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  The Ringing Cedars of Russia: Book 1

  Anastasia (The Ringing Cedars, Book 1)

  by Vladimir Megre

  "Anastasia", the first book of the Ringing Cedars Series, tells the story of entrepreneur Vladimir Megre's trade trip to the Siberian taiga in 1995, where he witnessed incredible spiritual phenomena connected with sacred 'ringing cedar' trees. He spent three days with a woman named Anastasia who shared with him her unique outlook on subjects as diverse as gardening, child-rearing, healing, Nature, sexuality,... (more)
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  Foundation: Book 4

  Foundation's Edge

  by Isaac Asimov

  At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and... (more)
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  Last Child in the Woods

  Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

  by Richard Louv

  In this influential work about the staggering divide between children and the outdoors, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the lack of nature in the lives of today’s wired generation—he calls it nature-deficit—to some of the most disturbing childhood trends, such as the rises in obesity, attention disorders, and depression. Last Child in the Woods is the first book to bring together a new and... (more)
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  Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World

  by Paul Stamets

  Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you’ll find out how.   The basic science goes like this: Microscopic cells called “mycelium”--the fruit of which are mushrooms--recycle carbon, nitrogen, and other essential elements... (more)
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  Gaia Girls: Book 2

  Way of Water

  by Lee Welles

  Winner of the 2008 NAUTILUS GOLD AWARD in the category of Young Adult Fiction/Fantasy Winner of the 2008 MOM'S CHOICE GOLD AWARD in the category of juvenile fiction (ages 9-12) Miho's backyard had always been the sea. The creatures within it were an endless source of fascination. But when the sea steals away her small family, she finds herself the ward of an uncle she has never met and submerged in a world she has... (more)
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  Toolbox for Sustainable City Living

  A Do-It-Ourselves Guide

  by Scott T. Kellogg, Stacy Pettigrew

  The tools you need to create self-sufficient, ecologically sustainable cities “A surprisingly effective model for connecting people with dreams to the resources they need.” —Austin Chronicle With more than half the world’s population now residing—and struggling to survive—in cities, we can no longer afford to think of sustainability as something that applies only to forests and fields. We need... (more)
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  The Vanishing Face of Gaia

  A Call to Action

  by James Lovelock

  Celebrities drive hybrids, Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, and supermarkets carry no end of so-called “green” products. And yet the environmental crisis is only getting worse. In The Vanishing Face of Gaia , the eminent scientist James Lovelock argues that the earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent “hot state” – and much more quickly than most specialists think. There is nothing humans can do to reverse... (more)
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  Gaia Girls: Book 1

  Enter the Earth

  by Lee Welles

  Elizabeth Angier was happy to be at the end of the school year. She thought her summer on the family farm would be full of work and play with her best friend, Rachel, and her other best friend, her dog, Maizey. However, Elizabeth didn’t anticipate the Harmony Farms Corporation moving to her town. Her world starts to crumble as her best friend moves away and her parents whisper of farmers selling their land and the... (more)
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  Gaia's Garden

  A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture

  by Toby Hemenway

  The first edition of Gaia’s Garden, sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers. Many people mistakenly think that... (more)
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  Shift Trilogy: Book 1

  Scourge of an Agnostic God

  by Michael Juge

  Scourge of an Agnostic God is Michael Juge's debut novel and is the first in the Shift series. It was awarded the Rising Star designation by the publisher upon its publication in 2010. It is considered the first novel to explore the grip of panic disorder, OCD and urban angst through apocalyptic genre as well as the role of pop culture in modern day life, and it is also the first novel to have its own soundtrack... (more)
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  The Earth has a Soul

  The Nature Writings of C. G. Jung

  by C. G. Jung

  Psychologist Meredith Sabini introduces a collection of Carl Jung's writings on the subject of nature. Jung asserts that society's loss of connection with nature has severed its link with the earthy, maternal foundation of life, or the collective unconscious. These writings reflect Jung's conviction that people must reestablish a relationship between the conscious and primordial aspects of themselves.
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  Soul on Fire

  by Peter Calhoun

  Soul on Fire is a magical collection of stories describing the awakening of spiritual powers of an Episcopal priest turned shaman—powers that have usually been ascribed to Eastern masters of traditional shamans. It is about the quest for “lost knowledge” and the powers that Christ himself once promised. Within these pages we learn about the “Path of Return” to our wondrous Earth as a means by which we can... (more)
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  Foundation: Book 5

  Foundation and Earth

  by Isaac Asimov

  The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series opens with second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if he was right to choose a collective mind as the best possible future for humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nations and planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know the past and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to which have been erased from... (more)
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  Humanx Commonwealth: Book 1

  Midworld

  by Alan Dean Foster

  Born was a child of the rain forest that covered Midworld, part of the primitive society that the peaceful jungle planet had sustained for hundreds of years. He was wise in the ways of his world, and he knew well the precarious natural balance that governed all things. Then one day the aliens came. Giants. They knew nothing of the Upper or Lower Hell -- and they cared less. Born had risked his life to save them,... (more)
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  With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change

  by Fred Pearce

  Fred Pearce has been writing about climate change for eighteen years, and the more he learns, the worse things look. Where once scientists were concerned about gradual climate change, now more and more of them fear we will soon be dealing with abrupt change resulting from triggering hidden tipping points. Even President Bush’s top climate modeler, Jim Hansen, warned in 2005 that “we are on the precipice of climate... (more)
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  Notes of a Biology Watcher: Book 1

  The Lives of a Cell

  Notes of a Biology Watcher

  by Lewis Thomas

  using biologiccal terms describes how our society is built
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  Hesiod: Theogony / Works and Days

  by Hesiod, M. L. West

  This new, fully-annotated translation by a leading expert on Hesiodic poems combines accuracy with readability and includes an introduction and explanatory notes on these two works by one of the oldest known Greek poets. The Theogony contains a systematic genealogy and account of the struggles of the gods, and the Works and Days offers a compendium of moral and practical advice for a life of honest husbandry.
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  A New Kind of Science

  by Stephen Wolfram

  This long-awaited work from one of the world's most respected scientists presents a series of dramatic discoveries never before made public. Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments---illustrated in the book by striking computer graphics---Wolfram shows how their unexpected results force a whole new way of looking at the operation of our universe. Wolfram uses his approach to tackle a... (more)
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  Urgent Message From Mother: Gather The Women, Save The World

  by Jean Shinoda Bolen

  The message to all women of the world is "Wake Up! Arise! Do not ask for permission to gather the women. What cannot be done by men, or by individual women, can be done by women together. Earth is Home." Jean Shinoda Bolen's life’s work—her Jungian-inspired insights in The Tao of Psychology, the blockbuster Goddesss in Every Woman, the empowering Crones Don’t Whine and The Millionth Circle—all lead up to this... (more)
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  The Hero with a Thousand Faces

  by Joseph Campbell

  Joseph Campbell's classic cross-cultural study of the hero's journey has inspired millions and opened up new areas of research and exploration. Originally published in 1949, the book hit the New York Times best-seller list in 1988 when it became the subject of The Power of Myth, a PBS television special. The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis with the... (more)