Recommendations for
Independent Pursuits of
Knowledge and Understanding
Compiled
by and for Dan Baker and his students at UVM
To Add a recommendation, email Beth at: organicbeth@yahoo.com
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Contributor
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Title
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Author
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Professor
Dan Baker
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Book:
Guns,
Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Jared
Diamond
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Book:
The Truth About Columbus
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Jack
Weatherford
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Film: Dark Days
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Directed by Marc Singer |
Film: Mama Africa
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Raja Amari et al.
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| Web site: Ghost Town;
(Stories about and pictures of Chernobyl) |
Elena |
Web site: This American Life, especially"Secret Government"
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Ira Glass
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Seth Herman
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Film: A Closer Walk
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Robert Bilheimer
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Michele Marcotte
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Book: Enough
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Bill
McKibben
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Megan Mcgrath
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Book: The Story of B
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Daniel Quinn |
Stephanie
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Book: Ishmael
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Daniel Quinn |
Madeleine Scammell
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Film: A Kalahari
Family
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John Marshall
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Jason Wiener
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Film: The
Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea
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David Wason
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(if you know who recommended
this, please email Beth.
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Film: Who's Counting?
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Marilyn Waring, Kent Martin
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Beth Irvin |
Film: Pandemic: Facing AIDS
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Rory Kennedy
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| Nilima Abrams |
Book: Next of Kin |
Roger Fouts, PhD. |
| Book: Free the Children |
Craig Kielberger |
| Evan Kamien |
Book: The Jungle |
Upton Sinclair |
| Book: Fast Food Nation |
Eric Schlosser |
| Book: The Case for Israel |
Alan Dershowitz |
