Professional Reading-2009-2011

MATHEMATICS
3+ hours    The Story of Mathematics From Babylonian Numerals to Chaos Theory by Ian Stewart

LOCAL LEARNING
3+ hours    Mapmaking with Children: Sense of Place Education for the Elementary Years by David Sobel

GENERAL EDUCATION
3+ hours    The Girl with the Brown Crayon by Vivian Gussin Paley
3+ hours    Challenging Assumptions in Education by Wendy Priesnitz
3+ hours    Freedom and Beyond by John Holt
3+ hours    The Teenage Liberation Handbook how to quit school and get a real life and education by Grace Llewellyn

WOMEN’S STUDIES
3+ hours    Boston Women’s Heritage Trail Seven Self-guided Walks Through Four Centuries of Boston Women’s History with Guidebook, Maps and Walks
3+ hours    Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women’s History of the World by Rosalind
Miles
3+ hours    Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a singular Feminist by Kathleen Barry
3+ hours    Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America by Karenna Gore Schiff  Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mother Jones, Alice Hamilton,

NATURE STUDIES
3+ hours    Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
3+ hours    Toad Cottages & Shooting Stars by Sharon Lovejoy
3+ hours    Nature Journaling: Learning to Observe and Connect with the World Around You by Clare Walker Leslie and Charles E. Roth
3+ hours    Walking by Henry David Thoreau

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
3+ hours     When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution by Devra Davis
3+ hours    Living Downstream by Sandra Steingraber
3+ hours Having Faith by Sandra Steingraber (Also beautifully written for Human Growth and Development)
3+ hours Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
1+ hour A Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson published with new photos after her death
1+ hours A Sense of Wonder DVD Kaiulani Lee-Actress in the play based on the life of Rachel Carson

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