1959
Pat Frank, Alas, Babylon
1961
Walter M. Miller, Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
1968
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
1977
Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, Lucifer’s Hammer
1978
Stephen King, The Stand
1979
David Graham, Down to a Sunless Sea
1982
Frank Herbert, The White Plague
1985
David Brin, The Postman
1993
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
1993
Lois Lowry, The Giver
1997
Jack McDevitt, Eternity Road
1997
Jean Hegland, Into the Forest
1997
Garth Nix, Shade’s Children
2003
Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember
2004
S. M. Stirling, Dies the Fire
2004
M. T. Anderson, Feed
2004
Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now
2005
Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
2006
Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It
2006
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
2007
Neal Shusterman, Unwind
2007
Peadar Ó Guilín, The Inferior
2007
Peter Hautman, Rash
2008
Susan Beth Pfeffer, The Dead and Gone
2008
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
2008
James Kunstler, World Made by Hand
2008
Clare B. Dunkle, The Sky Inside
2009
Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
2009
Carrie Ryan, The Forest of Hands and Teeth
2009
William R. Forstchen, One Second After
2010
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
2010
David Macinnis Gill, Black Hole Sun
2011
Ann Aguirre, Enclave
1. The Hunger Games Trilogy
1. Jeffrey Kluger, “Earth at the Tipping Point: Global Warming Heats Up,” Time/CNN, March 26, 2006, www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1176980-3,00.html#ixzz1HckqZwJl.
2. Spencer Weart, American Institute of Physics, “The Discovery of Global Warming,” http://www.aip.org/history/climate/foods.htm, citing: Oppenheimer, Michael, “Global Warming and the Stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet,” Nature 1998, 393: 325–32; IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC, edited by J. T. Houghton, et al.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, online at http://www.ipcc.ch/; Weertman, Johannes, “Glaciology’s Grand Unsolved Problem,” Nature 1976, 260: 284–86; and Van der Veen, C. J., and J. Oerlemans, eds., Dynamics of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Utrecht, May 6–8, 1985.
2. Repressive Regimes and Rebellions
1. G. William Domhoff, “Wealth, Income, and Power,” University of California at Santa Cruz, January 2011, http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html.
2. Gus Lubin, “15 Mind-Blowing Facts About Wealth and Equality in America,” Business Insider, April 9, 2010, www.businessinsider.com/15-charts-about-wealth-and-inequality-in-america-2010-4.
3. Ibid.
4. Don Miller, “Housing Crisis Could Peak in 2011 as Foreclosures Rise to Record,” Money Morning, January 13, 2011, http://moneymorning .com/2011/01/13/housing-crisis-could-peak-2011-foreclosures-rise-to-record/.
5. Les Christie, “Foreclosures make up 26% of home sales,” CNN, February 24, 2011, http://money.cnn .com/2011/02/24/real_estate/foreclosure_sales/.
6. Jonathan R.Laing, “Banks Face Another Mortgage Crisis,” Barron’s, November 20, 2010, http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052970203676504575618621671054514.html#articleTabs_panel_article%3D1.
7. Harvey Katz, “The Real Unemployment Rate—January 13, 2011,” Value Line, January 13, 2011, www.valueline.com/Markets/Commentary.aspx?id=10133.
8. Mallie Jane Kim, “The Wealth Gap Around the World,” U.S. News & World Report, February 3, 2011, www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2011/02/03/the-wealth-gap-around-the-world.
9. Domhoff, op.cit.
10. “Presidential hopefuls report their wealth,” CNN, May 17, 2007, http://articles.cnn.com/2007-05-17/politics/candidates.wealth_1_financial-disclosure-candidates-edwards?_s=PM:POLITICS.
11. Marlys Harris, “Millionaires-in-chief,” Money, December 10, 2007, http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/10/magazines/moneymag/millionaires_in_chief.moneymag/index.html.
12. David Dukcevich, “America’s Richest Politicions,” Forbes, October 29, 2002. www.forbes.com/2002/10/29/cx_dd_richpols.html.
13. Kim, op.cit.
14. Walter C. Langer, The United States Office of Strategic Ser vices, Hitler As Hi s Associates Know Him, 51, www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/oss-papers/text/oss-profile-03-02.html.
15. David Biello, “A Deep Thaw: How Much Will Vanishing Glaciers Raise Sea Levels,” Scientific American, 090508, www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-much-will-global-warming-raise-sea-levels.
16. James DeFronzo, Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2007), 19.
17. Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt, “Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains, the Growth of an American Surveillance Society,” reprinted in Civil Liberties vs. National Security in a Post-9/11 World (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004), 54.
18. http://epic.org/privacy/choicepoint/
3. Hunger
1. World Hunger Education Ser vice, “2011 World Hunger and Poverty Facts and Statistics,” www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20 facts%202002.htm.
2. World Food Programme, “Hunger Stats,” www.wfp.org/hunger/stats.
3. Medicine for Africa, “Kwashiorkor,” www.medicinemd.com/Med_articles/Kwashiorkor_en.html
4. Ibid.
5. For details about the 1960s study, see L. H. Lumey, Aryeh D. Stein, Henry S. Kahn, Karin M. van der Pal-de Bruin, G. J. Blauw, Patricia A. Zybert, and Ezra S. Susser, “Cohort Profile: The Dutch Hunger Winter Families Study,” International Journal of Epidemiology, 36, no.6 (December 2007): 1196–1204, http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/36/6/1196.full.
6. Susan Jeffrey, “Victims of War Famine Provide Prenatal Clues to Schizophrenia,” The Medical Post, November 7, 1995, www.mentalhealth.com/mag1/p5m-sc01. html.
7. See www.news.leiden.edu/news/dutch-hunger-winter.html and Mark Henderson, “Imprint of famine seen in genes of Second World War babies 60 years on,” The Times, October 28, 2008, www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article5029679.ece.
8. Jacqueline Hansen, “The Truth About Teaching and Touching,” Childhood Education, Spring 2007, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3614/is_200704/ai_n19431206/pg4/.
9. Gavin Hewitt, “Ethiopian Children Face Starvation,” BBC News, June 11, 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7449523.stm.
10. Damien Cave, “Fighting Starvation, Haitains Share Portions,” New York Times, January 25, 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/world/americas/26hunger.html?_r=1.
11. “Blaine Begins Starvation Stunt,” BBC News, 090503, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3083066.stm.
12. “Doctors Feed Blaine After Stunt,” CNN World, 102003, http://articles.cnn.com/2003-10-20/world/britain.blaine_1_stunt-box-water-supply?_s=PM:WORLD.
13. Molly G.Morrison, “Connecting with the God-Man: Angela of Foligno’s Sensual Communion and Priestly Identity.” http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/RLA-Archive/1998/italian-html/Morrison,%20Molly.htm.
14. Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff, “Alexandrina Maria da Costa (1904–1955),” vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints
/ns_lit_doc_20040425_da-costa_it.html.
4. Tributes
1. “A Conversation with Suzanne Collins, Author of The Hunger Games Trilogy,” Scholastic, Inc., www.scholastic.com/thehungergames/media/qanda.pdf.
2. Bob Minzesheimer, “Collins leaves young love unresolved in ‘Catching Fire,’” USA Today, August 8, 2009.
3. George Rolfe Humphries, The Art of Love (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957).
4. Matt Cartmill, A View to a Kill in the Morning: Hunting and Nature through History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), 40–41.
5. J. P. V. D. Balsdon, Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome (London: Bodley Head, 1969), 308.
6. “New Interview with Author Suzanne Collins Talks ‘Mockingjay,’ ” August 1, 2010. Full interview at: Rich Margolis “The Last Battle: With ‘Mockingjay’ on its way, Suzanne Collins weighs in on Katniss and the Capitol,” School Library Journal, August 1, 2010, www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/printissue/currentissue/885800-427/the_last_battle_with_mockingjay.html.csp.http://mockingjay.net/category/suzanne-collins/page/2/.
7. Pat H. Broeske, “The Glory That Was Hollywood,” Los Angeles Times, April 21, 1991, http://articles.latimes.com/1991-04-21/entertainment/ca-5591_hollywood-movie.
8. Jon Solomon, The Ancient World in the Cinema (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001), 55.
9. Examples are in interviews of Suzanne Collins by the Library of Congress in 2010. See www.loc.gov/bookfest/kids-teachers/authors/suzanne_collins.html, www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2009-08-31-suzanne-collins-catching-fire_N.htm, www.scholastic.com/thehungergames/media/qanda.pdf, along with many others.
10. Susan Dominus, “Suzanne Collins’s War Stories for Kids,” New York Times, April 8, 2011. www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/magazine/mag-10collins-t.html.
11. See www.slate.com/id/46344/, www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1998-02-12/news/john-mccain-breaks-up-a-fght/3/, www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-12-04-ultimate-fghting_x.htm.
12. www.fila-offcial.com/index.php?lang=en.
5. Weapons
1. To learn about KA-BAR knives, see www.kabar.com/index.jsp.
2. International Knife Throwers Hall of Fame, www.IKTHOF.com/Ranking_Tests.html.
3. W. Dale Nelson and David Eisenhower, The President is at Camp David (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 40.
4. Ed Garsten, “Congressional Bomb Shelter Outlives Usefulness,” CNN, November 7, 1995, www.cnn.com/US/9511/gimme_shelter/index.html.
5. Volta Torrey, “How We Fight Japan with New Incendiary Bombs Packed with Gel-Gas and Pyrogel Raze the Enemy’s Factories and Shipyards,” Popular Science 146, no. 5, (May 1945), 100.
6. Torture and Execution
1. www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/magazine/mag-10collins-t.html.
2. Culled from the more extensive information at Tony R. Kuphaldt, “Ohm’s Law (again!),” All About Circuits, www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_1/chpt_3/4.html
3. Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD, and Michael Davis, PhD, “The amgydala is the primary brain region involved in fear-conditioned learning,” Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 42, no. 5 (May 2003), 612–15.
4. Eric Kandel “Cell and Molecular Biological Studies of Memory Storage,” Howard Hughes Medical Institute, www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/kandel.html.
5. Richard Gray, “Scientists find drug to banish bad memories,” The Telegraph, July 1, 2007.
6. Quoting Nader, ibid.
7. Interview transcript, “Joseph LeDoux on Replacing Fear Memories,” National Institute of Mental Health, January 4, 2010, www.nimh.nih.gov/media/video/ledoux.shtml.
7. The Nature of Evil
1. http://biblescripture.net/Galatians.html.
2. Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), 9.
3. “Moyers in Conversation,” PBS, 091201. www.pbs.org/americaresponds/moyers912.html.
4. “British Scientists discover criminal gene,” ABC Science Tech, May 8, 2002, http://abc.net.au/news/scitech/2002/08/item20020802225123_1.htm.
5. Anjana Ahula, “The Get out of Jail Free Gene,” The Times, 11709, www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/genetics/article6919130.ece.
6. Michael Shermer, “Demon-Haunted Brain,” Scientific American, (March 2003), 32.
7. Olaf S. Blanke, T. Ortigue, T. Landis, and M. Seeck, “Neuropsychology: Stimulating Illusory Own-Body Perceptions,” Nature 419 (September 19, 2002), 269–70.
8. Michael A. Persinger, Neuropsychological Bases of God Beliefs (New York: Praeger, 1987), and Persinger, “Paranormal and Religious Beliefs May Be Mediated Differently by Subcortical and Cortical Phenomenological Processes of the Temporal (Limbic) Lobes,” Perceptual and Motor Skills 76 (1993), 247–51.
8. Killer Kids
1. Francis Mading Deng, The Dinka of the Sudan (Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1972), 68–73.
2. Stephen Buckley, “Loss of Culturally Vital Cattle Leaves Dinka Tribe Adrift in Refugee Camps,” Washington Post, August 24, 1997, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/africanlives/sudan/sudan.htm.
3. Emmy E. Werner, Reluctant Witnesses: Children’s Voices from the Civil War (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998), 2.
4. Ibid., 9.
5. Graça Machel, Impact of Armed Conflict on Children (New York: United Nations Publications, 1996).
6. http://www.amnesty.org/en/children.
7. Peter W. Singer, “Books: Children at War,” The Washington Post, June 12, 2006. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/05/22/DI2006052200785.html.
8. “Child Soldiers,” United Nations Cyberschoolbus, www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/briefing/soldiers/soldiers.pdf.
9. Singer, op. cit.
10. Julian Borger, “Darfur’s Child Refugees Being Sold to Militias,” The Guardian, June 6, 2008, www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/06/sudan.humanrights.
11. Ibid.
12. BBC News, February 23, 2010, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3496731.stm.
13. Mike Pflanz, “Rwanda ‘recruited child soldiers for Congo rebels,’ ” The Telegraph, December 11, 2008, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/rwanda/3708901/Rwanda-recruited-child-soldiers-for-Congo-rebels.html.
14. GlobalSecurity.org, “Niruyeh Moghavemat Basij Mobilisation Resistance Force,” www.globalsecurity.org/intell/world/iran/basij.htm.
15. Ali Alfoneh, Iran Primer: The Basij Resistance Force, October 21, 2010, www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/10/iran-primer-the-basij-resistance-force.html.
16. www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/briefing/soldiers/soldiers.pdf.
9. Hype Over Substance
1. Maria Gonzalez, “ ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ Breaks Rating Records,” Buddy TV, December 20, 2009, www.buddytv.com/articles/keeping-up-with-the-kardashians/keeping-up-with-the-kardashian-33413.aspx.
2. Perez Hilton, January 25, 2011, http://perezhilton.com/2011-01-25-kourtney-kim-take-new-york-premieres-with-3-million-viewers-most-watch-of-series.
3. James Hibberd, “ ‘Jersey Shore’ ratings go nuclear: most-watched MTV series telecast ever!,” Entertainment Weekly, January 7, 2011, http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/01/07/jersey-shore-ratings-record/.
4. James Hibberd, “ ‘Jersey Shore’ ratings go nuclear: most-watched MTV series telecast ever!,” Entertainment Weekly, January 14, 2011, http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/01/14/jersey-shore-ratings-new-record/.
5. Robert Seidman, “Bravo’s ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Sets Records with Total Viewers,” January 14, 2011, http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/01/14/bravos-the-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-sets-records-with-total-viewers/78756?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Tvbythenumbers+%28TVbytheNumbers%29.
6. Lynette Rice, “ ‘Real Housewives of New York City’ finale draws record ratings,” June 5, 2010, http://insidetv.ew.com/2010/06/05/real-housewives-of-new-york-city-finale-draws-record-ratings/.
7. “ ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ episo
de earns record ratings,” CNN Entertainment, 071510, http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/15/<#212>real-housewives-of-new-jersey<#213>-episode-earns-record-ratings/.
8. “ ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ Finale Breaks Ratings Record,” VIBE.com, 020211, www.vibe.com/posts/real-housewives-atlanta-finale-breaks-ratings-record.
9. “Bravo’s ‘The Real Housewives of Orange County’ Returns on March 6 at 10pmET/PT,” J!-ENT Entertainment Worldwide, 012711, www.nt2099.com/J-ENT/news/american-entertainment/bravos-the-real-housewives-of-range-county-returns-on-march-6-at-10pm-etpt/.
10. James Poniewozik, Time/CNN, August 9, 2010, http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2010/08/09/some-hope-for-america-real-housewives-of-d-c-ratings-only-ok/.
11. According to a Bravo TV press release, as reported on The Futon Critic, October 20, 2010, www.thefutoncritic.com/ratings/2010/10/20/bravos-the-millionaire-matchmaker-earns-highest-rated-season-premiere-among-all-key-demos-665112/20101020bravo01/.
12. www.eonline.com/on/shows/kardashians/index.html, accessed in February 2011; also see http://tv.ign.com/dor/objects/14218278/keeping-up-with-the-kardashians-20090304101417582.html.
13. Jocelyn Venna, “ ‘The Hills’ Cast Addresses Mysterious Finale Scene,” MTV News, July 14, 2010.
14. David Hinckley, “The Real Housewives of New Jersey are fake but impressive,” Newsday, May 10, 2009, www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/05/11/2009-05-11_the_real_housewives_of_new_jersey_are_fake_but_impressive.html.
15. “Kardashian Reality Show Completely Fake So Says Khloe’s Ex,” Anything Hollywood, 110509, http://anythinghollywood.com/2009/11/kardashian-reality-show-completely-fake/.
16. Piers Morgan, “The Kardashians get real—about what’s real and fake,” CNN, January 27, 2011, http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/27/piers-preview-the-kardashians-get-real-about-whats-real-and-fake/.
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