Original perspective, depth and writing craft are qualities on which we select the books we recommend. Books are listed in these categories: Art for Change, Economy, Homesteading & Self-Reliance, Earth, GeoPolitics & Society. Occasionally a book will appear under more than one section. You can find book reviews in TEOLAWKI TIMES, one of this site's main menu tabs.
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Art for Change
Capitalism Must Die! by Stephanie McMillan
Earth is Enough by Fred Cervin
Old Man Farming by Lynn Miller
Economy
Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy, by Ozzie Zehner
Growth Illusion: How Economic Growth has Enriched the Few,
Impoverished the Many and Endangered the Planet by Richard Douthwaite
Impoverished the Many and Endangered the Planet by Richard Douthwaite
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E.F.Schumacher
Steady State Economics by Herman E. Daly
Steady State Economics by Herman E. Daly
Techno-fix, by Michael & Joyce Huesemann
Homesteading/Self-Reliance
Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills by Readers Digest
Bicycling Guide to Complete Bicycle Maintenance & Repair, by Todd Downs
Big Book of Self-Reliant Living: Advice and Information on Just About Everything You Need to Know to Live on Planet Earth by Walter Szykitka
Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods by Clarke Snell, Tim Callahan
Chicken Chicken Tractor: Permaculture Guide by Andy Lee, Pat Foreman
Create an Oasis With Greywater: Your Complete Guide to Choosing, Building and Using Greywater Systems by Art Ludwig
Earth User's Guide to Permaculture by Rosemary Morrow
Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book by Carla Emery
Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure by Joseph C. Jenkins
Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook by James Talmage Stevens
Making the Best of Basics: Family Preparedness Handbook by James Talmage Stevens
One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual by B. C. Mollison, et al
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways by David HolmgrenStorey's Basic Country Skills : A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance by John Storey
Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew
Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes, by Amanda Ripley
Earth
Bright Green Lives by Derrick Jensen *
Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen
Deep Ecology for the 21st Century by George Sessions
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery
Endgame: Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization by Derrick Jensen
Endgame: Volume 2: Resistance by Derrick Jensen
Endgame: Volume 2: Resistance by Derrick Jensen
Green Illusions: the dirty secrets of clean energy by Ozzie Zehner
Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen
Myth of Human Supremacy, by Derrick Jensen
Road Back to Nature: Regaining the Paradise Lost by Masanobu Fukuoka
Sacred Land, Sacred Sex: Rapture of the Deep: Concerning Deep Ecology and Celebrating Life by Dolores Lachapelle
Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: Practicing Deep Ecology by Bill Devall
Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution by Derrick Jensen
GeoPolitics & Society
9/11 Umasked by David Ray Griffin and Elizabeth Woodworth *
Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter
Our Final Hour, by Martin Rees
Pacifism as Pathology, by Ward Churchill
Party's Over by Richard Heinberg (includes EROEI defined, compared)
Superclass, by David Rothkopf
The Face of Imperialism by Michael Parenti *
War Against the People, by Jeff Halper