Herman E. Daly

From the winner of the 1997 "Alternative Nobel Prize," the Right Livelihood Award.

"A book by that most far-seeing and heretical of economists, Herman Daly. For twenty-five years now, Daly has been thinking through a new economics that accounts for the wealth of nature, the value of community and the necessity of morality."
—Donella Meadows, Los Angeles Times

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Wendy Kaminer

"Wendy Kaminer is a beacon shining through the smog. She is eloquent, pugnacious, and amusing, and best of all, she is right."
—James Gleick, author of Faster

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William F. Schulz

Schulz provides answers with an insightful work, generously laced with compelling stories of women and men from all continents, which clearly delineates the connection between Americans' prosperity and human rights violations all over the globe. Schulz builds a powerful case for defending our own interests by vigorously defending the human rights of people everywhere.

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Clyde Kluckhohn

A classic by the eminent anthropologist concerning supernatural power in a primitive society.

Witchcraft is defined by Clyde Kluckhohn (1905-60) as "the influencing of events by super-natural techniques that are socially disapproved," and his description and analysis of Navaho ideas and actions related to witchcraft illuminate the ways in which society deals with the ambition for power, the aggressiveness, and the anxiety of its members.

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Juliet B. Schor & Betsy Taylor; editors

Can we find ways of living that are sustainable and deeply satisfying, that ensure economic and political democracy, and are passionate about beauty, elegant design, and the wildness of nature? The contributors to Sustainable Planet say we can, and offer 16 remarkable visions of how to get from here to there.

Juliet Schor is author of the best-selling The Overworked American and Do Americans Shop Too Much?, and serves on the board of the Center for the New American Dream (CNAD). Betsy Taylor is founder and president of CNAD and author of the forthcoming What Kids Really Want That Money Can't Buy.

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Philip Slater

In a classic indictment of American individualism and isolationism, Philip Slater analyzes the great ills of modern society—violence, competitiveness, inequality, and the national "addiction" to technology.

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Max Weber

A classic by the great sociologist.

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E. J. Graff

E. J. Graff traces the history of the institution of marriage, from a feminist perspective, arguing forcefully for the legalization of same-sex marriage, and shedding new light on such ongoing battles as equality between wives and husbands and the contentious definition of "family."

Scholars, law clerks and judges, journalists, politicians, and concerned citizens, all caught up in the same-sex marriage debate, will find Graff's book invaluable."
—Paul Kafka, San Francisco Chronicle

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Fred Pearce

An on-the-ground exploration of the impending world water crisis by a veteran environmental reporter. In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramifications for us all.

"A strong—and scary—case that a worldwide water shortage is the most fearful looming environmental crisis."
—Publishers Weekly

"Oil we can replace. Water we can't—which is why this book is both so ominous and so important."

—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature

Fred Pearce's books include With Speed and Violence, Keepers of the Spring, Turning Up the Heat, and, Deep Jungle.

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