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Book Faves

Polar Recommendations:

The Storied Ice: Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure in Antarctica’s Peninsula Region, by Joane Boothe

The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic, and the Whole Planet, by Sheila Watt-Cloutier

– A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter

–  The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush

– Brand Antarctica: How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent by Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen

Hearts in the Ice: The Adventures of the First Two Women to Overwinter Solo in Svalbard, by Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Fålum Strøm

-Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez

– The Hidden Life of Ice: Dispatches from a Disappearing World by  Alberto Flores d’Arcais and Marco Tedesco

-Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean by Joy McCann

Books on Writing

Made to Stick – Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

On Being a Scientist, A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research (free PDF)

– Dont Be Such a Scientist (2nd Ed): Talking Substance in an Age of Style by Randy Olson

The Science of Scientific Writing 

The Writing Workshop: Write More Write Better Write Happier by Barbara Sarnecka 

Writing Science: How to write papers that get cited and proposals that get funded, by Joshua Schimel 

Other books I enjoyed:

Life’s Engines: How microbes made Earth habitable by Falkowski

-All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson

Experiments in Ecology by A.J. Underwood  (not sure how I got away the past 10 years without reading this, but this book is fundamental to research in ecology!)

Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life by E. O. Wilson

Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction by Mary Ellen Hannibal

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

A Little History of Science by William F. Bynum

Books about People in Science

Picture a Scientist (movie), by Sharon Shattuck, Ian Cheney

How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi

-The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf

-A Lab of Ones Own: One Woman’s Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science, by Rita Cowell

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

Naturalist by Edward O. Wilson

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and The World by Rachel Swaby

Personal Development Books

– Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, by Elizabeth Gilbert

–  Who Wants to be a Scientist? Choosing Science as a Career by Nancy Rothwell

Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Jumping Mouse: A Story about Inner Trust by Mary Elisabeth Marlow

Live the Life You Love by Barbara Sher

Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham & Donald O Clifton

Composing a Life by cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson

– Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina

Other books I have loved

The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir  of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest by M. Wylie Blanchet

Onward by Howard Schultz

A Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

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2 Comments

  1. Rachel Vander Giessen

    I think you might like M. Wylie Blanche’s The Curve of Time… she tells stories from summers spent cruising British Columbia’s Inside Passage with her children in the 1930’s, a time of transition for the region.

  2. Nick

    Letters to a Young Scientist is an amazing book by none other than E.O. Wilson!

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