A regular feature calling attention to important books and articles that CHN staff, board, and col­laborating scholars are reading and recommend. Quot libros, quam breve tempus.

G.M. Burghardt, The Genesis of Animal Play: Testing the Limits (MIT Press, 2005).

D.E. Cooper, Convergence with Nature: A Daoist Perspec­tive (Green Books, 2012).

R. De Young and T. Princen, eds., The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift (MIT Press, 2012).

P. Hawken, Blessed Unrest (Penguin, 2008).

C. Parenti, Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (Nation Books, 2011).

R. Scruton, Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet (Atlantic Books, 2012).

P. Victor, Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster (Edward Elgar, 2008).