GREEN MEADOW WALDORF SCHOOL OUTSIDE READING LIST GRADE 11  2017-2018

REMINDERS: 1) Read as many plays as you wish, but choose only one for a book report. 2) If you choose to write on a work of literature not on this list, you must check with your English teacher first to receive approval. 3) Passing off a previously written book report, yours or someone else’s, will be considered a serious violation of academic ethics and will be dealt with sternly.

 FICTION  The Outlander Adamson How can a nineteen-year-old widow make her way alone in the western Canadian mountains, pursued by husband’s two brothers, when she knows nothing of the wilderness? Raw, potent, well-written.

Brick Lane Ali Lives of immigrants in London, focusing on a young woman with an arranged marriage.

Emma Austen A clever, pretty, powerful and smug young woman’s matchmaking schemes eventually deepen and humble her.

Pride and Prejudice Austen Famous early 19th century novel presents witty, acerbic sketches of the English country gentry and their occupations and preoccupations.

A Place to Stand Baca The extraordinary autobiography of a Chicano who, growing up in Albuquerque, seems slated, even fated, for prison. Although illiterate at age twenty-one, Baca teaches himself to read in a maximum security prison, finding remarkable transformative power through the word, becoming a potently vital poet of recognized stature.

Voyage of the Narwhal Barrett A fine novel of men and women, scientists and artists, connected to an American expedition sailing to the Arctic in the 1840s.

In the Days of Vittorio Bell James Kaywaykla’s first-hand account of the last years of Warm Springs Apache Chiefs Vittorio and Nana, in the time of Geronimo.

The Exonerated Blank & The authors combine their interviews with people exonerated from (Play) Jensen death row with their own memoirs of how they explored these people’s stories to create a play from the material.

March Brooks The Pulitzer-Prize winning story of the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. A vivid recreation of a Northerner’s experiences in the South, including characters such as Emerson. Thoreau, and John Brown.

The Horse’s Mouth Cary The adventures of an inimitable iconoclastic artist, Gulley Jimson, about living, speaking, acting in acting in freedom.

The Amazing Chabon The social history of America in the 20th Century as seen through Adventures of the eyes of a New York comic book writer. Humor, adventure Kavalier and Clay beautiful love stories.

I am One of You Chappell A southern farm family’s stories about themselves and … stories. Forever

The Man Who Chesterton An alarming and fast-moving political fantasy which pits a sturdy Was Thursday individual against a cadre of murderous anarchists.

Segu Conde Several generations of the Bambara tribe (present Mali - West Africa) encounter white slave traders and Muslim converters in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Heart of Darkness Conrad Archetypal story of a mission upriver into the jungle to “rescue” a man mad with power.

The Power of One Courtenay The engrossing novel of a boy, growing up in South Africa around World War II, who finds boxing to be his way into the world.

The Farming of Danticat A novel set around the time of the 1937 massacre in Haiti, a story of Bones individual struggle set against a historical backdrop. The writing and the content are vivid, disturbing and powerful. Danticat is an emerging young Haitian author.

Bird Without de Bernieres A multi-textured, multi-generational portrait of a Greek, Christian/ Wings Muslim village in Turkey around the beginning of the 20th Century.

Crime and Dostoyevsky A poor student explores the question of whether great people can live; Punishment above or outside the law, putting his life and others’ on the line.

The Birth of Venus Durant Set in Renaissance Florence in the time of the Medicis and Savonarola; the novel explores the roles of art and love in a young woman’s life during dramatic civil and social change.

The Name of the Rose Eco A philosophical, medieval murder mystery.

Love Medicine Erdrich A lush, impressionistic story of an eccentric Native-American family.

The Antelope Erdrich Ojibway Indians in modern Minneapolis, where there still deer Wife ` husbands and wives who are part antelope.

The Sound and Faulkner The Fury

Such is Hu Fayun An extraordinary new novel, finally published controversially in China This [email protected] in 2007, just translated into English, this novel explores contemporary themes, any through internet comraderies.

2 The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald The hero pursues his own distorted vision of the American dream, in the mood and manners of the 1920’s.

Memoirs of a Geisha Golden A window into the fascinating and disappearing world of a Japanese geisha.

Dead Souls Gogol The ingenious story of a clever Russian who generates power and respect based on...dead souls.

The Power and Greene Set in Mexico early in this century; the last priest in the land is hunted the Glory by a government bent on crushing all religious impulses.

The Widow’s War Gunning A Cape Cod whaler’s widow finds her way in the 1760s, discovering notions strange to her family, her neighbors, local law, and to herself.

Far From the Hardy Set in Hardy’s imaginary Wessex (England) and featuring one of his Madding Crowd most endearing heroines, the determined Bathsheba Everdene. An unconventional love story, written by a male Victorian feminist!

Tess of the Hardy A story of betrayal and love, abandonment and revenge, set in the lush D’urbervilles pastoral beauty of Hardy’s Wessex countryside. A classic portrait of Victorian characters trapped and molded by society’s conventions, written with a modern viewpoint.

Plainsong Haruf A subdued portrait of a quiet town in the Plains, in the foothills of the Rockies. The characters become engrained, like weathered wood, as two old brothers discover connections to one young woman.

Catch 22 Heller Fast, funny, sprawling account of American soldiers in Italy during World War I.

A Soldier of the Helprin A journey of immense courage, a profound love story; discourses on Great War the beauty of Italy and art, mountain climbing, and the horrors of World War I.

Refiner’s Fire Helprin Superbly written; young man’s restless, restful modern quest.

Winter’s Tale Helprin Magical realism hits New York City, complete with angels, gangsters and flying horses.

For Whom the Hemingway An American joins in a doomed but heroic resistance to enemy forces Bell Tolls in the Spanish Civil War.

Steppenwolf Hesse Of Steppenwolf, Hesse said, “It is not a book of a man despairing but of a man believing. The hero struggles to reconcile the beast, the man, and the angel in himself and to make sense of the pieces of life’s game.” A Thousand Hosseini The turbulent politics of Afghanistan seen through 30 years of a Splendid Suns compelling human story. Their Eyes Were Hurston The journey of a powerful Black woman through the rural South

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Middle Passage Johnson The potent story of a free Black man’s journey from New Orleans to Africa and back on a slave ship in the 1830s.

Ordinary Wolves Kantner A potent portrayal of a contemporary white family growing up vibrantly among the Inuit in the Alaskan Arctic. The language participates in the story.

Zorba the Greek Katzanzakis Exuberant story of a scholarly teacher from England who learns the dance of life from a Greek laborer, dreamer, and lover of life.

Poisonwood Bible Kingsolver The Belgian Congo of the 1950’s and 1960’s seen through the eyes of an American missionary family set against the backdrop of political assassinations and corruptions.

The Unbearable Kundera The political repression in Czechoslovakia under Communism and Lightness of Being its reverberations in the souls of men and women. A particular kind of a love story.

Laughing Boy LaFarge A story of love--with a hard edge--between the Navajo hero Laughing Boy, who knew nothing of the white world, and Slim Girl, who knew all too much of it.

The Collected Works Reif Larsen This novel is unlike any other; the story of a brilliant boy’s journey of T.S. Spivet from West to East, from Montana to Washington D.C., will intrigue anyone who is intrigued by…everything. Amazing, refreshing.

Sons and Lovers Lawrence Charts the growth of a young English boy to manhood, his relationship with his mother and two young women who vie for his affection.

Inherit the Wind Lawrence/Lee Colorful courtroom drama of the famous “monkey trials” of the 1920’s, debating of Darwin’s theory of evolution.

The German Lesson Lenz An artist is forbidden to paint by the Nazis. After the war his works become valuable—one boy seeks to steal them, but why?

Memoirs of a Lessing Set in the future when the structure of society has broken down; a Survivor woman discovers her humanity and balance in the midst of inhumanity.

The Goat Llosa The story of the last year of the dictator of the Dominican Republic.

The Storyteller Llosa A modern man disappears into the mysterious world of the crucial role of the storyteller among tribes of the Amazon.

A Thrall’s Tale Lindbergh Greenland, c. 1000 A.D. Vivid, tough language tells the tale of the thrall (slave), her daughter and the seer/teacher, three generations of women in the twilight Viking world of Thor, Odin, and Freya, as

4 Christianity just begins to dawn in the new world.

Memories of Makine An unusual memoir of a Russian youth with his French grandmother, My Russian Summers spanning decades from the 1890s with Czar Nicholas and Alexandra in Paris, all the way to the 1960s, with vivid scenes and insightful distinctions between Russian and French consciousness.

The Fixer Malamud Masterpiece of a simple man’s persistence in unjust, totalitarian imprisonment.

At Play in the Mathiesson Set in contemporary South America, this novel explores the Fields of the Lord disastrous collision of two cultures-the Niaruna, an Indian tribe virtually untouched by modern life, and the Christian missionaries who attempt to convert them.

River Sutra Mehta A series intertwining characters and inter-connecting connecting stories all centered around the mystical Narmada River, believed to have been created by the god Shiva. Each story offers a spiritual or moral insight, and the book weaves details of multi-ethnic and ancient India.

Black Swan Mitchell A vibrant, rich-lingoed portrait of a thirteen-year-old boy entering Green adolescence in an English village in the 1980s.

Beloved Morrison A ghost lives at the heart of this story of slavery and freedom experienced through the souls of African Americans at the time of the Civil War.

Disappearances Mosher Part mystery, part adventure, part rite of passage, follows the story of a young boy and his memorable father as the boy discovers his family roots.

Mama Day Naylor Life in an all-Black Island community and the adventures of their magical folk-healer Mama Day.

The Famished Okri A mysterious, potent, unparalleled rendering of the overlapping Road worlds in which a young, modern Nigerian boy lives, representative of much of Africa.

The Last Percy A dreamy and dislocated young man comes to himself in the midst of Gentleman a Mississippi family in crisis.

The Shipping Proulx The story of a slow-thinking man who learns his way to love in the News rough-hewn world of Newfoundland—Pulitzer Prize, 1994.

All Quiet on the Remarque Wrenching story of a German platoon in trenches and on leave on the Western Front during World War I.

Letters to a Rilke In letter form, this slim volume brims with insights about art, life, Young Poet and living artfully. Giants in the Rolvaag Norwegian settlers move from Minnesota to Dakota Territory in the 5 Earth 1870’s and do battle against blizzards, locusts, and despair in the wilderness mid-western town early in the century.

Empire Falls Russo A dynamic, multi-generational, multi-dimensional rendering of life in Maine’s small town of Empire Falls. Large in scope. A family coping with ranges of trials.

The Girl From Said Asiadeh, the young daughter of a Turkish pasha in exile following the the Golden Horn collapse of the Ottoman Empire, attempts to adjust to her new life. Although written in 1938, the examination of differences between Christian and Muslim culture are surprising.

The Centaur Scliar A surreal Brazilian novel about a child born as a Jewish centaur in the modern world.

Ceremony Silko A modern Native American’s struggle to reintegrate the tangled strands of his life and his people’s.

Before the Slaughter A memoir of growing up in the 1950’s in the Kalahari Desert of Knife (B) Botswana. A beautifully written, but painful account of the effects of abuse, and the struggles to overcome the burden of a dysfunctional family.

First Circle Solzhenitsyn A look at the lives of the elite, the leaders, of the egalitarian communist society.

War and Peace Tolstoy The huge story of men and women in Russia and France during the time of Napoleon.

Government Traven Political corruption infected even the smallest of villages in Mexico; Don Gabriel, a minor government functionary, sends luckless Indians into debt slavery so that he can ship them off to work in the great mahogany plantations.

La Carreta Traven Andres, a young Indian ox cart driver who can read and is more sophisticated than most of his companions who toil in the great mahogany plantations, dreams of another way of life.

March to Monteria Traven Celso, a young Indian who goes off to toil for two years in a mahogany plantation, is given a trumped up charge to assure that he will remain because his work is so good.

Away Urquhart The poetry and passion of the Irish, beautifully portrayed through several unique love stories.

The Hummingbird’s Urrea Teresita is born in Mexico in the late 19th century to a poor teenage Indian Daughter girl and is educated by a Yaqui shaman, who teachers her how plants can be used to heal sickness and helps her recognize her extraordinary power to heal with her hands.

6 Cutting For Stone Verghese A fine, substantial, moving novel, offering a most vivid picture of an unusual family of surgeons, in three overlapping cultures: India, Ethiopia and the United States.

Slaughterhouse Vonnegut Revolves around the fire-bombing of Dresden during W.W. II, with the Five help of aliens, a witness to the events reviews his experience.

The Man Waters The classic story of a man’s tensions among the ancient Pueblo ways, Who Shot the Deer the white man’s ways, and the way of an individual.

The Age of Wharton Newland, May and Ellen are involved in a difficult love triangle in the Innocence privileged world of New York at the end of the 19th century. The novel captures the spirit of high society, revealing its brightness as well as its failings. Wharton received the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to a woman.

The House Wharton The novel paints a vivid and dark picture of the luxurious lifestyle and of Mirth cut-throat attitudes of the elite class in New York at the turn of the 20th century. In that world, Lily struggles to maintain her high social position when every independent move she makes seems to threaten it.

The Eighth Day Wilder The story of three generations of an American family sheds light on other nations and on ways destiny works.

To The Woolf The story of a family under the shadow of a powerful father figure and Lighthouse how his influence metamorphoses over time.

Shadows Carlos Ruiz Zafron A romantic, gothic, mysterious novel set in mid-twentieth century of the Wind Barcelona, the story follows the threads of a mysterious novel as its characters reflect and affect the few people who have been able to read the novel.

 DRAMA 

The Cherry Chekhov Play about the struggles of a Russian family to maintain outmoded Orchard aristocratic values in a changing world.

The Doll’s Ibsen Portrait of a Norwegian woman who finally breaks free of a domineering House husband and her own oppressive subservient role.

Death of a Miller The tragedy of glad-handing, back-slapping Willy Loman, who must Salesman confront failure when the truths of his life shatter the illusions.

Macbeth Shakespeare

Othello Shakespeare The classic tale of unchained malice, purity of heart, and the consequences of jealousy in a great man.

Two Shakespeare Italian setting follows two friends and their servants through an

7 Gentlemen of Verona intricate comic web of courtship, betrayal and discovery.

King Lear Shakespeare A father passes on his property to his daughter, and things fall apart.

Fires in the Smith Through this one-woman play, scores of voices offer perspectives on Mirror racial tensions in contemporary Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

A Streetcar Williams Set in the South, this play focuses on the fragile world of Blanche Dubois, Named Desire who looks for kindness in strangers, juxtaposed to the raw, sensual world of Stanley Kowalski.    HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY   West With Barkham Autobiography of a woman’s triumphs over the elements in the male- the Night dominated world of aviation.

Silence Cage Something of a “bible of the avant-garde.” The composer discusses new frontiers in 20th century music, such as electronic sound, ambient noise, silences and “chance” in composition and performance.

Joys and Casals The great cellist reflects on his life, music, politics and humanity. Sorrows

This Hallowed Catton An account of the battles of the Civil War, from the Union perspective. Ground

Wild Swans Chang, Jung The dramatic history of 20th Century China told through the true life stories of three generations of a Chinese family.

The Road from Conway An autobiography portraying a woman’s uneasy odyssey from the Coorain Australian outback to the presidency of Smith College.

The Sea Runners Doig Based on historical events, the novel renders the dramatic escape in 1853 of four Swedish indentured servants from their Russian masters, fur merchants on the coast of northwestern Canada. Stealing local Indians’ cedar dug-out canoe, the four make their way down 1000 miles of harrowing coast all the way to Astoria. Potent language, a kind of northwestern Moby Dick.

The Waiting Enchi A picture of the life of Japanese women struggling to make the Year transition from their traditional roles in the family to a more liberated position in modern society.

Anna of All Feinstein A lucid, richly textured portrait of one of the major poets of the the Russias twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova, connected closely to many of Russia’s finest poets and artists, as she and few survive the tragic decades of the Soviet Union.

8 Mahatma Gandhi: Fischer A very readable account of the man who sparked a quiet revolution Message to the World in the hearts of the people of India.

The Autobiography Haley The many-colored story of an orphan’s evolution into a courageous of Malcolm X black leader of the 1960’s.

Roots Haley An American’s memory of un-American family phrases leads him on a journey, back through generations, to his roots in West Africa.

Seven Years Harrer An Austrian escapes his captors in World War II and flees into the in Tibet mountains of Tibet, where, amidst remarkable adventures, he encounters an extraordinary culture.

Unfinished Hellman Hellman’s autobiography includes her experiences in Europe during the Woman years of World War II.

Ghengis, Iggulden A mature chapter in the life of Ghengis Khan, the poor nomad-hunter’s Bones of the Hills son, who created perhaps the largest empire in the world in the mid-1200s. Ghengis’ sons come into their own, in various parts of the world, in various ways. Well-written, fascinating.

The Soccer War Kapuscinski Covering twenty-seven revolutions as a reporter, Kapuscinski combines journal entries with journalistic accounts to reveal the human dramas behind the official press releases.

The Sleepwalkers Koestler The life stories of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo-- a very personal story of the shift from one kind of cosmos to another.

Deep Cover Levine The true story of harrowing challenges in the life of an undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Agency.

Balm in Gilead Lightfoot Life of a Black woman in the early 20th century and her rise up through the medical profession.

Down The Nile Mahoney Mahoney takes a solo trip down the Nile, despite many adventures.

Kaffir Boy Mathabane The autobiography of a child’s movement from poverty in a South African black township to a tennis scholarship in the U.S.

Born To Run McDougall The amazing true story of a number of the world’s best contemporary long-distance runners (hundreds of miles), including the best of all, the quiet, mysterious Tarahumara Indians in Mexico’s Copper Canyon.

A Sense of McPhee This story of basketball star Bill Bradley follows him from his freshman Where You Are year at college to his unfolding as a championship player. Bradley later served as Senator from New Jersey.

The Headmaster McPhee Incredibly well-written biography of first of Deerfield Academy.

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The Snow Mathiessen The journal of a man who climbs Himalayas in search of the snow Leopard leopard and clarity of spirit.

I, Rigoberta Menchu The autobiography of a Guatemalan Indian woman who has dedicated Menchu herself to improving the lives of indigenous people. She received the Noble Peace Prize in 1992.

The Ornament Menocal The multi-faceted, fascinating story of seven hundred years of Muslim, of the World Jewish and Christian life during the Middle Ages on the Iberian Peninsula.

The Romance Merejkowski A provocative, behind-the-scenes account of the Renaissance and its of Leonardo da Vinci most universal man.

Goethe and Miehlbach The two great figures of German literature encounter each other. Schiller

The Letters of Mersmann, ed. The often moving, sometimes ribald correspondence of the musical W.A. Mozart Wunderkind.

Under the Eye Nolan Christopher Nolan, spastic and unable to speak, writes his autobiography of the Clock with unusually powerful language.

Dreams From Obama A fascinating, fresh autobiography of an archetypal modern individual, My Father born to a mid-western white mother, a Kenyan father, growing up in Hawaii and Indonesia, doing community organizing in Chicago, attending Harvard Law School, eventually going into politics and being chosen to give the keynote address at the Democratic Convention in 2004.

Grey Is the Ratushinskaya The compelling account of a young Russian woman who was imprisoned Color of Hope in a Siberian camp during the 1980s. Her crime? Writing poetry and Championing Human Rights.

Crazy Horse Sandoz The superb biography of one of the last great Oglala Sioux war chiefs.

Fear No Evil Scharansky A rare, true story of a man who survives nine years of Soviet imprisonment through wits and faith.

The Great Schonberg Lively, anecdotal and eminently readable brief biographies of conductors. Conductors The Great Schonberg Lively, anecdotal and eminently readable brief biographies of pianists. Pianists

The Lives of Schonberg Lively, anecdotal and eminently readable brief biographies of composers the Composers from Monteverdi to Arnold Schoenberg, with a wonderful bibliography.

Testimony Shostakovich The composer’s memoir of his life in the musical bureaucracy of Stalinist Russia. The Places Stewart A Scottish journalist describes his walk across Afghanistan in 2001,

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The Agony Stone Fictionalized account of Michaelangelo’s life and work. and the Ecstasy

Panther in Thorm The well-written story of the Shawnee chief, Tecumseh, and his vision the Sky of the union of all Indian tribes.

Rain of Gold Villasenor The true story of the journeys of two Mexican families, through generations, from the 1870’s through the 1940’s, culminating in the birth of the author himself in California.

Caspar Hauser Wasserman A book based on a true story of a young man locked away from all human contact through his entire early life.

One Writer’s Welty Well-written autobiographical account of creation of a writer. Beginnings Recommended for students who enjoy writing and strong imagery.

 SCIENCE  Flatland Abbot An imaginative adventure in a two-dimensional world.

Thirty Years Asimov A history of the discovery of the elements. that Shook Physics

Soap Bubbles: Boys One local scientist traces the beginning of her career to this book. Their Colors and Forces Probably she is not alone. Be ready to make some bubbles. Which Mold Them

A Delicate Brackman Exposé on the theft of the theory of Natural Selection from Wallace Arrangement by Darwin.

The Life of Brecht Lawrence Olivier played the lead in this play about the struggle Galileo between Galileo and the Church.

Edge of the Sea Carson Narrative, lyrical description of the environment, animals, and plants that comprise the tide zone of Eastern U.S.

Silent Spring Carson The book that launched the environmental movement.

The Closing Commoner Primer on environmental issues. Circle

The Origin Darwin Succinct presentation on the theory of Natural Selection. of the Species

The Marriage Edelglass, A physiology, history, methodology and philosophy of science Of Sense and Maier, concerned with integrating the human being into the scientific Thought Gebert & Davy world view.

11 Why We Do It: Eldredge A critique of the view that human behavior is merely a product of Rethinking Sex our genes rooted in a hunter-gatherer past. & the Selfish Gene

“Surely You’re Feynman The outrageous exploits of an outspoken, non-conforming Nobel Prize- Joking, Mr. Feynman!” winning physicist; a hilarious yet moving account of an unusual man’s love for science, and his curiosity about everything he comes in contact with.

Thirty Years that Gamow The history of modern quantum theory. Shook Physics

The Panda’s Gould Essays on evolution and life by a leading paleontologist. Thumb

The Flamingo’s Gould Essays on evolution and life by a leading paleontologist. Smile

Journey to Holdobler Fascinating accounts on the biology and ecology of ants. the Ants & Wilson

The Origin of Jaynes Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Mind

The Case of the Koestler A description of persecution and jealousy in the scientific community Mid-Wife Toad over rival theories of evolution.

Thinking Beyond Kranich An approach to evolution theory that is based on an epistemology of Darwin spiritual monism.

Dance of Kurten Fictional account of the interaction between Homo Sapien Sapiens and the Tiger Homo Sapien Neanderthalensis (people like us and “cave man”).

What is Landau/ Fun and games with high speed trains. Relativity Rumer

Sand County Leopold Description of plant and animal interactions in a Wisconsin county, Almanac a hallmark in the ecology movement.

Bones of Lewin Fascinating account of the personalities and struggles of scientists in Contention interpreting human and proto-human fossils.

Complexity Lewin Readable overview on a new approach to scientific understanding.

The Triple Lewontin A reconsideration of the relationship between the organism (an inside) Helix Gene, Organism and the environment (an outside) that provides a critique of and Environment geocentric thinking.

The Ages of Gaia Lovelock Readable introduction to the idea of the earth as a living organism.

Darwin Retried Macbeth A logical argument claiming that Darwinian theory is a tautology and that 12 the scientific community is not being honest with the public on its own doubt about the theory of Natural selection.

Prodigal Genius O’Neill The most common biography of the great inventor Nicolas Tesla, by the newspaper man who kept track of his career.

Reviving Ophelia: Pipher A psychologist’s account of the problems facing young women today, Saving the Selves of illustrated by moving portrayals from her case studies. Adolescent Girls

Animal Forms Portman Phenomenological study of animal adaptations. and Patterns `

Animal Portman Phenomenological study of animal adaptations. Camouflage

Algeny Rifkin A survey of technology culminating in warnings about the dangers in genetic engineering by the leading figure trying to stop or slow down such research.

Biosphere Rifkin Radical biology that rails effectively against abuses of conventional Politics thought in biology.

Declaration of Rifkin a Heretic

Eleven Blue Roueche Writer for the New Yorker magazine traces step-by- step the efforts of Men doctors to solve a series of baffling medical cases.

The Man Who Sacks A doctor’s account of the strange and sometimes comical problems of Mistook His Wife for a Hat his brain-injured patients and how they can be treated medically and psychologically.

Mortal Lessons Seltzer Aphorisms on life and medicine by a surgeon.

The Presence Sheldrake New theories of biology that present alternatives to materialistic of the Past reductionism.

A New Science Sheldrake of Life Eco-Geography: Suchantke A new way of seeing and understanding the landscape leading to What We See When We experiencing nature as a form of meaning. Look At Landscapes

The Medusa Thomas Aphorisms on life drawn from weird, strange, and wonderful examples and the Snail from nature.

Lives of a Cell Thomas Wonders of cellular structure in a poetic style.

The Double Watson Description of the scientific process and human betrayal in the 13 Helix discovery of the structure of the chromosome (physical gene structure).

Nature’s Worcester Classic treatise on streams of environmental thought in western culture. Economy

 Social Issues  Here are a few selections that discuss contemporary issues.

Revenge Blumenfeld A journalist goes to the Mideast to locate the Arab man who shot her Jewish father and in the process, examines the underlying causes of revenge.

Tipping Point Gladwell The author examines how, like a virus, small changes in human behavior can lead to huge effects.

Three Cups Mortenson Mountaineer Mortenson opens 55 schools in Pakistan over a decade. of Tea

The End of Oil Roberts A cautionary tale about the point in time in the not-too-distant future when the consumption of this finite resource will exceed the supply.   ESSAY Collections  Below you will find a few new reading possibilities—essay collections on a wide range of contemporary issues by America’s best writers.

For the Time Being Dillard, Annie

Teaching a Stone to Talk Dillard, Annie

Best American Essays, 2002 Gould, Steven J., editor (other years also acceptable)

Conversations Before The Gublik, Suzi, editor End of Time

Small Wonder Kingsolver, Barbara

Next Liu, Eric, editor Young American writers on the New Generation Playing in the Dark Morrison, Toni

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