Recommended selections from my Bookshelf
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Ecology/Business
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The
Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul
Hawken
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You Can't Eat GNP: Economics As If Ecology Mattered by Eric A.
Davidson |
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can
Do Before It's Too Late by Thom Hartmann |
From Mondragon to America: Experiments in Community Economic Development
by Greg MacLeod |
Mid-Course
Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model
by Ray Anderson
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Natural
Capitalism by Paul
Hawken, Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins
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Cradle
to Cradle by William McDonough, Michael Braungart
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Silent
Spring by Rachel Carson
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Last
Chance to See by Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine
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History
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Lies
My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen
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A
People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
by Howard Zinn
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Science
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The
Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
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The
Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge
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Seven
Life Lessons of Chaos: Spiritual Wisdom from the Science of Change
by John Briggs, F. David Peat
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Taming
the Atom: The Emergence of the Visible Microworld
by Hans Christian Von Baeyer
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Billions
& Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (Epilogue)
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Culture
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric
Schlosser |
A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen |
The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen |
Nickel
and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara
Ehrenreich
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler |
The
Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost (Classics in Human
Development) by Jean Liedloff
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Ishmael
by Daniel Quinn
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My
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
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The
Story of B by Daniel Quinn
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Beyond
Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure by
Daniel Quinn
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After
Dachau: A Novel by Daniel Quinn
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The
Holy by Daniel Quinn
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Atlas
Shrugged by Ayn Rand
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Human Interest
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Visionaries:
People & Ideas to Change Your Life by
Jay Walljasper, Jon Spayde
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The
Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World
by Sherry Ruth Anderson Ph.D., Paul H. Ray Ph.D.
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The
Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
by Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander
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Imagine:
What America Could Be in the 21st Century by
Marianne Williamson (Editor), Joseph Sohm (Photographer)
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Fiction/Historical-Fiction
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The
Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara
Kingsolver
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Prodigal
Summer: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
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The
Red Tent by Anita Diamant
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The
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
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Valley
of Horses by Jean M. Auel
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The
Mammoth Hunters Jean M. Auel
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Plains
of Passage Jean M. Auel
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The
Shelters of Stone Jean M. Auel
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Jonathan
Livingston Seagull: A Story by Richard Bach
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Illusions:
The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by
Richard Bach
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One
by Richard Bach
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Zen
and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
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Religion
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Resurrection:
Myth or Reality?: A Bishop's Search for the Origins of Christianity
by John Shelby Spong
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Living
in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality by John Shelby Spong
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Wanderings:
Chaim Potok's History of the Jews by
Chaim Potok
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Peace
Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich
Nhat Hahn
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The
Lost Gospel Q by Marcus Borg
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Poetry
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The
Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran by
Kahlil Gibran
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The
Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
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Jesus
the Son of Man by Kahlil Gibran
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Short Stories, Essays and Humor
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Small
Wonder: Essays by Barbara Kingsolver
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Einstein's
Dreams by Alan P. Lightman
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Dance
for Two: Selected Essays by Alan P. Lightman
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Naked
by David Sedaris
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Me
Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
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The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas
Adams
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The
Restaurant at the End of the Universe
by Douglas Adams
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Life,
the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
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So
Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams
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Mostly
Harmless by Douglas Adams
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A
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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Christopher Moore!
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Science Fiction
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Stranger
in a Strange Land -- by Robert A. Heinlein
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1984
by George Orwell
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Brave
New World -- by Aldous Huxley
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The
Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
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Fahrenheit
451 by Ray Bradbury
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