Getting A Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad
10 best books like Getting A Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad (Frances Moore Lappé): America: What Went Wrong?, Jesus in Beijing: How Christianity Is Transforming China And Changing the Global Balance of Power, The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift, Green, Greener, Greenest: A Practical Guide to Making Eco-Smart Choices a Part of Your Life, The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills to Stop Climate Change, Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America, The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living
America: What Went Wrong?
| Author | Donald L. Barlett |
| ISBN | 0836270010 |
The culmination of two years of research, and based on a series of articles in the Philadelphia Enquirer, two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors reveal how everyone's lives have been touched by public acts and private greed. Barlett and Steele deftly expose the shifting tax burdens, deregulation, foreign...
| Author | David Aikman |
| ISBN | 1596980257 |
Politics are being transformed by religion, namely in China—within the next thirty years, one-third of this potential superpower could be Christian.
If this religious transformation occurs, China would be one of the largest Christian nations in the world.
David Aikman, former...
The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life
| Author | Bill McKibben |
| ISBN | 0805076271 |
Powerful, impassioned essays on living and being in the world, from the bestselling author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy
For a generation, Bill McKibben has been among America's most impassioned and beloved writers on our relationship to our world and our environment. His groundbreaking...
| Author | Vandana Shiva |
| ISBN | 0896085554 |
In this intelligently argued and principled book, internationally renowned Third World environmentalist Vandana Shiva exposes the latest frontier of the North's ongoing assault against the South's biological and other resources. Since the land, the forests, the oceans, and the atmosphere have...
| Author | Andres R. Edwards |
| ISBN | 0865715319 |
Sustainability has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of different sectors. In practice, it has become the springboard for millions of individuals throughout the world who are forging the fastest and most profound social transformation of...
| Author | Lori Bongiorno |
| ISBN | 0399534032 |
How green can you be?
Green: Drive the speed limit
Greener: Drive a fuel-efficient car
Greenest: Bike or walk
The perfect guide to help readers decide how to best spend their time and money to protect the environment, Green, Greener, Greenest offers flexible tips for everyday...
| Author | David de Rothschild |
The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook is the official companion volume to Live Earth concerts, 24 hours of nonstop concerts broadcast from around the world on July 7, 2007. The book presents 77 essential skills for stopping climate change—and for living through it. It is a fun, compelling,...
| Author | James Gustave Speth |
| ISBN | 0300107765 |
Why we are failing to protect the global environment. What we can—and must—do to succeed.
This book will change the way we understand the future of our planet. It is both alarming and hopeful. James Gustave Speth, renowned as a visionary environmentalist leader, warns that in spite of...
The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America
| Author | Richard John Neuhaus |
| ISBN | 0802800807 |
Underlying the many crises in American life, writes Richard John Neuhaus, is a crisis of faith. It is not enough that more people should believe or that those who believe should believe more strongly. Rather, the faith of persons and communities must be more compellingly related to the public arena....
| Author | Josh Dorfman |
| ISBN | 1584796022 |
Josh Dorfman's perspective is a leading voice for anyone involved in new consumer-based environmentalism."-Tom Arnold, TerraPass. We can't all camp out in old-growth forests, lying down in front of the bulldozers. And it's not only that we're too busy: Some of us just don't want our fabulous threads...
| Author | Auden Schendler |
| ISBN | 1586486373 |
"Green" has finally hit the mainstream. Soccer moms drive Priuses. And the business consultants say it's easy and profitable. In reality, though, many green-leaning businesses, families, and governments are still fiddling while the planet burns. Why? Because implementing sustainability is...
365 Ways To Change the World: How to Make a Difference-- One Day at a Time
| Author | Michael Norton |
| ISBN | 0743297784 |
You want to make a difference in the world, but don't know where to begin. Now you can. Here is just the guide to lots of exciting ways that are more personal and fun than merely writing a check. For every day of the year, 365 Ways to Change the World is packed with information and ideas that don't take a lot of...
| Author | Ed Begley Jr. |
| ISBN | 0307396436 |
FROM THE PIONEER OF ECO-CONSCIOUS LIVING
A committed environmentalist for more than thirty years, Ed Begley, Jr., has always tried to “live simply so others may simply live.” Now, as more and more of us are looking for ways to reduce our impact on the planet and live a better, greener life,...
Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact
| Author | Samantha Power |
| ISBN | 1403973113 |
At the dawn of a new era, this book brings together leading activists, policy-makers and critics to reflect upon fifty years of attempts to improve respect for human rights. Authors include President Jimmy Carter, who helped inject human rights concerns into US policy; Wei Jingsheng, who struggled...
| Author | Dan Pallotta |
| ISBN | 1584657235 |
I feel very conflicted about this book. I agree with most of the author's criticism of the nonprofit sector's current environment. I was especially intrigued by his theory that the for-profit sector represents traditional puritanical male roles (competitive, innovative, etc.), and the non-profit...
| Author | Paul Tillich |
| ISBN | 0226803430 |
"With this volume, Paul Tillich joins the ranks of the great Christian theologians such as Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas. . . .This volume, compiled by a noted minister and scholar, offers to the theological student, church worker, or, indeed, any serious reader struggling with the existential...
Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary
| Author | Veena Das |
| ISBN | 0520247450 |
In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology’s most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena...
| Author | Ward Churchill |
| ISBN | 0896086488 |
Readers anxious about civil liberties under George W. Bush will find fodder for fears—and suggestions for activism—in The COINTELPRO Papers. Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's exposé of America's political police force, the FBI, reveals the steel fist undergirding "compassionate conservatism's"...
| Author | Russ Kick |
| ISBN | 0971394245 |
The third of Russ Kick’s bestselling Disinformation Guides gathers another all-star line-up of exposés.
Juries have ruled in recent trials that Watergate was really about a Democratic Party prostitution ring.
Ignored in the U.S. and distorted elsewhere, the Milosevic tribunal...
| Author | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| ISBN | 0807086002 |
An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justice
Covering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning historian Michael K. Honey introduces and traces...
| Author | Ellis Jones |
| ISBN | 0865715750 |
Specifically designed to reach people who normally would not consider themselves activists, The Better World Handbook is directed toward those who care about creating a more just, sustainable, and socially responsible world but don’t know where to begin. Substantially updated, this revised...
Selling Olga: Stories of Human Trafficking
| Author | Louisa Waugh |
| ISBN | 0753822067 |
It’s seems inconceivable in the 21st century, but human trafficking is now the world’s fastest-growing illegal industry: according to U.S. government estimates, between 700,000 and two million people have become victims. Following three years of in-depth research, award-winning author...
Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods
| Author | Jeffrey M. Smith |
| ISBN | 0972966528 |
Eating genetically modified food is gambling with every bite.
The biotech industry's claim that genetically modified (GM) foods are safe is shattered in this groundbreaking book. Sixty-five health risks of the foods that Americans eat every day are presented in easy-to-read two-page...
The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism
| Author | Andrew Harvey |
| ISBN | 1401920039 |
“Every age has its teachers, who keep the eternal truths alive for all of us,” writes Marianne Williamson, the best-selling author of The Age of Miracles. “In the case of Andrew Harvey, the light he sheds is like a meteor burst across the inner sky.”
In The Hope, Andrew Harvey offers...
