The Menstuff® library lists pertinent books concerning ecology.
Anderson, William, Green Man: The
archetype of our oneness with the earth. The authors have
produced a work of art. Beautifully photographed, it tells the
whole story of the Green Man, from its European background back in
the Gothic period, to the meaning it holds today. Harper Collins,
1991 ISBN 0-0625-007-59 Buy
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Basford, Kathleen, The Green Man. The
medieval churches and cathedrals of Western Europe are full of
fantastic images. This is the story of one of them - the foliate
head, a face or mask with leaves sprouting from it which we, in
Britain, nowadays call the Green Man. The Green Man is probably
the most common decorative motif of medieval sculpture that has
been left to us. It can be found on roof bosses, capitals,
corbels, fonts, tombs, tympana, screens, bench ends, poppy heads,
misericords and arm rests. It was a remarkably adaptable motif: it
could be manipulated to fit any space or position where ornament
was required. It could be introduced to enrich, enliven and bring
variety into a scheme of leaf decoration and there provide, like a
fantastic flower, a focal point of interest, or it could be made
to blend into its leafy surroundings so inconspicuously that only
the most perceptive eye could distinguish it from pure foliage.
Many of these carvings are sinister. Some of them are powerful
fantasiers of the eerie and macabre. There are very few benevolent
or serenely smiling faces: more typically they frown. The eyes
glare balefully or stare, unfocused, into space, full of dark
foreboding. But, whatever the expression, he displays at least one
characteristic, namely, his power of revival and regeneration. A
remarkable collection of dozens of photographs and some drawings
accompany this detailed look back on the history of Jack of the
Green or The Green Man. Boydell & Brewer, 1998, Hardbound
ISBN 0-85991-024-5 Buy
This Book! and paperback ISBN 0-85991-497-6 Buy
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Rees, Martin, Our Final
Hour: A scientist's warning, A scientist known for
unraveling the complexities of the universe, the author now warns
that humankind is potentially the maker of its own demise - and
the demise of the cosmos. With clarity and prevision, he maps out
the ways technology could destroy our species and thereby
foreclose the potential of a living universe whose evolution has
just begun. He forecasts that the odds are no better than
fifty-fifty that humankind will survive to the end of the
twenty-first century. Science is advancing at an exhilarating
rate, but with a dark side: Our increasingly interconnected
world is vulnerable to new risks, "bio" or "cyber," terror or
error. The dangers from twenty-first century technology could be
graver and more intractable than the threat of nuclear devastation
that we faced for decades. And human-induced pressures on the
global environment may engender higher risks than the age-old
hazards of earthquakes, eruptions and asteroid impacts. At the
heart of his book is his vision of the infinite future that we
have put at risk - a cosmos more vast and diverse than any of us
has ever imagined. If we are the only sentient beings in the
universe, our world's fate takes on a truly cosmos significance.
The wider cosmos has a potential future that could even be
infinite. But will these vast expanses of time be filled with
life, or as empty as the Earth's first sterile seas? The
choice may depend on us, in this century. This is a humanistic
clarion call on behalf of the future of life. Basic Books,
www/basicbooks.com, 2003
ISBN: 0-465-06862-6 Buy
This Book!There was a young lady from Peru
Who went fishing in her canoe.
She had a wish
To catch no fish,
Because she was an environmentalist.
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