BOOKS AND FILM

PRAXIS BOOK CLUB

Next Meeting - Sunday, February 5 at 2:00 PM

Book: The Price of Civilization by Jeffrey Sachs

This book group is currently full, but Praxis members may wish to start their own group. Please contact us to help locate members for your book group. 707-939-2973. Usually, our meetings are on Sunday afternoons, but due to the holiday schedules of our members, we changed the December meeting to a week night and will include a festive potluck dinner.

Previous Books:

• Eros & Civilization by Herbert Marcuse
• Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
• New Paths to Socialism by Carl Davidson
  
• Madness at the Gates of the City: The Myth of American Innocence by Barry Spector
• The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress by Chris Hedges
• Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges
• The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin
• The Future is up to us by Nelson Peery
• Salmon Economics by Andreww Kimbrell
• The End of Money and the Future of Civilization by Tom Greco
• The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution Against Political Corruption and Economic Chaos by Ravi Batra
• Agenda for a New Economy by David Korten
• Web of Debt by Ellen Hodgson Brown
• The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
• Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
• The End of America by Naomi Wolf
• Is There no Other Way? The Search for a Non-Violent Furture by Michael Nagler
• The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman

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Suggested Reading

Peace:

On Dialogue by David Bohm

Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Courage for Peace by Louise Diamond

Seeds of Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh

Getting to Peace by William Ury

Leading Through Conflict by Mark Gerzon

Economics:

The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken
Natural Step Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory and Hunter Lovins

When Corporations Rule the World by David Korten
The Post Corporate World: Life After Capitalism by David Korten
Agenda for a New Economy by David Korten

The Crisis of Global Capitalism by George Soros

Beyond Globalization: Sharing a Sustainable Global Economy by Hazel Henderson
Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy by Hazel Henderson

Take it Personally by Anita Rodick

Globalization and its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz

Alternatives to Economic Globalization - Editors John Cavanagh and Jerry Mander

Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins

Hoodwinked by John Perkins

The Real Wealth of Nations by Riane Eisler

Capitalism 3.0 by Peter Barnes

Crunch by Jared Bernstein

The Soul of Capitalism by William Greider
Come Home America by William Greider

Secrets of the Temple by William Greider

Environmentalism:

Biopiracy, the Plunder of Nature and Knowledge by Vandana Shiva

Beyond the Limits by Donella Meadows

Plan B by Lester R. Brown

Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals are Plundering
the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore

War:

On Killing by David Grossman

Century of War by Gabriel Kolko

On War by Howard Zinn

The New Military Humanism by Noam Chomsky

Terrorism and War by Howard Zinn

Politics:

The Tao of Politics, edited and translated by Thomas Cleary

Power Politics by Arundhati Roy

Wilson's Ghost by Robert McNamara

Blowback by Chalmers Johnson

New World Disorder: Another World is Possible by various authors. Published by
New Mouth from the Dirty South, P.O. Box 19742, New Orleans, LA 70179. - Website: www.newmouthfromthesouth.com

The Soul of Politics by Jim Wallis

The Healing of America by Marianne Williamson

Wealth and Democracy by Kevin Phillips
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed
Money in the 21st Century by Kevin Phillips

Fixing Elections by Stephen Hill

Europe's Promise by Stephen Hill

How to Overthrow the Governmet by Arianna Huffington

Moral Politics by George Lakoff
Whose Freedom? The Battle over America's Most Important Idea by George Lakoff
Thinking Points by George Lakoff

Unequal Protection by Thom Hartmann
Screwed: The Undeclared War Atainst the Middle Class by Thom Hartmann
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann

Rebel by Tom Hayden
The Port Huron Statement: The Visionary Call of the 1960s Revolution
By Tom Hayden
Radical Nomad: C. Wright Mills and His Times by Tom Hayden

Conservatives without Conscience by John Dean

Ten Steps to Repair American Democracy by Steven Hill

Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming by Paul Hawken

The Political Brain by Drew Westen

The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman

The End of America by Naomi Wolf

An Attack on Reason by Al Gore

Psychology:

Kinds of Power by James Hillman

The Guru Papers by Diana Alstad and Joel Kramer

Forgive for Good by Fred Luskin

Faces of the Enemy by Sam Keen

Fields Notes on the Compassionate Life by Marc Ian Barasch

The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton

Gender:

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner

The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler

Men and the Water of Life by Michael Meade

The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism (1989) by Robin Moore

The Whimp Factor by Stephen Ducat

Philosophy and Culture:

The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas

Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas

A Critique of Pure Tolerance by Herbert Marcuse, Robert Wolff, and Barrington Moore, Jr.

Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse

Sacred Pleasure by Riane Eisler
The Power of Partnership by Riane Eisler

The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community by David Korten

Madness at the Gates of the City: The Myth of American Innocence by Barry Spector

Media:

Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky

Wizards of Media Oz by Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen

Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes by Jacques Elliul

History:

The People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (and updated versions)

Spirituality:

Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Path of Heart by Jack Kornfield

The Warriors by Glen Grey

Hymns to an Unknown God by Sam Keen

Love in Action by Thich Nhat Hanh

Seeds of Peace by Sulak Sivaraksa

The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace by Jack Kornfield

The Left Hand of God: Taking our Country Back from the Religious Right
By Rabbi Michael Lerner

Books on the former Yugoslavia and the war

This section was created for the three conferences Praxis held in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Since we hosted a conference there as recently as 2007, we are maintaining this section for people interested in the region's history.

The Fall of Yugoslavia by Misha Glenny

The Balkans by Misha Glenny

Yugoslavia: The Death of a Nation by Laura Silber and Allen Little

The Balkan Express (a novel) by Slavenka Drakulic

S (a novel) by Slavenka Drakulic

Tito by Richard West

Balkan Tragedy (a scholarly work) by Susan Woodward

Burn This House - Editors: Jasminka Udovicki and James Ridgeway

Ethnic Nationalism, The Tragic Death of Yugoslavia by Bogdan Denitch

The National Question in Yugoslavia by Ivo Banac

Yugoslavia, The Former and Future - Editors: Payam Akhavan and Robert Howse (This is a collection of essays by scholars from the region)

Novels by Danilo Kis and Ivo Andric offer some background on the history and cultures of the Balkan region.