Stephen's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:13:34 -0700 60 Stephen's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life]]> 97059 - Parker J. Palmer [from the Introduction] Teachers choose their vocation for reasons of the heart, because they care deeply about their students and about their subject. But the demands of teaching cause too many educators to lose heart. Is it possible to take heart in teaching once more so that we can continue to do what good teachers always do -- give heart to our students? In The Courage to Teach , Parker Palmer takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting with their vocation and their students -- and recovering their passion for one of the most difficult and important of human endeavors.]]> 224 Parker J. Palmer 0787910589 Stephen 0 to-read 3.95 1997 The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
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]]> <![CDATA[The New Revelations: A Conversation with God]]> 148231 368 Neale Donald Walsch 074346303X Stephen 0 4.26 The New Revelations: A Conversation with God
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]]> <![CDATA[The Celestine Prophecy: An Experiential Guide]]> 291884 The Celestine Prophecy helps readers expand knowledge from the nine Insights, offers explanations and exercises for further revelations, and fosters personal growth by putting readers in touch with evidence from their own experience.]]> 304 James Redfield 0446671223 Stephen 0 to-read 3.89 The Celestine Prophecy: An Experiential Guide
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]]> <![CDATA[Down home ways: Old-fangled skills for making hundreds of simple, useful things]]> 11251695 240 Jerry Mack Johnson 0812907884 Stephen 3 1-thessalonians-4-11 3.00 1978 Down home ways: Old-fangled skills for making hundreds of simple, useful things
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]]> TypeScript in 50 Lessons 56031636 In “TypeScript in 50 Lessons”, Stefan Baumgartner breaks down the quirks of TypeScript into short, manageable lessons — for front-end developers who know enough JavaScript to be dangerous.]]> 369 Stefan Baumgartner 3945749921 Stephen 0 currently-reading 4.17 TypeScript in 50 Lessons
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]]> <![CDATA[Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices: Build enterprise-ready, modular Vue.js applications with Vuex and Nuxt]]> 39307703 Become an expert Vue developer by understanding design patterns and the component architecture of Vue.js to write clean and maintainable code

Key FeaturesCraft highly modular applications by exploring design patterns and the component architecture of Vue.jsEnforce a Flux-like application architecture in your Vue.js applications with VuexEasy-to-follow examples that can be used to create reusable code and extensible designsBook DescriptionVue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices starts by comparing Vue.js with other frameworks and setting up the development environment for your application, and gradually moves on to writing and styling clean, maintainable, and reusable Vue.js components that can be used across your application. Further on, you'll look at common UI patterns, Vue form submission, and various modifiers such as lazy binding, number typecasting, and string trimming to create better UIs. You will also explore best practices for integrating HTTP into Vue.js applications to create an application with dynamic data. Routing is a vitally important part of any SPA, so you will focus on the vue-router and explore routing a user between multiple pages. Next, you'll also explore state management with Vuex, write testable code for your application, and create performant, server-side rendered applications with Nuxt. Toward the end, we'll look at common antipatterns to avoid, saving you from a lot of trial and error and development headaches.

By the end of this book, you'll be on your way to becoming an expert Vue developer who can leverage design patterns to efficiently architect the design of your application and write clean and maintainable code.

What you will learnUnderstand the theory and patterns of Vue.jsBuild scalable and modular Vue.js applicationsTake advantage of Vuex for reactive state managementCreate single page applications with vue-routerUse Nuxt for FAST server-side rendered Vue applicationsConvert your application to a Progressive Web App (PWA) and add ServiceWorkers and offline supportBuild your app with Vue.js by following best practices and explore the common anti-patterns to avoidWho this book is forThis book is for Vue developers who are familiar with framework design principles and utilize commonly found design patterns in developing web applications.

Table of ContentsVue.js Principles and ComparisonsProper Creation of Vue Projects Writing Clean and Lean code with VueVue.js DirectivesSecured communication with Vue.js ComponentsCreating better UI HTTPSVue Router PatternsState Management with VuexTesting your appPerformance OptimisationServer Side Rendering with Nuxt Anti Patterns]]> 346 Paul Halliday Stephen 0 to-read 3.07 Vue.js 2 Design Patterns and Best Practices: Build enterprise-ready, modular Vue.js applications with Vuex and Nuxt
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]]> <![CDATA[App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream]]> 54614440
As his parents watched their restaurant business collapse in the wake of the Great Recession, Michael Sayman was googling “how to code.” Within a year, he had launched an iPhone app that was raking in thousands of dollars a month, enough to keep his family afloat—and in America.

Entirely self-taught, Sayman headed from high school straight into the professional world, and by the time he was seventeen, he was Facebook’s youngest employe ever, building new features that wowed its founder Mark Zuckerberg and are now being used by more than half a billion people every day. Sayman pushed Facebook to build its own version of Snapchat’s Stories and, as a result, engagement on the platform soared across all demographics. Millions of Gen Z and Millennials flocked to Facebook, and as teen engagement rose dramatically on Instagram and WhatsApp, Snapchat’s parent company suffered a billion-dollar loss in value. Three years later, Sayman jumped ship for Google.

App Kid is the galvanizing story of a young Latino, not yet old enough to drink, who excelled in the cutthroat world of Silicon Valley and went on to become an inspiration to thousands of kids everywhere by following his own surprising, extraordinary path. In this candid and uplifting memoir, Sayman shares the highs and lows, the successes and failures, of his remarkable journey. His book is essential and affirming reading for anyone marching to the beat of their own drum.]]> 304 Michael Sayman 0525656197 Stephen 0 to-read 3.67 App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream
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]]> We Cast a Shadow 40163362 A bold, provocative debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty's The Sellout , about a father who will do anything to protect his son--even if it means turning him white.

How far would you go to protect your child?

Our narrator faces an impossible decision. Like any father, he just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is growing larger by the day. In this near-future society plagued by resurgent racism, segregation, and expanding private prisons, our narrator knows Nigel might not survive. Having watched the world take away his own father, he is determined to stop history from repeating itself.

There is one potential solution: a new experimental medical procedure that promises to save lives by turning people white. But in order to afford Nigel's whiteness operation, our narrator must make partner as one of the few Black associates at his law firm, jumping through a series of increasingly surreal hoops--from diversity committees to plantation tours to equality activist groups--in an urgent quest to protect his son.

This electrifying, suspenseful novel is at once a razor-sharp satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. Writing in the tradition of Ralph Ellison and Franz Kafka, Maurice Carlos Ruffin fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love.]]> 336 Maurice Carlos Ruffin 0525509062 Stephen 0 to-read 3.60 2019 We Cast a Shadow
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]]> <![CDATA[The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics (Union Square & Co. Milestones)]]> 6393242 The Science Book. Beginning millions of years ago with ancient “ant odometers” and moving through time to our modern-day quest for new dimensions, it covers 250 milestones in mathematical history. Among the numerous delights readers will learn about as they dip into this inviting anthology: cicada-generated prime numbers, magic squares from centuries ago, the discovery of pi and calculus, and the butterfly effect. Each topic gets a lavishly illustrated spread with stunning color art, along with formulas and concepts, fascinating facts about scientists’ lives, and real-world applications of the theorems.]]> 528 Clifford A. Pickover 1402757964 Stephen 0 to-read 4.04 2009 The Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics (Union Square & Co. Milestones)
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]]> <![CDATA[Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication]]> 39380381 How to speak and listen more effectively--to communicate mindfully and improve all relationships--based on the author's unique synthesis of mindfulness practice combined with the principles of nonviolent communication.

Communication is hard. Here's a proven method that makes it not only considerably easier, but also much more effective for people on both sides of the conversation. Oren Sofer's method for effective communication is a unique combination of mindfulness with the modality called nonviolent communication (NVC), a method popular since the 1960s that is based on the belief that all human beings have the capacity for compassion and resort to violence or behavior that harms others only when they don't recognize more effective strategies for meeting needs. NVC provides those peaceful strategies. Oren's unique method for fostering peaceful--and effective--communication has three "steps" or components: (1) presence: bringing mindful awareness to the interaction, (2) intention: clarifying and setting a goal for the interaction, and (3) attention: learning to really hear and understand in a way that enables you to navigate the difficulties, express yourself clearly, and listen like it really matters--which it most certainly does. The steps are accompanied by many practical exercises, and in the course of this three-part training, readers will learn how to apply these skills to personal and social relationships with romantic partners, friends, colleagues, and family.]]> 304 Oren Jay Sofer 161180583X Stephen 0 to-read 4.12 2018 Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication
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]]> God Is Silence 2521976 43 Pierre Lacout 0852452535 Stephen 0 to-read 4.56 God Is Silence
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]]> The Archer 52585195 131 Paulo Coelho 152471187X Stephen 0 to-read 3.66 2003 The Archer
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]]> <![CDATA[Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo]]> 49272 claves appeared, and how Cuban music influenced ragtime, jazz, and rhythm and blues are revealed. Music lovers will follow this journey from Andalucía, the Congo, the Calabar, Dahomey, and Yorubaland via Cuba to Mexico, Puerto Rico, Saint-Domingue, New Orleans, New York, and Miami. The music is placed in a historical context that considers the complexities of the slave trade; Cuba's relationship to the United States; its revolutionary political traditions; the music of Santería, Palo, Abakuá, and Vodú; and much more.]]> 688 Ned Sublette 1556526326 Stephen 0 to-read 4.66 2004 Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo
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]]> <![CDATA[The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square]]> 1038947 360 Ned Sublette 1556527306 Stephen 0 to-read 3.96 2008 The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
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]]> <![CDATA[A People's History of American Empire]]> 1782543 A People’s History of the United States has had six new editions, sold more than 1.7 million copies, become required classroom reading throughout the country, and been turned into an acclaimed play. More than a successful book, A People’s History triggered a revolution in the way history is told, displacing the official versions with their emphasis on great men in high places to chronicle events as they were lived, from the bottom up.

Now Howard Zinn, historian Paul Buhle, and cartoonist Mike Konopacki have collaborated to retell, in vibrant comics form, a most immediate and relevant chapter of A People’s History: the centuries-long story of America’s actions in the world. Narrated by Zinn, this version opens with the events of 9/11 and then jumps back to explore the cycles of U.S. expansionism from Wounded Knee to Iraq, stopping along the way at World War I, Central America, Vietnam, and the Iranian revolution. The book also follows the story of Zinn, the son of poor Jewish immigrants, from his childhood in the Brooklyn slums to his role as one of America’s leading historians.

Shifting from world-shattering events to one family’s small revolutions, A People’s History of American Empire presents the classic ground-level history of America in a dazzling new form.]]> 288 Paul M. Buhle 0805087443 Stephen 0 to-read 4.15 2008 A People's History of American Empire
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]]> <![CDATA[Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants]]> 17465709 Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.]]> 408 Robin Wall Kimmerer 1571313354 Stephen 0 to-read 4.50 2013 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
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]]> <![CDATA[Cajun Folktales (American Storytelling)]]> 2293783 176 J.J. Reneaux 0874832837 Stephen 0 to-read 3.98 1955 Cajun Folktales (American Storytelling)
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]]> <![CDATA[Bayou-Diversity 2: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country]]> 37952978
Ouchley’s thought-provoking discussion considers the long-term human impact on Louisiana plants and wildlife and encourages proactive conservation of Louisiana’s invaluable natural resources. Through education on conservation ethics, altered landscapes, and climate change, he asserts that we can and must improve our environment. “We are inextricably connected to the natural world,” Ouchley writes, and “our mutual well-being is inseparably linked.”

With page-turning narration, Bayou-Diversity 2 provides a comprehensive look at this awe-inspiring ecosystem and encourages generations of readers to take on the responsibility of environmental stewardship.]]> 224 Kelby Ouchley 0807169382 Stephen 0 to-read 4.50 Bayou-Diversity 2: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country
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]]> <![CDATA[Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country]]> 12393821
Through a collection of essays about Louisiana's natural history, Ouchley details an amazing array of plants and animals found in the Bayou State. Baldcypress, orchids, feral hogs, eels, black bears, bald eagles, and cottonmouth snakes live in the well over 400 bayous of the region. Collectively, Ouchley's vignettes portray vibrant and complex habitats. But human interaction with the bayou and our role in its survival, Ouchley argues, will determine the future of these intricate ecosystems.

Bayou-Diversity narrates the story of the bayou one wildflower, one creature at a time, in turn illustrating the bigger picture of this treasured and troubled Louisiana landscape.]]> 240 Kelby Ouchley 0807138592 Stephen 0 to-read 4.50 2011 Bayou-Diversity: Nature and People in the Louisiana Bayou Country
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]]> <![CDATA[Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana]]> 6680
Gumbo Ya-Ya is a charming look at the legends and practices of Louisiana. Originally written as part of the WPA's Louisiana Writers' Program, it has endured as a classic of its genre.]]> 640 Lyle Saxon 0882896458 Stephen 0 to-read 3.98 1984 Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana
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]]> <![CDATA[On Being Nice: This guidebook explores the key themes of 'being nice' and how we can achieve this often overlooked accolade. (The School of Life Library)]]> 35411679
Much of today's media tells us to be thinner, richer, and more successful. This book tells us how to be nicer. Niceness may not have the immediate allure of money or fame, but we can all benefit from practical advice on how to be more patient, better at listening, less irritable, and less defensive.

This is a guidebook to the uncharted landscape of niceness, gently exploring the key themes of this often overlooked quality. We learn how to be charitable, how to forgive, how to be natural, and how to reassure. We learn that, rather than indicating naivety, kindness and empathy are in fact unique strengths-and deserve to be rediscovered as the greatest of all human achievements.]]> 128 The School of Life 0995573646 Stephen 0 3.79 2017 On Being Nice: This guidebook explores the key themes of 'being nice' and how we can achieve this often overlooked accolade. (The School of Life Library)
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]]> The Seven Good Years 23399025
The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret’s son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar’s father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life.

What emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgar’s three-year-old son’s impending military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry Birds. There’s Lev’s insistence that he is a cat, releasing him from any human responsibilities or rules. Etgar’s siblings, both very different people who have chosen radically divergent paths in life, come together after his father’s shivah to experience the grief and love that tie a family together forever. This wise, witty memoir—Etgar’s first non-fiction book, and told in his inimitable style—is full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irrepressible humor.]]> 173 Etgar Keret 1594633266 Stephen 0 4.14 2013 The Seven Good Years
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]]> <![CDATA[A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present]]> 2767 Zinn portrays a side of American history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small aggregate of elite rulers from across the orthodox political parties.
A People's History has been assigned as reading in many high schools and colleges across the United States. It has also resulted in a change in the focus of historical work, which now includes stories that previously were ignored

Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s book “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.”]]> 729 Howard Zinn 0060838655 Stephen 0 for-dana, to-read 4.08 1980 A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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]]> <![CDATA[Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming]]> 89998 One of the world’s most influential environmentalists reveals a worldwide grassroots movement of hope and humanity

Blessed Unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians or the media. Hawken, an environmentalist and author, has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person causes, these organizations collectively comprise the largest movement on earth. This is a movement that has no name, leader, or location, but is in every city, town, and culture. It is organizing from the bottom up and is emerging as an extraordinary and creative expression of people’s needs worldwide.

Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of this movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and centuries-old history. The culmination of Hawken’s many years of leadership in these fields, it will inspire, surprise, and delight anyone who is worried about the direction the modern world is headed. Blessed Unrest is a description of humanity’s collective genius and the unstoppable movement to re-imagine our relationship to the environment and one another. Like Hawken’s previous books, Blessed Unrest will become a classic in its field— a touchstone for anyone concerned about our future.]]> 352 Paul Hawken 0670038520 Stephen 0 peace-permaculture, to-read 3.95 2007 Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
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]]> <![CDATA[Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design]]> 13330588 Charles Montgomery’s Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life.

After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways, sidewalks and condo towers an improvement on the car-dependence of sprawl?

The award-winning journalist Charles Montgomery finds answers to such questions at the intersection between urban design and the emerging science of happiness, during an exhilarating journey through some of the world’s most dynamic cities. He meets the visionary mayor who introduced a “sexy” bus to ease status anxiety in Bogotá; the architect who brought the lessons of medieval Tuscan hill towns to modern-day New York City; the activist who turned Paris’s urban freeways into beaches; and an army of American suburbanites who have hacked the design of their own streets and neighborhoods.

Rich with new insights from psychology, neuroscience and Montgomery’s own urban experiments, Happy City reveals how our cities can shape our thoughts as well as our behavior. The message is as surprising as it is hopeful: by retrofitting cities and our own lives for happiness, we can tackle the urgent challenges of our age. The happy city can save the world--and all of us can help build it. ]]> 368 Charles Montgomery 0385669127 Stephen 0 anti-sprawl, to-read 4.35 2012 Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
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]]> Silent Spring 27333 9780618249060 can be found here

Silent Spring is an environmental science book. The book documents the adverse environmental effects caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation, and public officials of accepting the industry's marketing claims unquestioningly.

The book appeared in September 1962 and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s book was instrumental in launching the environmental movement.]]> 378 Rachel Carson Stephen 0 peace-permaculture, to-read 4.06 1962 Silent Spring
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]]> <![CDATA[Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life]]> 71730
In this internationally acclaimed text, Marshall Rosenberg offers insightful stories, anecdotes, practical exercises and role-plays that will dramatically change your approach to communication for the better. Discover how the language you use can strengthen your relationships, build trust, prevent conflicts and heal pain. Revolutionary, yet simple, Nonviolent Communication offers you the most effective tools to reduce violence and create peace in your life—one interaction at a time.]]> 220 Marshall B. Rosenberg 1892005034 Stephen 0 peace-permaculture, to-read 4.31 1999 Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture]]> 146191 The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural development and spiritual discipline. Today’s agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land—from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it.
Sadly, as Berry notes in his Afterword to this third edition, his arguments and observations are more relevant than ever. We continue to suffer loss of community, the devaluation of human work, and the destruction of nature under an economic system dedicated to the mechanistic pursuit of products and profits. Although “this book has not had the happy fate of being proved wrong,” Berry writes, there are good people working “to make something comely and enduring of our life on this earth.” Wendell Berry is one of those people, writing and working, as ever, with passion, eloquence, and conviction.]]> 234 Wendell Berry 0871568772 Stephen 0 4.33 1977 The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
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]]> <![CDATA[Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre]]> 7153467 Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family’s food on just a quarter acre—and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. Even if you have never been a farmer or a gardener, this book covers everything you need to know to get started: buying and saving seeds, starting seedlings, establishing raised beds, soil fertility practices, composting, dealing with pest and disease problems, crop rotation, farm planning, and much more. Because self-suf?ciency is the objective, subjects such as raising backyard chickens and home canning are also covered along with numerous methods for keeping costs down and production high. Materials, tools, and techniques are detailed with photographs, tables, diagrams, and illustrations.]]> 240 Brett L. Markham 1602399840 Stephen 0 peace-permaculture, to-read 3.98 2006 Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
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]]> <![CDATA[Ritual: Power, Healing and Community (Compass)]]> 313580 In this remarkable book, Malidoma Somé explores the essential role ritual plays in maintaining community and examines the structure common to all ritual. By telling stories of the rituals of his native West African Dagara culture, and of his own experiences in the tribal community, he makes a convincing case that the lack of ritual in the Western world is a fundamental reason that the fabric of society is unraveling. "The hurt that a person feels in the midst of this modern culture should be taken as a language spoken by the body," writes Somé. "Our soul communicates things to us that the body translates as need, or want, or absence. So we enter into ritual in order to respond to the call of the soul." The name Malidoma means "he who is to be friends with the stranger/enemy," and Somé, who has doctorates from the Sorbonne and Brandeis, abandoned his teaching career at Brandeis at the instruction of village elders to devote himself completely to speaking and, with his wife Sobonfu, conducting workshops on ritual.

"The question is, can the modern world find ways to perceive the subtle knowledge and imagery of the tribal world? Can Western understanding open a place for tribal visions of spiritual life and community rituals to enter? Malidoma Somé is uniquely qualified to find the thresholds between the worlds and hold the gates open." —Michael Meade

]]> 103 Malidoma Patrice Somé 0140195580 Stephen 0 for-dana, to-read 4.21 1993 Ritual: Power, Healing and Community (Compass)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible]]> 495395
Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the hundreds of less-publicised rules. The resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound, reverent and irreverent, personal and universal, and will make you see history's most influential book with new eyes.]]> 388 A.J. Jacobs 0743291476 Stephen 0 to-read 3.76 2007 The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
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]]> <![CDATA[The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide]]> 78605 The Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the ultimate practical guide for realists and dreamers alike.]]> 312 John Seymour 0789493322 Stephen 5 4.27 1973 The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide
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name: Stephen
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1973
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Organic Nanny's Guide to Raising Healthy Kids: How to Create a Natural Diet and Lifestyle for Your Child]]> 13237667
As a nanny, Rodriguez has seen some disturbing trends -- toxic foods, childhood obesity, insomnia, and a lack of communication between parents and children. Her advice? Nutritious food and natural remedies to resolve chronic health and behavior issues. The Organic Nanny's Guide to Raising Healthy Kids will help parents put their children on a more natural track and give them a childhood to remember.]]> 272 Barbara Rodriguez 0738214892 Stephen 0 to-read 3.78 2012 The Organic Nanny's Guide to Raising Healthy Kids: How to Create a Natural Diet and Lifestyle for Your Child
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average rating: 3.78
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]]> Siddhartha 899510
A Penguin Classic

Hesse's famous and influential novel, Siddartha , is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and moving empathy for humanity, has touched the lives of millions since its original publication in 1922. Set in India, Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's search for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha. His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism, through the illusory joys of sensual love with a beautiful courtesan, and of wealth and fame, to the painful struggles with his son and the ultimate wisdom of renunciation. This new translation by award-winning translator Joachim Neugroschel includes an introduction by Hesse biographer Ralph Freedman.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 132 Hermann Hesse 0141181230 Stephen 5 spirituality 3.99 1922 Siddhartha
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average rating: 3.99
book published: 1922
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community]]> 343584 352 Malidoma Patrice Somé 087477991X Stephen 0 4.48 1998 The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community
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name: Stephen
average rating: 4.48
book published: 1998
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #1)]]> 10431447 For fans of the Chronicles of Narnia comes the first book in the Wildwood Chronicles, the New York Times bestselling fantasy adventure series by Colin Meloy, lead singer of the Decemberists, and Carson Ellis, acclaimed illustrator of The Mysterious Benedict Society.

Wildwood captivates readers with the wonder and thrill of a secret world within the landscape of a modern city. It feels at once firmly steeped in the classics of children's literature and completely fresh. The story is told from multiple points of view, and the book features more than eighty illustrations, including six full-color plates, making this an absolutely gorgeous object.

In Wildwood, Prue and her friend Curtis uncover a secret world in the midst of violent upheaval—a world full of warring creatures, peaceable mystics, and powerful figures with the darkest intentions. And what begins as a rescue mission becomes something much greater as the two friends find themselves entwined in a struggle for the very freedom of this wilderness. A wilderness the locals call Wildwood.

The bestselling trilogy from Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis consists of Wildwood, Under Wildwood, and Wildwood Imperium.]]> 541 Colin Meloy 006202468X Stephen 3 3.71 2011 Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #1)
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name: Stephen
average rating: 3.71
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rating: 3
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]]> Cloud Atlas 49628
Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . .

Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history.

But the story doesn't end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky.

As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.]]> 509 David Mitchell 0375507256 Stephen 0 4.02 2004 Cloud Atlas
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]]> <![CDATA[Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom]]> 6796675
With the new breakthroughs in neuroscience, combined with the insights from thousands of years of contemplative practice, you, too, can shape your own brain for greater happiness, love, and wisdom.

Buddha's Brain joins the forces of modern science with ancient teachings to show readers how to have greater emotional balance in turbulent times, as well as healthier relationships, more effective actions, and a deeper religious or spiritual practice.

Well-referenced and grounded in science, the book is full of practical tools and skills readers can use in daily life to tap the unused potential of the brain-and rewire it over time for greater peace and well-being.

If you can change your brain, you can change your life.]]> 252 Rick Hanson Stephen 0 to-read 3.99 2009 Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
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name: Stephen
average rating: 3.99
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]]> <![CDATA[Treatise on Enlightened Society]]> 17226626 Sakyong Mipham Stephen 0 peace-permaculture, to-read 4.58 Treatise on Enlightened Society
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce]]> 49252 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge will want to turn to Bierce's other Civil War stories. Also included here are his horror stories, among them The Death of Halpin Frayser and The Damned Thing, and such tall tales as Oil of Dog and A Cargo of Cat.]]> 500 Ambrose Bierce 0803260717 Stephen 0 to-read 4.23 2000 The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce
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name: Stephen
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2000
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary]]> 49256
A virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary offers some 1,600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Bierce targets just about any pursuit, from matrimony to immortality, that allows our willful failings and excesses to shine forth.

This new edition is based on David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi’s exhaustive investigation into the book’s writing and publishing history. All of Bierce’s known satiric definitions are here, including previously uncollected, unpublished, and alternative entries. Definitions dropped from previous editions have been restored while nearly two hundred wrongly attributed to Bierce have been excised. For dedicated Bierce readers, an introduction and notes are also included.

Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary is a classic that stands alongside the best work of satirists such as Twain, Mencken, and Thurber. This unabridged edition will be celebrated by humor fans and word lovers everywhere.]]> 404 Ambrose Bierce 0820324019 Stephen 0 to-read 4.08 1906 The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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]]> <![CDATA[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]]> 920649 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.]]> 36 Ambrose Bierce 0874068134 Stephen 0 to-read 4.01 1890 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
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]]> <![CDATA[My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey]]> 142292 181 Jill Bolte Taylor 1430300612 Stephen 0 for-dana 3.88 2006 My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
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]]> <![CDATA[The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays]]> 146151 The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. Grouped around five themes―an agrarian critique of culture, agrarian fundamentals, agrarian economics, agrarian religion, and geobiography―these essays promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety, disease, and destructiveness of contemporary American culture. Why is agriculture becoming culturally irrelevant, and at what cost? What are the forces of social disintegration and how might they be reversed? How might men and women live together in ways that benefit both? And, how does the corporate takeover of social institutions and economic practices contribute to the destruction of human and natural environments? Through his staunch support of local economies, his defense of farming communities, and his call for family integrity, Berry emerges as the champion of responsibilities and priorities that serve the health, vitality and happiness of the whole community of creation.]]> 352 Wendell Berry 1593760078 Stephen 0 to-read 4.38 2002 The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
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]]> What Are People For? 146153

Damage --
Healing --
A remarkable man [Nate Shaw] --
Harry Caudill in the Cumberlands --
A few words in favor of Edward Abbey --
Wallace Stegner and the great community --
A poem of difficult hope --
Style and grace --
Writer and region --
The responsibility of the poet --
God and country --
A practical harmony --
An argument for diversity --
What are people for? --
Waste --
Economy and pleasure --
The pleasures of eating --
The work of local culture --
Why I am not going to buy a computer --
Feminism, the body, and the machine --
Word and flesh --
Nature as measure]]> 210 Wendell Berry 0865474370 Stephen 0 to-read 4.25 1990 What Are People For?
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]]> <![CDATA[That Distant Land: The Collected Stories (Port William)]]> 173438 448 Wendell Berry 159376054X Stephen 0 to-read 4.55 2002 That Distant Land: The Collected Stories (Port William)
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]]> Leavings 6499467
Following the widely praised Given, this new collection offers a masterful blend of epigrams, elegies, lyrics, and letters, with the occasional short love poem. Alternately amused, outraged, and resigned, Berry’s welcome voice is the constant in this varied mix. The book concludes with a new sequence of Sabbath poems, works that have spawned from Berry’s Sunday morning walks of meditation and observation.

Berry’s themes are reflections of his life: friends, family, the farm, the nature around us as well as within. He speaks strongly for himself and sometimes for the lost heart of the country. As he has borne witness to the world for eight decades, what he offers us now in this new collection of poems is of incomparable value.]]> 144 Wendell Berry 1582435340 Stephen 0 to-read 4.21 2009 Leavings
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]]> A World Lost 227286 160 Wendell Berry 1887178546 Stephen 0 to-read 4.13 1996 A World Lost
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]]> <![CDATA[The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays]]> 51567 ]]> 192 Wendell Berry 1593761198 Stephen 0 to-read 4.17 2005 The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
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]]> <![CDATA[The Collected Poems, 1957-1982]]> 76729 268 Wendell Berry 0865471975 Stephen 0 to-read 4.39 1985 The Collected Poems, 1957-1982
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]]> <![CDATA[Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays]]> 146150 "Read [him] with pencil in hand, make notes, and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come to see the truth that is told here." —The New York Times Book Review

In this collection of essays, first published in 1993, Wendell Berry continues his work as one of America's most necessary social commentators. With wisdom and clear, ringing prose, he tackles head-on some of the most difficult problems confronting us near the end of the twentieth century––problems we still face today.

Berry elucidates connections between sexual brutality and economic brutality, and the role of art and free speech. He forcefully addresses America's unabashed pursuit of self-liberation, which he says is "still the strongest force now operating in our society." As individuals turn away from their community, they conform to a "rootless and placeless monoculture of commercial expectations and products," buying into the very economic system that is destroying the earth, our communities, and all they represent.]]> 208 Wendell Berry Stephen 0 to-read 4.26 1993 Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays
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]]> <![CDATA[Conversations with Wendell Berry (Literary Conversations Series)]]> 1380413
Conversations with Wendell Berry gathers for the first time interviews with the writer, ranging from 1973 to 2006, including one never before published. For readers acquainted with Berry's work, this volume offers insights available nowhere else. It reveals succinctly the main currents of his life's work. What emerges is a citizen-writer profoundly affected by cultural crises at home and in the world.]]> 238 Morris Allen Grubbs 1578069920 Stephen 0 to-read 4.34 2007 Conversations with Wendell Berry (Literary Conversations Series)
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average rating: 4.34
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]]> <![CDATA[The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry]]> 65353 192 Wendell Berry 1582430373 Stephen 0 to-read 4.39 1998 The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book]]> 81939 248 Miguel Ruiz 1878424440 Stephen 0 favorites 4.25 1999 The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book
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name: Stephen
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1999
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]]> <![CDATA[The New Complete Book Of Self Sufficiency]]> 78606 Since he first wrote the first version of this book back in 1975 he thinks there is a far more urgent reason for it. Very few people today can fail to see that the present course that man- and woman-kind is embarked upon is unsustainable. ... It is now urgently necessary to dismantle the whole fabric of world trade and replace it with a far less fuel-hungry, less polluting, less dangerous arrangement.
Most people know all this, but they are afraid that their quality of life will decline if we change course. The purpose of this book is to show that this is not the case.]]> 312 John Seymour 0751364428 Stephen 0 peace-permaculture, to-read 4.45 1975 The New Complete Book Of Self Sufficiency
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]]> <![CDATA[The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency]]> 3029368 256 John Seymour 0751304263 Stephen 0 peace-permaculture, to-read 4.67 1976 The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency
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name: Stephen
average rating: 4.67
book published: 1976
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]]> <![CDATA[Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Impacts)]]> 86884 224 Paulo Freire 0826477909 Stephen 0 to-read 4.28 1992 Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Impacts)
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name: Stephen
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1992
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]]> <![CDATA[The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory]]> 25066982 The New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers.

In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. The goal? To become Olympians.

They faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The children were Japanese-American and were malnourished and barefoot. They had no pool; they trained in the filthy irrigation ditches that snaked down from the mountains into the sugarcane fields. Their future was in those same fields, working alongside their parents in virtual slavery, known not by their names but by numbered tags that hung around their necks. Their teacher, Soichi Sakamoto, was an ordinary man whose swimming ability didn't extend much beyond treading water.

In spite of everything, including the virulent anti-Japanese sentiment of the late 1930s, in their first year the children outraced Olympic athletes twice their size; in their second year, they were national and international champs, shattering American and world records and making headlines from L.A. to Nazi Germany. In their third year, they'd be declared the greatest swimmers in the world. But they'd also face their greatest obstacle: the dawning of a world war and the cancellation of the Games. Still, on the battlefield, they'd become the 20th century's most celebrated heroes, and in 1948, they'd have one last chance for Olympic glory.

They were the Three-Year Swim Club. This is their story.

*Includes Reading Group Guide*


]]> 432 Julie Checkoway 1455523445 Stephen 0 to-read 3.73 2015 The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory
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]]> <![CDATA[A People's History of the World]]> 185099 500 Chris Harman 189887655X Stephen 0 to-read 4.01 1999 A People's History of the World
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average rating: 4.01
book published: 1999
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]]> <![CDATA[Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure]]> 94754
Beyond Civilization makes practical sense of the vision of Daniel Quinn's best-selling novel Ishmael . Examining ancient civilizations such as the Maya and the Olmec, as well as modern-day microcosms of alternative living like circus societies, Quinn guides us on a quest for a new model for society, one that is forward-thinking and encourages diversity instead of suppressing it. Beyond Civilization is not about a "New World Order" but a "New Personal World Order" that would allow people to assert control over their own destiny and grant them the freedom to create their own way of life right now -- not in some distant utopian future.]]> 202 Daniel Quinn 0609805363 Stephen 5 3.89 1999 Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
author: Daniel Quinn
name: Stephen
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1999
rating: 5
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Best ever use of a hundred bleached tree slices.
]]> <![CDATA[Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1]]> 15015
I have heard the crying of your heart. I have seen the searching of your soul. I know how deeply you have desired the Truth. In pain have you called out for it, and in joy. Unendingly have you beseeched Me. Show Myself. Explain Myself. Reveal Myself.

I am doing so here, in terms so plain, you cannot misunderstand. In language so simple, you cannot be confused. In vocabulary so common, you cannot get lost in the verbiage.

So go ahead now. Ask Me anything. Anything. I will contrive to bring you the answer. The whole universe will I use to do this. So be on the lookout; this book is far from My only tool. You may ask a question, then put this book down. But watch.

Listen.

The words to the next song you hear. The information in the next article you read. The story line of the next movie you watch. The chance utterance of the next person you meet. Or the whisper of the next river, the next ocean, the next breeze that caresses your ear - all these devices are Mine; all these avenues are open to Me. I will speak to you if you will listen. I will come to you if you will invite Me. I will show you then that I have always been there.

All ways.]]> 223 Neale Donald Walsch 0399142789 Stephen 4 4.19 1995 Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
author: Neale Donald Walsch
name: Stephen
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1995
rating: 4
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I saw the movie first and was put off for a while, but when I finally picked it up I was thrilled to find that even in the first pages it succeeded in clearly articulating a perspective that I've been piecing together for a decade. Definitely food for thought for the apostate or spiritual rationalist in all of us.
]]> <![CDATA[Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche]]> 9544
Johnson asserts that until we have undertaken the task of accepting and honoring the shadow within us, we cannot be balanced or whole, for what is hidden never goes away, but merely—and often painfully—turns up in unexpected places.]]> 118 Robert A. Johnson 0062507540 Stephen 0 to-read 3.98 1991 Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche
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average rating: 3.98
book published: 1991
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]]> <![CDATA[Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words]]> 29804 208 Peace Pilgrim 0943734290 Stephen 5 favorites, for-dana 4.26 1983 Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
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name: Stephen
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1983
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail]]> 9791 A Walk in the Woods will make you long for the great outdoors (or at least a comfortable chair to sit and read in).]]> 397 Bill Bryson 0307279464 Stephen 0 to-read 4.07 1998 A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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average rating: 4.07
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]]> <![CDATA[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)]]> 629 Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is an examination of how we live, a meditation on how to live better set around the narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, undertaken by a father & his young son.]]> 540 Robert M. Pirsig 0060589469 Stephen 0 to-read, for-dana 3.77 1974 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
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name: Stephen
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1974
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]]> <![CDATA[The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity]]> 28134 The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut's experience in the late '60s and early '70s—a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous and doting father, cherished dog, and prized jalopy—and then the nervous breakdowns in all their slow-motion intimacy, the taste of mortality and opportunity for humor they provided, and the grim despair they afforded as well.

That he emerged to write this funny and true book and then moved on to find the meaningful life that for a while had seemed beyond reach is what ultimately happens in The Eden Express. But the real story here is that throughout his harrowing experience his sense of humor let him see the humanity of what he was going through, and his gift of language let him describe it in such a moving way that others could begin to imagine both its utter ordinariness as well as the madness we all share.]]> 304 Mark Vonnegut 1583225439 Stephen 5 3.87 1975 The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
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name: Stephen
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1975
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky]]> 194805 The New York Times). Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the preeminent public intellectuals of the modern era. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. And as he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change. With an eye to political activism and the media's role in popular struggle, as well as U.S. foreign and domestic policy, Understanding Power offers a sweeping critique of the world around us and is definitive Chomsky. Characterized by Chomsky's accessible and informative style, this is the ideal book for those new to his work as well as for those who have been listening for years.]]> 416 Noam Chomsky 1565847032 Stephen 0 to-read 4.41 2002 Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
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name: Stephen
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2002
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]]> The Red Book: Liber Novus 6454477 The Red Book, a large, illuminated volume he created between 1914 and 1930. Here he developed his principle theories—of the archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the process of individuation—that transformed psychotherapy from a practice concerned with treatment of the sick into a means for higher development of the personality.

While Jung considered The Red Book to be his most important work, only a handful of people have ever seen it. Now, in a complete facsimile and translation, it is available to scholars and the general public. It is an astonishing example of calligraphy and art on a par with The Book of Kells and the illuminated manuscripts of William Blake. This publication of The Red Book is a watershed that will cast new light on the making of modern psychology.
212 color illustrations.]]> 371 C.G. Jung 0393065677 Stephen 0 to-read 4.52 2009 The Red Book: Liber Novus
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]]> <![CDATA[Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)]]> 32081
From 1629 to 1775, North America was settled by four great waves of English-speaking immigrants. The first was an exodus of Puritans from the east of England to Massachusetts (1629-1640). The second was the movement of a Royalist elite and indentured servants from the south of England to Virginia (ca. 1649-75). The third was the "Friends' migration,"--the Quakers--from the North Midlands and Wales to the Delaware Valley (ca. 1675-1725). The fourth was a great flight from the borderlands of North Britain and northern Ireland to the American backcountry (ca. 1717-75).

These four groups differed in many ways--in religion, rank, generation and place of origin. They brought to America different folkways which became the basis of regional cultures in the United States. They spoke distinctive English dialects and built their houses in diverse ways. They had different ideas of family, marriage and gender; different practices of child-naming and child-raising; different attitudes toward sex, age and death; different rituals of worship and magic; different forms of work and play; different customs of food and dress; different traditions of education and literacy; different modes of settlement and association. They also had profoundly different ideas of comity, order, power and freedom which derived from British folk-traditions. Albion's Seed describes those differences in detail, and discusses the continuing importance of their transference to America.

Today most people in the United States (more than 80 percent) have no British ancestors at all. These many other groups, even while preserving their own ethnic cultures, have also assimilated regional folkways which were transplanted from Britain to America. In that sense, nearly all Americans today are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnic origins may be; but they are so in their different regional ways.

The concluding section of Albion's Seed explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still control attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

Albion's Seed also argues that the four British folkways created an expansive cultural pluralism that has proved to the more libertarian than any single culture alone could be. Together they became the determinants of a voluntary society in the United States.]]> 946 David Hackett Fischer 0195069056 Stephen 0 to-read, anti-sprawl 4.37 1989 Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History, Vol. I)
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]]> <![CDATA[Happy: Cities and Public Happiness in Post-War Europe]]> 304842 Happy, Cities and Public Happiness in Post-War Europe is the account of a fascinating search for expressions and representations of happiness in the European city of the second half of the 20th century. Images of happiness in which there is a relationship between three elements happiness, city and space have been collated and analysed from the whole of Europe, from Ukraine in the east to the Netherlands in the west, from Rovanieimi in the north to Marbella in the south. The study of more than 50 cities performed by local experts and coordinated by an international research team presents a picture that transcends the incidental and reveals fundamental motifs in the dynamic of our thinking about the city.

This book is an eye-opener. It casts light on areas which have disappeared from the cultural consciousness of Western Europe and confronts us with a theme that ties in directly with recent European history. Thanks in part to an abundance of wonderful postcards, posters and photographs, this book explores terrain that will spark the imagination of a general readership as much as design professionals.]]> 512 Ronald Brouwer 9056624083 Stephen 0 to-read 4.12 2005 Happy: Cities and Public Happiness in Post-War Europe
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]]> <![CDATA[Questions & Answers on Death and Dying]]> 2227 192 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross 0684839377 Stephen 0 to-read 4.14 1974 Questions & Answers on Death and Dying
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> <![CDATA[Half Magic (Tales of Magic, #1)]]> 225038 Half Magic coin that gets their mother Alison half-way home, rescued by Mr Smith. Mark's wish zaps them to a desert without island, where half-talking cat Carrie gabbles to a camel. Romantic Katherine battles Launcelot. Eldest Jane rejects siblings for another family. Stubborn youngest, Martha, causes a riot downtown.]]> 192 Edward Eager 0152020683 Stephen 0 for-kids 3.94 1954 Half Magic (Tales of Magic, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America]]> 49376 Rising Tide is the story of this forgotten event, the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known. But it is not simply a tale of disaster. The flood transformed part of the nation and had a major cultural and political impact on the rest.

Rising Tide is an American epic about science, race, honor, politics, and society. Rising Tide begins in the nineteenth century, when the first serious attempts to control the river began. The story focuses on engineers James Eads and Andrew Humphreys, who hated each other. Out of the collision of their personalities and their theories came a compromise river policy that would lead to the disaster of the 1927 flood yet would also allow the cultivation of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and create wealth and aristocracy, as well as a whole culture. In the end, the flood had indeed changed the face of America, leading to the most comprehensive legislation the government had ever enacted, touching the entire Mississippi valley from Pennsylvania to Montana. In its aftermath was laid the foundation for the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt.]]> 524 John M. Barry 0684840022 Stephen 0 to-read 4.21 1997 Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
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]]> Aspergirls 7681608 236 Rudy Simone 1849058261 Stephen 0 to-read 3.74 2010 Aspergirls
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]]> Just So Stories 34053 here.

Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include How the Camel Got His Hump. The Butterfly That Stamped, and How the Alphabet Was Made..]]> 210 Rudyard Kipling 0517266555 Stephen 0 to-read 4.07 1902 Just So Stories
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]]> The Goldfinch 17333223
Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.]]> 771 Donna Tartt 0316055433 Stephen 0 3.95 2013 The Goldfinch
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]]> <![CDATA[Songs of Enlightened Society: Poems Expressive of Living in Enlightened Society]]> 18233213 86 Preston McWhorter 1478705906 Stephen 0 to-read 2.50 2013 Songs of Enlightened Society: Poems Expressive of Living in Enlightened Society
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]]> <![CDATA[Good Citizens: Creating Enlightened Society]]> 14287852 144 Thich Nhat Hanh Stephen 0 to-read 4.19 Good Citizens: Creating Enlightened Society
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]]> <![CDATA[Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps]]> 15791144 Just because you don't feel like an adult doesn't mean you can't act like one. And it all begins with this funny, wise, and useful book. Based on Kelly Williams Brown's popular blog, ADULTING makes the scary, confusing "real world" approachable, manageable-and even conquerable. This guide will help you to navigate the stormy Sea of Adulthood so that you may find safe harbor in Not Running Out of Toilet Paper Bay, and along the way you will learn:

What to check for when renting a new apartment-Not just the nearby bars, but the faucets and stove, among other things.
When a busy person can find time to learn more about the world- It involves the intersection of NPR and hair-straightening.
How to avoid hooking up with anyone in your office -- Imagine your coworkers having plastic, featureless doll crotches. It helps.
The secret to finding a mechanic you love-Or, more realistically, one that will not rob you blind.
From breaking up with frenemies to fixing your toilet, this way fun comprehensive handbook is the answer for aspiring grown-ups of all ages.

New York Times Bestseller.]]> 273 Kelly Williams Brown 1455516902 Stephen 0 to-read 3.70 2013 Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps
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]]> The Science of Interstellar 23261448 A journey through the otherworldly science behind Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film, Interstellar, from executive producer and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne.

Interstellar, from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar, Kip Thorne, the physicist who assisted Nolan on the scientific aspects of Interstellar, shows us that the movie’s jaw-dropping events and stunning, never-before-attempted visuals are grounded in real science. Thorne shares his experiences working as the science adviser on the film and then moves on to the science itself. In chapters on wormholes, black holes, interstellar travel, and much more, Thorne’s scientific insights—many of them triggered during the actual scripting and shooting of Interstellar—describe the physical laws that govern our universe and the truly astounding phenomena that those laws make possible.

Interstellar and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s14).]]> 336 Kip S. Thorne 0393351378 Stephen 0 to-read 4.31 2015 The Science of Interstellar
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]]> Spurious Correlations 23197309
Military intelligence analyst and Harvard Law student Tyler Vigen illustrates the golden rule that "correlation does not equal causation" through hilarious graphs inspired by his viral website.

Is there a correlation between Nic Cage films and swimming pool accidents? What about beef consumption and people getting struck by lightning? Absolutely not. But that hasn't stopped millions of people from going to tylervigen.com and asking, "Wait, what?" Vigen has designed software that scours enormous data sets to find unlikely statistical correlations. He began pulling the funniest ones for his website and has since gained millions of views, hundreds of thousands of likes, and tons of media coverage. Subversive and clever, Spurious Correlations is geek humor at its finest, nailing our obsession with data and conspiracy theory.]]> 208 Tyler Vigen 0316339431 Stephen 0 to-read 3.67 2015 Spurious Correlations
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]]> The Martian 18007564
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.

After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.

Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to kill him first.

But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills — and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit — he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

]]> 369 Andy Weir 0804139024 Stephen 0 to-read 4.41 2011 The Martian
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average rating: 4.41
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]]> <![CDATA[Maximizing Your Mini Farm: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre]]> 12887679 Keep your costs down and production high with this complete guide to maximizing your mini farm—whether it’s a rooftop urban garden, a suburban backyard, or a more substantial plot of land. Materials, tools, and techniques are detailed with tables, diagrams, and 200 color illustrations and author photographs.]]> 272 Brett L. Markham 1616086106 Stephen 0 peace-permaculture, to-read 3.90 2012 Maximizing Your Mini Farm: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
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average rating: 3.90
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]]> <![CDATA[Directing the Power of Conscious Feelings: Living Your Own Truth]]> 9276581 Rare Book 366 Clinton Callahan 1935387111 Stephen 0 to-read, actualization 4.14 2010 Directing the Power of Conscious Feelings: Living Your Own Truth
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]]> <![CDATA[Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation]]> 67862 128 Parker J. Palmer 0787947350 Stephen 0 to-read, actualization 4.14 1999 Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
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]]> Pedagogy of the Oppressed 72657 Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is increasingly accepted as the norm. With a substantive new introduction on Freire's life and the remarkable impact of this book by writer and Freire confidant and authority Donaldo Macedo, this anniversary edition of Pedagogy of the Oppressed will inspire a new generation of educators, students, and general readers for years to come.]]> 183 Paulo Freire 0826412769 Stephen 0 to-read, education 4.30 1968 Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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average rating: 4.30
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]]> <![CDATA[The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience]]> 2932356 224 Rob Hopkins 1900322188 Stephen 0 to-read, peace-permaculture 4.01 2008 The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
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]]> <![CDATA[Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future]]> 199358
For the first time in human history, he observes, “more” is no longer synonymous with “better”—indeed, for many of us, they have become almost opposites. McKibben puts forward a new way to think about the things we buy, the food we eat, the energy we use, and the money that pays for it all. Our purchases, he says, need not be at odds with the things we truly value.McKibben’s animating idea is that we need to move beyond “growth” as the paramount economic ideal and pursue prosperity in a more local direction, with cities, suburbs, and regions producing more of their own food, generating more of their own energy, and even creating more of their own culture and entertainment. He shows this concept blossoming around the world with striking results, from the burgeoning economies of India and China to the more mature societies of Europe and New England.

For those who worry about environmental threats, he offers a route out of the worst of those problems; for those who wonder if there isn’t something more to life than buying, he provides the insight to think about one’s life as an individual and as a member of a larger community.McKibben offers a realistic, if challenging, scenario for a hopeful future. As he so eloquently shows, the more we nurture the essential humanity of our economy, the more we will recapture our own.]]> 272 Bill McKibben 0805076263 Stephen 0 to-read, peace-permaculture 4.06 2007 Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
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average rating: 4.06
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]]> <![CDATA[Do Unto Others: Extraordinary Acts Of Ordinary People]]> 1162228 288 Samuel P. Oliner 0813339847 Stephen 0 to-read, peace-permaculture 3.85 2003 Do Unto Others: Extraordinary Acts Of Ordinary People
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]]> <![CDATA[Toward a Caring Society: Ideas into Action]]> 1127333 Pearl M. Oliner 0275954536 Stephen 0 to-read, peace-permaculture 3.83 1995 Toward a Caring Society: Ideas into Action
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name: Stephen
average rating: 3.83
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]]> <![CDATA[The Elements of Peace: How Nonviolence Works]]> 13785054 271 J. Frederick Arment 0786468548 Stephen 0 to-read, peace-permaculture 4.00 2012 The Elements of Peace: How Nonviolence Works
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]]> <![CDATA[Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom]]> 27091 Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.

Bell hooks speaks to the heart of education today: how can we rethink teaching practices in the age of multiculturalism? What do we do about teachers who do not want to teach, and students who do not want to learn? How should we deal with racism and sexism in the classroom?

Full of passion and politics, Teaching to Transgress combines practical knowledge of the classroom with a deeply felt connection to the world of emotions and feelings. This is the rare book about teachers and students that dares to raise critical questions about eros and rage, grief and reconciliation, and the future of teaching itself.

"To educate as the practice of freedom," writes bell hooks, "is a way of teaching that any one can learn." Teaching to Transgress is the record of one gifted teacher's struggle to make classrooms work.

–from the back of the book]]> 216 bell hooks 0415908086 Stephen 0 to-read, education 4.45 1994 Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability]]> 89997 272 Paul Hawken 0887307043 Stephen 0 to-read, peace-permaculture 4.12 1993 The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
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average rating: 4.12
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]]> <![CDATA[For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future]]> 503239
Economist Herman Daly and theologian John Cobb, Jr., demonstrate how conventional economics and a growth-oriented industrial economy have led us to the brink of environmental disaster, and show the possibility of a different future.

Named as one of the Top 50 Sustainability Books by University of Cambridges Programme for Sustainability Leadership and Greenleaf Publishing.]]> 482 Herman E. Daly 0807047023 Stephen 0 to-read, peace-permaculture 4.24 1989 For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
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name: Stephen
average rating: 4.24
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]]> <![CDATA[The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age]]> 4347496 SeattleOil.com — The Internet writings of John Michael Greer - beyond any doubt the greatest peak oil historian in the English language - have finally made their way into print. Greer fans will recognize many of the book's passages from previous essays, but will be delighted to see them fleshed out here with additional examples and analysis.The Long Descent is one of the most highly anticipated peak oil books of the year, and it lives up to every ounce of hype. Greer is a captivating, brilliantly inventive writer with a deep knowledge of history, an impressive amount of mechanical savvy, a flair for storytelling and a gift for drawing art analogies. His new book presents an astonishing view of our society's past, present and future trajectory--one that is unmatched in its breadth and depth. Reviewed by Frank Kaminski

Wired.com—  The Long Descent is a welcome antidote to the armageddonism that often accompanies peak oil discussions. "The decline of a civilization is rarely anything like so sudden for those who live through it" writes Greer, encouragingly; it's "a much slower and more complex transformation than the sudden catastrophes imagined by many soical critics today."

The changes that will follow the decline of world petroleum production are likely to be sweeping and global, Greer concludes, but from the perspective of those who live through them these changes are much more likely to take gradual and local forms. Reviewed by Bruce Sterling

Americans are expressing deep concern about US dependence on petroleum, rising energy prices, and the threat of climate change. Unlike the energy crisis of the 1970s, however, there is a lurking fear that now the times are different and the crisis may not easily be resolved.

The Long Descent examines the basis of such fear through three core themes:
• Industrial society is following the same well-worn path that has led other civilizations into decline, a path involving a much slower and more complex transformation than the sudden catastrophes imagined by so many social critics today.
• The roots of the crisis lie in the cultural stories that shape the way we understand the world. Since problems cannot be solved with the same thinking that created them, these ways of thinking need to be replaced with others better suited to the needs of our time.
• It is too late for massive programs for top-down change; the change must come from individuals.

Hope exists in actions that range from taking up a handicraft or adopting an “obsolete” technology, through planting an organic vegetable garden, taking charge of your own health care or spirituality, and building community.

Focusing eloquently on constructive adaptation to massive change, this book will have wide appeal.

John Michael Greer is a certified Master Conserver, organic gardener, and scholar of ecological history. The current Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA), his widely-cited blog, The Archdruid Report (thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com) deals with peak oil, among other issues. He lives in Ashland, Oregon.]]> 288 John Michael Greer 0865716099 Stephen 0 to-read, peace-permaculture 4.18 2008 The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age
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]]> <![CDATA[Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect]]> 139048 221 David W. Orr 1559634952 Stephen 0 to-read, peace-permaculture 4.19 1994 Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
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]]> <![CDATA[Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World]]> 385207 the path of cooperation, conservation and sharing;
Waiting for a Magic wishful thinking, false hopes, and denial;
Building the path of community solidarity and preservation. Finally, the book explores how three important groups within global society—the power elites, the opposition to the elites (the antiwar and antiglobalization movements, et the “Other Superpower”), and ordinary people—are likely to respond to these four options. Timely, accessible and eloquent, Powerdown is crucial reading for our times. Richard Heinberg is an award-winning author of five previous books, including The Party’s Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies . A member of the Core Faculty of New College of California, he lives in Santa Rosa, California.]]> 209 Richard Heinberg 0865715106 Stephen 0 to-read, peace-permaculture 3.84 2004 Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World
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]]> <![CDATA[The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom]]> 247698 Did you know that a growing percentage of home schoolers are becoming unschoolers? The unschooling movement is founded on the principle that children learn best when they pursue their own natural curiosities and interests. Without bells, schedules, and rules about what to do and when, the knowledge they gain through mindful living and exploration is absorbed more easily and enthusiastically. Learning is a natural, inborn impulse, and the world is rich with lessons to be learned and puzzles to be solved.
Successful unschooling parents know how to stimulate and direct their children's learning impulse. Once you read this book, so will you!]]> 240 Mary Griffith 0761512764 Stephen 0 to-read, education 3.72 1998 The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom
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]]> The Dream of the Earth 209222 Drawing on the wisdom of Western philosophy, Asian thought, and Native American traditions, as well as contemporary physics and evolutionary biology, Berry offers a new perspective that recasts our understanding of science, technology, politics, religion, ecology, and education. He shows us why it is important for us to respond to the Earth’s need for planetary renewal, and what we must do to break free of the “technological trance” that drives a misguided dream of progress. Only then, he suggests, can we foster mutually enhancing human-Earth relationships that can heal our traumatized global biosystem.]]> 247 Thomas Berry 1578051355 Stephen 0 to-read, peace-permaculture 4.15 1988 The Dream of the Earth
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late]]> 2127 448 Thom Hartmann 1400051576 Stephen 0 to-read, peace-permaculture 4.21 1998 The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
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average rating: 4.21
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