Repair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture
By: John Wackman
3.92
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Every year, millions of people throw away countless items because they don’t know how to fix them. …
Want to Read $ 9.99"Somewhere in the teachings of every wisdom tradition on earth is the admonition to “make whole that which is broken."-John Wackman, Repair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture
"Somewhere in the teachings of every wisdom tradition on earth is the admonition to “make whole that which is broken."-John Wackman, Repair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture
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1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
By: Benjamin Franklin , None
3.86
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
Written initially to guide his son, Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography is a lively, spellbinding acc… read more
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"Never confuse Motion with Action."-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
"it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright"-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
"When the well is dry we know the value of water"-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
"...there will be sleeping enough in the grave...."-Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
2. The Design of Everyday Things
By: Donald A. Norman
4.11
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
Anyone who designs anything to be used by humans -- from physical objects to computer programs to c… read more
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- nonfiction
3. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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- nonfiction
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
4. Mutual Aid
By: Pyotr Kropotkin
3.78
Format: 584 pages, Paperback
In 'Mutual Aid', Peter Kropotkin attacks the use of Darwinism as a social theory, arguing that coop… read more
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5. Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
By: Noam Chomsky , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
The best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a … read more
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6. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
By: None
4.50
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space--and one adventurous young explorer who d… read more
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7. The All of It
By: Jeannette Haien
4.67
Format: None pages,
Jeannette Haien's award-winning first novel relates the seemingly simple tale of a parishioner conf… read more
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8. Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
By: None , Becky Chambers
4.12
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are fr… read more
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"We're our own warning."-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
"I am seventy-nine years old. If I want dessert twice ... I get dessert twice."-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
"If you never leave, you'll always wonder. You'll wonder what your life could've been, if you did the right thing. Well... scratch that. You'll always wonder if you did the right thing, no matter wha…"-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
"We are the wealthiest species alive today. We want for nothing. Without us, there would be no tunnels, no ambi, no galactic map. But we achieved these things through subjugation. Violence. We destroy…"-None, Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
9. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
By: Albert Camus
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on … read more
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10. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- nonfiction
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
11. From a Far and Lovely Country (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #24)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
The latest installment in Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully diverting No. 1 Ladies' Detective … read more
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12. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
By: David Epstein
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more
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- nonfiction
"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
13. The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more
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- nonfiction
"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties
14. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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- nonfiction
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
15. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
By: Michael Pollan
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee coll… read more
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"Memory is the enemy of wonder"-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"For great many species today, “fitness"-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory."-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
"It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins."-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
16. The Overstory
By: Richard Powers
4.12
Format: 502 pages, Paperback
The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning ev… read more
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"Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
17. Travellers in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.05
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? The e… read more
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"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"In Dresden, Sylvia Morris witnessed the ransacking of the Jewish department store - Etam's [on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938]. 'Dresden had been peaceful and not pro-Nazi so this was a major event,'…"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"[William Edward Burghardt] Du Bois saw things rather differently. He argued that it was entirely because of Hitler that Germany had in fact already ‘lapsed into Bolshevism’. In his view, the Nazi gov…"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
18. The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
By: The Red Nation
4.52
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, the Red Deal is a platform that encompasse… read more
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"Healing the planet is ultimately about creating infrastructures of caretaking that will replace infrastructures of capitalism. Capitalism is contrary to life. Caretaking promotes life."-The Red Nation, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
"The critical infrastructure of Indigenous worlds is, fundamentally, about responsibility and being a good relative. But our responsibilities do not happen only in the realm of political transformatio…"-The Red Nation, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
19. This Is How It Always Is
By: Laurie Frankel
4.28
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
Alternate cover edition of ASIN B01HW6Z3FG This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secr… read more
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"Head colds should be tolerated. Children should be celebrated."-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is
"This is how you cook a novel. Some made up, some real life, all true."-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is
"Parenthood is like that...the harder the choice, the less likely any of the options are good ones"-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is
"She wasn't sure that parenting ever qualified as brave. Or maybe it always did. Because it's not like you got a choice."-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is
20. Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy
By: carla joy bergman
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Solidarity begins at home: a primer on freedom and equality in families and households. Trust K… read more
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21. Repair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture
By: John Wackman
3.92
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
Every year, millions of people throw away countless items because they don’t know how to fix them. … read more
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"Somewhere in the teachings of every wisdom tradition on earth is the admonition to “make whole that which is broken."-John Wackman, Repair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture
