Lists of Bests: David Pollard's How to Save the World Reading List - Most Influential http://www.listsofbests.com/list/3643 <blockquote>"One of my readers asked me recently for a short list of the books from my Save the World Reading List that were most influential in forming my natural/environmental philosophy. Here's what I answered:"</blockquote> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:39:23 GMT en-us 0 50 42 0 0 Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16984 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16984"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QZ5HY929L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stephen Jay Gould</div> The Story of B http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15895 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15895"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vau2h%2BXKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Quinn</div> A Language Older Than Words http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/34426 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/34426"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LPfl4inCL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Derrick Jensen</div> The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/302578 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/302578"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Q5uNT9t4L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Kingwell</div> The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19103 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19103"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51LAabdhZOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Abram</div> The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative (Indigenous Americas) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114941 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/114941"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0816646260.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas King</div> Humans in the Wilderness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/938233 <div id="position">9</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> The Commonwealth of Life: A Treatise on Stewardship Economics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/938245 <div id="position">11</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter G. Brown</div> A Short History of Progress http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23173 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23173"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416dEO2F3GL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ronald Wright</div> Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33455 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33455"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1862075964.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Gray</div> Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/938257 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/938257"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61VIB3tsnAL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diana Leafe Christian</div> The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26731 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26731"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0871138883.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Howard Kunstler</div> The Wealth of Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5369743 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5369743"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LdB7zuZkL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Jay</div> Extinction http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5369744 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5369744"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41S6VKFD6CL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Boulter</div> The Axemaker's Gift http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/754638 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/754638"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jVe%2BQETcL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Ornstein</div> The Unconscious Civilization http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19631 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19631"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Hht2DhZDL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Ralston Saul</div> Ockham's Razor http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5369745 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5369745"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YVDN0VWWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Wade Rowland</div> People Before Profit: The New Globalization in an Age of Terror, Big Money, and Economic Crisis http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2581997 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2581997"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lW-yZ-EuL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Derber</div> State of The World 2008: Innovations for a Sustainable Economy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3524792 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3524792"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kWiCo78aL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by The Worldwatch Institute</div> The Dream of the Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1265128 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1265128"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Jz-MVA0ZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Berry</div> The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2880634 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2880634"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z3mq6vtOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fareed Zakaria</div> The New Rulers of the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33334 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33334"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mEHfryNIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Pilger</div> The Demon in the Freezer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8245 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8245"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q0R5EPNWL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Preston</div> Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76497 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/76497"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MV62WGWSL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard Manning</div> The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1433897 <div id="position">28</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Garrett Hardin</div> Elizabeth Costello http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61976 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/61976"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416noaQqSKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. M. Coetzee</div> When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10064 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10064"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PTPW7DJ7L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson</div> Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2397417 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2397417"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41nsD5KxjeL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bernd Heinrich</div> The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27788 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/27788"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ms0QOOLPL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David T. Suzuki</div> Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48551 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/48551"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CAkieDoKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Lovelock</div> The Hidden Dimension http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9959 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9959"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51510PyrhRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward T. Hall</div> Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15880 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15880"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gVVChImaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Quinn</div> Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17004 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17004"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BJ5PYJGVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Quinn</div> The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42651 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/42651"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QYTNhAN6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Schell</div> The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68411 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/68411"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Bt6wGTN6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shoshana Zuboff</div> Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31656 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/31656"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H13VHWD0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thom Hartmann</div> When Corporations Rule the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33835 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/33835"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mEZMyjl9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David C Korten</div> Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26633 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/26633"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TssQdH3gL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Merkel</div> The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5369750 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5369750"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41bZbCdMhJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Malcolm Gladwell</div> The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/40184 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/40184"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Zby7LgGfL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joel Bakan</div> At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4431 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4431"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41fmVToJJvL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Stuart Kauffman</div> EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/411568 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/411568"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WSHiAPQYL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Elisabet Sahtouris</div>