LEND AND BORROW BOOKS & DVD's.

 

Hegemony or Suvival     Noam Chomsky                 Available from Neal Jacks email request to n_jacks@hotmail.com        

"From the world's foremost intellectual activist, an irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total world domination and the catastrophic consequences that will follow"

 

The Great War for Civilisation     Robert Fisk          Available from Neal Jacks email request to n_jacks@hotmail.com

 

"Vivid personal reporting and incisive, angry historical analysis make Robert Fisk's passionate eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East into an unforgetable work."

 

Freakonomics     Steven Levett and Stephen Dubner    Available from Neal Jacks email request to n_jacks@hotmail.com

 

A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything. What do real estate agents and the Klu Klux Klan have in common? Why do drug dealers live with their mothers? How can your name affect how well you do in your life? "A sensation...you'll be stimulated, provoked and entertained. Of how many books can that be said"

 

In Praise of Slow     Carl Honore                        Available from Neal Jacks email request to n_jacks@hotmail.com

 

These days our culture teaches that faster is better. But in the Race to keep up, everything suffers - por work,diet and health, our relationships and sex lives. We are in such a hurry that anyone or anything that slows us down becomes the enemy. Carl Honere uncovers a movement that challenges the cult of speed by proving that slower is often better.

 

The Tipping Point     Malcolm Gradwell                  Available from Neal Jacks email request to n_jacks@hotmail.com

 

In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gradwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviours cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. Taking a look behind the surface of many familiar occurrences in our everyday world, Gladwell explains the fascinating social dynamics that cause rapid change.

 

Status Anxiety     Alain de Botton                      Available from Neal Jacks email request to n_jacks@hotmail.com

 

Single handedly, de Botton has taken philosophy back to its simplest and most important purpose helping us to live our lives. The result is a book that just isn't highly entertaining and thought provoking buy genuinely wise and helpful as well.

 

“the important issues of man’s existence and survival are as fully regulated by the laws of energetics as those of the physical and chemical world”

“The greatest natural history expert of our age...this is a brilliantly constructed analysis of our planetary woes”

“shows how you as an individual can play your part in ensuring that our planet has a healthy future”

“Barry Commoner’s proposals are nothing short of revolutionary: the drastic reshaping of global economic and political policy and the ecologically sound reconstruction of technology”

 

“if capitalism and free markets cannot be bent towards sustainability - towards being part of the solution - then I believe there is no solution” - Lord May.

Borrie, WD 1973. Population environment and society.          available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

“his optimism is based on a belief that mankind is still capable of taking rational decisions”

Flannery, T 2006. We are the weather makers. The story of global warming.      available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

A concise and revised edition of “The weather makers” - “hard to imagine a better or more important book” - Bill Bryson.

Dubos, R 1970. So human an animal.          available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

“Adevastating attack on modern industrial consumer societies” and how to reverse this trend towards dehumanisation.

Ravetz, JR 1971. Scientific knowledge and its social problems.          available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

“Thoughtful, incisive, lucid, humane and sane.” - John Ziman

Bieleski, P 2000. The anti-economist papers. God created economists to make weather forecasters look good.          available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

Very entertaining but serious attack on economists: “Economists’ talk should be cheap. Supply exceeds demand.”

Diamond, J 1998. Guns, germs and steel.          available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

“One of the most important and readable works on the human past”

Lovins, AB 1977. Soft energy paths.          available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

“Soft Energy Paths could become for the energy community what The Limits to Growth was for environmentalists” - New Scientist

Eberhart-Phillips, J 1999. Plagues on our doorstep. The threat of infectious disease in New Zealand.

available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

“Today’s mingling of peoples and microbes has no historical precedent”

Ehrlich, PR 1967. The population bomb.          available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

“Millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now”

Herman,A 2006. The Scottish enlightenment. The Scots’ invention of the modern world.

available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

“Europes most literate society... shaped much of civilisation as we know it”

Irvine, K 2007. Organic garden calendar. Kapiti to Manawatu.          available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

Kent, D 2005. Healthy money healthy planet.          available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

“the most comprehensive book on community banks and complementary currency systems...”

Franck, G 1983. Companion planting. Successful gardening the organic way.  available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

“based on 35 years of practical experience...”

Morrison, P 1974. The New Zealand conservation handbook.          available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

Remarkable little has change in 35 years!

Skinner, G 1981. Simply living. A gatherers’ guide to New Zealand’s fields, forests and shores.      

available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

“an important challenge to our preconceived notions about diet...”

Goldsmith, E 1996. The way. An ecological world-view.          available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

“the magnum opus of one of the most influential figures of the international Green movement.”

Hopkins, R 2008. The transition handbook. From oil dependency to local resilience.          

available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

“developing a positive vision and taking practical action to create a more self-reliant existence.”

Wilson, DJ 2001. Five holocausts.          available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

“an extremely valuable source book” -Edward Goldsmith.

Williams, J 2004. 50 facts that should change the world.          available from       Flux@paradise.net.nz

 

 A horifying list of present inequalities that everyone should be aware of.