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.
P.R. Epstein and D. Ferber, Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do about It (University of California Press, 2011).
D.S. Wilson, The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time (Little Brown, 2011).
J. Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke University Press, 2010).
W.C. McWilliams, Redeeming Democracy in America (University Press of Kansas, 2011).
T. Cresswell. Place: A Short Introduction (Blackwell, 2004).
P. Hubard and R. Kitchin, eds., Key Thinkers on Space and Place, 2nd. ed. (Sage, 2011).
Y.-F. Tuan, Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values (Columbia University Press,
1990).
R. Bellah, Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (Harvard University Press, 2011).
J.E. Stiglitz, A. Sen, and J-P Fitoussi, Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn’t Add Up (The New Press, 2010).