For Publishers/Authors:
If you are interested in having a book submitted to The Trumpeter for review, please send an email to Wendell Kisner, our Book Review Editor, at wendellk@athabascau.ca.
If you are interested in writing a review on one of the books or films listed below, or if you’d like to review something not on the list but which you think might be a good fit with the Trumpeter, please contact Wendell Kisner at wendellk@athabascau.ca.
Book review guidelines
The following are some general guidelines for book reviews submitted to the Trumpeter.
Avoid the following two extremes
Uncritical endorsement that overlooks problems.
Unfair criticism that either
- fails to address arguments the author presents which may allay the concerns raised, or
- faults the author for not doing something s/he wasn't trying to do in the first place.
Word limit
Most reviews tend to be between about 500 and 1500 words, with a 3000 word upper limit. Once a book review exceeds 3000 words, it begins to look more like a critical response paper than a book review and should be submitted as an article instead. Try to eliminate tangential discussions not directly related to the content of the book being reviewed. Alternatively, write a critical paper that more carefully develops the reviewer’s own arguments, then submit it as a paper for publication rather than as a book review.
Books Requiring Reviewers:
- Albrecht, Don E.(2014). Rethinking Rural: Global Community and Economic Development in Small Town West. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press.
- Anderson, Peter. (2015). First Church of the Higher Elevations: Mountains, Prayer and Presence. Conundrum Press.
- Béchard, Deni. (2013). Empty Hands, Open Arms: The Race to Save Bonobos in the Congo and Make Conservation Go Viral. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions.
- Bergmann, Sigurd. (2014). Religion, Space, and the Environment. Transaction Publishers.
- Bowers, Chet A. (2016). Digital Detachment: How Computer Culture Undermines Democracy. Routledge.
- Budd, Robert and Vickers, Roy Henry. (2015). Orca Chief. Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing.
- Clingerman, Forrest; Drenthen, Martin; Treanor, Brian; Utsler, David (eds.). (2014). Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics. New York: Fordham University Press.
- Deane-Drummond, Celia, Bergmann, Sigurd, Szerszynski, Bronislaw (Eds). (2015). Technofutures, Nature and the Sacred: Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing.
- Dora, Veronica Della. (2012). Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Place from Homer to World War II. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
- Giono, Jean. (2016 – new translation). Hill. New York Review Books.
- Griffin, John. (2011). On the Origin of Beauty: Ecophilosophy in the Light of Traditional Wisdom. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, Inc.
- Hillman, Brenda. (2013). Seasonal Works with Windows on Fire. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
- James, George Alfred. (2013) Ecology Is Permanent Economy: The Activism and Environmental Philosophy of Sunderlal Bahuguna. SUNY Press.
- Bear Necessities: Rescue, Rehabilitation, Sanctuary, and Advocacy. Brill Publishers.
- Kisner, Wendell. (2014). Ecological Ethics and Living Subjectivity in Hegel's Logic: The Middle Voice of Autopoietic Life. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Kemmerer, Lisa. (2014). Eating Earth: Environmental Ethics and Dietary Choice. Oxford University Press.
- McCarthy, Michael. (2016). The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy. New York Review Books.
- Scheub, Ute. (2016). Terra Preta: How the World’s Most Fertile Soil Can Help Reverse Climate Change and Reduce World Hunger. Greystone.
- Shepherd, Kelly. (2016). Shift. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Thistledown Press.
- Starbuck, Scott. Publishers.
- Storey, David E. (2015). Naturalizing Heidegger: His Confrontation with Nietzsche, His Contributions to Environmental Philosophy. SUNY Press.
- Stuart, Don. (2014). Barnyards and Birkenstocks: Why Farmers and Environmentalists Need Each Other. WSU Press.
- Suzuki, David and Hanington, Ian. (2012). Everything Under the Sun: Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet. Vancouver: Greystone Books.
- Tønnessen, Morten et.al. Eds. (2016) Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene. Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield.
- Vogel, Steven. (2015). Thinking like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature. MIT Press.
- Weber, Andreas. (2016). The Biology of Wonder: Aliveness, Feeling, and the Metamorphosis of Science. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers.
- Wood, Chris, and Pentland, Ralph. (2013). Down the Drain: How We Are Failing To Protect Our Water. Vancouver: Greystone Books.
Films Requiring Reviewers:
- Glacial Balance . Directed and produced by Ethan Steinman. glacialbalance.com