Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and with (Almost) No Money
By: David Gates , Dolly Freed
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the late seventies, at the age of eighteen and with a seventh-grade education, Dolly Freed wrote…
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1. In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed
By: Carl Honoré
3.66
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
We live in the age of speed. We strain to be more efficient, to cram more into each minute, each ho… read more
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"Es una revolución cultural contra la noción de que más rápido siempre es mejor. La filosofía Slow no es acerca de hacerlo todo a ritmo de caracol. Es acerca de buscar hacerlo todo a la velocidad corr…"-Carl Honoré, In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed
"Speed can be fun, productive and powerful, and we would be poorer without it. What the world needs, and what the slow movement offers, is a middle path, a recipe for marrying la dolce vita with the d…"-Carl Honoré, In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed
"Like a bee in a flower bed, the human brain naturally flits from one thought to the next. In the high-speed workplace, where data and headlines come thick and fast, we are all under pressure to think…"-Carl Honoré, In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed
2. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
By: Wendell Berry
4.34
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Since its publication by Sierra Club Books in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized a… read more
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- nonfiction
"The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too."-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"If we removed the status and compensation from the destructive exploits we classify as “manly,"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
"The specialists are profiting too well from the symptoms, evidently, to be concerned about cures—just as the myth of imminent cure (by some “breakthrough"-Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
3. Your Money or Your Life
By: Vicki Robin , Joe Dominguez
4.53
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
In times like these, it's more important than ever to know the difference between making a living a… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- finance
- money
4. Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and with (Almost) No Money
By: David Gates , Dolly Freed
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the late seventies, at the age of eighteen and with a seventh-grade education, Dolly Freed wrote… read more
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5. The Man Who Quit Money
By: Joseph Campbell , Mark Sundeen , None , Ramakrishna , None , None
3.48
Format: 241 pages,
Grand Prize Winner of the 2015 Green Book Festival In 2000, Daniel Suelo left his life savings--al… read more
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6. How to Be Idle
By: Tom Hodgkinson
4.50
Format: 60 pages, Paperback
From the founding editor of The Idler, the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of do… read more
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7. The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide
By: Deirdre Headon , John Seymour
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The only book that teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land, fr… read more
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8. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
By: Richard Louv
3.93
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
"I like to play indoors better 'cause that's where all the electrical outlets are," reports a fourt… read more
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"The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses."-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"The logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of "true" nature--the certainty that it's not even worth looking at. (62)"-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world."-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
"Joni Mitchell had it right: "They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot." But perhaps, in the near future, we could add a line of hopeful epilogue to that song: then they tore down the parking lo…"-Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
9. Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)
By: Carol Ryrie Brink
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to b… read more
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"Life is just a lot of everyday adventures."-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)
"But every redhead's temper has its limitations."-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)
". . . the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes on at the end of an outdoor day."-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)
". . . the three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes one at the end of an outdoor day."-Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn (Caddie Woodlawn, #1)
10. We Had Everything But Money
By: Deb Mulvey
3.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Personal accounts and anecdotes offer insight into life during the Great Depression, describing suc… read more
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11. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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- nonfiction
12. The Sign of the Beaver
By: Elizabeth George Speare
3.87
Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition
Twelve-year-old Matt is left on his own in the Maine wilderness while his father leaves to bring th… read more
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13. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.05
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural lif… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that’s awfully hard not to poke."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
"Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly."-Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
14. Old-Fashioned on Purpose: Cultivating a Slower, More Joyful Life
By: Jill Winger
4.42
Format: None pages, ebook
"In a world where so many of us are craving a life of simplicity and meaning, Old-Fashioned on Purp… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
15. Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage
By: Helen Ellis
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Even twenty years into marriage, Helen Ellis’s husband still makes her heart pitter patter. The New… read more
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- memoir
16. Pathfinders: Extraordinary Stories of People Like You on the Quest for Financial Independence―And How to Join Them
By: J.L. Collins
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From “The Godfather of Financial Independence (FI)”, a follow-up to his international bestselling p… read more
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17. Your Money or Your Life
By: Vicki Robin
3.81
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
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- finance
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18. The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
By: J.B. MacKinnon
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and … read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
"We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even st…"-J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
19. The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology
By: Mark Boyle
3.94
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
It was 11:00 pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped … read more
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20. American Mermaid
By: Julia Langbein
3.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt he… read more
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"How could we be readers, how could we be lovers of the impossible and the imagined, and not want to swell up with a new character, pull it onto land from a sea we made, and trick it by disappearing b…"-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid
"This is one of the dangers of their [teenagers] ineluctable depth: they live the poetry, the true value of the way words resonate and not their dictionary meanings or conventional uses. It's why teen…"-Julia Langbein, American Mermaid
21. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
By: Douglas Rushkoff
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mys… read more
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"Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migration, global pand…"-Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
