Rosamund McDougall's Top Book Recommendations

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The Rainbow

Set in the rural Midlands of England, The Rainbow (1915) revolves around three generations of the Brangwens, a strong, vigorous family, deeply involved with the land. When Tom Brangwen marries a Polish widow,Lydia Lensky, and adopts her daughter Anna as his own, he is unprepared for the conflict and passion that erupts between them. All are seeking individual fulfilment, but it is Ursula, Anna's spirited daughter, who, in search for self-knowledge, rejects the conventional role of womanhood. less
Recommended by Rosamund McDougall, and 1 others.

Rosamund McDougallD H Lawrences gives us we the rawness of nature and the complete interdependence of humans with the land. (Source)

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A celebration of Borneo's natural wonders, from its rainforest-covered lowland areas to its mountain ranges, highland areas, and winding rivers, with over 200 stunning color photographs.

The island of Borneo is a place of great natural beauty and rich biodiversity. From the peaks of the majestic Mount Kinabalu to the enchanting coral-fringed islands that lie offshore, with vast tracts of lush rainforest in between, Borneo's landscape is as varied as it is magnificent. In Wild Borneo, author Nick Garbutt embarks upon a fascinating investigation into the wonders of this...
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Recommended by Rosamund McDougall, and 1 others.

Rosamund McDougallA particularly good choice for anyone who wants to see what landscapes looked like hundreds of thousands of years ago. (Source)

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The Ultimate Resource 2

Arguing that the ultimate resource is the human imagination coupled to the human spirit, Julian Simon led a vigorous challenge to conventional beliefs about scarcity of energy and natural resources, pollution of the environment, the effects of immigration, and the perils of overpopulation. The comprehensive data, careful quantitative research, and economic logic contained in the first edition of The Ultimate Resource questioned widely held professional judgments about the threat of overpopulation, and Simon's celebrated bet with Paul Ehrlich about resource prices in the 1980s enhanced... more
Recommended by Matt Ridley, Rosamund McDougall, and 2 others.

Matt RidleyJulian Simon is really the god of this subject and a fanatic for digging up trends. (Source)

Rosamund McDougallWe need technology to help solve the problems we have, but to place faith in technology to the exclusion of other methods is crazy. (Source)

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The Limits To Growth

the thirty year update

Incorporating the thinking on sustainability, ecological footprinting and limits, this book presents future overshoot scenarios and makes an urgent case for a rapid readjustment of the global economy toward a sustainable path. It is suitable for those concerned with our common future. less

Bill Gates[On Bill Gates's reading list in 2012.] (Source)

Andrew CurryThis is such a depressing book. This is The Limits to Growth: The Thirty Year Update. A lot of people, what they remember about The Limits to Growth is it was published in 1971 and was completely lambasted by economists, technologists, lots and lots of people. What it has sitting underneath it is a model of the world, a model of the world economy, which links population, food, industrial... (Source)

Jonathon PorrittThis is a report produced in 1972, but it’s still as current now as it was then and is still available today. It was commissioned by the Club of Rome and produced by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. What they did was simply to look at projections for world population, industrialisation, pollution, food production and resource depletion and draw up models of what would happen to the earth in... (Source)

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Recommended by Aleks Krotoski, Rosamund McDougall, and 2 others.

Aleks KrotoskiWatts has been looking at the small world phenomenon to identify whether the web itself has shrunk our world, and in fact it hasn’t. (Source)

Rosamund McDougallIt’s a very fast-moving explicit scenario about what might happen on earth to all of us, with each degree of global warming temperature rise. (Source)

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