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Books on Living Simply

Books about Simple Lifestyles

Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth

Merkel, Jim, Foreword by Robin, Vicki, New Society Publishers, 2003, Paperback

Epicurean Simplicity

Mills, Stephanie, Shearwater Books, 2003, Paperback

Graceful Simplicity: Toward a Philosophy and Politics of Simple Living

Segal, Jerome M., University of California, 2003, Paper

A Reasonable Life: Toward a Simpler, Secure, More Humane Existence

Mate, Ferenc, W. W. Norton & Company, 2000, Paper

A Simpler Way

Wheatley, Margaret J., Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1998, Paper

Choosing Simplicity: Real People Finding Peace and Fulfillment in a Complex World

Pierce, Linda Breen, Gallagher Press, 2000, Paper

Getting a Life: Strategies for Simple Living, Based on the Revolutionary Program for Financial Freedom, Your Money or Your Life

Blix, Jacqueline, Penguin Books, 1998, Paper

Living Cheaply with Style: Live Better and Spend Less

Callenbach, Ernest, Ronin Publishing, 2000, Paper

Living on Less: An Authoritative Guide to Affordable Food, Fuel, and Shelter

Mother Earth News, Sussex Publishers, 1998, Paper

Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle

Thomsen, Moritz, University of Washington Press, 1991, Paper

Living Well on a Shoestring: 1,821 Ways to Live Frugally, Efficiently and Masterfully Without Being a Miser

Yankee Magazine Travel Editors, Yankee Publishing, 2000, Paper

Technology and the Good Life?

Higgs, Eric S., University of Chicago Press, 2000, Paper

The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life

Andrews, Cecile, Perennial (HarperCollins), 1998, Paper

The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living

Nearing, Helen, Schocken Books, 1990, Paper, $15.00

The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful Living

Luhrs, Janet, Broadway Books, 1997, Paper

Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich

Elgin, Duane, Quill Press, 1993, Paper

Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence

Dominguez, Joe, Penguin Books, 1999, Paper, $15.00

Books about Why We Consume

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic

De Graaf, John, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2001, Paper

Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--And Why We Must

Lasn, Kalle, Perennial, 2000, Paper

No LOGO: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies

Klein, Naomi, Picador USA, 2000, Paper

The Affluent Society

Galbraith, John Kenneth, Mariner Books, 1998, Paper

The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism

Frank, Thomas, University of Chicago Press, 1998, Paper

The Consumer Society Reader

Schor, Juliet B., New Press, 2000, Paper

The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumer

Schor, Juliet B., HarperCollinsPerennial , 1999, Paper

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Veblen, Thorstein, Dover Publications, 1994, Paper

The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class

MacCannell, Dean, University of California Press, 1999, Paper

Books about Media and Consumption

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Postman, Neil, Penguin Books, 1986, Paper, $14.00

Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution/Social Questions

Illich, Ivan, Marion Boyars Publishers, 1999, Paper, $17.95

Comments on the Society of the Spectable

Debord, Guy, Verso, 1998, Paper, $16.00

Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler

Frank, Thomas, W. W. Norton & Company, 1997, Paper, $15.00

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

Mander, Jerry, Perennial (HarperCollins), 1978, Paper, $13.95

The Society of the Spectacle

Debord, Guy, Zone Books, 1991, Paper, $15.00

Books about Working and Not Working

How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning How to Live the Conserver Lifestyle

Long, Charles, Warwick Publishing, 2003, Paper, $14.95

Making a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways for Creating Work That You Love

Winter, Barbara, Doubleday Books, 1993, Paper, $14.95

The Joy of Not Working: A Book for the Retired, Unemployed, and Overworked

Zelinski, Ernie J., Ten Speed Press, 1997, Paper, $14.95

The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professional Enemies

Illich, Ivan, Marion Boyars Publishers, 1999, Paper, $9.95

Books about Place

Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life

Leach, William, Vintage Books USA, 2000, Paper, $14.00

The Experience of Place

Hiss, Tony, Vintage Books USA, 1991, Paper, $13.00

Books about Travel

Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits

Porter, Bill, Mercury House, 1993, Paper, $14.00

The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class

MacCannell, Dean, University of California Press, 1999, Paper, $16.95

Books about Intentional Communities

American Utopias

Nordhoff, Charles, Berkshire House Publishers, 1993, Paper, $14.95

Communities Directory: A Guide to Intentional Communities and Cooperative Living

Fellowship for Intentional Community, 2002, Paper, $30.00

Voices from the Farm: Adventures in Community Living

Fike, Rupert, Book Publishing Company, 1998, Paper, $9.95

Books about Country Living

Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills

Reader's Digest Association, 1997, Paper, $30.00

Stone Work: Reflections on Serious Play and Other Aspects of Country Life

Jerome, John, University Press of New England, 1996, Paper, $15.95

The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book

Emery, Carla, Sasquatch Books, 1994, Paper, $27.95

The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living

Nearing, Helen, Schocken Books, 1990, Paper, $15.00

Gene Lodgson

Books about Wilderness Living

How to Stay Alive in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter, and Self-Preservation That Makes Starvation in the Wilderness Next to Impossible

Angier, Bradford, Simon & Schuster Books, 1998, Paper, $9.00

Mountainman Crafts and Skills: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Wilderness Living and Survival

Montgomery, David R., Lyons Press, 2000, Paper, $14.95

Native American Crafts and Skills: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Wilderness Living and Survival

Montgomery, David, Treasure Chest Books, 2000, Paper, $14.95

Participating in Nature: Thomas J. Elpel's Field Guide to Primitive Living Skills

Elpel, Thomas J., HOPS Press, 2001, Paper, $16.95

Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills

Wescott, David, Gibbs Smith Publishers, 1999, Paper, $24.95

Survival Skills of the North American Indians

Goodchild, Peter, Chicago Review Press, 1999, Paper, $17.95

Wilderness Survival

Davenport, Gregory J., Stackpole Books, 1998, Paper, $14.95

Simple Lifestyles
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