Creative Systems

Creative Systems

Arbesman, S. (2013). The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date. New York: Penguin Group.

Capra, F. (1991). The Tao of Physics. Shambhala, Boston.

Capra, F. (1982). The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture.New York: Bantam Books.

Diamond, J. (1999). Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.

Dillard, A. 1974. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Harper Collins, New York.

Homer-Dixon, T. (2006). The Up Side of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilizations. Canada: Vintage.

Kunstler, J.H. (2005). The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Grove Press.

Leopold, A. 1949. A Sand County Almanac. Oxford Univ. Press, Inc.

Lewontin, (2000). The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, Environment. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press.

Marris, E. (2011). Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World. New York: Bloomsbury.

Mukherjee, S. (2010). The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Ophuls, W. (2012). Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail. North Charleston: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

Overman, D.L. (1997). A Case against Accident and Self-Organization. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publ. Inc.

Pielou, E.C. (1991). After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Senge, P.M. (1994). The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. New York: Currency Doubleday.

Tainter, J.A. (1988). The Collapse of Complex Societies. New York & Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Zimmer, C.(2009). Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life. New York: Vintage Books.

Plant Behavior

Baskin, Y. (2005). Underground: How creatures of mud and dirt shape our world. Washington: Island Press.

Burrows, G.E., & Tyrl, R.J. (2001). Toxic Plants of North America. Ames: Iowa State University Press.

Foraging Challenges

Nabhan, G.P. (2004). Why Some Like it Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.

Pollan, M. (2008). In Defense of Food. New York: The Penguin Press.

Models of Foraging

Prior, K. (1985). Don’t shoot the dog! New York: Bantam Books.

Sacks, O. (1985). The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. New York: Harper Collins.

Flavor-Feedback

Lipton, B. (2005). The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles. Santa Rosa: Mountain of Love/Elite Books.

Pert, C.B. (1997). Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel. New York: Scribner.

Sylvia, C., & Novak, W. (1997). A Change of Heart. New York: Little, Brown and Company.

Satiety-Variety

Ausubel, K. (Ed.). (2004). Ecological Medicine: Healing the Earth, Healing Ourselves. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.

Engel, C. 2002. Wild Health: How Animals Keep Themselves Well and What We Can Learn from Them. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Holiday, R.J. & Helfter, J. (2015). A Holistic Vet’s Prescription for a Healthy Herd: A Guide to Livestock Nutrition, Free-Choice Minerals, and Holistic Cattle Care. Austin: Acres U.S.A.

Meuret, M., & Provenza, F.D. (2014). The Art & Science of Shepherding: Tapping the Wisdom of French Herders. Austin: Acres U.S.A.

Herbivore and Human Culture

Doidge, N. (2007). The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. New York: Penguin Books.

Mayer, F.H. & Roth, C.B. (1995). The Buffalo Harvest. Union City: Pioneer Press.

Paul, A.M. (2010). Origins: How the Nine Months before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Nourishing Relationships

Johns, T. (1990). The origins of human diet & medicine. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.

Leopold, A. (1949). A Sand County Almanac. New York: Oxford University Press.

Pollan, M. (2006). The Omnivores Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. New York: The Penguin Press.

Robinson, J. (2013). Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health.New York: Little, Brown and Company.

Schatzker, M. (2010). Steak: one man’s search for the world’s tastiest piece of beef. New York: Viking.

Schatzker, M. (2015). The Dorito effect: the surprising new truth about food and flavor. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Taubes, G. (2007). Good Calories Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Voisin, A. (1999). Soils, Grass and Cancer. Austin: Acres U.S.A.

White, C. (2014). Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey through Carbon Country. White River Junction: Chelsea Green.

Transcending Boundaries

Alexander, E. (2012) Proof of Heaven: a neurosurgeon’s journey into the afterlife. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Bronson, P. (2002). What Should I Do with the Rest of My Life? New York: Random House Inc.

Campbell, J. (1988). Myths to Live by. Viking Penguin Inc., New York, NY.

Campbell, J. and B. Moyers. (1988). The Power of Myth. Doubleday, New York, NY.

Eadie, B.J. (1994). Embraced by the Light. New York: Bantam.

Gibran, K. (1990). The Prophet. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Wheatley, M.J. (1994). Leadership and the New Science: Learning about Organization from an Orderly Universe. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Inc.

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