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.