Books for Holiday Giving

Bruce Barcott, a contributing editor for Outside magazine, offered this list of favorite books for 2006 during a recent interview on Living on Earth (LOE). You'll find all of them in the college library, either in science or main, so you can review them yourself before buying a copy for a friend!

• Field Notes from a Catastrophe: man, nature, and climate change.
• The Weather Makers: how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on earth.
• An Inconvenient Truth: the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it.
• The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: an intimate portrait for Charles Darwin and the making of his theory of evolution.
• The Worst Hard Time: the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl.
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: a natural history of four meals.

Every LOE show can be downloaded for your MP3 player, read, or listened to online. LOE's careful analysis of environmental issues worldwide, with policy makers, scientists and science writers, make this one of the most enlightening programs on public radio. The "Emerging Science" segment is especially noteworthy each week. So lend an ear! [More at LOE].