Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy

8 best books like Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy (Masanobu Fukuoka): Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, The Selfish Gene, Space Opera, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice, The Ghost Brigades, Swallowdale, Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2: Water-Harvesting Earthworks, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

Author	William Finnegan
ISBN	1594203474

A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer

Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding...

The Selfish Gene

Author	Richard Dawkins
ISBN	0199291152

The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition—with a new Introduction by the Author

Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene....

Space Opera

Author	Catherynne M. Valente
ISBN	1472115074

IN SPACE EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU SING

A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented-something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together...

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Author	Shunryu Suzuki
ISBN	0834800799

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”

So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence...

The Ghost Brigades

Author	John Scalzi
ISBN	0765354063

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They’re young, they’re fast and strong, and they’re totally without normal human qualms.

The...

Swallowdale

Author	Arthur Ransome
ISBN	0879235721

Update of May 2013:

Three years (give or take a couple months) is not really enough of a gap in between rereadings of a series I know as well as this one. Swallowdale in particular seems like it could benefit from lying fallow for a decade or so. But I suppose that in 2010 I just didn't dare to allow...

Rainwater Harvesting For Drylands and Beyond, Volume 2: Water-Harvesting Earthworks

Author	Brad Lancaster
ISBN	0977246418

Turn water scarcity into water abundance Earthworks are one of the easiest, least expensive, and most effective ways of passively harvesting and conserving multiple sources of water in the soil. Associated vegetation then pumps the harvested water back out in the form of beauty, food, shelter, wildlife...

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Author	Ramachandra Guha
ISBN	0060198818

A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have...