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Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truthby Mohandas K. Gandhi, Mahadev DesaiISBN 0807059099 (0-8070-5909-9)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth'Book summary:Gandhi's nonviolent struggles in South Africa and India had already brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation, and controversy that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. Although accepting of his status as a great innovator in the struggle against racism, violence, and, just then, colonialism, Gandhi feared that enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a deeper understanding. He says that he was after truth rooted in devotion to God and attributed the turning points, successes, and challenges in his life to the will of God. His attempts to get closer to this divine power led him to seek purity through simple living, dietary practices (he called himself a fruitarian), celibacy, and ahimsa, a life without violence. It is in this sense that he calls his book The Story of My Experiments with Truth, offering it also as a reference for those who would follow in his footsteps. A reader expecting a complete accounting of his actions, however, will be sorely disappointed.
Although Gandhi presents his episodes chronologically, he happily leaves wide gaps, such as the entire satyagraha struggle in South Africa, for which he refers the reader to another of his books. And writing for his contemporaries, he takes it for granted that the reader is familiar with the major events of his life and of the political milieu of early 20th-century India. For the objective story, try Yogesh Chadha's Gandhi: A Life. For the inner world of a man held as a criminal by the British, a hero by Muslims, and a holy man by Hindus, look no further than these experiments. --Brian Bruya [via]
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An Autobiography: Or the Story of My Experiments With Truthby M.K. Gandhi, Mahadev DesaiISBN 0934676682 (0-934676-68-2)
Softcover, Greenleaf Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Autobiography: Or the Story of My Experiments With Truth'Book summary:Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Western India in 1869. He was educated in London and later travelled to South Africa, where he experienced racism and took up the rights of Indians, instituting his first campaign of passive resistance. In 1915 he returned to British-controlled India, bringing to a country in the throes of independence his commitment to non-violent change, and his belief always in the power of truth. Under Gandhi's lead, millions of protesters would engage in mass campaigns of civil disobedience, seeking change through ahimsa or non-violence. For Gandhi, the long path towards Indian independence would lead to imprisonment and hardship, yet he never once forgot the principles of truth and non-violence so dear to him. Written in the 1920s, Gandhi's autobiography tells of his struggles and his inspirations; a powerful and enduring statement of an extraordinary life. [via]
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Buying Time and Getting by: The Voluntary Simplicity Movementby Mary GrigsbyISBN 0791460002 (0-7914-6000-2)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Celebrate Simply: Your Guide to Simpler, More Meaningful Holidays and Special Occasionsby Nancy TwiggISBN 0972839607 (0-9728396-0-7)
Softcover, Counting the Cost Pubns
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Choosing Simplicity: Real People Finding Peace + Fulfillment in a Complex Worldby Linda Breen PierceISBN 0967206715 (0-9672067-1-5)
Softcover, Gallagher Pr
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The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Lifeby Cecile AndrewsISBN 0060928727 (0-06-092872-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life'Book summary:The Circle of Simplicity speaks to readers seeking to find greater peace and happiness by eliminating some of the clutter and distraction in their lives. Andrews offers detailed instructions on how to form and run a simplicity circle, a support group for the terminally harried. Her book emphasizes the value of slowing down as a way to find time to reconnect with a community. But Andrews's idea of simplicity is vague, the remedy for a wide variety of discontents. For her it means, for one thing, eating out often, because cooking makes her "crabby." Instead of embracing the frugality advocated in other books, The Circle of Simplicity mostly echoes the weightless profundities of what used to be called the human potential movement. Andrews does not actually urge us to do our own thing, but she comes close. [via]
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Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow: Discovering Your Right Livelihoodby Marsha SinetarISBN 0809128748 (0-8091-2874-8)
Softcover, Paulist Pr
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Enough Already!: Breaking Free In The Second Half Of Lifeby Bruce OÆHaraISBN 1554200105 (1-55420-010-5)
Softcover, New Star Books
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Epicurean Simplicityby Stephanie MillsISBN 1559636904 (1-55963-690-4)
Softcover, Island Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Epicurean Simplicity'Book summary:"In this book, I relate the pleasures, as well as the virtues and difficulties of a perhaps simpler than average North American life." So begins ecological thinker and writer Stephanie Mills's Epicurean Simplicity, a thoughtful paean to living, like Thoreau, a deliberate life. Mills's account of the simple life reaches deep into classical sources of pleasure - good food, good health, good friends, and particularly the endless delights of the natural world. Her musings about the life she desires - and the life she has created - ultimately led her to the third century Greek philosopher Epicurus, whose philosophy was premised on the trustworthiness of the senses, a philosophy that Mills wholeheartedly embraces. While later centuries have come to associate Epicurus's name with hedonism, Mills discovered that he extolled simplicity and prudence as the surest means to pleasure, and his thinking offers an important philosophical touchstone for the book. As the author explains, one of the primary motivations for her pursuit of simplicity is her concern about the impacts of a consumerist lifestyle on the natural world. Mills touches on a broad range of topics relating to that issue - social justice, biological extinctions, the global economy, and also more personal aspects such as friendship, the process of country living, the joys of physical exertion, the challenges of a writer's life, and the natural history and seasonal delights of a life lived close to nature. An overarching theme is the destructiveness of consumerism, and how even a simple life affects a wide range of organisms and adds strain to the earth's systems. The author uses her own experience as an entry point to the discussion with a self-effacing humor and lyrical prose that bring big topics to a personal level. Epicurean Simplicity is beautifully crafted, fluid, inspiring, and enlightening, examining topics of critical importance that affect us all. It celebrates the pleasures, beauty, and fulfillment of a simple life, a goal being sought by Americans from all walks of life, from harried single parents to corporate CEOs. For fans of natural history or personal narrative, for those concerned about social justice and the environment, and for those who have come to know and love Stephanie Mills through her speaking and writing, Epicurean Simplicity is a rare treasure. [via]
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Extending the Table: A World Community Cookbookby Joetta Handrich Schlabach, Kristina Mast BurnettISBN 083613561X (0-8361-3561-X)
Softcover, Herald Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extending the Table: A World Community Cookbook'Book summary:Extending the Table calls itself "a world community cookbook," but it is far more than that. Yes, there are recipes here from all over the globe: Sesame Spinach Salad from Korea, Hunter's Stew from Poland, and Watermelon Jan from Botswana. There are myriad rice dishes, lots of recipes featuring beans and lentils, and an array of delicious beverages--from Philippine Punch to a Ginger Cooler from the Ivory Coast. But what makes this cookbook so special is its social conscience: following the lead of Doris Janzen Longacre, author of the More-with-Less Cookbook, Extending the Table invites readers to reduce their own levels of consumption and share resources with others around the world. Even more, it encourages us to learn from the global community. In addition to the recipes, there are stories about both individuals and whole cultures, explanations of the importance of certain types of food in different lands, and the rituals that surround particular meals. Extending the Table is the work of the Mennonite Central Committee, and many of the contributors are missionaries whose faith in the values of humility, community, and respect for others imbues the pages of this thought-provoking book. Extending the Table is truly food for the body and soul! [via]
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Gandhi's Autobiographyby Mohandas Karamchand GandhiISBN 0818302232 (0-8183-0223-2)
Hardcover, Public Affairs Pr
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Gene Logsdon's Moneysaving Secrets: A Treasury of Salvaging, Bargaining, Recycling, and Scavenging Techniquesby Gene LogsdonISBN 0878576258 (0-87857-625-8)
Softcover, Rodale Press
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The Gift of Good Landby Wendell BerryISBN 0865470510 (0-86547-051-0)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agriculturalby Wendell BerryISBN 0865470529 (0-86547-052-9)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural'Book summary:In this collection of essays, continuing the argument begun with The Unsettling of America, Wendell Berry writes of the importance of good farming to a healthy culture. By health he means not the mere absence of disease, but the operation of a balanced, nondestructive way of life; his essays on the Amish people of Pennsylvania and Ohio offer a model. "An economy of waste," Berry writes, "is incompatible with a healthy environment"--an environment that operates in balance, within bounds. Arguing for the primacy of family-based, local economies, and for the exercise of intelligence, reverence, and community values, Berry crafts a prose idyll celebrating the pastoral existence. [via]
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Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer's Journalby David Kline, Wendell BerryISBN 1888683228 (1-888683-22-8)
Softcover, Wooster Book Co
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Harlan Hubbard and the River: A Visionary Lifeby Don WallisISBN 0962233609 (0-9622336-0-9)
Softcover, Oyo Pr
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Harlan Hubbard: Life and Workby Wendell BerryISBN 0813109426 (0-8131-0942-6)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kentucky
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The Heart Has Its Own Reasons: Mothering Wisdom for the 1980sby Mary Ann Cahill, LA Leche League InternationalISBN 0912500131 (0-912500-13-1)
Softcover, La Leche League International
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Henry David Thoreauby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0940450275 (0-940450-27-5)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry David Thoreau'Book summary:Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here for the first time in a single volume. Subtly interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. "Walden," one of America's great books, is at once a personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, manual of self-reliance, and masterpiece of style. "The Maine Woods" and "Cape Cod" portray landscapes changing irreversibly even as he wrote. The first combines close observation of the unexplored Maine wilderness with a far-sighted plea for conservation; the second is a brilliant and unsentimental account of survival on a barren peninsula in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay. [via]
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Hidden Artby Edith SchaefferISBN 0842314202 (0-8423-1420-2)
Hardcover, Tyndale House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hidden Art'Book summary:The author reveals the many opportunities for artistic expression that can be found in ordinary, everyday life. [via]
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Hidden Art of Homemakingby Edith SchaefferISBN 0842313982 (0-8423-1398-2)
Softcover, Tyndale House Pub
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Living Cheaply With Styleby Ernest CallenbachISBN 1579510140 (1-57951-014-0)
Softcover, Ronin Pub
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Living Cheaply With Style: Live Better and Spend Lessby Ernest CallenbachISBN 0914171615 (0-914171-61-5)
Softcover, Pub Group West
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The author covers a wide range of topics including food, housing, transportation, clothes, and entertainment. [via]
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Living More With Lessby LongacreISBN 0836119304 (0-8361-1930-4)
Softcover, Herald Pr
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Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled Worldby Helen NearingISBN 0805233636 (0-8052-3363-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled Worldby Scott Nearing, Helen NearingISBN 0883652366 (0-88365-236-6)
Hardcover, Galahad Books
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Living Together in a World Falling Apartby Dave Jackson, Neta JacksonISBN 0884190552 (0-88419-055-2)
Hardcover, Creation House
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Living Without Electricityby Stephen Scott, Kenneth PellmanISBN 093467261X (0-934672-61-X)
Softcover, Good Books
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The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life: Simple Measures That Benefit You and the Place You Liveby Joseph D'Agnese, Nell Newman, Newman's Own OrganicsISBN 081296733X (0-8129-6733-X)
Softcover, Villard Books
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The Nontoxic Home: Protecting Yourself and Your Family from Everyday Toxics and Health Hazardsby Debra Dadd-RedaliaISBN 0874774012 (0-87477-401-2)
Softcover, J.P. Tarcher
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Not Buying It: My Year Without Shoppingby Judith LevineISBN 0743269365 (0-7432-6936-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping'Book summary:Many of us have tried to call a halt to our spending at one time or another. But what if we decided not to buy anything for a whole year? Obviously, we would need necessities like food and soap, but how would be manage without new clothes, treats, entertainment? Funny, smart and self-deprecating, Not Buying It is a close look at our society's obsession with shopping and the cold turkey confession of a woman we can all identify with - someone who can't live without French roast coffee and expensive wool socks, but who has had enough of spending money for the sake of it. Without consumer goods and experiences, Levine and her partner Paul pursue their careers, nurture family relationships and try to keep their sanity and humour intact. Tracking their progress and lapses, she contemplates the meanings of need and desire, scarcity and security, consumerism and citizenship. She asks the big questions - can the economy survive without shopping? Are Q-tips a necessity? A thought-provoking account of the pleasures and perils of the purchase-driven life, Not Buying It will get readers talking about their reliance on the act of buying and the possibility of getting off the merry-go-round. [via]
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Out of the Past: Amish Tradition and Faithby Mary Ann McDonaldISBN 188090845X (1-880908-45-X)
Hardcover, New Line Books
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Payne Hollowby Harlan HubbardISBN 0917788664 (0-917788-66-4)
Softcover, Gnomon Distribution
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Payne Hollow'Book summary:Nonfiction. Harlan Hubbard's PAYNE HOLLOW: LIFE ON THE FRINGE OF SOCIETY provides an account of a self-made alternative lifestyle in early 1950's America. Anna and Harlan Hubbard, refusing to adopt the industrial positioning provided, built a simple home at Payne Hollow and documented their "basic relationship of need to fulfillment within the carefully circumscribed wholeness of [their] honest, sensitive, extraordinary lives"--Edward Lueders. PAYNE HOLLOW creates its own self-referential world written as "a painter's prose" that fills its environment with a Thoreau-esque "ecstasy...expressed with sober simplicity"--The Louisville Courier-Journal. [via]
Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earthby Jim MerkelISBN 0865714738 (0-86571-473-8)
Softcover, New Society Pub
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Shantyboat Journalby Harlan Hubbard, Don WallisISBN 0813118689 (0-8131-1868-9)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kentucky
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Shantyboat on the Bayousby Harlan HubbardISBN 0813117178 (0-8131-1717-8)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kentucky
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Simple Beauty: The Shakers in Americaby William C. KetchumISBN 1880908441 (1-880908-44-1)
Hardcover, New Line Books
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A Simple Choice: A Practical Guide for Saving Your Time, Money and Sanityby Deborah Taylor-HoughISBN 1891400495 (1-891400-49-5)
Softcover, Sourcebooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Simple Choice: A Practical Guide for Saving Your Time, Money and Sanity'Book summary:The number one complain of people today is the lack of meaning in their hectic lives. In her second book, A Simple Choice: a practical guide for saving your time, money and sanity, author Deborah Taylor-Hough addresses societal emptiness and the personal search for contentment. With an aim toward returning to emotional replenishment using clear, concise and uplifting examples, A Simple Choice not only examines the futility of keeping up with the Jones' but depicts the simply joy and fulfillment of keeping up with ourselves. Through practical help in the areas of home-keeping, family unity, saving money, spending plans, cooking and more, Deborah Taylor-Hough guides us down a simple life path. In an era of self-reflection, A Simple Choice holds the mirror of life's simple joys that are available to everyone. [via]
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Simple Days: A Journal on What Really Mattersby Marlene A. SchiwyISBN 1893732304 (1-893732-30-4)
Softcover, Ave Maria Pr
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The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Cultureby David ShiISBN 0820323403 (0-8203-2340-3)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Livingby Janet LuhrsISBN 0553067966 (0-553-06796-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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As Janet Luhrs says, "Simple living is about living deliberately. Simple living is not about austerity, or frugality, or income level. It's about being fully aware of why you are living your particular life, and knowing that life is one you have chosen thoughtfully. Simple living is about designing our lives to coincide with our ideals." In The Simple Living Guide Janet Luhrs demonstrates how to live a deliberate, simpler life--and savor it.
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Simple Living: One Couple's Search for a Better Lifeby Frank Levering, Wanda UrbanskaISBN 0895872897 (0-89587-289-7)
Softcover, John F Blair Pub
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Simplicity: Finding Peace by Uncluttering Your Lifeby Kim ThomasISBN 0805418539 (0-8054-1853-9)
Softcover, B & H Pub Group
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Simplicity Lessons: A 12-Step Guide to Living Simplyby Linda Breen PierceISBN 0967206790 (0-9672067-9-0)
Softcover, Gallagher Pr
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Simplify Your Christmas: 100 Ways to Reduce the Stress and Recapture the Joy of the Holidaysby Elaine St. JamesISBN 0836267850 (0-8362-6785-0)
Hardcover, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Simplify Your Life: 100 Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy the Things That Really Matterby Elaine St. JamesISBN 0786880007 (0-7868-8000-7)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Skills for Simple Livingby Betty TillotsonISBN 0881791598 (0-88179-159-8)
Softcover, Hartley & Marks
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Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as If People Matteredby E. F. SchumacherISBN 085634012X (0-85634-012-X)
Hardcover, Blond and Briggs
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as If People Matteredby E. F. SchumacherISBN 0881791695 (0-88179-169-5)
Softcover, Hartley & Marks Publishers, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Small Is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered'Book summary:Small is Beautiful is the perfect antidote to the economics of globalization. As relevant today as when it was first published, this is a landmark set of essays on humanistic economics. This 25th anniversary edition brings Schumacher's ideas into focus for the end-of-the-century by adding commentaries by contemporary thinkers who have been influenced by Schumacher. They analyze the impact of his philosophy on current political and economic thought. Small is Beautiful is the classic of common-sense economics upon which many recent trends in our society are founded. This is economics from the heart rather than from just the bottom line. [via]
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Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in Americaby John De GraafISBN 1576752453 (1-57675-245-3)
Softcover, Ingram Pub Services
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The Tightwad Gazette IIIby Amy DacyczynISBN 0679777660 (0-679-77766-0)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tightwad Gazette III'Book summary:This third collection of the best of Dacyczyn's popular newsletter presents all-new advice and tips, culled from the fifth and sixth years of The Tightwad Gazette. A tireless advocate of "voluntary simplicity, " Dacyczyn offers lessons in advanced "tightwaddery, " such as how to cut back APR interest points on credit cards, strategies for comparing food bills, guides to saving on the cost of college, and the secrets of yard sales and store bargains. Illustrations. 320 pp. Author tour. Radio ads. 150,000 print. (Reference) [via]
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The Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift As a Viable Alternative Lifestyleby Amy DacyczynISBN 0375752250 (0-375-75225-0)
Softcover, Villard Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift As a Viable Alternative Lifestyle'Book summary:Having discovered that frugality is good for the bank account and the environment, Amy Dacyczyn started a newsletter for skinflints in 1989. Within a year, 50,000 cheapskates had subscribed to The Tightwad Gazette. Now Amy has collected all her wisdom into a book, and it's as good a deal as you'll find in these inflationary times. Line drawings. [via]
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Softcover, Random House Inc - The Tightwad Gazette II: Promoting Thrift As a Viable Alternative Lifestyle: ISBN 0679750789 (0-679-75078-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift As a Viable Alternative Lifestyle: ISBN 0679744037 (0-679-74403-7)
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Timeless Simplicity: Creative Living in a Consumer Societyby John LaneISBN 190399800X (1-903998-00-X)
Softcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co
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Un-Jobbing: The Adult Liberation HandbookISBN 0965483401 (0-9654834-0-1)
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Un-Jobbing: The Adult Liberation Handbookby Michael FoglerISBN 096548341X (0-9654834-1-X)
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Unplug the Christmas Machine: How to Have the Christmas You've Always Wantedby Jo Robinson, Jean Coppock StaeheliISBN 0688109616 (0-688-10961-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Voluntary Simplicity: An Ecological Lifestyle That Promotes Personal and Social Renewalby Duane ElginISBN 0553227661 (0-553-22766-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Richby Duane ElginISBN 0688121195 (0-688-12119-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich'Book summary:Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin, first published in 1981 and revised in 1993, is the sacred text for those wanting to liberate themselves from enslavement to a job and the pursuit of status symbols. Elgin's work emerges from a concern for the environmental consequences of our mass consumption lifestyles. His book exhorts us to save the planet and our souls by "living with balance in order to find a life of greater purpose." [via]
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Waldenby Henry David ThoreauISBN 1414505396 (1-4145-0539-6)
Softcover, Pavilion Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:"Walden" is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The story is detailed in its accounts of Thoreau's day-to-day activities, observations, and undertakings to survive out in the wilderness for two years. Thoreau's journal is an exquisite account of a man seeking a more simple life by living in harmony with nature. In today's fast-paced consumer-driven society the austere life style endorsed by Thoreau is as relevant and refreshing as ever. [via]
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Walden And Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau, Jonathan LevinISBN 1593082088 (1-59308-208-8)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden And Civil Disobedience'Book summary:[via]Walden and Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:- New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
- Biographies of the authors
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Henry David Thoreau was a sturdy individualist and a lover of nature. In March, 1845, he built himself a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived until September 1847. Walden is Thoreaus autobiograophical account of his Robinson Crusoe existence, bare of creature comforts but rich in contemplation of the wonders of nature and the ways of man. On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience is the classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty, and is considered one of the most famous essays ever written. This newly repackaged edition also includes a selection of Thoreau's poetry.Jonathan Levin is Dean of the School of Humanities and Professor of Literature and Culture at SUNY-Purchase. His research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature and culture, modernism and modernity, and environmental studies. He is the author of The Poetics of Transition: Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism, as well as numerous essays and reviews.
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Walden, or Life in the Woods : Selections from the American Classicby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0877736855 (0-87773-685-5)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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Walden; Or, Life in the Woodsby Henry David Thoreau, Terry Tempest WilliamsISBN 1590300882 (1-59030-088-2)
Hardcover, Shambhala Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden; Or, Life in the Woods'Book summary:In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, his most important work, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. Since its first publication on August 9, 1854, by Ticknor and Fields, the work has become a classic, beloved for its message of living simply and in harmony with nature.
This special 150th anniversary edition of Walden features exquisite wood engravings by Michael McCurdy, one of America's leading engravers and woodblock artists. McCurdy's engravings bring the text to lifeand illuminate the spirit of Thoreau's prose. Also included is a foreword by noted author, environmentalist, and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams, who reflects upon Thoreau's message that as we explore our world and ourselves, we draw ever closer to the truth of our connectedness. [via]More editions of Walden; Or, Life in the Woods:
Work Less and Play More: How You Can Achieve the Leisure Lifeby Steven A. CatlinISBN 0931832217 (0-931832-21-7)
Softcover, Fithian Pr
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Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money & Achieving Financial Independenceby Joe Dominguez, Vicki RobinISBN 0140167153 (0-14-016715-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money & Achieving Financial Independence'Book summary:There's a big difference between "making a living" and making a life. Do you spend more than you earn? Does making a living feel more like making a dying? Do you dislike your job but can't afford to leave it? Is money fragmenting your time, your relationships with family and friends? If so, Your Money or Your Life is for you.
From this inspiring book, learn how to
- get out of debt and develop savings
- reorder material priorities and live well for less
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Autobiografia Mahatma Ghandi/ Mahatma Ghandi Auto Biographyby M GhandiISBN 8489897492 (84-89897-49-2)
Softcover, Arkano Books
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