Tom Rider's Reviews

The Living Gulf Coast; A Nature Guide to Southwest Florida. By Charles Soberzak. Indigo Press. Southwest Florida, with it dense populations never-the-less has 160 parks, preserves, and eco-destinations.

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Tracks in the Sands; Sea Turtles and their Protectors. By Frank Gromling & Michael Cavaliere. Ocean Publishing. A tribute to those who look after the interests of Florida’s sea turtles.

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Discovering the Civil War in Florida, 2nd ed. By Paul Taylor. Pineapple Press, paper. Maps show locations of battles and skirmishes, both land and sea. Taylor has included an updated guide to sites.

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Snake in the Grass; An Everglades Invasion. By Larry Perez. Pineapple Press, paper. The Burmese python is finding the River of Grass a welcoming habitat. This is the story of their success.

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In Hock; Pawning in America from Independence through the Great Depression. By Wendy Woloson. University of Chicago Press, paper. The interesting, untold history of pawnshops and their contribution to the borrowing needs of the working class. Thanks to The Center for Jewish Studies for her visit to UF.

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Blue Revolution; Unmaking America’s Water Crisis. By Cynthia Barnett. Beacon Press, paper. Her solution to the mounting world water crisis, Barnett argues that we need to develop a water ethic and recover our relationship with this well-watered land.

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Links; My Family in American History. By William Link. University Press of Florida. The author is a distinguished professor of History, UF, his father an eminent historian, his mother a social activist, both from North Carolina.

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Growing Stories from India; Religion and the Fate of Agriculture. By A. Whitney Stanford. University Press of Kentucky. Uses a Hindu tale about the deity, Balaram, and the Yamuna {Jumna} River to examine patterns of reciprocity, mutual obligation, and domination in agriculture.

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The Cultural Return. By Susan Hegeman. University of California Press, paper. The concept of culture as it varies over a range of scholarly disciplines in the twentieth century to the present.

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