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Books on Simplicity
list provided by Craig Vassel
The Nearings | |
Nearing, Helen & Scott | Living the Good Life | 1954 |
Nearing, Helen | Loving and Leaving the good life | 1992 |
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| General Simplicity |
Callenbach, Ernest | Living Poor with style | 1972 |
Elgin Duane | Voluntary Simplicity | 1993 |
Mate, Ferenc | A Reasonable Life | 1993 |
St. James, Elaine | Simplify your life | 1994 |
St. James, Elaine | Inner Simplicity | 1995 |
Urbanska, Wanda & Levering, Frank | Moving to a small town | 1996 |
Luhrs, Janet | Simple living guide | 1997 |
St. James, Elaine | Simplify your life with kids | 1997 |
Cox, Connie | Thirty days to a simpler life | 1998 |
Andrews, Cecile | Circle of Simplicity | 1998 |
St. James, Elaine | Living the Simple life | 1998 |
St. James, Elaine | Simplify your Christmas | 1998 |
Davidson, Jeff | Joy of Simple living | 1999 |
Thomas, Kim | Simplicity | 1999 |
Segal, Jerome | Graceful Simplicity | 1999 |
Schumacher, E.F. | Small is Beautiful | 1999 |
Pierce, Linda Breen | Choosing Simplicity | 2000 |
St. James, Elaine | 365 simple reminders | 2000 |
St. James, Elaine | Little guide to living simply | 2000 |
St. James, Elaine | 50 ways to simplify your life | 2000 |
Lockwood, Georgene | Idiot's Guide to Simple Living | 2000 |
Lane, John | Timeless Simplicity | 2001 |
St. James, Elaine | Simplify your work life | 2002 |
Pierce, Linda Breen | Simplicity Lessons | 2003 |
Easterbrook, Gregg | Progress Paradox | 2003 |
Merkel, Jim | Radical Simplicity | 2003 |
Urbanska, Wanda & Levering, Frank | Simple Living | 2003 |
Van Eyk McCain, Marian | Lilipad List | 2004 |
Urbanska, Wanda & Levering, Frank | Nothing's too small to make a difference | 2004 |
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| Media |
De Bord, Guy | Society of the Spectacle | 1967 |
Mander, Jerry | Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television | 1978 |
Postman, Neil 1931-2003 | Amusing Ourselves to Death | 1986 |
McKibbin, Bill | End of Nature | 1989 |
McKibbin, Bill | Age of missing information | 1993 |
Lasn, Kalle | Culture Jam | 1999 |
Klein, Naomi | No Logo | 2000 |
Harris, Daniel | Cute, Quaint, hungry and Romantic | 2001 |
Radford, Benjamin | Media Mythmakers | 2003 |
Boese, Alex | Hippo eats Dwarf | 2006 |
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| Consuming |
Fromm, Eric | To have or to be | 1978 |
Durning, Alan | How much is enough | 1992 |
Miller, Timothy Ray | How to want what you have | 1996 |
Schor, Juliet | Overspent American | 1998 |
Kilbourne, Jean | Can't buy my love | 1999 |
de Graff, John | Affluenza | 2001 |
Kasser, Tim | High Price of Materialism | 2002 |
Schwartz, Barry | Paradox of Choice | 2004 |
Whybrow, Peter | American Mania | 2005 |
Schor, Juliet | Born to Buy | 2005 |
Stiles, Paul | is the American Dream Killing You | 2005 |
Levine, Judith | Not Buying It | 2006 |
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| Obesity |
Schlosser, Eric | Fast Food Nation | 2002 |
Critser, Greg | Fat Land | 2003 |
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| Urban Planning, New Urbanism |
Jacobs, Jane | Death and Life of great American cities | 1961 |
Kunstler, James Howard | Geography of Nowhere | 1994 |
Kay, Jane Holtz | Asphalt Nation | 1997 |
Kunstler, James Howard | Home from Nowhere | 1998 |
Duany, Andres | Suburban Nation | 2000 |
Beatley, Timothy | Green Urbanism: Learning from Europe's Cities | 2000 |
Register, Richard | Ecocities | 2001 |
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| Time, Money, & Work |
Saltzman, Amy | Downshifting | 1992 |
Schor, Juliet | Oerworked Amerrican | 1993 |
Roth, Larry | Beating the System | 1995 |
Zelinski, Ernie | Joy of Not Working | 1997 |
Dominguez, Joe & Robin, Vickie | Your Money or your Life | 1999 |
Gleick, James | Acceleration of Everything | 1999 |
de Graff, John | Take back your time | 2003 |
Rifkin, Jeremy | European Dream | 2004 |
Honore, Carl | In Praise of Slowness | 2004 |
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| Coming Crises |
Jacobs, Jane | Dark Age Ahead | 2004 |
Kunstler, James Howard | Long Emergency | 2005 |
Bonner, Bill & Wiggin, Addison | Empire of Debt | 2006 |
Leeb, Stephen | Coming Economic Collapse | 2006 |
Berman, Morris | Dark Age America | 2006 |
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| Organizing De-junking |
Aslett, Don | Clutters Last Stand | 1984 |
Cox, Connie and Evatt, Chris | Simply Organized | 1988 |
Culp, Stephanie | How to conquer clutter | 1989 |
Schlenger, Sunny & Roesch, Roberta | How to be Organized in spite of yourself | 1990 |
Aslett, Don | Not for Packrats Only | 1991 |
Winston, Stephanie | Getting Organized | 1991 |
Aslett, Don | Office Clutter Cure | 1994 |
Aslett, Don | Clutter free | 1995 |
Morgenstern, Julie | Organizing from the inside out | 1998 |
Kingston, Karen | Clear your clutter with Feng Shui | 1999 |
Winston, Stephanie | Getting Out from Under | 2000 |
Allen, David | Getting Things Done | 2001 |
Schechter, Harriet | Let Go of Clutter | 2001 |
Culp, Stephanie | Organized for success | 2004 |
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| Social Organization |
Putman, Robert | Bowling Alone | 2001 |
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| Psychology |
Ornstein, Robert & Sobel, David | Healthy Pleasures | 1989 |
White, Curtis | Why Americans don't think for themselves | 2003 |
Layard, Richard | Happiness, | 2005 |
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| Peak Oil |
Heinberg, Richard | Power down | 2004 |
Ruppert, Michael | Crossing the Rubicon | 2004 |
Roberts, Paul | End of Oil | 2004 |
Heinberg, Richard | Party's over | 2005 |
Duffeyes, Kenneth | Beyond Oil | 2005 |
Simmons, Matthew | Twilight in the desert | 2005 |
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| Recycling |
McDonnough, William | Cradle to Cradle | 2002 |
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| Fiction |
Callenbach, Ernest | Ecotopia | 1975 |
Callenbach, Ernest | Ecotopia Emerging | 1981 |
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| Food |
Pollan, Michael | Carnivores Dilemma | 2006 |
Nestle, Marion | What to Eat | 2006 |
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| Videos |
Kunstler, Jim | End of Suburbia | 2004 |
Spurlock, Morgan | Supersize Me | 2005 |
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