Publications

Reviews

  • Review of Paul Sabin, The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and the Gamble Over Earth’s Future, (Yale University Press, 2013), Nature (15 August 2013).
  • Review of Timothy Egan, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), San Francisco Chronicle (14 October 2012).
  • Review of Timothy J. LeCain, Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet (Rutgers University Press, 2010), American Book Review, 32:1 (November/December 2010): 6.
  • Review of Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson, Natural Experiments of History (Belknap Press, 2010), Nature, 464 (25 March 2010): 492.
  • Review of Steve Nicholls, Paradise Found: Nature in America at the Time of Discovery (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), Nature, 459 (14 May 2009): 167-168.
  • Review of Denis Wood and John Fels, The Natures of Maps: Cartographic Constructions of the Natural World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), Nature 457 (26 February 2009): 1085-1086.
  • Review of Neil M. Maher, Nature’s New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), Nature, 452 (17 April 2008): 812-813.
  • Review of Rod Bantjes, Improved Earth: Prairie Space as Modern Artefact 1869-1944, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), Environmental History, 11:1 (January 2006): 144-145.
  • Review of Eric Enno Tamm, Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist Who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell, (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2004), Nature, 430, (22 July 2004): 403-404.
  • Review of Donald Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir (Oxford University Press), and Bonnie J. Gisel and Stephen J. Joseph, Rediscovering John Muir’s Botanical Legacy (Heyday Books), San Francisco Chronicle (2 November 2008).
  • Review of Elizabeth Bradfield, Interpretive Work, (Granada Hills, CA: Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press), San Francisco Chronicle (8 June 2008).
  • Review of Derek Hayes, Historical Atlas of California, (Berkeley: University of California Press), San Francisco Chronicle (2 December 2007).
  • Review of Richard Kluger, Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea, (New York: Knopf), San Francisco Chronicle (12 August 2007).
  • Review of Richard A. Walker, The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area, (Berkeley: University of California Press), San Francisco Chronicle (15 May 2007).
  • Review of Bill McKibben, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (New York: Henry Holt/Times Books), San Francisco Chronicle (18 March 2007).
  • Review of Linda Nash, Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge, (Berkeley: University of California Press), 21 San Francisco Chronicle (January 2007).
  • Review of Barry Lopez and Debra Gwatney, ed., Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, (Santa Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press), San Francisco Chronicle (8 October 2006).
  • Review of Aaron Sachs, The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism (New York: Viking), and Richard G. Beidleman, California’s Frontier Naturalists (Berkeley: University of California Press), San Francisco Chronicle (13 August 2006).
  • Review of John Warfield Simpson, Dam! Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park, (New York: Pantheon), San Francisco Chronicle (23 October 2005).
  • Review of Simon Winchester, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906, (New York: HarperCollins), and Dennis Smith, San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires, (New York: Viking), San Francisco Chronicle (16 October 2005).
  • Review of Leslie Berlin, The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley, (New York: Oxford University Press), San Francisco Chronicle (10 July 2005).
  • Review of Philip L. Fradkin, The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself, (Berkeley: University of California Press), San Francisco Chronicle (8 May 2005).
  • Review of Robert W. Righter, The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America’s Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of American Environmentalism, (New York: Oxford University Press), San Francisco Chronicle (27 March 2005).