Polar Recommendations:
– 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
-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
–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
– 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
–A Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
– Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
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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.
Letters to a Young Scientist is an amazing book by none other than E.O. Wilson!