| The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for our Time by Matthew Fox | |
| His vision of a world where personal and working lives are celebrated in harmony - a world where the self is not sacrificed for a job but is sanctified by authentic 'soul work'.
"Jobs will be created through paying more attention to our inner work - that of individuals as well as that of the community at large...Our times call out for work - work on the human species itself - its despairing and depressed, often self-hating and destructive youth; its racist, adultist, sexist, apathetic adults; its tired institutions of education, religion, politics, economics, art. Who says there is no work?" Published 1994, 342 pages. £11.50 incl p/p.
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Cities, People, Planet: Liveable Cities for a Sustainable World by Herbert Girardet |
We urgently need a revolution in 'future-proofing' our cities, progressively switching to renewable energy technology and mimicking natural zero-waste ecosystems. Here is a state of the art textbook where the many challenges of urbanisation may be addressed. A fast moving text with 90 case studies presents leading-edge initiatives and policies on how to make cities around the world both liveable and sustainable. The ecological redesign of cities, where practised, is already showing substantial economic and social benefits and is now starting to be implemented across the world. 2004 304pp. £21.75 incl p/p
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| Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and his Corporate Pals are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Democracy by Robert J. Kennedy, Jr. | |
He writes "G.W.Bush and his court are treating our country as a grab bag for the robber barons, doling out the commons to giant polluters. Together they are cashing in our air, water, aquifers, wildlife and public land and divvying up the loot. They are turning our politicians into indentured servants who prepay campaign contributions with taxpayer-funded subsidies and lucrative contracts and reign in law enforcement against a blooming corporate crime wave. If they knew the truth, most Americans would share my fury that this president is allowing his corporate cronies to steal America from our children." And there's plenty too about the extreme right wing Christian Coalition.
2005 244pp. £8.99 incl p/p.
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| The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs | |
| The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time.
Draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today. Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy and explains why, over the past 200 years, wealth and poverty have diverged and evolved across the planet, and why the poorest nations have been so markedly unable to escape the trap of poverty. Sachs tells the remarkable stories of his own worldwide work to bring readers with him to an understanding of the different problems countries face. In the end, readers will be left not with an understanding of how daunting the world's problems are, but how solvable they are and why making the effort is both our moral duty and in our own interests. 2005 288pp.
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| Dharma and Develop-ment: The Future of Survival by Makaranda Paranjape, [ed] | |
"Development, as commonly used, relates to the economic, social and material aspects of life, while religion is supposed to concern its internal, personal and spiritual dimensions. We need both simultaneously... Spirituality without matter remains unmanifest and matter without spirit is simply dead matter. What appears as opposite is in fact complementary. In other words, while for the hungry, God is manifest in bread, for the wealthy and overfed, physical well-being lies in fasting. And it is only when everyone is able to fast and feast that development and religion reveal themselves as two sides of the same coin." - Satish Kumar, contributor. 2005 336pp. £18.00 incl p/p
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| Enneagram at Work by Hannah Nathans | |
| The Enneagram at Work: Towards Personal Mastery and Social Intelligence
"Combines a high theoretical level while always remaining understandable and easy-to-read, with an emphasis on direct application of the theory" - Jürgen Gündel
2005 303pp.
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| Healthy Money, Healthy Planet by Deirdre Kent | |
| Healthy Money, Healthy Planet: Developing Sustainability through New Money Systems
"This is the most comprehensive book on community banks and complementary currency systems I know. Not only that - it is packed with fascinating information and is a delight to read." - Richard Douthwaite. 2005 321pp.
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| Green Alternatives to Globalisation: A Manifesto by Michael Woodin & Caroline Lucas | |
| "[They] set out an eloquent and passionate argument which not only challenges the convenient assumption that economic globalization is inevitable, but which explodes the myth that globalization benefits the poor" - Vandana Shiva. 2004 262pp. £13.50 incl p/p at cost.
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| Monetary Reform: Making it Happen by James Robertson & John Bunzl | |
"Creating a sustainable and just world remains an elusive yet deeply noble cause... Global monetary reform, as so ably outlined here, is an essential precondition for real change" - Herbert Girardet 2004 80pp.
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| Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit | |
| Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power.
"In this inspired meditation on the very nature of action and the reasons one thing leads to another, Solnit, with her customary intellectual penetration, freshness of expression, and high elegance finds new springs of hope in dark times." - Jonathan Schell. Accessible, insightful, and with a whimsical chapter on - 'Viagra for Caribou'! 2005 181pp.
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Presence by Senge, Scharmer,Jaworski & Flowers |
"A remarkable book, Presence, is a journey from the present to an unknown future, a journey of exploration rather than dogma, and a journey toward a vision of humanity at its highest. Like a good documentary film, Presence is a book with 'emotional truth', a wonderful combination of intellectual and visceral experience" - Robert Fritz.
2005 289pp. Price includes postage.
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Wise Fool's Guide to Leadership by Peter Hawkins |
| The Wise Fool's Guide to Leadership: Short Spiritual Stories for Organisational and Personal Transformation
Nasrudin is the archetypal wise fool, who lived in the Middle East over 600 years ago, his stories have travelled the world and been updated in every generation. Peter Hawkins has given a modern spin to 84 of these stories by turning Nasrudin into a management consultant. Simple truths are told in a straightforward and highly entertaining way. They shock us into seeing situations and ideas with which we have become familiar from a different perspective. Each story slips into our house by its engaging good humour, but once inside it can start to rearrange the furniture and knock new windows through the walls of our mind - a process that can be releasing and refreshing, but at times disconcerting! 2005 106pp.
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Capitalism: As if the World Matters by Jonathon Porritt |
| Fully revised and updated edition of his groundbreaking work includes fresh coverage of the USA and China, corporate giants such as Wal-Mart and GE, the evolving politics of climate change and the rise of religious environmentalism. When first published in 2005, this book shocked both a generation of environmentalists and a generation of business people with a powerful argument that the only way to save the world from climate change and environmental catastrophe is to embrace a new type of capitalism, and to do it quickly. Here Porritt extends his controversial argument, answers his critics and provides fresh evidence and actions in a tightly argued and highly accessible book. He also looks in-depth at China and the global impacts this economic giant may have as it grows into the most environmentally damaging - or perhaps the first sustainable - superpower of the 21st century.
2007 320pp. £18.75 incl. p/p
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| End of Faith by Sam Harris | |
| The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason.
Important and timely book delivering a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. With penetrating clarity and accessibility he asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, we can no longer tolerate views that pit one true god against another. While warning against the encroachment of organized religion into world politics, Harris also draws on new evidence from neuro-science and insights from philosophy to explore spirituality as a biological, brain-based need. He calls on us to invoke that need in taking a secular humanistic approach to solving the problems of this world. "Read Sam Harris and wake up" - Richard Dawkins. 2006 336pp. £9.including postage.
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| Dignity of Difference by Jonathon Sacks | |
The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations .
Radical proposal for reconciling hatreds. The first major statement by a Jewish leader on the ethics of globalization, it also marks a paradigm shift in the approach to religious coexistence. Sacks argues that we must do more than search for values common to all faiths; we must also reframe the way we see our differences. "Stands far above other books about globalization and the so-called clash of civilizations, both for what it has to say and for the grace with which it say it… In this, his most prophetic work, Rabbi Sacks has written a guide for the perplexed' - Daniel Johnson. Revd. edn., 2003 216pp. £8.99 with postage included.
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| Escaping the Matrix by Richard Moore | |
| Escaping the Matrix - How We the People Can Change the World.
"....one of the most exciting books of ideas I've read in many years. He goes to the root cause of the cancer that is destroying life on our planet today. He does so with a simplicity that is deceptive and an argumentation accessible to anyone of a right mind." F William Engdahl.
For further information about the book and author visit http://EscapingTheMatrix.org
2005, 209pp. £10.99 including postage.
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| Liberating the Corporate Soul by Richard Barrett | |
Liberating the Corporate Soul: Building a Visionary Organization.
This book is a process blueprint for building a visionary organization with a
values-driven approach. Based on tested models and tools developed internationally on how work, values and leadership will change in the 21st century.
1998 248pp. Price includes postage.
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| Building a Values-Driven Organization by Richard Barrett | |
| Building a Values-Driven Organization: A Whole System Approach to Cultural Transformation.
Richard Barrett presents his new thinking, based on his experience working with over 1,000 people in 32 countries on cultural transformation for the values-driven
organization. He presents a whole system approach to cultural transformation, showing organizations how they can change their culture to become values-driven organizations that support their employees, their customers, their partners, their leaders, and ultimately drive effectiveness and profit.
2006, 280pp. £21.75 including postage.
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| Of Human Wealth by Bernard Lietaer and Stephen Belgin | |
| New Money for a New World
We have just acquired a stock of pre-publication edition, spiral bound copies of this eagerly awaited book, the result of years of development work by the renowned expert in the field. (This was to have been made available at the 2006 Be the Change Event but went astray between Colorado and London.)
Critical reviews are eagerly awaited!
2006, 358pp.Price includes postage
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| The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy by David Fleming | |
| The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy : A Life-cycle in Trouble.
Lively and hard-hitting booklet. This could be the dawn of a new age: the age of Lean Energy. It could be the moment when we are forced to develop a common purpose.
2006, 40pp.
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| Building a Business the Buddhist Way by Geri Larkin | |
Building a Business the Buddhist Way: A Practitioner's Guidebook
A very practical workbook. Balancing personal with career growth, business goals and spiritual goals, this could encourage new entrepreneurs. A very practical workbook.
1999 142pp. £10
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| Real England by Paul Kingsnorth | |
| We see the signs around us every day: chain cafes, mobile phone outlets and chain stores that dominate our high streets; the decline of small farms and the loss of our rural post offices and shops. He makes the connection between these isolated yet incremental local changes and the bigger picture of a nation whose identity is being eroded. This book offers a snapshot of the country at a precarious moment in its history, while there is still time to save it from the forces of globalisation. "This is an urgent, important book, which helps to shape our view of who we are and who we want to be" George Monbiot
2008 312pp £16.75 incl. p/p
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| Energy & the Common Purpose by David Fleming | |
| Energy and the Common Purpose : Descending the Energy Staircase with Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs)
2005, 44pp.
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| Deep Economy by Bill McKibben | |
| Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future.
For the first time in human history, he observes, "more" is no longer synonymous with "better" indeed, for many of us, they have become almost opposites. He puts forward a new way to think about the things we buy, the food we eat, the energy we use, and the money that pays for it all. Our purchases, he says, need not be at odds with the things we truly value. His animating idea is that we need to move beyond "growth" as the paramount economic ideal and pursue prosperity in a more local direction, with cities, suburbs, and regions producing more of their own food, generating more of their own energy, and even creating more of their own culture and entertain-ment.
2007 272pp. £9.99 incl p/p
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| Plan B: 3.0 by Lester R Brown | |
| In this updated edition of Plan B, he outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The scale and complexity of issues facing our fast-forward world have no precedents. With Plan A, (business as usual), we have neglected these issues overly long. In "Plan B 3.0," Lester R. Brown warns that the only effective response now is a World War II-type mobilization like that in the United States after Pearl Harbor.
2008 384pp £12.99 incl. p/p
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| Visionaries of the 20th Century: A Resurgence Anthology by Satish Kumar, ed. | |
Describes the lives and works of 100 great men and women who offered inspiration, hope and healing, and who kept alive the possibility of a sane and sustainable future through their example, ideas and vision.
2006 192pp. £16.50.
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| Bridge at the End of the World by James Speth | |
| The Bridge at the End of the World: Capitalism the Environment and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability.
Contemporary capitalism and a habitable planet cannot coexist! A sweeping indictment of a capitalism which contains the seeds of its own demise. Maybe a more regulated and democratized form of capitalism could be compatible with environmental salvation if it were accompanied by a profound change in personal and collective values. We need a 'post-growth' society with a more rounded definition of well-being. "People have conversion experiences and epiphanies - can an entire society have a conversion experience?" A hardhitting, radical, probing diagnosis, with tough observations on environmental movements.
2008 295pp. £17.50 incl p/p
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| The World Café by Juanita Brown et al | |
| The World Café: Shaping our Futures Through Conversations that Matter.
A flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing collective know-ledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. The originators outline seven core design principles and provide practical tips and tools for convening and hosting conversations of real depth.
2004 264pp. £14 includes postage
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| Enemy of Nature by Joel Kovel | |
The end of capitalism or the end of the world? We live in and from nature, but the way we are doing this is about to destroy us. Capitalism and its by-products - imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty and the destruction of community - are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem. Only now are we beginning to realise the depth of the crisis and the kind of transformation which will have to occur to ensure our survival.
This second, thoroughly updated, edition of The Enemy of Nature speaks to this new environmental awareness. Kovel argues against claims that we can achieve a better environ-ment through the current Western 'way of being'. He suggests a radical new way forward, an integration of 'red' and 'green' politics.
2007 330pp £15.50 incl p/p
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| Tao of Holism by Howard Jones | |
| The Tao of Holism: A Blueprint for 21st Century Living
With current corporate economics, the environment is being depleted and destroyed at an unsustainable rate, but abandoning the quality of life offered by advances in science and technology to return to some primitive lifestyle, is not a realistic option. "The Tao of Holism" is a source of factual and statistical data on many topics of widespread concern - health, nutrition, education, economics, religion, breakdown of society, depletion of the environment's resources and exploitation of third world communities, with opinions from a number of experts in each field. This book aims to inform opinion makers to influence society and governments and empower people to live within our environmental resources, outlining the steps we must take as individuals and societies to live holistically and safeguard the planet to ensure economic stability and environmental preservation.
2008 368 pp, £16.50 including postage.
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| Shock Doctrien by Naomi Klein | |
| Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They are the shock doctors. Thrilling and revelatory, "The Shock Doctrine" cracks open the secret history of our era.
Exposing these global profiteers, she discovered information and connections that shocked even her about how comprehensively the shock doctors' beliefs now dominate our world - and how this domination has been achieved. Raking in billions out of the tsunami, plundering Russia, exploiting Iraq - this is the chilling tale of how a few are making a killing while more are getting killed.
2008 576pp £10.50 inlc p/p
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| Transition Handbook by Rob Hoskins | |
We live in an oil-dependent world, and have got to this level of dependency in a very short space of time, using vast reserves of oil in the process. Most people don't want to think about what happens when the oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but this shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead can have a positive effect. They can lead to the rebirth of local communities, which will generate their own fuel, food and housing. They can encourage the develop-ment of local currencies, to keep money in the local area. They can unleash a local 'skilling-up', so that people have more control over their lives. This book is the manual could guide communities to begin this 'energy descent' journey. The argument that 'small is inevitable' is upbeat and positive.
2008 240pp £14.95 incl p/p
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| Tescopoloy by Andrew Simms | |
| Tescopoloy :How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why it Matters
You can shop anywhere you like - as long as it's Tesco. In this searing analysis, he tackles a subject none of us can afford to ignore. The book shows how the super-markets - and Tesco in particular - have brought: banality - homogenized high streets full of clone stores; ghost towns - superstores have drained the life from our town centres and communities; a supermarket state - this new commercial nanny state that knows more about you than you think; profits from poverty - shelves full of global plunder, produced for a pittance; and global food domination - as the super-stores expand overseas. But there's change afoot, with evidence of the tide turning and consumer campaigns gaining ground. Simms ends with suggestions for change and corporate reformation to safeguard our communities and environment - all over the world.
2007, 256pp. £10.99 incl. p/p
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| Necessary Revolution by Peter Senge et al | |
| Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations are Working Together to Save the World.
Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where "regenerative" commercial buildings - ones that create more energy than they use - are being designed. A world in which environmentally sound products and processes would be more cost-effective than wasteful ones. This book shows how ordinary people at every level are transforming their businesses and communities. By working collaboratively across boundaries, they are exploring and putting into place unprecedented solutions that move beyond just being "less bad" to creating pathways that will enable us to flourish in an increasingly interdependent world.
2008 416pp £16.99, HB, inlc. p/p
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| Enough by John Naish | |
| Enough: Breaking Free from the World of More
For millions of years, humankind has used a brilliantly successful survival strategy. If we like something, we chase after more of it: more status, more food, more info, more stuff. Then we chase again. It's how we survived famine, disease and disaster to colonise the world. But now, thanks to technology, we've suddenly got more of everything than we can ever use, enjoy or afford. That doesn't stop us from striving though and it's making us sick, tired, overweight, angry and in debt. It burns up our personal ecologies and the planet's ecology too. We urgently need to develop a sense of 'enough'. Our culture keeps telling us that we don't yet have all we need to be happy, but in fact we need to nurture a new skill -- the ability to bask in the bounties all around us. ENOUGH explores how our Neolithic brain-wiring spurs us to build a world of overabundance that keeps us hooked on 'more'. John explains how, through adopting the art of enoughness, we can break from this wrecking cycle.
2008 304pp HB £18.75 incl p/p
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