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  April 7, 2003


paradise It's been said that what you read, far more than what you hear or see in the A-V media, determines your worldview, what you believe. Rayne has just published her current nightstand reading list. Here is mine. Links are to book reviews or author interviews, not booksellers.
  1. Why We Run by Bernd Heinrich - Ostensibly about the physiology of running, but actually more about the evolution of all species physically in response to their species' survival needs.
  2. Seeing in the Dark by Tim Ferris - A wondrous study of the skies and sky-watchers, one of the NYT's seven best books of the year.
  3. Maybe One by Bill McKibben - An encouragement to reduce family size and celebrate small families.
  4. The Age of Access by Jeremy Rifkin - A frightening book about the 'commercialization of everything' and the 'control and management of information' (i.e. it's not as free as we'd thought).
  5. Beyond Growth by Herman Daly - The definitive text on Environmental and Social Economics.
  6. In the Box Called Pleasure by Kim Addonizio - Fiction.
  7. Beyond Civilization by Daniel Quinn - The ideas in my essay "The Third Way" said much better, and less densely ;-)
  8. Selling to VITO by Anthony Parinello ? Tactics for getting to see, and then engaging, CEOs and other senior officers.
  9. Minding Animals by Marc Bekoff ? The emotional, intellectual and spiritual lives of animals.

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