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Informal Bibliography

Bibliographies and Suggestions from Faculty and Staff - January-February 2008

• Mary Pat Treuthart's Bibliography
• Possible Coregraphy on Water - S. Ostersmith.
• Possible collaboration with Bioneers on this year’s topic. http://www.bioneers.org/about
• Possible Speaker recommendation to expert at Spokane County (JS)
• GU's own "Water Project" in Benin and beyond focuses on appropriate technology water filtration in developing environments.

Amazon Bibliography

There is a public online bibliography at Amazon, that you could add items to. All of the books in the "Titles" section are in this online Bibliography. The list is called "GU Water Bibliography" and the direct link is: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/30YPCSJ8MXMNE. You can also add it to your wish lists as a distinct list and you could add items.

Titles

• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition, Marc Reisner.

• Determining the economic Value of Water: Concepts and Methods. Robert A. Young

• River Teeth, David James Duncan

• Duncan, David James. " Valmiki's Palm," My Life as Told by Waterer: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchinqs, Fish-Stalkinqs. Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark Sierra Club Books, 2001, 3-30.

Duncan is the author of the popular teenage novel, The River Why 1984. From Amazon: "David James Duncan's first novel has gained an increasingly wide audience over the years--some might even call it a following. This coming-of-age tale of Gus Orviston's search for the Pacific Northwest's elusive steelhead, a metaphor for Gus's internal quest for self-knowledge, appeals to all who cherish a good yarn and memorable characters. Uncle Zeke's colorful rendition of Gus's conception on the banks of the Deschutes River is itself worth the price of purchase."

• Duncan, David James. The River Why.

• Life of Pi: [[1]]

• Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource (Paperback) by Marq de Villiers

• What You See in Clear Water: Indians, Whites, and a Batttle Over Water in the American West” by Geoffrey O’Gara (2001). O’Gara was a journalist who moved to Wyoming and chronicled the story of the tug-of-war over water rights in the area. Here is a link to a NY Times review:[2].

• For fiction, there's another Brenda Peterson book, Animal Heart (2003.) Watershed (2003) by Percival Everett is good, as are Witi Tame Ihimaera's Whale Rider (2003) if you want a multicultural book, Donna Seaman's great anthology In Our Nature: Stories of Wildness (use the 2002 edition), but even though the protagonist is a bit younger (14, 15?) I think freshmen would like Jim Lynch's The Highest Tide (2005.) It takes place on Puget Sound and also deals with cults, the media, coming of age and lots of other good stuff. (LP)

• Movie: A River Reborn [3]

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