“I have photos of my daughter as a toddler looking at Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are while I am holding up this one,” Rullman says. We have to stop thinking of them as passengers on this earth and start thinking of them as drivers.” The other is by the author himself: “ Here was evidence that the biggest and scariest of carnivores were more dangerous by their absence.” The first is by Jim Estes, one of the book’s main characters: “ Carnivorous animals are important. Rullman says the essence of the book can be captured by two lines found within it. “His character cast is one of the most exciting in all of ecology, and their collective contributions to keystone species, trophic cascades and the ecology of fear have reshaped our understanding of the complex nature of predator-prey relationships.” With a carefully crafted journalistic story arc, Stolzenburg lays out why large carnivores are important to the functioning of the ecosystems within which they live - and what happens when they disappear. “I’m glad this book came out after my general exam process in grad school, or I likely would have been accused of plagiarism,” Rullman says. Where the Wild Things Were by William Stolzenburg Among Chandler’s other favorites are Finding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Williams and The End of Nature by Bill McKibben. It’s a topic Kolbert also tackled well in her 2006 book Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change - a top pick of Earthwatch director of scientific initiatives Mark Chandler, Ph.D., who also recommends Wilson’s more recent Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life. “Our understanding of the impacts of our changing climate were still theoretical and embryonic when Wilson wrote The Diversity of Life,” Rullman adds, “but based on what has been learned in the decades in between, Kolbert uncovers the increasing evidence that the diversity of life is plummeting, even as temperatures and CO2 levels are rising.” So read his book first, then fast-forward nearly a quarter of a century to Elizabeth Kolbert’s thoughtful Pulitzer Prize-winning treatment on biodiversity and its snowballing and disruptive loss,” Rullman says. “Even at 90 years old, he’s not finished. Not to mention biogeography -in fact, Wilson was a prominent character in Song of the Dodo - sociobiology, and ant ecology. “ a glorious examination on biodiversity by a biologist recognized as ‘the father of biodiversity,’” Rullman says. Wilson and The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert Like her other books, Everything I've Ever Learned about Change is destined for a long life on the bedside table.The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Whether you are desperately stuck in the mud or being swept away in the current of your life, there are ideas here that will get you riding the inevitable, interminable waves, ideas that will even have you enjoying a thrilling ride. She gives many techniques for dealing with change, some drawn from her own life, some from the experience and skills of others. Following the much-loved format of her last two bestselling books, Lesley Garner has distilled her observations on change into an irresistible collection of beautifully written essays. Like a speeded-up film, life is in constant motion from the molecular to the planetary level and we are changing right along with it.
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