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For Science Fiction related to the Environment, see [http://ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Ecological_and_Social_Utopias Ecological and Social Utopias] | For Science Fiction related to the Environment, see [http://ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/c8wiki/index.php/Ecological_and_Social_Utopias Ecological and Social Utopias] | ||
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| + | Nick Hornsby ''A Long Way Down'', (Penguin) is well-timed for the holiday season. The opening chapter, set on New Year’s Eve, portrays four very different individuals who find themselves, to their collective surprise, atop the same London rooftop with the same purpose in mind: jumping off and ending it all. Somehow, Hornsby manages to turn this into a brilliant, insightful, hilarious but never easy or sentimental meditation on what makes all of us tick, and how to keep going despite the despair that occasionally tempts each of us. Mark Hertsgaard recommends. [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4704582 Audio interview]with author | ||
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| + | [http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1272 Jim Houston] <br/> | ||
| + | [http://ic.ucsc.edu/college8core/protected/houston001.pdf Prologue to ''Continental Drift'']<br | ||
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[http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780679776239.html Diane Ackerman ] The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds | [http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780679776239.html Diane Ackerman ] The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds | ||
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[http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1272 Jim Houston] <br/> | [http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1272 Jim Houston] <br/> | ||
| − | + | [http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/houston/desktop.html Donner Party book ] | |
[http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0099280752/ref=sib_dp_pt/104-6923201-4505518#reader-link Mark Spragg ] Where Rivers Change Direction | [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0099280752/ref=sib_dp_pt/104-6923201-4505518#reader-link Mark Spragg ] Where Rivers Change Direction | ||
Revision as of 16:04, 13 February 2008
For Science Fiction related to the Environment, see Ecological and Social Utopias
Fiction
Nick Hornsby A Long Way Down, (Penguin) is well-timed for the holiday season. The opening chapter, set on New Year’s Eve, portrays four very different individuals who find themselves, to their collective surprise, atop the same London rooftop with the same purpose in mind: jumping off and ending it all. Somehow, Hornsby manages to turn this into a brilliant, insightful, hilarious but never easy or sentimental meditation on what makes all of us tick, and how to keep going despite the despair that occasionally tempts each of us. Mark Hertsgaard recommends. Audio interviewwith author
Jim Houston
Prologue to Continental Drift<br
Non-Fiction
Diane Ackerman The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
Lester Brown's Plan B 3.0 an Environmental Call to Action (interview) Free download of book
Rachel Carson link to UCSC library book and video
Craig Childs The Secret Knowledge of Water : Discovering the Essence of the American Desert audio interview
Unnatural History of UCSC is a book written by students in Jeff Arnet's Writing 2 class (excerpts)
Edward Abbey Excerpt from Desert Solitaire
Mark Spragg Where Rivers Change Direction
Wallace Stegner The Wilderness Letter
Introduction to Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs
New book of letters edited by his son and Professor Emeritus of American Literature at UC Santa Cruz, Page Stegner.
