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Emily Katz em323ily — This book launched Rachel Carson’s career as a popular science literature writer. If you have never read any of her ocean books, start with this one. Her writing is unique in that she describes science facts almost poetically, weaving story after story of the wonder and mystery of the oceans. She involves the reader by asking questions and then exploring possible answers, all the while revealing new facts to the reader. Delving into marine biology, ecology (a term that she originally coined, along with the word ecosystem), oceanography and history, her topics include the beginning of the world and the first oceans, sea life in the abysmal depths, tides and the effect of long-period tides on climate, phosphorescent sea life, islands and submarine mountain ranges, early ocean exploration, and even the search for the lost continent of Atlantis. She often refers to different geological eras, and includes a convenient chart of these. She also tells much history of human interaction with the oceans. This book is almost 60 years old and represents the pinnacle of ocean knowledge in 1950. From that perspective, an amazing amount is still true and relevant, and even prophetic, today. Update: I just perused the 1989 edition, and found both the new Introduction and the Afterward added valuable current perspectives. The Introduction by environmental writer Ann Zwinger describes the culture and times in which The Sea Around Us and other of Carson's works were written. The Afterword, by Jeffrey Levinton, expands on Carson's topics, updating them with more current research and understanding of the problems that humans have created in the oceans. Update 12/2010: Contrary to what I stated above (as gleaned from commentary in one of Carson's sea books), both the terms ecology and ecosystem had been used by others prior to Carson, notably by British zoologist Charles Elton in his 1927 book, "Animal Ecology."

Enrique Velasco blaneh — 1968 was easily the most intense year of my life. The New Left was surging with Johnson's vast escalation of the war, the Democratic Party was splitting in response, and I just barely managed to get on the wave that crashed in the streets of Chicago during the Convention in August, seeing much of it, meeting some of the principals. I'd been working for Eugene McCarthy's campaign since 1967 at about which time I'd also joined the YPSL and the SDS, these divided loyalties reflecting some of the divisions of the time. In June of 1968, however, I went to Honolulu for two months and worked for the campaign there until sneaking back to Chicago for the Convention without telling the parents. Sherrill's Drugstore Liberal was the book for the long flights from Chicago to San Francisco, where I saw hippies all over the place, and from San Francisco to Oahu. A biography of Hubert Humphrey, it reconfirmed, in its portrayal of his career as a red-baiter and Minnesota boss, my commitment to Eugene about whom I'd also been reading a lot. Ironically, on the day before the 1968 election, after months of wearing a Stop HHH button, I actually, upon the urging of friends, went door-to-door for the guy. He was bad, yes, but not as bad as Nixon.