5 must-read nature books like Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects by Joanna Macy

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Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects

By: Joanna Macy

4.28

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Inspiration, practices, and meditations to empower us in the face of planetary “True wisdom for to…

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Cover of Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions) by Adrienne Rich, Albert Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi

1. Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

By: Adrienne Rich , Albert Gelpi , Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi

4.18

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

This Norton Critical Edition presents the work of one of America's foremost poets. It moves well be… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The enemy is always outside the self, the struggle somewhere else."

-Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

"The wave changed instantly by rock; the rock changed by the wave returning over and over."

-Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

"When the ideas or forms we need are banished, we seek their residues wherever we can trace them"

-Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

"Perhaps many white North Americans fear an overtly political art because it might persuade us emotionally of what we think we are “rationally"

-Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

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2. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

By: Donella H. Meadows , Jørgen Randers , Dennis L. Meadows

4.22

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

In 1972 four young scientists at MIT wrote The Limits to Growth, which shocked theworld and became … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sustainability
  • ecology
  • environment
"Faith in technology as the ultimate solution to all problems can thus divert our attention from the most fundamental problem-the problem of growth in a finite system and prevent us from taking effect…"

-Donella H. Meadows, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

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3. The Slap

By: Christos Tsiolkas

3.86

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet … read more

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4. Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom

By: Eric Swanson , None

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Yongey Mingyur is one of the most celebrated among the new generation of Tibetan meditation masters… read more

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  • buddhism
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • self help
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5. The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

By: Charles Eisenstein

3.89

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

In a time of social and ecological crisis, what can we as individuals do to make the world a better… read more

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  • nature
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • environment
  • self help

6. Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World

By: Linda Hogan

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Whether she is writing about bats, bees, procupines, or wolves, contemplating the mysteries of cave… read more

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7. Rimrunners (The Company Wars, #3)

By: C.J. Cherryh

3.87

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Loki is a mercenary ship and bounty hunter. Bet Yeager is a killer elite Earth Company Marine whose… read more

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8. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

By: Elaine N. Aron

3.85

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food… read more

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  • nonfiction
"In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"But psychology is not perfect. It can only reflect the biases of the culture from which it comes."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

"With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark."

-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

9. Notes on Democracy

By: H.L. Mencken

3.78

Format: 584 pages, Paperback

The perfect book for the 2012 elections. . . and beyond! [Democracy] is based on propositions that … read more

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10. Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

By: Derrick Jensen

3.99

Format: None pages,

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11. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

By: David Abram

4.03

Format: 512 pages,

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12. More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations

By: Melody Beattie

4.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Daily thoughts provide readers with ongoing insights into issues such as surrendering, the damaging… read more

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13. Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth/Healing the Mind

By: James Hillman , Theodore Roszak , Lester R. Brown , None , None

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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14. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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15. Capitalism & Slavery

By: Eric Williams , None

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and m… read more

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16. All the Little Bird-Hearts

By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

3.80

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life… read more

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17. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
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18. Strangers on a Train

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.73

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more

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"The word “marriage"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I know that Southern redhead type,"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

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19. Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects

By: Joanna Macy

4.28

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Inspiration, practices, and meditations to empower us in the face of planetary “True wisdom for to… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Macy's Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects book and Joanna Macy's Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects

  • buddhism
  • ecology
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • environment
  • nature
  • self help
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20. The Nature of Disappearing

By: Kimi Cunningham Grant

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this captivating novel of suspense, a wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her … read more

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  • nature
"All of them skated through life making choices that could be swept away and tidied up with incomprehensible ease simply because of who they were."

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

"This is the moment Emlyn will play over and over in her mind. The moment where her life swivels from its course and heads in an entirely different direction. Life is full of these moments. Little poi…"

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

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21. The Green Halo: A Bird's-Eye View of Ecological Ethics

By: Erazim V. Kohák

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Presenting a wide range of views and strategies, The Green Halo analyzes the problematic relations … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature

8 Best nonfiction books like Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects by Joanna Macy

Transform Your Habits

Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

Adrienne Rich , Albert Gelpi , Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

Donella H. Meadows , Jørgen Randers , Dennis L. Meadows

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom

Eric Swanson , None

4.36

Transform Your Habits

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

Charles Eisenstein

3.89

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8 best-selling philosophy books like The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein

Transform Your Habits

The One-Straw Revolution

Masanobu Fukuoka

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

Francis Weller , Michael Lerner

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self

Anodea Judith

4.67

Transform Your Habits

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

Charles Eisenstein

3.89

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