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Contents

I. Science

Charles Darwin

Origin of the Species (1892)

Louis Agassiz

Methods in Study of Natural History (1863)

Vannevar Bush

Science: The Endless Frontier (1945)

Lewis Thomas

The Lives of a Cell (1974)

Paul Feyerabend

Science in a Free Society (1978)

II. Technology

James Watson and Francis Crick

"A Structure for Deoxyribonucleic Acid" (1953)

Aldous Huxley

Brave New World (1946)

H. G. Wells

The Time Machine (1924)

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels (1933)

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein (1912)

III. Environment

Aldo Leopold

Sand County Almanac (1966)

Paul Hawken

Ecology of Commerce (1946)

Daniel Quinn

Ishmael (1992)

Marc Reisner

Cadillac Desert (1986)

Thomas Robert Malthus

An Essay on the Principle of Population (1789)

IV. Society

Bertrand Russell

"The Impact of Science on Society" (1951)

William E. Odum

"Environmental Degradation and the Tyranny of Small Decisions" (1982)

Garrett Hardin

Tragedy of the Commons (1968)

E. F. Schumacher

Small is Beautiful (1973)

James F. Childress

The Art of Technology Assessment (1981)