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A Contract with the Earth by Newt Gingrich | Terry L Maple

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Reviews > Green is the new 'Red, White and Blue'

Child Honoring: How to Turn This World Around by Raffi Cavoukian | Sharna Olfman

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > The Future's in our Arms

Conservation Refugees: A Conflict of Nature and Culture by Mark Dowie

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Reviews > Hegemony or Harmony?

Delight’s Muse : On Christopher Alexander’s The Nature of Order by Jenny Quillien

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > Re-route our Roots

How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency by Piers Warren

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > Books In Brief

Place-Based Education in the Global Age by David A Gruenewald | Gregory A Smith

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > Spirit of Place

Science and the Indian Tradition: when Einstein met Tagore by David Gosling

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > God of the Closing Gaps

Streetwide - Worldwide: Where People Power Begins by Tony Gibson

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > Books In Brief

The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization by Rinku Sen | Fekkak Mamdouh

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Reviews > From Immigrant to Citizen

The Chilling Stars: A Cosmic View of Climate Change by Henrik Svensmark | Nigel Calder

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > Books In Brief

The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > On the Trail of the Dalai Lama

Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy: Stories of People Making a Difference by Michael Smith

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > Books In Brief

What on Earth Happened?: The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day by Christopher Lloyd

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Reviews > A Fresh Perspective

Who Will Save Us by Rebecca Mørch

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > Turn the Lights off for the Penguins

Book Reviews

A Contract with the Earth by Newt Gingrich | Terry L Maple

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Reviews > Green is the new 'Red, White and Blue'

After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination by Kirkpatrick Sale

Issue 241 • March/April 2007 > Web Exclusives > SURVIVAL STRATEGIES

An Alberta Bestiary by Zahava Hanen

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > THE HORSE IS MY DRUM

Alternative Approaches to Education by Fiona Carnie

Issue 220 • September/October 2003 > Reviews > POWER OF A GOOD EXAMPLE

Alternatives to Economic Globalisation by J. Cavanagh and J. Mander (Eds.)

Issue 222 • January/February 2004 > Reviews > SINK IT OR SHRINK IT

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating by Barbara Kingsolver, with Stephen L. Hopp & Camille

Issue 246 • January/February 2008 > Reviews > Locavores

Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia by Stephan Harding

Issue 238 • September/October 2006 > Reviews > A LOVE FOR GAIA

Animism: Respecting the Living World by Graham Harvey

Issue 236 • May/June 2006 > Web Exclusives > VOCIFEROUS WORLD

Another Kind of Space by Alan Dearling (with Graham Meltzer)

Issue 223 • March/April 2004 > Reviews > GAIAN HOMES

Archetypal Postures: In the Process of Creativity by Ian R. Hopton

Issue 241 • March/April 2007 > Web Exclusives > ARTISTIC SPONTANEITY

The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen

Issue 234 • January/February 2006 > Reviews > GENIUS OF DIVERSITY

Art Nature Dialogues by John K. Grande

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > UNEARTHING THE ARTS

At Home on the Earth: A new selection of the later writings of Richard Jefferies by Edited by Jeremy Hooker

Issue 213 • July/August 2002 > Reviews > DIVINE CHAOS

Autumn Nature Activities for Children by Irmgard Kutsch and Brigitte Walden

Issue 240 • January/February 2007 > Reviews > WE PROTECT WHAT WE LOVE

Back on the Fire: Essays by Gary Snyder

Issue 248 • May/June 2008 > Reviews > Thrilling Connections

Battle for Peace by Krishna Kumar

Issue 243 • July/August 2007 > Web Exclusives > PURSUIT OF PEACE

The Betrayal of Tradition by Harry Oldmeadow

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > TIMELESS WISDOM

Beyond Conservation by Peter Taylor

Issue 235 • March/April 2006 > Web Exclusives > A NEW TACK

Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom by David Macaulay

Issue 239 • November/December 2006 > Web Exclusives > A TALE OF TWO BOOKS

The Big Earth Book: Ideas and Solutions for a Planet in Crisis by James Bruges

Issue 246 • January/February 2008 > Reviews > In My Own Words: The Big Earth Book

Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia by John Gray

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 > Reviews > End Time

Blackness and the Dreaming Soul by Cy Grant

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 > Reviews > Cultural Militant

The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India by Tristram Stuart

Issue 241 • March/April 2007 > Web Exclusives > FORWARD TO NATURE

The Book of Music and Nature by Edited by David Rothenberg and Marta Ulvaeus

Issue 210 • January/February 2002 > Reviews > LISTEN TO THE BUTCHER-BIRD

Bread Matters: The State of Modern Bread and a Definitive Guide to Baking Your Own by Andrew Whitley

Issue 239 • November/December 2006 > Reviews > In My Own Words: BREAD MATTERS

Bright Flowers by Christina Sumner and Guy Petherbridge

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 > Web Exclusives > ELABORATE EMBROIDERY

Bringing the Food Economy Home: The social, ecological and economic benefits of local food by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Todd Merrifield and Steven G

Issue 205 • March/April 2001 > Reviews > TRUE BARGAINS

Building a Win-Win World: Life Beyond Global Economic Warfare by HAZEL HENDERSON

Issue 181 • March/April 1997 > Reviews > LOVE ECONOMIES

The Caesarean by Michel Odent

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 > Web Exclusives > THE BIRTH OF LOVE

Capitalism As If the World Matters by Jonathon Porritt

Issue 236 • May/June 2006 > Reviews > REDESIGNING CAPITALISM

Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain by George Monbiot

Issue 204 • January/February 2001 > Reviews > COMPANIES RULE, OK?

A Celebration of Cloth by Mary Fogg

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 > Web Exclusives > KNOW BY LOOKING

Celtic Angels by Donald McKinney

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 > Web Exclusives > COMMUNING WITH THE CELTS

Child Honoring: How to Turn This World Around by Raffi Cavoukian | Sharna Olfman

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > The Future's in our Arms

Circles of Transformation: Finding Our Way in the “Great Work” by Marilyn Daniels, Anne Goodman, Edmund O’Sullivan a

Issue 241 • March/April 2007 > Web Exclusives > MIND AND MATTER

Confessions of a Radical Traditionalist: Essays by John Michell by John Michell

Issue 235 • March/April 2006 > Web Exclusives > GOOD PHILOSOPHY FOR OUR MAD TIMES

Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins

Issue 236 • May/June 2006 > Reviews > BANKING ON CORRUPTION

Conservation Refugees: A Conflict of Nature and Culture by Mark Dowie

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Reviews > Hegemony or Harmony?

Contraction & Convergence by Aubrey Meyer, Schumacher Briefings

Issue 207 • July/August 2001 > Reviews > CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS

The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational by Nick Robins

Issue 238 • September/October 2006 > Web Exclusives > THE CORPORATION THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

Creating a Sustainable London by Sustainable London Trust

Issue 181 • March/April 1997 > Reviews > GREENING LONDON

Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work and the Shaping of Identity by David Whyte

Issue 221 • November/December 2003 > Reviews > THE GREAT VOYAGE

The Crucible of Love: The Alchemy of Passionate Relationships by Jay Ramsay

Issue 243 • July/August 2007 > Web Exclusives > LOVE'S GOLD

The Crucible of Love: The Alchemy of Passionate Relationships by Jay Ramsay

Issue 238 • September/October 2006 > Web Exclusives > ALL WE NEED IS LOVE

Cycling to Work: A beginner’s guide by Rory McMullan

Issue 247 • March/April 2008 > Reviews > Cycling Community

Dark Nights of the Soul by Thomas Moore

Issue 232 • September/October 2005 > Web Exclusives > ESSENCE OF ENTANGLEMENT

Delight’s Muse : On Christopher Alexander’s The Nature of Order by Jenny Quillien

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > Re-route our Roots

Design Like You Give a Damn by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr

Issue 242 • May/June 2007 > Reviews > SOUND SHELTERS

Designing Your Natural Home by David Pearson

Issue 234 • January/February 2006 > Web Exclusives > AMBITIOUS ABODES

Desperately Seeking Paradise by Ziauddin Sardar

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > ADVENTURES OF AN INNOCENT ABROAD

Diary of an Eco-Builder by Will Anderson

Issue 239 • November/December 2006 > Reviews > TREE HOUSE

Direct Democracy by Douglas Carswell

Issue 235 • March/April 2006 > Web Exclusives > A RETURN TO GOOD SENSE

The Earth Care Manual by Patrick Whitefield

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 > Web Exclusives > CREATING THE FUTURE WE WANT

Earth Poems: Poems from Around the World by Editor IVOR MOSLEY

Issue 181 • March/April 1997 > Reviews > BEYOND POETRY

Earth Songs by Edited by Peter Abbs

Issue 225 • July/August 2004 > Reviews > THE ECOLOGY OF LOVE

Earthy Realism: The Meaning of Gaia by Mary Midgley

Issue 243 • July/August 2007 > Web Exclusives > WHOLE PLANET

The Ecological Risks of Engineered Crops by JANE RISSLER and MARGARET MELLON

Issue 181 • March/April 1997 > Reviews > FOOD RISKS

Education Without the State by JAMES TOOLEY

Issue 181 • March/April 1997 > Reviews > THE CRISIS IN EDUCATION

Elderwoman by Marian Van Eyk McCain

Issue 218 • May/June 2003 > Reviews > WISE WOMEN

End of the Earth: Voyages to Antarctica by Peter Matthiessen

Issue 226 • September/October 2004 > Reviews > LURE OF THE WHITE CONTINENT

Epicurean Simplicity by Stephanie Mills

Issue 216 • January/February 2003 > Reviews > A CONNOISSEUR'S PROSE

Every Man An Artist: Readings in the Traditional Philosophy of Art by Brian Keeble

Issue 236 • May/June 2006 > Web Exclusives > THE CREATIVE IMPULSE

The Face of Glory by WILLIAM ANDERSON

Issue 181 • March/April 1997 > Reviews > THE PERFECT ENJOYER.

Fair Trade For All: How Trade Can Promote Development by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton

Issue 238 • September/October 2006 > Web Exclusives > CAN FREE TRADE EVER BE FAIR?

The Fall: The Evidence for a Golden Age, 6,000 Years of Insanity and the Dawning of a New Era by Steve Taylor

Issue 239 • November/December 2006 > Web Exclusives > TRANSCENDING THE FALLEN PSYCHE

The Fall: The Evidence for a Golden Age, 6,000 Years of Insanity and the Dawning of a New Era by Steve Taylor

Issue 236 • May/June 2006 > Web Exclusives > EGO-LED vs. EGO-LESS

Field Work: Selected Essays by Ronald Blythe

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 > Reviews > A Sense of Place

Fields that Dream: A Journey to the Roots of Our Food by Jenny Kurzweil

Issue 238 • September/October 2006 > Web Exclusives > DREAMING OF THE LAND

The Flowering of Flint: Selected Poems by Peter Abbs

Issue 247 • March/April 2008 > Reviews > A Life in Writing

Food Wars by Tim Lang and Michael Heasman

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 > Reviews > NO MORE "MUCK OFF THE TRUCK"

Forever Today by Deborah Wearing

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > THE ETERNAL NOW

Francis of Assisi: Paintings for Our Time by Greg Tricker

Issue 238 • September/October 2006 > Web Exclusives > AFFECTIONATE INTIMACY

Froude Today by John Coleman

Issue 245 • November/December 2007 > Web Exclusives > A VICTORIAN HISTORIAN

Gaia’s Kitchen: Vegetarian recipes for family and community by Julia Ponsonby

Issue 209 • November/December 2001 > Reviews > GLORIOUS GASTRONOMY

Gandhi as Disciple and Mentor by Thomas Weber

Issue 237 • July/August 2006 > Web Exclusives > A GANDHIAN INFLUENCE

Gem Squash Tokoloshe by Rachel Zadok

Issue 232 • September/October 2005 > Web Exclusives > WAITING FOR RAIN

Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad by Miguel Mendonça

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 > Reviews > Hope Springs Eternal

Globalizing Resistance by Ed. François Polet

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Reviews > THE UTOPIAN DIMENSION

God Has a Dream by Desmond Tutu

Issue 233 • November/December 2005 > Reviews > SPIRITUAL FREEDOM

God Laughs and Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right by David James Duncan

Issue 238 • September/October 2006 > Web Exclusives > AN EVANGELIST SPEAKS

A Good Life by Leo Hickman

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 > Web Exclusives > ETHICAL STEPS

The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah by Karen Armstrong

Issue 238 • September/October 2006 > Web Exclusives > UNFINISHED BUSINESS

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

Issue 239 • November/December 2006 > Reviews > In My Own Words: FROM EMPIRE TO EARTH COMMUNITY

Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environmental Movement by ANDREW ROWELL

Issue 181 • March/April 1997 > Reviews > ANTI-ENVIRONMENTALISM

Green Places to Stay by Edited by Richard Hammond

Issue 240 • January/February 2007 > Reviews > BEYOND THE FAÇADE

Healthy Crops: A New Agricultural Revolution by Francis Chaboussou

Issue 233 • November/December 2005 > Web Exclusives > WHY CHEMICALS HAVE FAILED

Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning by George Monbiot

Issue 241 • March/April 2007 > Reviews > PROACTIVE AND POSSIBLE

Hermes & Magdalen by John Moat

Issue 235 • March/April 2006 > Reviews > ALCHEMICAL GOLD

High Tech Heretic by Clifford Stoll

Issue 205 • March/April 2001 > Reviews > A CRITIQUE OF COMPUTERS

How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take to Change a Plane by Tony Juniper

Issue 243 • July/August 2007 > Reviews > BOOKS IN BRIEF

How Rich Countries Got Rich… and Why Poor Countrie by Erik S. Reinert

Issue 243 • July/August 2007 > Web Exclusives > MAKING POVERTY'S HISTORY

How to Live a Low-carbon Life by Chris Goodall

Issue 243 • July/August 2007 > Reviews > BOOKS IN BRIEF

How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency by Piers Warren

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > Books In Brief

A Human Response to Globalisation by Marc Desaules

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > A PAEAN TO PLEASURE

The Illustrated Rumi: A treasury of wisdom from the poet of the soul by Translated by Peter Dunn, Manuela Mascetti, R. A.

Issue 207 • July/August 2001 > Reviews > SUFI WISDOM

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan

Issue 248 • May/June 2008 > Reviews > Food Choices

In Her Element: Women and the Landscape by edited by Jane McNamee

Issue 248 • May/June 2008 > Reviews > In My Own Words: Thickening Air

In Praise of Slow by Carl Honoré

Issue 232 • September/October 2005 > Web Exclusives > SPIRIT SANCTURARIES

The Integral Operating System by Ken Wilber

Issue 237 • July/August 2006 > Web Exclusives > LIGHT AND SHADOW

It Didn't Happen Here by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks

Issue 208 • September/October 2001 > Reviews > THE CORPORATE COUP

Joys: Passages from the Works of Thomas Traherne by Angela Lemaire

Issue 230 • May/June 2005 > Reviews > A BEACON TO DISPEL THE GLOOM

Just Beyond The Visible by Andrew Machon

Issue 232 • September/October 2005 > Web Exclusives > CALL OF THE SELF

Ken Kiff by Andrew Lambirth with Norbert Lynton

Issue 215 • November/December 2002 > Reviews > OF KIFF AND KLEE

Koudelka by Robert Delpire, Dominique Eddé, Michel Frizot and

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 > Reviews > Intense Images

Land and Environmental Art by Jeffrey Kastner

Issue 233 • November/December 2005 > Web Exclusives > LIVING ART

The Lastling by Philip Gross

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > WE ARE ONE

The Laughter of Foxes: A Study of Ted Hughes by Keith Sagar

Issue 206 • May/June 2001 > Reviews > A MASTER POET

Let Them Eat Data by Chet Bowers

Issue 205 • March/April 2001 > Reviews > A CRITIQUE OF COMPUTERS

The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett by Richard Ingrams

Issue 234 • January/February 2006 > Web Exclusives > THE LABOURERS' CHAMPION

The Lilypad List by Marian Van Eyk McCain

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > STARTLING THE HERONS

Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs: Waste and Blundering in the Armed Forces by Lewis Page

Issue 238 • September/October 2006 > Web Exclusives > THE CHIEFS OF STAFF MUST GO

Low Impact Development by SIMON FAIRLIE

Issue 181 • March/April 1997 > Reviews > TREADING LIGHTLY

The Meaning of India by RAJA RAO

Issue 181 • March/April 1997 > Reviews > INDIA BEYOND SORROW

The Metamorphosis of Capitalism by Christopher Houghton Budd

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > HUMAN METAMORPHOSIS

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 > Reviews > The man who mistook neurology for music

My World, My View: Photographs by the Girls of SOS Bahini, Pokhara, Nepal by edited by Sue Carpenter

Issue 248 • May/June 2008 > Reviews > In My Own Words: My World, My View

Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World by Bill Plotkin

Issue 248 • May/June 2008 > Reviews > In My Own Words: Arrested Development

Nature's Operating Instructions by Kenny Ausubel with J.P. Harpignies

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > HEALING STRATEGIES

The New Green Consumer Guide by Julia Hailes

Issue 243 • July/August 2007 > Reviews > BOOKS IN BRIEF

The Night Life of Trees by Bhajju Shyam/Ram Singh Urveti/ Durga Bai

Issue 241 • March/April 2007 > Reviews > SPIRIT SANCTUARIES

Of Myself: Atmaparichay by Rabindranath Tagore

Issue 241 • March/April 2007 > Web Exclusives > A PHILOSOPHICAL GIANT

OffScreen: Four Young Artists in the Middle East by Henry Hemming

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > FOUR YOUNG ARTISTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

On the Nature & Significance of the Crafts by Brian Keeble

Issue 236 • May/June 2006 > Web Exclusives > THE CREATIVE IMPULSE

One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and the End of Economic Democracy by Thomas Frank

Issue 208 • September/October 2001 > Reviews > THE MARKET TRANSCENDENT

Organic Futures: The Case for Organic Farming by Adrian Myers

Issue 238 • September/October 2006 > Web Exclusives > DREAMING OF THE LAND

The Other Side of Eden by Hugh Brody

Issue 211 • March/April 2002 > Reviews > LOST IN OUR OWN LAND

Our Farm: A Year in the Life of a Smallholding by Rosie Boycott

Issue 246 • January/February 2008 > Reviews > Locavores

Outgrowing the Earth by Lester Brown

Issue 234 • January/February 2006 > Web Exclusives > A MYTH OF PROGRESS

Pathways of Chance by F. David Peat

Issue 236 • May/June 2006 > Web Exclusives > GROWN-UP SCIENCE

Paul Klee Selected by Genius 1917–1933 by Edited by Roland Doschka

Issue 215 • November/December 2002 > Reviews > OF KIFF AND KLEE

Pigs must eat on Sundays by Ben Hartley

Issue 238 • September/October 2006 > Reviews > BEEN A BOY AGAIN

Place-Based Education in the Global Age by David A Gruenewald | Gregory A Smith

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > Spirit of Place

Playing Safe: Science and the Environment by Jonathon Porritt

Issue 203 • November/December 2000 > Reviews > SCIENCE IN SERVITUDE

Positive Childhood by Mildred Masheder

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > JUNIOR CITIZENS

The Possibility of Progress by Mark Braund

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 > Web Exclusives > EVOLVING CONSCIOUSNESS

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 > Web Exclusives > TRANSFORMING CONSCIOUSNESS

The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem by DEBORAH MEIER

Issue 181 • March/April 1997 > Reviews > THE CRISIS IN EDUCATION

Powerdown by Richard Heinberg

Issue 228 • January/February 2005 > Reviews > STOICISM NOW!

Quiet Food by John Strydom

Issue 233 • November/December 2005 > Web Exclusives > RECIPES FOR SANITY

Real England by Paul Kingsnorth

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 > Reviews > Swept Away

Real Horsepower: Living and Working with Horses and Donkeys by Martin Lanz

Issue 238 • September/October 2006 > Reviews > AN INTIMATE EXISTENCE

Reflections on Human Nature by NOAM CHOMSKY

Issue 181 • March/April 1997 > Reviews > CORPORATE THREAT

Renewable Energy by GODFREY BOYLE (ed)

Issue 181 • March/April 1997 > Reviews > BENIGN ENERGY

Returning to the Essential by Jean Biès

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 > Web Exclusives > BEYOND SUBVERSION

The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock

Issue 237 • July/August 2006 > Reviews > NO THANKS TO NUCLEAR POWER

A Safe and Sustainable World by Nancy Jack Todd

Issue 232 • September/October 2005 > Web Exclusives > EXPERIMENTS IN APPLIED GAIA

Sandy Brown: A Monograph by Sandy Brown

Issue 227 • November/December 2004 > Reviews > FEARLESS FORMS

Science and the Indian Tradition: when Einstein met Tagore by David Gosling

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > God of the Closing Gaps

The Science of Oneness: A Worldview for the Twenty-First Century by Malcolm Hollick

Issue 241 • March/April 2007 > Web Exclusives > A QUEST FOR TRUTH

A Silent Joy: The Diaries of an Italian Hill Farm by Etain Addey

Issue 238 • September/October 2006 > Reviews > AN INTIMATE EXISTENCE

The Simple Feeling of Being by Ken Wilber

Issue 237 • July/August 2006 > Web Exclusives > LIGHT AND SHADOW

The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg

Issue 210 • January/February 2002 > Reviews > NO FRIEND OF THE EARTH

The Slapton Ley Project by Sarah Gillespie

Issue 244 • September/October 2007 > Reviews > A Practice of Equanimity

Slow Food by Ed. Carlo Petrini, with Ben Watson and the Slow Fo

Issue 218 • May/June 2003 > Reviews > ENOUGH IS A FEAST

Small Change by Nabeel Hamdi

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > PLANNING THAT WORKS

The Social Order by NOAM CHOMSKY

Issue 181 • March/April 1997 > Reviews > CORPORATE THREAT

Sound Intelligence: A New Language of Consciousness by Chloë Goodchild

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 > Reviews > In My Own Words: Singing Field

The Spirit of Silence: Making Space for Creativity by John Lane

Issue 238 • September/October 2006 > Web Exclusives > THE SURROUND SOUND OF SILENCE

Spiritual Capital by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > WEALTH WE CAN LIVE BY

Spiritual Compass: The Three Qualities of Life by Satish Kumar

Issue 248 • May/June 2008 > Reviews > Guidance Towards Wisdom

Spring Nature Activities for Children by Irmgard Kutsch and Brigitte Walden

Issue 240 • January/February 2007 > Reviews > WE PROTECT WHAT WE LOVE

Sticks, Stones, Mud Homes: Natural Living by Nigel Noyes

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 > Web Exclusives > Grounded Design

Stillness Speaks by Eckhart Tolle

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 > Web Exclusives > TRANSFORMING CONSCIOUSNESS

Streetwide - Worldwide: Where People Power Begins by Tony Gibson

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > Books In Brief

Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System by Raj Patel

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 > Reviews > Eating and Acting

Sugar: The Grass that Changed the World by Sanjida O'Connell

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > A GRASS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges by Herbert Girardet

Issue 242 • May/June 2007 > Reviews > In my Own Words: SURVIVING THE CENTURYY

Sustainable Education by Stephen Sterling

Issue 215 • November/December 2002 > Reviews > WHOLE SOCIETY SOLUTION

Tescopoly: How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why it Matters by Andrew Simms

Issue 245 • November/December 2007 > Reviews > Monopolising Advantage

The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization by Rinku Sen | Fekkak Mamdouh

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Reviews > From Immigrant to Citizen

The Chilling Stars: A Cosmic View of Climate Change by Henrik Svensmark | Nigel Calder

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > Books In Brief

The Craftsman by Richard Sennett

Issue 248 • May/June 2008 > Reviews > Slow Skills

The Creative Gap by Frank Lyons

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 > Reviews > In My Own Words: Divine Order

The Earth Only Endures: On Reconnecting with Nature and our Place in it by Jules Pretty

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 > Reviews > Only Connect?

The Lost and Left Behind: Stories from the Age of Extinctions by Terry Glavin

Issue 248 • May/June 2008 > Reviews > Vanishing World

The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > On the Trail of the Dalai Lama

The Science of Leonardo: Inside the Mind of the Great Genius of the Renaissance by Fritjof Capra

Issue 248 • May/June 2008 > Reviews > Heightened Sensitivity

The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger by Jonathan Schell

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 > Reviews > Assuring the Future

The Underlying Religion: An Introduction to the Perennial Philosophy by edited by Martin Lings and Clinton Minnaar

Issue 248 • May/June 2008 > Reviews > The Way of Love

Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound by David Rothenberg

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 > Reviews > In My Own Words: Ocean Voice

Thrillcraft: The Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation by edited by George Wuerthner

Issue 248 • May/June 2008 > Reviews > In My Own Words: Eco-terrorism

The Time of Trees by Stuart Franklin

Issue 203 • November/December 2000 > Reviews > PEOPLE AND TREES

Timeless Beauty by John Lane

Issue 225 • July/August 2004 > Reviews > AESTHETIC IMPERATIVE

Timeless Simplicity: Creative living in a consumer society by John Lane

Issue 212 • May/June 2002 > Reviews > A NECESSARY SIMPLICITY

Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art by Lewis Hyde

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 > Reviews > Holy Fools and Serious Play

Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy: Stories of People Making a Difference by Michael Smith

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > Books In Brief

Unarmed Heroes by Peace Direct

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 > Web Exclusives > YOU CAN DO THIS TOO

Unbowed by Wangari Maathai

Issue 243 • July/August 2007 > Reviews > Planting Ideas

The Unfinished Twentieth Century by Jonathan Schell

Issue 219 • July/August 2003 > Reviews > SAVING GRACE

Viktor Schauberger: A Life of Learning from Nature by Jane Cobbald

Issue 244 • September/October 2007 > Reviews > The Nature of Water

Visionaries of the 20th Century: A Resurgence Anthology by Edited by Satish Kumar and Freddie Whitefield

Issue 245 • November/December 2007 > Reviews > Thinking Differently

Vital Practice by Sheila Ryan

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > HEALING THE SPLIT

Voice of Death by Baidyanath Saraswati

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 > Web Exclusives > IN THE END

Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth’s Last Dinosaur by Carl Safina

Issue 241 • March/April 2007 > Web Exclusives > SAVE THE TURTLE

Walking on Lotus Flowers by MARTINE BATCHELOR

Issue 181 • March/April 1997 > Reviews > PURE MIND

Walking the Mist: Celtic Spirituality for the 21st Century by Donald McKinney

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 > Web Exclusives > COMMUNING WITH THE CELTS

Water: Life In Every Drop by Julian Caldecott

Issue 248 • May/June 2008 > Reviews > Everything Flows

Waterlog: a swimmer's journey through Britain by Roger Deakin

Issue 214 • September/October 2002 > Reviews > IN MY OWN WORDS

The Way of Woman : Awakening the Perennial Feminine by HELEN LUKE

Issue 181 • March/April 1997 > Reviews > ETERNAL WOMAN.

Wendell Berry: Life and Work by Jason Peters, ed

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 > Reviews > About a Man

What Happens When We Die by Dr Sam Parnia

Issue 234 • January/February 2006 > Web Exclusives > ANSWERING THE UNANSWERABLE

What on Earth Happened?: The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day by Christopher Lloyd

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Reviews > A Fresh Perspective

Who Will Save Us by Rebecca Mørch

Issue 250 • September/October 2008 > Web Exclusives > Turn the Lights off for the Penguins

Who Wrote Bacon? by Richard Ramsbotham

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 > Web Exclusives > POLAR OPPOSITES

Why We Garden by Jim Nollman

Issue 235 • March/April 2006 > Web Exclusives > GARDENING VIGNETTES

The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden by Stanley Kunitz

Issue 234 • January/February 2006 > Web Exclusives > A CENTURY IN THE GARDEN

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

Issue 229 • March/April 2005 > Web Exclusives > RETURNING TO OUR ECOLOGICAL SELVES

Willing Slaves by Madeleine Bunting

Issue 236 • May/June 2006 > Reviews > NOSES TO THE GRINDSTONE

The Wisdom of the Wyrd by BRIAN BATES

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World Changing by Alex Steffen

Issue 243 • July/August 2007 > Reviews > BOOKS IN BRIEF