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Recommended Readings:

 

James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

James Agee and Helen Levitt, A Way of Seeing

Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest

Charles Bowden, Blues for Cannibals

Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From, Fires, A New Path to the Waterfall, Back in the World

Miguel Cervantes, Don Quixote

John Cheever, The Collected Short Stories

Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John P. Myers, Our Stolen Futures

Dr. Robert Coles, Leadership of Moral Integrity, The Spiritual Life of Children, Children of Crisis, Migrants, Sharecroppers and Mountaineers, The Old Ones of New Mexico

Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, Speak Truth to Power

Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, A Radical Devotion, Women of Crisis (with Jane Coles), Privileged Ones

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, Anti Oedipus

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

George Eliot, Middlemarch

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Shadow and Act

Robert Frank, The Americans

Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

Wilhelm Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit

Dee Hock, Chaordic Organization

James Hurley, Portrait of a Decade

Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Eiji Ina, Waste

Carl Jung, The Psychology and Alchemy (The Collection of Works)

Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

Tibor Kalman, Tibor

Tibor and Maira Kalman, (un)Fashion

David Korten, When Corporations Rule the World

Barbara Kruger, Remote Control

R.S. Lambert, Renewing Nature's Wealth

Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime, (with Paul Taylor)An American Exodus

Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger, Cluetrain Manifesto

Elliot Liebow, Tally's Corner

Alexander Manu, The Humane Village

Alice Trumbull Mason, Etchings and Woodcuts

Flannery O'Connor, The Short Stories

Tillie Olson, Tell Me a Riddle

George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

Davis Pratt, The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn

Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

Tom Peters, Circle of Innovation

Michael Pirsig, Zen: The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Curt Richter, A Portrait of Southern Writers

J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

Allan Savory, with Jody Butterfield, Holistic Management

Lance Secretan, Reclaiming Higher Ground

Dan Sicko, Techno Rebels

Clancy Sigal, Weekend in Dinlock

Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine

William Stott, Documentary Expression and Thirties America

Leo Tolstoy, Confession, The Death of Ivan Illych

Margaret Visser, The Geometry of Love

Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother's Gardens

Robert Penn Warren, Who Speaks for the Negro

Simone Weil, Waiting for God

Alan Weisman, Gaviotas - A Village to Reinvent the World

Elliot Wigginton, The Foxfire Book

William Carlos Williams, Paterson (poem), White Mule, The Doctor Stories, The Knack of Survival in America, The Moral Life of Children, Flannery O'Connor's South

Richard Wright, Uncle Tom's Children

Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Emile Zola, Germinal

Collection of artists edited by Alex Harris with Alice Rose George, A New Life (Stories and Photographs from the Suburban South)

Collection of writers edited by Peter Lang and Tam Miller, Suburban Discipline

 

 

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