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Authors Abbey, Edward The Brave Cowboy, Desert Solitaire
Angell, Norman The Great Illusion, Peace and the Plain Man
Arendt, Hannah Origins of Totalitarianism, Between Past and Future, On Revolution, The Human Condition, Life of the Mind, Men in Dark Times, Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Berlin, Isaiah The Hedgehog and the Fox, Concepts and Categories, Against the Current
Berry, Wendell Long-legged House, Hidden Wound, Unforeseen Wilderness, A Continuous Harmony, Unsettling of America, Standing by Words, Recollected Essays, Home Economics, Remembering the Gift of Good Land, Wild Birds
Beston, Henry The Outermost House, Herbs and the Earth
Bettleheim, Bruno The Informed Heart, Love Is Not Enough, The Uses of Enchantment, Freud and Man's Soul Bhagavad-Gita, The
Blake, William Blake's Humanism, John Beer; Blake's Fourfold Vision, Harold Goddard; His Philosophy and Symbols, Foster Damon; The Politics of Vision, Mark Schorer; Blake and Tradition, Kathleen Raine
Campbell, Joseph The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Masks of God, Occidental Mythology, Oriental Mythology, Myths to Live By, The Power of Myths (interview with Bill
Moyers)
Camus, Albert The Myth of Sisyphus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death, Neither Victims nor Executioners, Camus and the Men of the Stone, Robt. Proix, ed.; Albert Camus,Herbert Lottmen; American Journal, Roger
Quilliot, ed.
Cassirer, Ernst An Essay on Man, Philosophy of the Enlightenment
Chaitanya, Krishna
Freedom Series: Physics and Chemistry of Freedom, Biology of, Sociology of, Freedom and Transcendance, The Mahabharata:A Literary Study
Chargaff, Erwin Voices in the Labyrinth, Heraclitean Fire: Life Before Nature Chipko Movement, The, Anupam Misha
Chomsky, Noam American Power and the New Mandarins. Language and Responsibility, 1984 and After, Race to Destruction
Franck, Frederick Days With Albert Schweitzer, My Eye Is in Love, Zen of Seeing, Art as a Way, African Sketchbook, The Supreme Koan, Echoes From a Bottomless Well
Fromm, Erich Psychoanalysis and Religion, Forgotten Language, Escape From Freedom, Heart of Man, Sane Society, Art of Loving, Beyond the Chains of Illusion, Let Man Prevail
Frye, Northrop The Modern Century, The Stubborn Structure
Fukuoka, Masahobu The One-Straw Revolution Fundamental Testaments of the American Revolution, Lib. of Congress
Gandhi, Mohandas K. Young India, The India of My Dreams, Harijan, Hind Swaraj, Selections from Gandhi, The Collected Works. Gandhi Through Western Eyes,
H. Alexander;Story of M. Gandhi, K.S. Acharlu; Gandhi's Truth, Eric Erickson; The Moral and Political Thought of, Ragavan Iyer; The Mind of,
Prabhu and Rao, eds. The Spirit's Pilgrimage,
Mirabehn; Gandhi Today, Mark Shephard; Gandhi and the Good Life, Suman Khanna; A Memoir,Wm.
L. Shirer; M.G.:the Discovery of Satyagraha, Pyarelal
Giono, Jean The Man Who Planted Hope and Grew Happiness, Joy of Man's Desiring
Glasser, William Reality Therapy, Schools Without Failure, The Identity Society, Control Theory in the Classroom
Goddard, Harold Blake's Fourfold Vision, The Meaning of Shakespeare, Studies in New England Transcendentalism
Goldman, Emma Living My Life, Rebel in Paradise, Richard Drinnon
Goldsmith, Edward The Stable Society, articles Ecologist, Resurgence
Goodman, Paul Growing Up Absurd, Utopian Essays, Seeds of Liberation, The New Reformation, Drawing the Life, Nature Heals
Hearn, Lafcadio Gleanings in Buddha Fields, Talks to Writers, In Ghostly Japan, History of English Literature. Lafcadio Hearn, Vera McWilliams; The Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn, Kenneth Rexroth, ed.
Heilbronner, Robert The Future As History, An Inquiry Into the Human Prospect
Henderson, Hazel. Creating Alternative Futures, Politics of the Solar Age
Huxley, Thomas H. Evolution and Ethics, Essays on Some Controverted Questions
Illich, Ivan De-Schooling Society, Medical Nemesis, Energy and Equity, Tools For Conviviality, Shadow Work
Jackson, Wes New Roots for Agriculture, From Swords Into Plowshares, Meeting the Expectations of the Land, Altars of Unhewn Stone, articles in Land Report
Jacobs, Jane The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Kohr, Leopold The City of Man, Overdeveloped Nations, Development Without Aid, Breakdown of Nations
Kozol, Jonathan Death at an Early Age, Prisoners of Silence, On Being a Teacher, Illiterate America
Kropotkin, Peter Fields, Factories, and Workshops, Mutual Aid, The Anarchist Prince, George Woodcock
Krutch, Joseph Wood Great Chain of Life, Measure of Man, Desert Year, If You Don't Mind My Saying So, Human Nature and the Human Condition, Modern Temper, More Lives Than One
Maslow, Abraham H. Toward a Psychology of Being, Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences, New Knowledge in Human Values, Eupsychian Management, Farther Reaches of Human Nature, Psychology of Science, Journals of. A.H. Maslow, an Intellectual Portrait, Richard
Lowry; The Right to Be Human, Edward Hoffman
Morgan, Arthur The Long Road, Search for Purpose, Community of the Future, Finding His Way, Nowhere Was Somewhere, Observations, Industries for Small Communities, Small Community, Dealing Creatively with Death. A Biography and Memoir,
Walter Kahoe, Finding His World, Lucy Morgan
Muir, John Mountains of California, The Pathless Way,Michael Cohen; Muir Among the Animals, Lisa Mighetto; The Wilderness World of John Muir,Edwin W. Teale
Mumford, Lewis Art and Technics, In the Name of Sanity, The Pentagon of Power, The City in History, My Works and Days
Nearing, Scott and Helen Man's Search for the Good Life, Living the Good Life, Making of a Radical, Continuing the Good Life, Wise Words on the Good Life
Needham, Joseph Science and Civilization in China, Grand Titration
Needleman, Jacob The New Religions, Sword of Gnosis, Sense of the Cosmos, Consciousness and Tradition, Heart of Philosophy, Way of the Physician
Nock, Albert Jay Theory of Education in the U.S., Free Speech and Plain Language
Ortega (Ortega y Gasset) Revolt of the Masses, Idea of Principle in Leibniz, Concord and Liberty, Toward a Philosophy of History, Dehumanization of Art, Man and Crisis, Man and People Meditations on Quixote, Mission of the University, Some Lessons in Metaphysics, Modern Theme, Man and His Circumstances: Ortega as Educator, Robert McClintock
Paine, Thomas The Rights of Man, Age of Reason, "Common Sense,"
Bernard Bailyn in Fundamental Testaments of the American Revolution; Tom Paine: America's Godfather, W.E. Woodward
Plato The Dialogues of Plato, Plato:An Introduction,
Paul Friedlander; Therapeia, Robert Cushman; Preface to Plato, Eric Havelock; Platonism and Its Influence, A.E. Taylor
Polanyi, Karl Primitive, Archaic and Modern Economics
Polanyi, Michael Science, Faith and Society, Personal Knowledge, The Tacit Dimension
Postman, Neil Teaching as a Subversive Activity, Teaching as a Conserving Activity, Disappearance of Childhood, Amusing Ourselves to Death
Priestley, J.B. Literature and Western Man, Journey Down a Rainbow
Progoff, Ira The Death and Rebirth of Psychology, The Symbolic and the Real
Radhakrishnan, Sarvopalli History of Indian Philosophy, Eastern Religions and Western Thought, East and West, Gautama the Buddha, The Principal Upanishads
Raine, Kathleen Blake and Tradition, Defending Ancient Springs
Roszak, Theodore The Making of a Counter Culture, Where the Wasteland Ends, Unfinished Animal, Person/Planet, Rethinking Liberalism, Cult of Information
Thompson, William Irwin At the Edge of History, Imagination of an Insurrection, Passages About Earth, Darkness and Scattered Light, Gaia:A Way of Knowing, ed.
Thoreau, Henry David Civil Disobedience, Walden, Excursions, Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Maine Woods. Natural History of Massachusetts, The Senses of Walden, Stanley Cavell; Concord Rebel, August
Derleth; Thoreau:a Life of the Mind, Robert
Richardson, Booklets and Bulletins of Thoreau Society
Todd, John and Nancy Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming; Reinhabiting Cities and Towns, Tomorrow Is Our Permanent Address
Tolstoy, Leo Christianity and Patriotism, The Kingdom of God Is Within You, What Is Religion?, My Confession, What is Art?, On Education, The Inevitable Revolution, On Life, Intimate Diary,Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, Geo. Steiner; Tolstoy Remembered, Tatyana Tolstoy; Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence, David Albert, ed.
Weil, Simone The Need For Roots, The Iliad:the Poem of Force, Oppression and Liberty, Simone Weil Reader. S.W.:Interpretations of a Life, Geo. A. White,
ed.:Interpretations, Michele Murray;:An Anthology, Sian Miles, ed.:A Modern Pilgrimage,Robert Coles
Periodicals
Agriculture and Human Values
Alternatives to Growth, Dennis Meadows, ed.
American Review (formerly New American Review)
American Scholar
ANAI (Costa Rica)
Annals of Earth Stewardship, Nancy Todd, ed.
Appropriate Technology
Atlantic
Betterway, Tom Peters, Dir.
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Eugene Rabinowitch, ed.
Christian Science Monitor
CoEvolution Quarterly, Stephanie Mills, ed.
Community Service Newsletter
Country Journal
Daedalus
Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture Newsletter
Democracy
Dissent
The Ecologist (England)
Ecologist Quarterly
Environment
Et cetera, Neil Postman, ed.
Foreign Affairs
Freedom
Friends Journal
Gandhi Marg (India)
Gandhi Vigyam, K.S. Acharlu, ed. (India)
Green Revolution (Canada)
Growing Without Schooling, Donna Richoux, ed.
Harpers
Harvard Educational Review
Hudson Review
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
Journal of Parapsychology
Journal of The New Alchemists
Kidma (Israel)
Land Report, The Land Institute
Land Stewardship Newsletter
Liberation
Manchester Guardian
Nation
New Alchemy Quarterly
New Directions in Teaching
New Republic
New Roots
New Yorker
New York Review of Books
New York Times Book Review
North Country Anvil
Not Man Apart
Our Generation Against Nuclear War (Canada)
Parents Bulletin from School of Rose Valley
Peacemaker
Peace News (England)
Pendle Hill Pamphlets
Permaculture, Bill Mollison, ed. (Australia)
Progressive
Psychology Today
Rain, Tanya Kucak, ed.
Raise the Stakes, Peter Berg, ed.
Redbook
Resurgence
Rocky Mt. Institute Newsletter
Saturday Review
Science
Science for Villages (India)
Scientific American
Seedling News, Tree People
State of the World, Worldwatch Institute
Structurist (Canada)
Teachers College Record
Technology Review, MIT
Temenos
Wall Street Journal
Washington Spectator
Worldwatch Papers