Rewiring America Handbook (2020). Saul Griffith.

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This valuable work is only available (to my knowledge) as an e-book, in .pdf format.   Despite that minor accessibility limitation, the cont...