About This Life

10 best books like About This Life (Barry Lopez): All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture, The Emigrants, Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World, A Year by the Sea, Deschooling Society, Imagination in Place, The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal, Robert Adams: Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

Author	Stephen Kinzer
ISBN	0471678783

An American Coup & the Roots of Middle East Terror
Half a century ago, the United States overthrew a Middle Eastern government for the first time. The victim was Mohammad Mossadegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran. Although the coup seemed a success at first, today it serves...

The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Author	Ray Kurzweil
ISBN	0143037889

For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step...

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture

Author	Toby Hemenway
ISBN	1890132527

Permaculture is a verbal marriage of "permanent" and "agriculture." Australian Bill Mollison pioneered its development. Key features include:

- use of compatible perennials;
- non-invasive planting techniques;
- emphasis on biodiversity;
- specifically adaptable to...

The Emigrants

Author	W.G. Sebald
ISBN	0099448882

At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.

Written with...

Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World

Author	Pico Iyer
ISBN	0679746129

I can'ttttt anymore, I'm gonna die of boredom. I was so looking forward to reading this book, but it is SO BLAH! I was expecting more of a travelogue style of writing, not a completely stand-offish overview. The author didn't really get into experiencing these cultures, it seemed. He gave a sentence here...

A Year by the Sea

Author	Joan Anderson
ISBN	0767905938

Now available in paperback, the entrancing story of how one woman's journey of self-discovery gave her the courage to persevere in re-creating her life.

Life is a work in progress, as ever-changing as a sandy shoreline along the beach. During the years Joan Anderson was a loving wife and supportive...

Deschooling Society

Author	Ivan Illich
ISBN	0714508799

Deschooling Society (1971) is a critical discourse on education as practised in modern economies. It is a book that brought Ivan Illich to public attention. Full of detail on programs and concerns, the book gives examples of the ineffectual nature of institutionalized education. Illich posited...

Imagination in Place

Author	Wendell Berry
ISBN	1582435626

A writer who can imagine the “community belonging to its place” is one who has applied his knowledge and citizenship to achieve the goal to which Wendell Berry has always aspired—to be a native to his own local culture. And for Berry, what is “local, fully imagined, becomes universal,” and...

The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal

Author

Martha C. Nussbaum

Why can't we all just get along?
Discusses broader community longitudinal, starting with Cicero.
Buddhism has long brought a different idea, the idea of human equality. p . 3
The accident of being born in one country rather than another pervasively shapes the life chances of every child...

Robert Adams: Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values

Author	Robert Adams
ISBN	0893813680

"It is this great restriction upon photography – that it can go nowhere without first paying worshipful attention to the concrete – that makes me know that photographers do not need to worry. Photography can always be new, because the surface of life keeps changing. Yes, photography like all the...

The One-Straw Revolution

Author	Masanobu Fukuoka
ISBN	8185569312

I legally downloaded the book in PDF form from http://www.soilandhealth.org/

This book made me realize that something else is possible.

The author writes that he is a farmer in Japan who gets rice yields that meet or eclipse the most highly productive regions in Japan, yet he:
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