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Local Hero

1983

An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.

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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Repackaged with a new afterword, this "valuable and entertaining" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems. Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth.

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Janine M. Benyus
2002
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Feeling Safe: How to Be Strong and Positive in a Changing World

This much-needed book outlines clear and effective strategies to help you cope with the tension, anxiety, trauma and violence of modern living.

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William Bloom
2024
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Creating the World We Want to Live In: How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future

This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in.

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Bridget Grenville-Cleave, Dóra Guðmundsdóttir, Felicia Huppert, Vanessa King, David Roffey, Sue Roffey, Marten de Vries
2021
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Why the World Is Going Crazy—and How to Win Back Our Minds | Jamie Wheal | Big Think

The speed at which civilization is progressing has become overwhelming for modern humans and has caused what Jamie Wheal (author of Recapture the Rapture, founder of the Flow Genome Project, and host of the Collective Insights Podcast) calls a “collapse of meaning.” For many, Meaning 1.

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Jamie Wheal
2021
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Black Skin, White Masks

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work.

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Frantz Fanon
2008
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Soil, Soul, Society: A New Trinity for Our Time

We are all members of a one-earth society, and caring for the earth and soul is interrelated. This is the message of Satish Kumar, the internationally respected peace and environment activist who has been gently setting the agenda for change for over 50 years.

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Satish Kumar, Marion Cotillard (foreword)
2017
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Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet

The book will appeal most to people who realize that they are “tree people.” It is poetic, educational, inspirational, spiritual, and down to earth, covering the subject of trees from anatomy and physiology to trees as archetypal and sacred symbols.

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Jean Shinoda Bolen
2011
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The Way of Imagination: Essays

Scott Russell Sanders shows how imagination, linked to compassion, can help us solve the urgent ecological and social challenges we face.

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Scott Russell Sanders
2020
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Video: Jon Young Speaks About the Role of Deep Nature Connection in Culture Repair

Jon Young speaks to the Topanga community as part of Manzanita School and the Manzanita Institute Speaker Series on Deep Nature Connection.

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2014
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The Meaning of Human Existence

In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examining what makes human beings supremely different from all other species.

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Edward O. Wilson
2015
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Cross-Cultural Dynamics