Science and Natural History discussion

July nominations are now open! Choose one of your own books or find inspiration from the group's bookshelf.

- Books must be nonfiction, within our general theme.
- Nominations are open until 14th.
- Please add suggestions using add book/author.
- No more than 3 book suggestions pr. person.
- All recommendations will be featured in a subsequent poll. Done by 19th.
- Feel free to pitch, especially in the comments at the poll.

I nominate "Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies" by Alastair Bonnett. This book differs somewhat from our usual selections in that it is primarily geography with some ecology, natural history, politics and entertaining facts. The author describes remote places, human constructed islands, places affected by environmental changes -- I was amazed, amused, and enlightened.

by John Gaudet

by Spencer Wells

EDIT: Just read Pandora's Seed......and found it rather bland. Maybe we should skip this one and choose something else instead.

The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
This is a gripping account that follows the major field teams as they find older and order hominins. This is part of the collection of the very best works the look at the rise of humans. I will be using this text as part of a course I will be doing.

Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins I highly recommend this text to our group. This was published in 2010 and is a very recent retelling of the Lucy story and also looks at the early origin of Homo. I will be using this for my course as well. The rise of humans is still a deeply debated part of science. I send all of you my best regards.

Seven Elements That Have Changed the World: An Adventure of Ingenuity and Discovery
This is my third thought for a good book to read in July. It is about selected natural resources that wars were fought over and that produced limitless greed.

Consider reading Wolfer by Carter Niemeyer (2010) or his new book Wolf Land, which publishes this fall. Maybe I'm just biased, but maybe not :) www.carterniemeyer.com

when do we vote? is this still a functioning group?

As I said last time: Not really. Water over my head awhile and now in Malaysia which makes everything much more difficult.

OK. Thanks for your past work in moderating this group. Bye.

OK. Thanks for your past work in moderating this group. Bye.

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OK. Thanks for your past work in moderating this group. Bye.