Speaker’s Book:

The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools & the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth, by Richard Conniff

The Method to Nellie’s Madness

Print:

• The Complete Works of Nellie Bly, by Nellie Bly
• Ten Days in a Mad House, by Nellie Bly – on Archive.org
• Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist, by Brooke Kroeger

Online:

• Nellie Bly online
• “Nellie Bly” – Lisa’s History Room
• Upcoming film adaptation: “Ten Days in a Madhouse”

Here Be Dragons: Charting the Ends of the Earth

Print:

• Mapping the World: Maps and their History, by Nathaniel Harris
• The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World Maps, by Peter Whitield
• The Power of Projections: How Maps Reflect Global Politics and History, by Jay Klinghoffer
• Mercator: The Man who Mapped the Planet, by Nicholas Crane
• Maps and Map-Makers, by RV Tooley
• The World of Gerard Mercator: The Map Maker who Revolutionized Geography, by Andrew Taylor
• Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps, by Chet Van Duzer
• Maps: Their Untold Stories, by Rose Mitchell, Andrew Janes

Online:

• “What your favorite map projections says about you” – XKCD
• “The Great Map Debate” – Robert Matthews
• “I Object to Your Projections” – Victoria Johnson
• “Peters Projection vs Mercator Projection” – Matthew T. Rosenberg
• “Gall-Peters Projection”

Morphology and Monsters: Formalist Approaches to Folklore

Print:

• Cinderella – A Casebook, by Alan Dundes
• Morphology of the Folktale, by Vladimir Propp
• Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-Five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap O’Rushes, by Marian Roalfe Cox

The Haber–Bosch Process: A Story of Nitrogen and Chlorine

Print:

• Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production, by Vaclav Smil
• The Alchemy of Air: a Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler, by Thomas Haber
• Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, by Laylin K. James

Online:

• “Nitrogen Cycle and World Food Production” – Vaclav Smil
• “Nobel Award to Haber” – The New York Times

A Rose by Any Other Name: The History of Biological Taxonomy

Print:

• Systema Naturae, by Carl Linnaeus
• Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, by Stephen Jay Gould
• The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals, by Simon Conway Morris
• Systematics and the Origin of Species,  by Ernst Mayr
• Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution,  by Richard Fortey
• Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature’s Most Dangerous Creatures,  by Carl Zimmer
• Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation, by Olivia Judson

Methods of the Masters: Materials, Mediums & the Chemistry of the Arts

Print:

• Methods and Materials of Painting of the Great Schools and Masters, by Charles L. Eastlake
• The Artist’s Handbook of Materials and Techniques, by Ralph Mayer
• The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting, by Daniel V. Thompson

Online:

• “Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice” – The Getty Conservation Institute
• “A Primer for the Materials, Methods and Techniques of Conservation” – North Carolina Museum of Art
• “The Chemistry of Oil Painting” – Glendon Mellow

For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Beth Abdallah, Egan Hirvela, Andrey Tselikov, Chris Carrico, Daen de Leon & Tania Seabock.  Thank you!