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SANE Bookclub

by Dana last modified 2007-04-30 14:21

Interested people get together the last Sunday of each month to talk about books related to education, social analysis and social change.

Book list for SANE Book Club

Topics/authors of interest:



Deschooling

Environmental sustainability

Co-housing

Massey lectures

Anything by Ivan Illich

George Lakoff

Margaret Visser

Matt Hern

Lynn Margulis 

 

Books

Teenage Liberation Handbook

Freakonomics – Stephen Levitt

Bolo Bolo

Gaia – James Lovelock

The Anthropic Cosmological Principle

Guns,Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond

The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell

7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R Covey

Short History of Progress – Ronald Wright

Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom

5 People you meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom

The End of Food – Thomas Pawlick

Not on the Label – Felicity Lawrence

My year of Meats – Ruth Ozeki

All over Creation – Ruth Ozeki

Underground History of Education – John Gato

Presence – Peter Senge

Walking after Midnight – Kati Hutchison

Curious Incident of the Dog at Midnight – Mark Haddon

The Dispossed – Ursula le Guin

Hold on to your Children – Gordon Neufeld

Tanglewreck – Jeanette Winterson

If they give you lined paper, turn it sideways – Daniel Quinn

Smoke & mirrors – Neil Gaiman

The Politics of Meaning – Michael Lerner

Lies my Teacher told me – James Loewen

The Body Never Lies – Alice Miller

The Red Tent – Anita Diamant

Women recreating Family, Community and Home

Hidden Messages in Water – Masaro Emoto

The Healing Power of Water

Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli

Secret of Shambala – James Redfield

Last Chance to see -- Douglas Adams 

The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics -- Riane Eisler

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil--Philip Zimbardo

Getting to Maybe: How the World is Changed --Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, and Michael Quinn Patton

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community  (ALSO: Better Together: Restoring the American Community OR
Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society)--Robert Putnam

Watch Yourself! by Matt Hern

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling 

My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki 

 



Movies/Documentaries

What the Bleep do we know?

BBC series on Freudian though through the Century – “The Century of the Self” ?

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