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Common Read: 2023-2024 The Book of Hope: Further Reading

Further Reading

"Abbreviated Instrument to Measure Hope: Development and Psychometric Evaluation"
by K. Herth, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Oct. 1992, v. 17, no. 10, p. 1251-59

After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond by Bruce Greyson
Call Number: Available via interlibrary loan.
ISBN: 9781250263032
Publication Date: 2021
The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Edith Eva Eger
Call Number: Available via interlibrary loan.
ISBN: 9781501130786
Publication Date: 2017

"The Cognitive Benefits of Interacting with Nature"
by Marc G. Berman, et al., Psychological Science, Dec 2008, v. 19, no. 12

Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
Call Number: Available via interlibrary loan.
ISBN: 9780525656098
Publication Date: 2021
The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Edith Eva Eger
Call Number: Available via interlibrary loan.
ISBN: 9781797113296
Publication Date: 2020

"The Global Tree Restoration Potential"
by Jean-Francois Bastin, et al., Science, Jul 2019, v. 365, no. 6448, p. 76-79
GoPro: A Blind Man and His Armless Friend Plant a Forest in China
YouTube video
GoPro for a Cause: Brothers
"Having the Will and Finding the Way: A Review and Meta-analysis of Hope at Work"
by Rebecca J. Reichard, et al., The Journal of Positive Psychology, May 2013, v. 8, no. 4, p. 292-304
"The Health Benefits of the Great Outdoors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Greenspace Exposure and Health Outcomes"
By Caoimhe Twohig-Bennet and Andy Jones, Environmental Research, Oct 2018, v. 166, p. 628-637

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries From a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben; Tim Flannery (Foreword by); Jane Billinghurst (Translator); Suzanne Simard (Contribution by)
Call Number: QK 475 .W64 H53 2016
ISBN: 9781771642484
Publication Date: 2016
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink by Jane Goodall
Call Number: Available via interlibrary loan.
ISBN: 9780446581776
Publication Date: 2009

"Hope Uniquely Predicts Objective Academic Achievement Above Intelligence, Personality, and Previous Academic Achievement"
Liz Day, et al., Journal of Research in Personality, Aug. 2010, v. 44, no. 4, p. 550-553.
"Hopelessness Predicts Mortality in Older Mexican and European Americans"
by Stephen Stern, Rahul Dhanda, Helen P. Hazuda, Psychosomatic Medicine, May 2001, v. 63, no. 3, p. 344-351
"Interacting with Nature Improves Cognition and Affect for Individuals with Depression"
by Marc G. Berman, et al., Nov 2012, v. 140, no. 3, p. 300-305

The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis S. Collins
Call Number: BL 240.3 .C65 L36 2007
ISBN: 9781416542742
Publication Date: 2007
Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others by Shane J. Lopez
Call Number: Available via interlibrary loan.
ISBN: 9781451666229
Publication Date: 2013

"Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: Impacts, Implications, and Guidance"
by Susan Clayton Whitmore-Williams, et al., Mar 2017
"Mission Impossible: Being Hopeful is Good for You - And Psychologists' Research is Pinpointing Ways to Foster the Feeling"
by Kirsten Weir, Monitor on Psychology, Oct. 2013, v. 44, no. 9, p. 42
Neighborhood Greenspace and Health in a Large Urban Center
by Omid Kardan, et al., Scientific Reports 5, 11610 (2015)

On Life after Death, Revised by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross; Caroline Myss (Foreword by)
Call Number: Available via interlibrary loan.
ISBN: 9781587613180
Publication Date: 2008
The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain by Tali Sharot
Call Number: Available via interlibrary loan.
ISBN: 9780307378484
Publication Date: 2011
Psychology of Hope: You Can Get There From Here by C. R. Snyder
Call Number: BF 204.6 .S69 P79 1994
ISBN: 9780029297155
Publication Date: 1994

"Rapid Recovery of Damaged Ecosystems"
by Holly P. Jones and Oswald J. Schmitz, May 2009, PLOS ONE

Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall; Phillip Berman
Call Number: Available at La Crosse Public Library or via interlibrary loan
ISBN: 9780446522250
Publication Date: 1999

"UN Report: Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’; Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’"
by United Nations, May 2019

People of Indomitable Human Spirit

Winston Churchill

Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nelson Mandela

Ken Saro-Wiwa

All images from CREDO Reference except for Ken Saro-Wiwa, which is from the Institute for Human Rights and Business.