A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life
By: L. Hunter Lovins
4.16
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and t…
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1. 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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- business
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- economics
- 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
2. Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses
By: E. Freya Williams
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
What do Brazil's top beauty brand, America's second-fastest-growing restaurant chain, and the world… read more
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- economics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- business
3. The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
By: Paul Hawken
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet. read more
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- business
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- economics
- environment
4. La salvación de lo bello
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.58
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Lo pulido, lo liso, lo impecable, son la sena de identidad de nuestra epoca. Son lo que tienen en c… read more
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- nonfiction
5. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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- nonfiction
6. 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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- nonfiction
- environment
7. Thinking in Systems: A Primer
By: Donella H. Meadows , None
3.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more
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8. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
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"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
9. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
By: None
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more
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10. The Burnout Society
By: Byung-Chul Han
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more
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11. The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
By: Mariana Mazzucato
3.96
Format: 289 pages, ebook
This book debunks the myth of the State as a large bureaucratic organization that can at best facil… read more
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12. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.40
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable… read more
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13. Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many … read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- business
"The “persecution"-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"If you do not take risks for your opinion, you're nothing."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"Freedom is always associated with risk taking, whether it leads to it or comes from it."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
14. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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- nonfiction
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
15. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
By: Anna Lembke
3.91
Format: 304 pages, ebook
This book is about pleasure. It's also about pain. Most important, it's about how to find the delic… read more
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- nonfiction
"The reason we’re all so miserable may be because we’re working so hard to avoid being miserable."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for its own sake, leads to anhedonia, which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"With prolonged and repeated exposure to pleasurable stimuli, our capacity to tolerate pain decreases, and our threshold for experiencing pleasure increases."-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
"Beyond extreme examples of running from pain, we’ve lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We’re constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertai…"-Anna Lembke, Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
16. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.21
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more
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- nonfiction
"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione
17. Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.72
Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition
Estamos perdiendo nuestra capacidad de no hacer nada. Nuestra existencia está completamente absorbi… read more
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- nonfiction
18. What We Owe the Future
By: William MacAskill
3.84
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- environment
19. The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.05
Format: 186 pages, Hardcover
Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century cris… read more
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- nonfiction
20. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
21. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
By: Jason Hickel
4.51
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more
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- economics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- environment
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
22. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
By: Tyson Yunkaporta
4.36
Format: 256 pages, ebook
This remarkable book is about everything from echidnas to evolution, cosmology to cooking, sex and … read more
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- nonfiction
- environment
"The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity."-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
"Guilt is like any other energy: you can't accumulate it or keep it because it makes you sick and disrupts the system you live in - you have to let it go. Face the truth, make amends and let it go."-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
"Engaging with them (malignant narcissists) alone is futile - never wrestle a pig, as the old saying goes; you both end up covered in shit, and the pig likes it. The fundamental rules of human interac…"-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
"Understanding your own culture and the ways it interacts with others, particularly the power dynamics of it, is far more appreciated. My reading of Germane Greer when I was a young lad was a lot more…"-Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
23. Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
By: Paul Polman
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
These massive dual challenges—and other profound shifts like pandemics, resource constraints, and s… read more
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- business
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- economics
- environment
"People with purpose thrive, brands with purpose grow, and companies with purpose last."-Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
"Anyone who things that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist."-Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
"Our current economic system has two fundamental weaknesses: it’s based on unlimited growth on a finite planet, and it benefits a small number of people, not everyone."-Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
"Creating positive returns for stakeholders does not mean satisfying all of them at the same time, or focusing equal attention and resources on each. You can't prioritize everyone at once."-Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
24. Les Limites à la croissance (dans un monde fini). Le Rapport Meadows, 30 ans Après
By: Donella H. Meadows
4.31
Format: 425 pages, Paperback
En 1972, quatre jeunes scientifiques du MIT rédigent à la demande du Club de Rome un rapport qu'ils… read more
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"Sustainability is a new idea to many people, and many find it hard to understand. But all over the world there are people who have entered into the exercise of imagining and bringing into being a sus…"-Donella H. Meadows, Les Limites à la croissance (dans un monde fini). Le Rapport Meadows, 30 ans Après
"We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the ti…"-Donella H. Meadows, Les Limites à la croissance (dans un monde fini). Le Rapport Meadows, 30 ans Après
25. Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
By: Rebecca Henderson
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A renowned Harvard professor debunks prevailing orthodoxy with a new intellectual foundation and a … read more
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- economics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- business
26. Green Swans: The Coming Boom In Regenerative Capitalism
By: John Elkington
3.80
Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition
Even leading capitalists admit that capitalism is broken. Green Swans is a manifesto for system cha… read more
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- business
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- economics
- environment
27. Capitalism and the Death Drive
By: Byung-Chul Han
3.96
Format: 180 pages, ebook
What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupti… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
"Man bemächtigt sich des Todes, indem man tötet."-Byung-Chul Han, Capitalism and the Death Drive
28. A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life
By: L. Hunter Lovins
4.16
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The blueprint for an inspiring regenerative economy that avoids collapse and works for people and t… read more
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- sustainability
- nonfiction
- economics
- environment
29. Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
By: Vanessa Machado De Oliveira
4.42
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
For fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times, a book … read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
30. The Age of Resilience: Reimagining Existence on a Rewilding Earth
By: Jeremy Rifkin
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization and a transformative vision of how our… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- environment
31. Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism
By: Michael O'Leary
4.29
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This provocative book takes us inside the fight to save capitalism from itself. Corporations are… read more
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- nonfiction
- economics
- business
