Celebrate Earth Day

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The following are publications from various disciplines chosen by the subject bibliographers of the Boston College Libraries in celebration of Earth Day 2009 and this year's BC is Green Week events.  Many disciplines are represented showing the breadth of disciplines discussing environmental topics.  This list is not intended to be comprehensive, but provides just a glimpse inside the wealth of resources, both classic and new, in the Boston College Libraries.  Titles are arranged by call numbers and can be found using Quest

Doctrinal Theology

A Poetic Approach to Ecology (Milward, 2004)
O'Neill Stacks BT695.5 .M55 2004

Why are we deaf to the cry of the earth? (McDonagh, 2001)
O'Neill Stacks BT695.5 M235 2001

History: Ireland

The heritage of Ireland (De Breffny, 2001)
O'Neill Stacks DA920 .H47 2000

History: American

"To love the wind and the rain": African Americans and environmental history (Glave and Stole, 2006)
O'Neill Stacks E185 .T65 2006

The man from Clear Lake: Earth Day founder Senator Gaylord Nelson (Christofferson, 2004)
O'Neill Stacks E748.N43 C47 2004

Geography/Anthropology/Recreation

Planet in Peril: An Atlas of Current Threats to People and the Environment (UNEP/GRID, 2006)
O'Neill Stacks G3201 .D1 2006

Physical Geography

Integrating policies for Ireland's landscape: proposing policies and priorities for the national heritage (Heritage Council)
O'Neill Stacks GB436.I7 H47 2002

Environmental Sciences

Forcing the spring: the transformation of the American environmental movement (Gottlieb, 2005)
O'Neill Stacks GE180 .G68 2005

The blame game: rethinking Ireland's sustainable development and environmental performance (Flynn, 2007)
O'Neill Stacks GE190 .I7 F58 2007

Conserving the Emerald Tiger: the politics of environmental regulation in Ireland (Taylor, 2001)
O'Neill Stacks GE190.I73 T39 2001

Image politics: the new rhetoric of environmental activism (DeLuca, 1999)
O'Neill Stacks GE195 .D45 1999

The politics of the earth: environmental discourses (Dryzek, 2005)
O'Neill Stacks GE195 .D79 2005

Hot, flat, and crowded: why we need a green revolution—and how it can renew America (Friedman, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks GE197 .F76 2008

The environmental movement in Ireland (Leonard, 2007)
O'Neill Stacks GE199 .I73 L46 2008

Love Canal revisited: race, class, and environmental activism (Blum, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks GE235 .N7 B58 2008

Human Ecology

Green jobs: working for people and the environment (Worldwatch Institute, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks GF1 .W67 no. 177

The decline of nature: environmental history and the Western worldview (LaFreniere, 2007)
O'Neill Stacks GF13 .L34 2007

Down to earth: nature's role in American history (Steinberg, 2009)
O'Neill Stacks GF27 .S85 2009

Man and Nature (Marsh, reprint of 1st ed. 1864)
Theology and Ministry Library GF31 .M35 1965

Environment and society: sustainability, politics and the citizen (Barr, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks GF41 .B35 2008

Earth in the balance : ecology and the human spirit (Gore, 1993)
Kenny-Cottle Stacks GF41 .G67 1993

A voice for Earth: American writers respond to the Earth Charter (Corcoran and A. James Wohlpart. 2008)
O'Neill Stacks GF47 .V65 2008

Becoming Good Ancestors: How we balance nature, community and technology (Ehrenfeld, 2009)
O'Neill Stacks GF49 .E47 2009

Where we stand: a surprising look at the real state of our planet (Garte, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks GF75 .G36 2008

The End of Nature (McKibben, 1999)
O'Neill Stacks GF75 .M38 1999

American environmental history: an introduction (Merchant, 2007)
O'Neill Stacks GF503 .M47 2007

Economic History and Conditions

Green development: environment and sustainability in a developing world (Adams, 2009)
O'Neill Stacks HC59.7 .A714 2009

Innovating for sustainability: green entrepreneurship in personal mobility (Berchicci, 2009)
HC79 .E5 B454 2009

Building the green economy: success stories from the grassroots (Danaher, 2007)
O'Neill Stacks HC79 .E5 D3252 2007

Prospects for green liberal democracy (Jagers, 2007)
O'Neill Stacks HC79 .E5 J336 2007

Landscape and life: appropriate scales for sustainable development: cross-disciplinary forum. Administrative capacity and the implementation of EC environmental policy in Ireland
O'Neill Stacks HC79 .E5 L53 no. 2

Moving to markets in environmental regulation: lessons from twenty years of experience (Freeman and Kolstad, 2007)
O'Neill Stacks HC79 .E5 M684 2007

Exposed: the toxic chemistry of everyday products who's at risk and what's at stake for American power (Schapiro, 2007)
O'Neill Stacks HC110 .E5 S386 2007

Managing Ireland's future, 2005—2030 (Mulhooland, 2005)
O'Neill Stacks HC260.5 .M35 2005

Industries/Landuse/Labor

Dancing with the tiger: learning sustainability step by natural step (Nattrass, 2002)
O'Neill Stacks HD30 .255 .N37 2002

The development of tropical lands: policy issues in Latin America (Nelson, 1973)
O'Neill Stacks HD320.5 .Z63 N47

America's food: what you don't know about (Blatt, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks HD9005 .B628 2008

Bottlemania: how water went on sale and why we bought it (Royte, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks HD 9349 .M542 R69 2008

Rising powers, shrinking planet: the new geopolitics of energy (Klare, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks HD9502 .A2 K524 2008

Caribou and Conoco: rethinking environmental politics in Alaska's ANWR and beyond
O'Neill Stacks HD9502 .U52 M395 2008

Arctic oil and gas: sustainability at risk? (McMonagle, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks HD9574 .A68 A73 2008

Commerce

Eco-standards, product labeling and green consumerism (Boström, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks HF5413 .B67 2008

Communities/Classes/Races

Growing greener cities: urban sustainability in the twenty-first century (Birch and Wachter, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks HT241 .G76 2008

Political Science/General

The politics of the environment: ideas, activism, policy (Carter, 2007)
JA75.8 .C38 2007

Issues in Irish public policy (Taylor, 2002)
O'Neill Stacks JN1425 .I76 2002

Law

Environmental law: a glossary and handbook (2000)
O'Neill Stacks KDK910 .E58 2000

Environmental law, policy, and economic: the environmental agenda (Ashford, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks KF3775 .A967 2008

Environmental law, crime, and justice (Burns, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks KF3775 .B875 2008

Education

Sustainability on campus: stories and strategies for change (Barlett and Chase, 2004)
O'Neill Stacks LB3223.3 .S89 2004

Music Literature

The book of music and nature : an anthology of sounds, words, thoughts (Rothenberg and Ulvaeus, 2001)
O'Neill Stacks ML3845 .B614 2001 - CD in O'Neill Media Center Stacks ML3845 .B614 2001

Sung birds : music, nature, and poetry in the later Middle Ages (Elizabeth Eva Leach, 2007. )
O'Neill Stacks ML190 .L43 2007

Singing in the wilderness : music and ecology in the twentieth century (Wilfrid Mellers c2001. )
O'Neill Stacks ML197 .M268 2001

Into a wild sanctuary : a life in music & natural sound (Bernie Krause ;c1998. )
O'Neill Stacks ML419.K74 A3 1998

Art and Architecture

Art nature dialogues : interviews with environmental artists (Grande, 2004)
Bapst Art Stacks N6494.E6 G73 2004

Beyond green : toward a sustainable art (Smith, curator, 2005)
Bapst Art Stacks N6496 .C52 D383 2005

Ecovention : current art to transform ecologies (Spaid, 2002)
Bapst Art Stacks N8217.E28 S63 2002

Ethics and the built environment (Fox, 2000)
Bapst Art Stacks NA2542.35 .E88 2000

Taking shape : a new contract between architecture and nature (Hagan, 2001)
Bapst Art Stacks NA2542.36 .H34 2001

Environmentally sustainable buildings : challenges and policies (Hasegawa, 2003)
Bapst Art Stacks NA2542.36 .H38 2003

The green house : new directions in sustainable architecture (Stang, 2005)
Bapst Art Stacks NA2542.36 .S73 2005

Ecological architecture : a critical history (Steele, 2005)
Bapst Art Stacks NA2542.36 .S74 2005

Places of the soul : architecture and environmental design as a healing art (Day, 2004)
Bapst Art Stacks NA2542.4 .D36 2004

The good office : green design on the cutting edge (Riordan, 2008)
Bapst Art Stacks NA6230 .R526 2008

Design futuring : sustainability, ethics, and new practice (Fry, 2009)
Bapst Art Stacks NK1510 .F77 2009

Environmental stewardship : images from popular culture (Howell, 1997)
Bapst Art Stacks NX180.S6 H72 1997

Language and Literature

Environmental risks and the media (1999)
O'Neill Stacks P96.E57 E57 1999

Enviropop: studies in environmental rhetoric and popular culture (Meister and Japp, 2002)
O'Neill Stacks P96.E57 E584 2002

Mediating nature (Elliot, 2006)
O'Neill Stacks P96 .E57 L56 2006

The environment and the press: from adventure writing to advocacy (Neuzil, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks P96 .E57 N48 2008

Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature (Murphy, 2000)
O'Neill Stacks PN 48 .M87 2000

Caribbean Literature and the Environment : Between Nature and Culture. (DeLoughrey, Gosson, and Handley, 2005)
O'Neill Stacks PN849 .C3 2005

Covering the environment: how journalists work the green beat (Wyss, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks PN4888 .E65 W97 2008

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral (Livingston, 1994)
O'Neill Stacks PN6109.97 .A55 1994

Speaking for Nature : Women and Ecologies of Early Modern England (Bowerbank, 2004)
O'Neill Stacks PR113 .B68 2004

Beyond Nature Writing : Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism (Armbruster and Wallace, 2001)
O'Neill Stacks PR143 .B49 2001

The Environmental Tradition in English Literature (Parham, 2002)
O'Neill Stacks PR143 .E58 2002

Ecocriticism (Garrard, 2004)
O'Neill Stacks PR143 .G37 2004

The Invention of the Countryside : Hunting, Walking, and Ecology in English Literature, 1671-1831 (Landry, 2001)
O'Neill Stacks PR408 .C66 L36 2001

The Green Studies Reader : From Romanticism to Ecocriticism (Coupe, 2000)
O'Neill Stacks PR468.N3 G74 2000

Green Writing : Romanticism and Ecology (McKusick, 2000)
O'Neill Stacks PR468 .N3 M38 2000

American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism : The Middle Place (Adamson, 2001)
O'Neill Stacks PS153.I52 A33 2001

A Century of Early Ecocriticism (Mazel, 2001)
O'Neill Stacks PS163 .C46 2001

Making Nature Sacred : Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present (Gatta, 2004)
O'Neill Stacks PS163 .G37 2004

Practical Ecocriticism : Literature, Biology, and the Environment (Love , 2003)
O'Neill Stacks PS163 .G37 2004

The Truth of Ecology : Nature, Culture, and Literature in America (Phillips, 2003)
O'Neill Stacks PS163 .P48 2003

Reading Under the Sign of Nature : New Essays in Ecocriticism (Tallmadge and Harrington, 2000)
O'Neill Stacks PS163 .R4 2000

American Earth : Environmental Writing since Thoreau (McKibben and Gore, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks PS169 .E25 A44 2008

Visions of the Land : Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology (Bryson, 2002).
O'Neill Stacks PS169.E25 B79 2002

Writing for an Endangered World : Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond (Buell, 2001)
O'Neill Stacks PS169.E25 B84 2001

The Future of Environmental Criticism : Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination. (Buell, 2005)
O'Neill Stacks PS169 .E25 B837 2005

Coming into Contact : Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice (Ingram, 2007)
O'Neill Stacks PS169 .E25 C66 2007

American Literary Environmentalism (Mazel, 2000)
O'Neill Stacks PS169 .E25 M39 2000

Ecology and Literature : Ecocentric Personification from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century (Moore, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks PS 261 .R45 2009

Another Place : An Ecocritical Study of Selected Western American Poets (Elkins, 2002)
O'Neill Stacks PS 271 .E45 2002

Walden, or, Life in the woods / Henry David Thoreau. (Thoreau -- Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.))
O'Neill Stacks PS3048 .A1 1992

Ecopoetry : A Critical Introduction (Bryson, 2002)
O'Neill Stacks PS310.N3 E26 2002

Can Poetry Save the Earth? : A Field Guide to Nature Poems. (Felstiner, 2009)
O'Neill Stacks PS310 .N3 F45 2009

Greening the Lyre : Environmental Poetics and Ethics (Gilcrest, 2002)
O'Neill Stacks PS310 .N3 G55 2002

This Compost : Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry (Rasula, 2002)
O'Neill Stacks PS 310 .N3 R37 2002

Walt Whitman & the Earth : A Study in Ecopoetics (Killingsworth, 2004)
O'Neill Stacks PS 3242 .N3 K57 2004

The Wild and the Domestic : Animal Representation, Ecocriticism, and Western American Literature (Nelson, 2000)
O'Neill Stacks PS 3501 .U8 Z68 2000

Desert Solitaire (Abbey, 1988)
O'Neill Stacks PS3551.B2 Z463 1988

Physics/Climate Change

Environmental chemistry of aerosols (Colbeck, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks QC882.42 .E58 2008

Fixing climate : what past climate changes reveal about the current threat--and how to counter it (Broecker and Kunzig, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks QC981.8 .C5 B738 2008

Climate change and technological options : basic facts, evaluation and practical solutions (Soyez and Graßl, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks QC981.8 .C5 C5549 2008

The rough guide to climate change (Henson, 2006)
O'Neill Stacks QC981.8 .C5 H468 2006

Climate change: what's your business strategy (Hoffman, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks QC981.8 .C5 H633 2008

The economics of climate change policies: macroeconomic effects, structural adjustments and technological change. (Walz, 2009)
O'Neill Stacks QC981.8 .C5 W35 2009

What we know about climate change (Emanuel, 2007)
O'Neill Stacks QC981.8 .G56 E43 2007

The Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change (2008)
O'Neill Reference QC981.8 .G56 E47 2008

An inconvenient truth: the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it (Gore, 2006)
O'Neill Stacks QC981.8 .G56 G67 2006

Field notes from a catastrophe: man, nature, climate change. (Kolbert, 2007)
O'Neill Stacks QC981.8 .G56 K655 2007

Kyoto2: how to manage the global greenhouse (Tickell, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks QC981.8 .G56 T52 2008

The hot topic : how to tackle global warming and still keep the lights on (Walker and King, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks QC981.8 .G56 W347 2008

Climate change and technological options : basic facts, evaluation and practical solutions (Soyez and Graßl, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks QC981.8 .C5 C5549 2008

Geology

Carbon capture and storage : R&D technologies for a sustainable energy future (2007)
O'Neill Stacks QE516 .C37 I58 2007

Natural History/ Ecology

The future of life (Wilson, 2002)
O'Neill Stacks QH75 .W535 2002

A Sand County almanac, and sketches here and there (Leopold, 1987, c1949)
O'Neill Stacks QH81 .L56 1987

Norton Book of Nature Writing
O'Neill Stacks QH81 .N67 1990

Sustaining life: how human health depends on biodiversity. (2008)
O'Neill Stacks QH541.15 .B56 S96

Medicine

Essentials of environmental health (Friis, 2007)
O'Neill Stacks RA565 .F75 2007

Preventing disease through healthy environments: towards an estimate of the environmental disease (Pruss-Ustun, 2006)
O'Neill Stacks RA565 .P78 2006

Environmental health: ecological perspectives (Hilgenkamp, 2006)
O'Neill Stacks RA5656 .H52 2006

Children's health and the environment: a global perspective: a resource manual for the health sector (Pronczuk-Garbino, 2005)
O'Neill Stacks RJ104 .C48 2005

Agriculture

Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life (Kingsolver, 2007)
O'Neill Stacks S521.5 .A67 K56 2007

Organic agriculture in the U.S. (Wellson, 2007)
S605.5 .O645 2007

Nature's new deal: the Civilian Conservation Corps and the roots of the American environmental movement (Maher, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks S930 .M155 2008

Silent spring (Carson, 1994, with introduction by Al Gore)
O'Neill Stacks SB959 .C3 1994

Technology

Dead pool : Lake Powell, global warming, and the future of water in the west (Powell, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks TC557 .C62 G54 2008

Environmental Technology

DDT, Silent spring, and the rise of classic texts (Dunlap, ed., 2008)
O'Neill Stacks TD196 .P38 D45 2008

Political waters: the long, dirty, contentious, incredibly expensive but eventually triumphant history of Boston Harbor—a unique success story (Dolin, 2004)
O'Neill Stacks TD225 .B7 D65 2004

Plastic recycling (Manrich and Santos, 2009)
O'Neill Stacks TD794.5 .M366 2009

Power struggle : world energy in the twenty-first century (Moroney, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks TD888 .P67 M66 2008

Technology of Motor Vehicles

The zero-carbon car: building the car the auto industry can't get right (Kemp, 2007)
O'Neill Stacks TL216.5 .K44 2007

Building Construction

Green homes (Costa Duran, 2007)
O'Neill Stacks TH4860 .C63 2007

Mechanical Engineering and Machiner

Fueling our future : an introduction to sustainable energy (Evans, 2007)
O'Neill Stacks TJ163.2 .E86 2007

Chemical Technology

Green chemistry : theory and practice (Anastas and Warner, 1998)
O'Neill Stacks TP155 .A657

Handbook of green chemistry and technology (Clark and Macquarrie, eds., 2002)
O'Neill Stacks TP155.2 .E58 G73 2002

Green Chemistry: an introductory text (Lancaster, 2002)
O'Neill Stacks TP155.2 .E58 L36 2002

The slow food story: politics and pleasure (Andrews, 2008)
O'Neill Stacks TX631 .A53 2008

Photography

365 ways to save the earth (Bourseiller, 2008)
Bapst Art Stacks TR721 .B6813 2008