CHN BOOKSHELF – A regular feature calling attention to important books and articles that CHN staff, board, and collaborating scholars are reading and recommend.
adrienne maree brown
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (AK Press, 2017)
Brian DeVore
Wildly Successful Farming: Sustainability and the New Agricultural Land Ethic (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018)
Dan Egan
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (W.W. Norton & Company, 2018)
Daegan Miller
This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
Martin Lee Mueller
Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017)
Gary Paul Nabhan
Food from the Radical Center: Healing Our Land and Communities (Island Press, 2018)
Martha C. Nussbaum
The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis (Simon & Schuster, 2018)
Leah Penniman
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018)
Richard Powers
The Overstory: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company, 2018)
Layli Long Soldier
WHEREAS: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2017)
David Quammen
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Simon & Schuster, 2018)
Laura Dassow Walls
Henry David Thoreau: A Life (University of Chicago Press, 2017)