The List of Books Everybody Should Own!

[karoaper]

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I haven't read a single fiction since reading The Broker by Grisham a year ago. Grisham is to literature what Hollywood blockbusters are to film.

[transience]

Re: The List of Books Everybody Should Own!

Too true.

[Quarteria]

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Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes of the Horrible 70s -- James Lileks
(good for a laugh, or to recall the repressed memories. You decide)

[Anahita]

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I like books on ECOFEMINISM.

An Unnatural Order: Uncovering the Roots of Our Domination of Nature and Each Other by Jim Mason (1993)


This woman is studying ecofeminism--a better way (IMHO). I think she has interesting things to think about, as well.

http://thecrazyhippiecatlady.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_thecrazyhippiecatlady_archive.html

Thoughts on medicine
...

Funny thing is, while I was waiting on my various diagnoses, I was reading from an anthology, doing research for my Ecofeminism and the Sacred Feminine research paper that I am writing (why did I say I would do a 20 page thesis?) A couple of the essays did a lot of talking about the patriarchal medical system and how it subverts female bodies to the male will. I don't think the white, 50 something stereotypical (but nice) doctor man and his young, pretty female nurses were attempting to keep me subservient by writing me a prescription to fix me up, but I do find myself wondering WHY I am sick in the first place. I have been sick more times this pst year or so than the several years proceeding it put together. Come to think of it, I have actually been pretty sickly most of my life. And generally unhealthy.

So what is it about the society that I live in that is making me sick? In medieval times, people walked around cities in xxxx. And there were rats that spread plague, after superstitious woman-hating nonsense about the wise women being witches encouraged people to kill all the cats they could. I have six cats and indoor plumbing, so I don't think poo or rats has anything to do with it. I don't eat meat. I am slowly phasing out all unnatural chemicals from my cleaning products and such.

Of course, no matter what I do for myself, my daughter and I interact constantly with people who continue to practice these nature and people killing everyday activities. So probably these germs came from either her daycare or my own daily run ins with other people, at school and at the bookstore.

But what can I do to prevent myself and Danielle from getting sick? What sort of things can boost my overall health naturally? Stay tuned for more as I continue to investigate..."
















'Mama was a hippie"--Chili Peppers

[Anahita]

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STAYING ALIVE: Women, Ecology and Development (1989) by Dr. Vandana Shiva

“Vandana Shiva—physicist, philosopher and feminist… [she] is a leading physicist who abandoned an exciting career in her country’s nuclear energy programme because she felt ‘the reaction of nuclear systems with living systems is being kept from the people.’ Like all Greens, she decided that arrogant late twentieth-century science now poses such a threat to ‘the web of life’ (of which we are merely a part) that a committed scientist should take the side of Nature against further artifice and destruction.”



I’d highly suggest reading at least the first few pages of this book in link below (and the first few pages of the book)—from Amazon.com about the book—it could literally help to save your life. Dr. Shiva is certainly a HERO of a Grand kind—I painted her into a kind of super-goddess. I doubt I’ll EVER have to revoke that status from Dr. Shiva.

STAYING ALIVE
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0862...05#reader-link (Go to the bottom corner to turn pages)



If you can’t get the book at the library or bookstore, check out these by Shiva:

Globalization: War Against Nature

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Globalization/War_Against_Nature_VFTS.html

Monocultures of the Mind

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Vandana_Shiva/Monocultures_Mind.html

Other Shiva articles.
https://<br /> http://www.thirdworl...hiva_page.html

Other info:

http://www.ecofem.org/

http://www.ecofeminism.net/

http://www.genesisretreat.com/

[Lamb Boy]

Quick question ...

So I guess we are talking like 90%+ nonfiction works here huh? [Are social/political and philosophical books considered nonfiction or are they just considered social/political and philosophical?]

[Anahita]

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I think the next book I'll get is:

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0670033375/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-2169706-3764660#reader-link

If I remember correctly, just one iron smelter (steel production) in Brazil, if it continued, would be responsible for the loss of 16% of the Amazon. That is just one example. Maybe we should 'mine' landfills to obtain raw materials.