Monday, May 19, 2014

Books People Have Enjoyed

This is a list of the books that people said they enjoyed or otherwise found meaningful at our first meeting on Sunday, May 18.
  • The Moral Landscape, by Sam Harris
  • The work of Louis Fry Richardson, Quaker mathematician, physicist, meteorologist and pacifist
  • Ecotopia, by Ernest Callenbach
  • Books by Terry Tempest Williams, including Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, and Refuge, An Unnatural History of Family and Place
  • Excuse Begone! How to Change Lifelong, Self-defeating Thinking Habits, by Dr. Wayne Dyer
  • Primate's Memoir, by Robert Sapolsky
  • The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
  • The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness, by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
  • Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom, by Rick Hanson
  • Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Nature: Our Responsibility, a conference at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • Earthspirit: A Handbook for Nurturing an Ecological Christianity, by Michael Dowd
  • Super Cooperators: Altrusim, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed, by Martin Nowak
  • Naturalist, by Edward O. Wilson
  • Curious Naturalists, by Nikko Tinbergen
  • Steller's Island: Adventures of a Pioneer Naturalist in Alaska, by Dean Littlepage
  • Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks, by Lyanda Lynn Haupt
  • The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood, by David R. Montgomery
  • Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5 Billion Year History of the Human Body, by Neil Shubin
  • Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory, by Edward J. Larson
  • Better Angels of Our Nature, by Steven Pinker
  • The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes, by Gregg Braden
  • Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy, by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
  • Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace, by Amory Lovins
  • Reason for Hope, by Jane Goodall
  • The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future, by Thomas Berry
  • Books by Pema Chodron
  • The works of John Woolman
  • Chocolate Wars: the 150-year Rivalry Between the World's Greatest Chocolate Makers, by Deborah Cadbury
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  1. MikeMay 19, 2014 at 9:41 PM

    Here's the Wikipedia page on Lewis Fry Richardson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Fry_Richardson

    His work titled "Statistics of Deadly Quarrels" is drawn on heavily by Stephen Pinker in another book I mentioned, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined http://amzn.to/1o0Idqn

    I discovered Lewis Fry Richardson when reading about his research on the length of borders and coastlines in Mandelbrot's "The Fractal Geometry of Nature" http://amzn.to/1lCgbLz

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