Listing of books, periodicals and journal articles organized by categories; a path
Economics
Adler, Moshe. Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal; The New Press, New York and London 2010
Belloc, Helaire. An Essay on the Restoration of Property; IHS Press, Norfolk, VA 2009. First published in 1936 by The Distributist League.
Boyle, David and Simms, Andrew. The New Economics: A Bigger Picture; Earthscan Publishing, London, Sterling VA. 2009 Copyright, New Economics Foundation
Eisenstein, Charles. Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition; Random House 2011
Florida, Richard. The Great Reset: How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work. Harper Collins, New York 2010
Friedman, Milton and Rose. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement; Harcourt Books, Florida 1980
Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom; Fortieth Anniversary Edition; University of Chicago Press 2002
Galbraith, James. The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too; Free Press 2008
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Good Society: The Humane Agenda. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York 1996
Galbraith, John Kenneth. A Journey Through Economic Time: A Firsthand View; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York 1994
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash 1929; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York 1954
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Socially Concerned Today; University of Toronto Press, Toronto Buffalo London 1998
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Essential Galbraith, selected and edited by Andrea Williams; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York 2001
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Affluent Society, 40th Anniversary Edition; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York 1997
Harvey, David. The Enigma of Capital; Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 2010
Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Oxford University Press 2005
Hawken, Paul; Lovins, Amory and Lovins, Hunter. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown, 1999
Heilbroner, Robert L. and Milberg, William. The Making of Economic Society, 11th edition. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 2002
Kindleberger, Charles P. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crashes, 4th Edition; John Wiley and Sons, Inc. New York—Toronto 2000
Korten, David C. Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. San Francisco. Copyright, The People-Centered Development Forum 2010
Kuttner, Robert. Everything For Sale: The Virtue and Limits of Markets; University of Chicago Press 1996
Jones, Van. The Green Collar Economy; Harper Collins New York 2008
The Marx and Engels Reader, Second Edition; ed. Robert Tucker; WW Norton and Company, NY and London 1978
McConnell, John W. Basic Teachings of the Great Economists: Malthus, Adam Smith, Henry George, Karl Marx, Velblen, Keynes and others. Barnes and Noble Inc. New York, 1956
Orrell, David. Econo-Myths: Ten Ways Economics Gets it Wrong; John Wiley and Sons Canada, Ltd Ontario 2010
People First Economics, edited by David Ransom and Vanessa Baird; New Internationalist Publications 2009
Rajan, Raghuram G. Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy; Princeton University Press 2010
Schumacher, E.F. Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. 25 years later with commentaries, introduction by Paul Hawken. Hartley and Marks Publishers Inc, 1999. Original edition, 1973
Schweickart, David. After Capitalism; Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Lanham Maryland, Plymouth UK 2011
Schweickart, David. A New Capitalism or a New World? Worldwatch Sep-Oct 2009
Sivaraska, Sulak. The Wisdom of Sustainability; Buddhist Economics for the 21st Century. Koa Books, Kihei, Hawaii 2009
Soros, George. On Globalization; Public Affairs, New York 2002
Speth, James Gustave. The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability Yale University Press, 2008
Stiglitz, Joseph E. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy. WW Norton and Company Inc. New York, NY 2010
Tasch, Woody. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if food, farms and fertility mattered; Chelsea Green Publishing, VT 2008
Thaler, Richard H. and Sunstein, Cass R. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness; Penguin Books, New York, NY 2008-09
The True Wealth of Nations: Catholic Social Thought and Economic Life; ed. Daniel K. Finn. Oxford University Press 2010
Wealth, Poverty and Human Destiny. Doug Bandow and David Schindler editors; ISI Books, Wilmington Delaware 2003
What’s Wrong With Economics, edited by Edward Fullbrook, Anthem Press, London 2004
Philosophy and Literature
Ackrill, J.L., editor. A New Aristotle Reader; Princeton University Press 1987
Adler, Mortimer J. Aristotle for Everybody; Difficult thought made easy. Touchstone, Simon and Schuster, New York, NY 1978
Augustine. Confessions, Second Edition Translated by FJ Sheed; Hackett Publishing Company 2006
Baudrillard, Jean. Simulations; Translated by Paul Foss, Paul Patton and Philip Beitchman; Semiotext[e] and Jean Baudrillard 1983
Baudrillard, Jean. The Gulf War did not Take Place; translated by Paul Patton, Indiana University Press 1995
Bond, George. Buddhism at Work: Community Development, Social Empowerment and the Sarvodaya Movement; Kumarian Press CT 2004
Camus, Albert. The Plague; Translated by Stuart Gilbert, Vintage International, New York 1948
Cavanaugh, William T. Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Grand Rapids, MI, Cambridge, UK 2008
Dalai Lama and Cutler, Howard C. MD; The Art of Happiness; Riverhead Books, New York 1998
Dante. The Divine Comedy, Volume I: Inferno. Translated by Mark Musa, Penguin Group, Indiana University Press 1984
Dogen, Zen Master; Moon in a Dewdrop: writings of Zen Master Dogen; North Point Press, Farrar, Strau and Giroux, NY 1985.
DuBord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle; translation by Ken Knabb, Rebel Press London No Copyright
DuBord, Guy. Comments on the Society of the Spectacle; translated by Malcolm Imrie, Verso Classics, London and New York 1998
Eckert, Allan W. A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh. SMITHMARK Publishers Inc., New York, NY 1992
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction; Vintage Books 1990
Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, Boston MA 1959
Freyssenet, Michel. The Emergence, Centrality and End of Work. International Sociological Society, Current Sociology 1999; 47;5 SAGE Publications
Ginsberg, Allen. HOWL and other Poems; Introduction by William Carlos Williams. City Lights Books, San Francisco 1956, 1959
Haila, Yrjo and Dyke, Chuck editors. How Nature Speaks: The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition; Duke University Press, Durham and London 2006
Hanh, Thich Nhat. Being Peace; Parallax Press, Berkeley CA 1996
Hanh, Thich Nhat. The Heart of Understanding; Parallax Press, Berkeley CA 1988
Hershock, Peter D. Chan Buddhism: Dimensions of Asian Spirituality; University of Hawaii Press 2005
Hesiod. Theogony, Works and Days, Shield; Second Edition; Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Apostolos N. Athanassakis; The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London 2004
Homer. The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fagles; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox. Penguin Books, New York, NY 1996
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities; 50th Anniversary Edition, Modern Library, NY 2011
Jacobs, Jane. The Nature of Economies; Vintage Books, New York 2001
Latour, Bruno. The Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 2004
Jefferson, Thomas. The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth and, The Complete Sayings of Jesus Christ, by Arthur Hinds. Wilder Publications, Radford, VA 2008
Johnson, Sandy and Budnik, Dan. The Book of Elders: The Life Stories and Wisdom of Great American Indians. Haper Collins, San Francisco and Ney York 1994
Jordan III, William R. The Sunflower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion With Nature. University of California Press 2003. "Ecological restoration is one of today's most constructive, hopeful and provocative environmental movements, and William Jordan III is its leading visionary." Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire
Jung on Active Imagination; Editing and intro by Joan Chodorow. Princeton University Press 1997
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac; Oxford University Press, New York 1949
Loy, David R. Money Sex War Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution; Wisdom Publications Boston 2008
Magid, Barry. Ordinary Mind: Exploring the common ground of Zen and Psychoanalysis; Wisdom Publications, Boston 2002 and 2005
Meda, Dominique; New perspectives on work as value. International Labor Review,Vol. 134 (1196), No. 6
Morton, Timothy. The Ecological Thought; Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, London England 2010
Nordhaus, Ted and Shellenberger, Michael. Break Through: Why We Can’t Leave Saving the Planet to the Environmentalists; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York 2007
Ollman, Bertrell. Alienation: Marx’s conception of man in capitalist society; Cambridge University Press 1976
Ophuls, William. Plato’s Revenge: Politics in an Age of Ecology. MIT Press 2011
Parker, Richard. John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics; Harper Collins Ltd, Toronto 2005
Pieper, Josef. Leisure: The Basis of Culture; Ignatius Press, San Francisco 2009. Original edition: 1952 by Pantheon Books
Pieper, Josef. The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas: A Breviary of Philosophy; Ignatius Press, San Francisco 1948
Schweickart, David. Sartre, Camus and a Marxism for the 21st Century; Solidarity Econonmy.Net
Seton, Ernest and Julia. The Gospel of the Redman: A Way of Life. Seton Village, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1966. Original edition, 1937
Singer, Peter. The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush; Dutton, Penguin Group, Ney York 2004
Sivaraska, Sulak. The Wisdom of Sustainability; Buddhist Economics for the 21st Century. Koa Books, Kihei, Hawaii 2009
Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind; ed. by Trudy Dixon, Weatherhill, New York & Tokyo 1982 (1st Ed. 1970)
Taylor, Jill Bolte. My Stoke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey; Viking Penguin Group 2008
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath
Quinn, Daniel. Beyond Civilization; Humanity’s Next Great Adventure; Three Rivers Press, New York, NY 1999
Quinn, Daniel. Ishmael; An adventure of mind and spirit; Bantam/Turner Books, New York, NY 1992
Wolff, Robert. Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing. Inner Traditions International, Rochester VT 2001
Politics and Social Action
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic: John De Graff, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor; Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco 2005
AtKisson, Alan. Believing in Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist’s World; Chelsea Green Publishing VT 1999
Alinsky, Saul. Rules for Radicals; Vintage Books, NY 1971
Beckley, Harlan. Passion for Justice: Retrieving the legacies of Walter Rauschenbusch, John A. Ryan, and Reinhold Niebuhr; Westminster/John Knox Press Louisville, KY 1992
Bennett, Larry. The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism; University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 2010
Bookchin, Murray. Social Ecology and Communalism; AK Press, Oakland CA and Edinburgh Scotland 2007
Class Matters: an analysis of inequality by correspondents of the New York Times; introduction by Bill Keller; Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York 2005
Cohen, Andrew Wender. The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940. Cambridge University Press, New York and UK 2004
Cowen, MP, Shenton, RW. Doctrines of Development; Routledge 1996
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave; Barnes and Noble Classics , New York 2003
Du Bois, W.E.B. The Soul of Black Folks; Penguin Books 1989 (original 1903)
Epstein, Samuel S. MD. The Politics of Cancer Revisited; East Ridge Press USA 1998
Etzioni. Amitai. The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities and the Communitarian Agenda; Crown Publishers, New York 1993
Fogel, Robert William. The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism; University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 2000
Foster, John Bellamy; Clark, Brett; York, Richard. The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth. Monthly Review Press, New York, NY 2010
Gomberg, Paul. How to Make Opportunity Equal; Race and Contributive Justice. Blackwell Publishing, Malden MA, USA; Oxford, UK, Victoria, Australia 2007
Gornick, Vivian. Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life; Yale University Press 2011
Hawken, Paul. Blessed Unrest: How the largest social movement in history is restoring grace, justice and beauty to the world; Penguin Books, New York, NY 2007
Horton, Myles. The Long Haul; an autobiography, with Judith Kohl and Herbert Kohl; Teachers College Press, New York, NY 1998
Jacobs, Jane. The Nature of Economies; Vintage Books, New York 2001
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities; Vintage Books Edition, December 1992. Originally published by Random House, Inc, New York, in 1961
Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th Century America; WW Norton New York 2005
Klinenberg, Eric. Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago; University of Chicago Press 2002
Korten, David C. Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. San Francisco. Copyright, The People-Centered Development Forum 2010
McGerr, Michael. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920; Oxford University Press 2003
Moore, Richard. Escaping the Matrix: how We the People can change the world; a publication of the The Cyberjournal Project 2005-2006
Pink, Daniel. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future; Riverhead Books, New York, 2005-2006
Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of our Time, forward by Joseph Stiglitz; Beacon Press Boston 2001
Ranney, David. Global Decisions, Local Collisions: Urban Life in the New World Order; Temple University Press, Philadelphia 2003
Rifkin, Jeremy. The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream; Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin New York 2005
Rifkin, Jeremy. The Empathic Civilization; Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin New York 2009
Sivaraska, Sulak. The Wisdom of Sustainability; Buddhist Economics for the 21st Century. Koa Books, Kihei, Hawaii 2009
Tainter, Joseph. The Collapse of Complex Societies; Cambridge University Press 1988
Trachtenberg, Alan. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age; Hill and Wang, A division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007
Wallis, Jim. Rediscovering Values, On Wall Street, Main Street and Your Street: A Moral Compass for the New Economy; Howard Books, division of Simon and Schuster, Inc. New York, NY 2010
Werth, Barry. Banquet at Delmonico’s: Great minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America; Random House, New York 2009
West, Cornel; Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism; Penguin Books 2004
Worldwatch Institute. 2010 State of the World: Transforming Cultures; From Consumerism to Sustainability. Worldwatch Institute, Washington DC Norton and Company, New York 2010
Zinn, Howard, with David Barsamian. Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics. Forward by Arundhati Roy. Harper Perennial New York, NY 2006
Zinn, Howard. People’s History of the United States: 1492-Present. Harper Collins, New York, NY 1999. Original edition, 1980
Catholic Social Thought
Barrera, Albino O.P. Catholic Social Thought in an Economics Curriculum; University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN October 23-25, 2003
Cavanaugh, William T. Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Grand Rapids, MI, Cambridge, UK 2011
Kelley, Scott. Subsidarity: challenging the top down bias; Journal of Religion and Business Ethics, DePaul University, Chicago. September 15, 2010
Finn, Daniel. The True Wealth of Nations; Oxford University Press. September 2010; Chapter 1, What Does Catholic Thought Recommend for the Economy? The Economic Common Good as Path to True Prosperity, Albino Barrera, O.P.
Droel, William. Church, Chicago-Style; ACTA Publications, Skokie, IL 2008
Adler, Moshe. Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal; The New Press, New York and London 2010
Belloc, Helaire. An Essay on the Restoration of Property; IHS Press, Norfolk, VA 2009. First published in 1936 by The Distributist League.
Boyle, David and Simms, Andrew. The New Economics: A Bigger Picture; Earthscan Publishing, London, Sterling VA. 2009 Copyright, New Economics Foundation
Eisenstein, Charles. Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition; Random House 2011
Florida, Richard. The Great Reset: How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work. Harper Collins, New York 2010
Friedman, Milton and Rose. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement; Harcourt Books, Florida 1980
Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom; Fortieth Anniversary Edition; University of Chicago Press 2002
Galbraith, James. The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too; Free Press 2008
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Good Society: The Humane Agenda. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York 1996
Galbraith, John Kenneth. A Journey Through Economic Time: A Firsthand View; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York 1994
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash 1929; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York 1954
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Socially Concerned Today; University of Toronto Press, Toronto Buffalo London 1998
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Essential Galbraith, selected and edited by Andrea Williams; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York 2001
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Affluent Society, 40th Anniversary Edition; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York 1997
Harvey, David. The Enigma of Capital; Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 2010
Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Oxford University Press 2005
Hawken, Paul; Lovins, Amory and Lovins, Hunter. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown, 1999
Heilbroner, Robert L. and Milberg, William. The Making of Economic Society, 11th edition. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 2002
Kindleberger, Charles P. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crashes, 4th Edition; John Wiley and Sons, Inc. New York—Toronto 2000
Korten, David C. Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. San Francisco. Copyright, The People-Centered Development Forum 2010
Kuttner, Robert. Everything For Sale: The Virtue and Limits of Markets; University of Chicago Press 1996
Jones, Van. The Green Collar Economy; Harper Collins New York 2008
The Marx and Engels Reader, Second Edition; ed. Robert Tucker; WW Norton and Company, NY and London 1978
McConnell, John W. Basic Teachings of the Great Economists: Malthus, Adam Smith, Henry George, Karl Marx, Velblen, Keynes and others. Barnes and Noble Inc. New York, 1956
Orrell, David. Econo-Myths: Ten Ways Economics Gets it Wrong; John Wiley and Sons Canada, Ltd Ontario 2010
People First Economics, edited by David Ransom and Vanessa Baird; New Internationalist Publications 2009
Rajan, Raghuram G. Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy; Princeton University Press 2010
Schumacher, E.F. Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. 25 years later with commentaries, introduction by Paul Hawken. Hartley and Marks Publishers Inc, 1999. Original edition, 1973
Schweickart, David. After Capitalism; Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Lanham Maryland, Plymouth UK 2011
Schweickart, David. A New Capitalism or a New World? Worldwatch Sep-Oct 2009
Sivaraska, Sulak. The Wisdom of Sustainability; Buddhist Economics for the 21st Century. Koa Books, Kihei, Hawaii 2009
Soros, George. On Globalization; Public Affairs, New York 2002
Speth, James Gustave. The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability Yale University Press, 2008
Stiglitz, Joseph E. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy. WW Norton and Company Inc. New York, NY 2010
Tasch, Woody. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if food, farms and fertility mattered; Chelsea Green Publishing, VT 2008
Thaler, Richard H. and Sunstein, Cass R. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness; Penguin Books, New York, NY 2008-09
The True Wealth of Nations: Catholic Social Thought and Economic Life; ed. Daniel K. Finn. Oxford University Press 2010
Wealth, Poverty and Human Destiny. Doug Bandow and David Schindler editors; ISI Books, Wilmington Delaware 2003
What’s Wrong With Economics, edited by Edward Fullbrook, Anthem Press, London 2004
Philosophy and Literature
Ackrill, J.L., editor. A New Aristotle Reader; Princeton University Press 1987
Adler, Mortimer J. Aristotle for Everybody; Difficult thought made easy. Touchstone, Simon and Schuster, New York, NY 1978
Augustine. Confessions, Second Edition Translated by FJ Sheed; Hackett Publishing Company 2006
Baudrillard, Jean. Simulations; Translated by Paul Foss, Paul Patton and Philip Beitchman; Semiotext[e] and Jean Baudrillard 1983
Baudrillard, Jean. The Gulf War did not Take Place; translated by Paul Patton, Indiana University Press 1995
Bond, George. Buddhism at Work: Community Development, Social Empowerment and the Sarvodaya Movement; Kumarian Press CT 2004
Camus, Albert. The Plague; Translated by Stuart Gilbert, Vintage International, New York 1948
Cavanaugh, William T. Being Consumed: Economics and Christian Desire; Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Grand Rapids, MI, Cambridge, UK 2008
Dalai Lama and Cutler, Howard C. MD; The Art of Happiness; Riverhead Books, New York 1998
Dante. The Divine Comedy, Volume I: Inferno. Translated by Mark Musa, Penguin Group, Indiana University Press 1984
Dogen, Zen Master; Moon in a Dewdrop: writings of Zen Master Dogen; North Point Press, Farrar, Strau and Giroux, NY 1985.
DuBord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle; translation by Ken Knabb, Rebel Press London No Copyright
DuBord, Guy. Comments on the Society of the Spectacle; translated by Malcolm Imrie, Verso Classics, London and New York 1998
Eckert, Allan W. A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh. SMITHMARK Publishers Inc., New York, NY 1992
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction; Vintage Books 1990
Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, Boston MA 1959
Freyssenet, Michel. The Emergence, Centrality and End of Work. International Sociological Society, Current Sociology 1999; 47;5 SAGE Publications
Ginsberg, Allen. HOWL and other Poems; Introduction by William Carlos Williams. City Lights Books, San Francisco 1956, 1959
Haila, Yrjo and Dyke, Chuck editors. How Nature Speaks: The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition; Duke University Press, Durham and London 2006
Hanh, Thich Nhat. Being Peace; Parallax Press, Berkeley CA 1996
Hanh, Thich Nhat. The Heart of Understanding; Parallax Press, Berkeley CA 1988
Hershock, Peter D. Chan Buddhism: Dimensions of Asian Spirituality; University of Hawaii Press 2005
Hesiod. Theogony, Works and Days, Shield; Second Edition; Translation, Introduction, and Notes by Apostolos N. Athanassakis; The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London 2004
Homer. The Odyssey, translated by Robert Fagles; introduction and notes by Bernard Knox. Penguin Books, New York, NY 1996
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities; 50th Anniversary Edition, Modern Library, NY 2011
Jacobs, Jane. The Nature of Economies; Vintage Books, New York 2001
Latour, Bruno. The Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 2004
Jefferson, Thomas. The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth and, The Complete Sayings of Jesus Christ, by Arthur Hinds. Wilder Publications, Radford, VA 2008
Johnson, Sandy and Budnik, Dan. The Book of Elders: The Life Stories and Wisdom of Great American Indians. Haper Collins, San Francisco and Ney York 1994
Jordan III, William R. The Sunflower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion With Nature. University of California Press 2003. "Ecological restoration is one of today's most constructive, hopeful and provocative environmental movements, and William Jordan III is its leading visionary." Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire
Jung on Active Imagination; Editing and intro by Joan Chodorow. Princeton University Press 1997
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac; Oxford University Press, New York 1949
Loy, David R. Money Sex War Karma: Notes for a Buddhist Revolution; Wisdom Publications Boston 2008
Magid, Barry. Ordinary Mind: Exploring the common ground of Zen and Psychoanalysis; Wisdom Publications, Boston 2002 and 2005
Meda, Dominique; New perspectives on work as value. International Labor Review,Vol. 134 (1196), No. 6
Morton, Timothy. The Ecological Thought; Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, London England 2010
Nordhaus, Ted and Shellenberger, Michael. Break Through: Why We Can’t Leave Saving the Planet to the Environmentalists; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, New York 2007
Ollman, Bertrell. Alienation: Marx’s conception of man in capitalist society; Cambridge University Press 1976
Ophuls, William. Plato’s Revenge: Politics in an Age of Ecology. MIT Press 2011
Parker, Richard. John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics; Harper Collins Ltd, Toronto 2005
Pieper, Josef. Leisure: The Basis of Culture; Ignatius Press, San Francisco 2009. Original edition: 1952 by Pantheon Books
Pieper, Josef. The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas: A Breviary of Philosophy; Ignatius Press, San Francisco 1948
Schweickart, David. Sartre, Camus and a Marxism for the 21st Century; Solidarity Econonmy.Net
Seton, Ernest and Julia. The Gospel of the Redman: A Way of Life. Seton Village, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1966. Original edition, 1937
Singer, Peter. The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush; Dutton, Penguin Group, Ney York 2004
Sivaraska, Sulak. The Wisdom of Sustainability; Buddhist Economics for the 21st Century. Koa Books, Kihei, Hawaii 2009
Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind; ed. by Trudy Dixon, Weatherhill, New York & Tokyo 1982 (1st Ed. 1970)
Taylor, Jill Bolte. My Stoke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey; Viking Penguin Group 2008
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath
Quinn, Daniel. Beyond Civilization; Humanity’s Next Great Adventure; Three Rivers Press, New York, NY 1999
Quinn, Daniel. Ishmael; An adventure of mind and spirit; Bantam/Turner Books, New York, NY 1992
Wolff, Robert. Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing. Inner Traditions International, Rochester VT 2001
Politics and Social Action
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic: John De Graff, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor; Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco 2005
AtKisson, Alan. Believing in Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist’s World; Chelsea Green Publishing VT 1999
Alinsky, Saul. Rules for Radicals; Vintage Books, NY 1971
Beckley, Harlan. Passion for Justice: Retrieving the legacies of Walter Rauschenbusch, John A. Ryan, and Reinhold Niebuhr; Westminster/John Knox Press Louisville, KY 1992
Bennett, Larry. The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism; University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 2010
Bookchin, Murray. Social Ecology and Communalism; AK Press, Oakland CA and Edinburgh Scotland 2007
Class Matters: an analysis of inequality by correspondents of the New York Times; introduction by Bill Keller; Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York 2005
Cohen, Andrew Wender. The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940. Cambridge University Press, New York and UK 2004
Cowen, MP, Shenton, RW. Doctrines of Development; Routledge 1996
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave; Barnes and Noble Classics , New York 2003
Du Bois, W.E.B. The Soul of Black Folks; Penguin Books 1989 (original 1903)
Epstein, Samuel S. MD. The Politics of Cancer Revisited; East Ridge Press USA 1998
Etzioni. Amitai. The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities and the Communitarian Agenda; Crown Publishers, New York 1993
Fogel, Robert William. The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism; University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 2000
Foster, John Bellamy; Clark, Brett; York, Richard. The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth. Monthly Review Press, New York, NY 2010
Gomberg, Paul. How to Make Opportunity Equal; Race and Contributive Justice. Blackwell Publishing, Malden MA, USA; Oxford, UK, Victoria, Australia 2007
Gornick, Vivian. Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life; Yale University Press 2011
Hawken, Paul. Blessed Unrest: How the largest social movement in history is restoring grace, justice and beauty to the world; Penguin Books, New York, NY 2007
Horton, Myles. The Long Haul; an autobiography, with Judith Kohl and Herbert Kohl; Teachers College Press, New York, NY 1998
Jacobs, Jane. The Nature of Economies; Vintage Books, New York 2001
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities; Vintage Books Edition, December 1992. Originally published by Random House, Inc, New York, in 1961
Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th Century America; WW Norton New York 2005
Klinenberg, Eric. Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago; University of Chicago Press 2002
Korten, David C. Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. San Francisco. Copyright, The People-Centered Development Forum 2010
McGerr, Michael. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920; Oxford University Press 2003
Moore, Richard. Escaping the Matrix: how We the People can change the world; a publication of the The Cyberjournal Project 2005-2006
Pink, Daniel. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future; Riverhead Books, New York, 2005-2006
Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of our Time, forward by Joseph Stiglitz; Beacon Press Boston 2001
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Catholic Social Thought
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