Paul's Books
 REDHEADS
Publication: March 2000
Sid Harta Publishers, Melbourne,
Australia.
ISBN 0-9587448-9-0 (paperback)
ISBN 0-9587448-8-2 (hardcover)
In the middle of a Borneo rainforest a band of near-naked Penan,
encouraged by an equally clothes-challenged renegade Swiss shepherd,
hesitantly blockade a logging truck, testing their commitment to
protect their forest home.
Nearby, an orangutan researcher is threatened with being thrown
out of her study site unless she can reach a compromise with the
powerful minister of the environment.
How can the world's oldest forest be saved? Who has the answer
--the marketing expert of the world's largest nature conservation
group or the earnest monkey-wrenchers?
At the heart of "Redheads" fictional action lies the
very real problem of rainforest destruction and the philosophical
question of where the real boundaries lie between apes and humans.
Could sex be an effective instrument of communication between the
two? And just what is it about red silk underwear, anyway?
 Soul
of the Tiger
For an authoritative view of how people and nature influence each
other in Southeast Asia, look at Soul of the Tiger, by Jeffrey McNeely
and Paul Spencer Sochaczewski.
University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu, Hawaii. ISBN 0-8248-1669-2
Soul of the Tiger takes us to an exotic world where human life is
intimately linked with rhinos and cobras, crocodiles, elephants
and man-eating tigers.
During two decades, the authors, American conservationists and
adventurers, lived and learned in Southeast Asia - from Thailand
and Burma, to Cambodia and Vietnam, to Malaysia and Indonesia. Their
fascinating, bizarre, and often hilarious accounts reveal the vital
connection between these people and their animal neighbors. To the
villagers, animals are omens, deities, meat, leather, jungle tractors,
competitors, and even ancestors.
They authors tell of a Borneo farmer who, though an Evangelical
Christian, waits to plant his rice until the yellow wagtail arrives.
Of animal fights that fill the needs once met by headhunting. Of
Indonesians who hunt whales by leaping onto their backs from small
sailboats. Of Malaysians and Indonesians who believe that man-eating
tigers carry the souls of their victims. From such encounters, the
authors learned ways to preserve the delicate balance between human
and animal lives in all economically developing parts of the world
Soul of the Tiger is an invitation to join the search for nature's
answers in exotic places and states of mind.
 EcoBluff
Your Way to Greenism
Become an instant environmental experts with EcoBluff Your Way
to Greenism: The guide to instant environmental credibility, by
Paul Spencer Sochaczewski and Jeffrey McNeely.
Bonus Books. Chicago. 1991. ISBN: 0-929387-22-8
Green is the world's trendiest color. Everybody wants to be seen
as caring about the environment, but few people have the time or
energy needed to get past rudimentary exclamations about the greenhouse
effect or the loss of tropical forests. Eco-Bluff Your Way to Greenism
provides quick and painless eco-credibility. The authors, two seasoned
environmental writers, offer essential advice on such things as
how to deal with people who prefer elephants to human beings, or
how to stir up a party by roaring like an eco-guerrilla.
Eco-Bluff Your Way to Greenism jumps out from the scores of earnest
environmental books by the way it skewers corporate hypocrites,
political self-servers, and yellow-greenies. The authors take no
prisoners in this tongue-n-cheek exposé which laughs at issues
that are too important to be taken too seriously.
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