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Who's in Charge Around Here? |
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Michael
Moore Stupid White Men List Price:
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Michael Moore skewers the pretensions of the status quo with a few funny and well-chosen words. You may not like or agree with everything he says, but we rarely see the picture he draws or even recognize it. The villains in our lives are none of the standard targets -- they are those stupid white men, those suits, those establishment and ambitious types who are the best educated (? - maybe just longest schooled?) ruling class in history. American writer Ernest Hemingway onced said in an interview that writers need "a built-in, shock-proof shit detector." Michael Moore's is working just fine. An Amazon.com and NY Times best seller, at one point about to be pulped by the publisher because of 9/11. I wish every American would read this book. |
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The Way We Are |
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Hal
Kane Triumph of the Mundane The Unseen Trends That Shape Our Lives and Environment List Price: Our Price: $18.36 You Save: $4.59 (20% |
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Kane takes a serious look at the way we are now, and gives us a chance
to see how strange and even bizarre our ordinary lives are as we go about
our daily lives doing things we barely notice anymore, like the commute
drive we make to work, how little we are part of a genuine community,
how we spend the time of our lives, even how we feed ourselves. It isn't an especially pretty picture, even though we are mostly inured to it. Many are waking up to the dissatisfactions of their lives and Kane talks about what they are trying to do about it. |
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The Real Cost of Our Fast Food Habit |
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Eric
Schlosser Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal List Price: Our Price: $15.00 You Save: $10.00 (40%) |
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you ever wonder what the consequences in the real world might be from
stopping off on your way home to get a Big Mac, or a Big Jack, or Big
Carl's Junior, or some of that chicken from the Colonel? Can't be much
of a big deal, right? Sorry -- wrong. Wrong! Very wrong! Fast food is the tail that wags the dog of American agriculture. The fast food industry in a brief period of time has changed our culture: what we eat, the landscape, our economy, our work, agriculture, the meat packing industry, styrofoam use. A thorough and convincing indictment of gigantic American industry. |
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The Work of Thom Rutledge
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| Thom Rutledge The Self-Forgiveness Handbook: A Practical and Empowering Guide List Price: Our Price: $10.36 You Save: $2.59 (20%) |
Thom Rutledge Earning Your Own Respect: A Handbook of Personal Responsibility List Price: Our Price: $10.36 You Save: $2.59 (20%) |
Thom Rutledge Practice Makes Practice: An Experiential Audio Workbook Audio Cassette List Price: Our Price: $10.75 You Save: $1.20 (10%) |
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awareness that the line between spirituality and psychology has blurred, Thom Rutledge
concentrates on kindness. That is, be kind first to yourself and your kindness will
flow to others. All psychological healing comes from the ability to forgive oneself. "A common fear," he writes, "is that self-forgiveness is a snazzy, politically correct, socially acceptable way of letting ourselves off the hook by avoiding accountability and personal responsibility. This is absolutely not true." |
The key is living responsibly. Self-respect is not automatic and can easily be eroded in the world, but we can earn it and keep it. Sometimes we spend more time getting ready to live than we do living. This is a step-by-step program for getting back on our own two feet and being able to trust ourselves. |
Achieving long-lasting
positive change, like anything else, requires daily attention. This 66 minute audio
cassette can help you with a step-by-step program to challenge your inner critic,
celebrate your strengths, and make self-compassion a daily practice. Practice does make practice. (Audio Cassette) |
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Two Looks at Good Intentions and Unintended Consequences |
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Steven M. Gillon List Price: |
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Edward Tenner When Things Bite Back: List Price: |
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Want to change the world? |
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Catherine Ryan Hyde a novel
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| This novel is about young Trevor McKinney, a 12-year-old whose imagination is sparked by an extra-credit assignment in Social Studies: "Think of an idea for world change, and put it into action." Trevor's idea is deceptively simple: do a good deed for three people, and in exchange, ask each of them to "pay it forward" to three more. "So nine people get helped. Then those people have to do twenty-seven.... Then it sort of spreads out." | |
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To find improved means to improved ends... |
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Neil Postman
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| "In order to have an agreeable encounter with the twenty-first century," Postman says, "we will have to take into it some good ideas. And in order to do that, we need to look back to take stock of the good ideas available to us." | |
The Way to an Authentic Life
Being able to hear and respond to your callings...
Gregg
LeVoy
Callings:
Finding and Following an Authentic Life
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Superbly
writtem guide to finding and working to our real world work. If you are vaguely or
acutely dissatisfied, reading this book may help you identify what's happening (or
not happening maybe), and it offers approaches, steps and encouragement.
Living an authentic life makes all the difference....
Paul
Hawken, Amory B. Lovins & L. Hunter Lovins
Natural Capitalism
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How
can American, and increasingly global, business and corporations become good planetary
citizens? What does healthy business and economics look like?
One look at a less expensive, less wasteful, less damaging,
and more efficient possible future...
Part of the Truth about America
We
are in the midst of the greatest wave of prosperity in American history. BUT, more
children live in poverty here than in any other industrialized nation, we have the
highest youth homicide rate, and wages for many are stagnant. Read this book to find
out why new visions might be really helpful.
Marc
Miringoff & Marque-Luisa Miringoff
The Social Health of the Nation:
How America Is Really Doing
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American Education: Why It's So Bad
Martin
L. Gross
The Conspiracy of Ignorance:
The Failure of American Public Schools
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Read this book along with the Sizer's The Students Are Watching and you will have a good grasp of what is going so wrong with American educational policy and practice. That is, if you care about what's happening to your children.
Theodore
R. Sizer & Nancy Faust Sizer
The Students Are Watching
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by Thomas L. Friedman
One day in 1992, Thomas Friedman toured a Lexus factory in Japan and marveled at the robots that put the luxury cars together. That evening, as he ate sushi on a Japanese bullet train, he read a story about yet another Middle East squabble between Palestinians and Israelis. And it hit him: Half the world was lusting after those Lexuses, or at least the brilliant technology that made them possible, and the other half was fighting over who owned which olive tree.
Friedman, the well-traveled New York Times foreign-affairs columnist, peppers The Lexus and the Olive Tree with stories that illustrate his central theme: that globalization--the Lexus--is the central organizing principle of the post-cold war world, even though many individuals and nations resist by holding onto what has traditionally mattered to them--the olive tree.
Problem is, few of us understand what exactly globalization means. As Friedman sees it, the concept, at first glance, is all about American hegemony, about Disneyfication of all corners of the earth. But the reality, thank goodness, is far more complex than that, involving international relations, global markets, and the rise of the power of individuals (Bill Gates, Osama Bin Laden) relative to the power of nations.
No one knows how all this will shake out, but The Lexus and the Olive Tree is as good an overview of this sometimes brave, sometimes fearful new world as you'll find.
--Lou Schuler
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Hardback, 416 pages
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The Edge of the Bed:
How Dirty Pictures Changed My Lifeby Lisa Palac
"A clear-headed look at some of the most explosive sexual issues of our day --pornography, cybersex, freedom of sexual expression, marriage --through an autobiographical lens. Palac, like her close friend and mentor Susie Bright, has been one of the foremost pop critics of the American sexual landscape and of repressive tendencies in feminism. This book, part autobiography, part cultural analysis, shows off her lively writing and wacky sensibility."
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In Memoriam
Shel Silverstein
d. May, 1999
His marvelous fable for kids and adults.
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Tae-Bo actually deserves much of the hype it's receiving. It's fun and easy. Included: mail-in coupon for a free copy of Tae-Bo: 8-Minute Workout. ï NTSC format (for use in US and Canada only) List Price:
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Getting Out from Under: $15.40 |
Anatomy of the Spirit: by Caroline Myss
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© 1997, C. Grigsby, All Rights Reserved. 15 May 1999
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