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Clean House Clean Planet 86 reviews Karen Logan
Pocket, 1997
Clean House is a great tool
+ A great book for green cleaning + Great idea + Easy and Cheap Cleaning Ideas!
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto 354 reviews Michael Pollan
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
If you care about what you eat and how you feel...
+ Refreshing Point of View + Intelligent, Radical, Timely
Books, manuals, health guides, nutrition, DIET!!!!....what to eat!!!
Putting all of the above mentioned aside, this is a timely, essential guide to electing proper choices in our health and well being, not to mention our planet.
There is so much misinformation, trend diognostics, nutritional ...
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The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements 16 reviews Sandor Ellix Katz
Chelsea Green, 2006
Eye opening and excellent healing book
+ One of the most delicious books about food activism I've ever read! + Great book. + A great book looking for a better title + The Revolution will not be Microwaved
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Living Simply with Children: A Voluntary Simplicity Guide for Moms, Dads, and Kids Who Want to Reclaim the ... 11 reviews Marie Sherlock
Three Rivers Press, 2003
Good, but flawed
+ Inspiring, fast read + Wonderful Simplicity
This is a guidebook for families who want to live a more simple life and reject the culture's mainstream values of consumerism and competition. There's a wealth of information in here on family games and activities, how to talk to and listen to your children, help them discover their values, seek ...
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Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods 89 reviews Sandor Ellix Katz
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2003
A Great Read, Adventurous Fermentation Ideas
+ Awesome book explaining so much about healthy living foods + A Wonderful Book + WONDERFUL! + Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods
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American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza 67 reviews Peter Reinhart
Ten Speed Press, 2003
American Pie
+ American Pie is an inspiration + Top Doughg!
I am enjoying this book. I don't get to read anything in one shot these days so I really like to catch the story like a weekly show and without the associated noise. A bonus is a few new ideas for my personal persuit of making excellent home pizzas.
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Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam 37 reviews Michel Onfray
Arcade Publishing, 2008
Joy in the present
+ Good book in this genre + very interesting perspective
Has Michel Onfray, the author of "Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam," convinced me to become an atheist?
The answer is no. But then, conversion is not his immediate intent. Michel Onfray is not a preacher, not one of those Bible forwarding evangelists on ...
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Fast Food Nation 1443 reviews Eric Schlosser
Harper Perennial, 2005
Fast Food Nation
+ Required reading for Americans + Make this required reading in high school + Bias but informative. + some interesting background info
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Queen Jane's Version, The Holy Bible for Adults Only 3 reviews Douglas A. Rankin
Dallas Emporia Pr, 1998
The Christian Bible . the Naked Truth
+ This book is great
This Version of the Bible is a must read for all. It reveals the true nature of religion and it's true purpose. By cutting to the hard core psychological base of human mind control. With thousands of years of refined propaganda technology in it's box of mental tricks, religion is opened like a ...
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Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism 225 reviews David Mills
Ulysses Press, 2006
This Book Changed My Life!
+ First class compendium + Alternative to other reads + Thought-provoking rebuttal of Christian fundamentalism
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Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability 24 reviews Greg Horn
Freedom Publishing Company (IL), 2006
A great guide to green living
+ Great guide for living green + guide
As the owner and operator of a green house/window cleaning company in San Francisco, I have read a myriad of books on the subject of green living, and I have to say that this is one of my favorites. It has served as a guide for helping me to further make my life environmentally friendly. It's ...
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The God Delusion 1527 reviews Richard Dawkins
Mariner Books, 2008
Exceptional
+ Brilliant + exceptional book
Raised in a strict religious family and being on the tilt...I was unsure of whether or not to dive into this material. Only out of fear of finding out everything I was raised to know would come crumbling at my feet. Dawkins' book presents material in a clear logical format that is both humble and ...
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Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community 22 reviews Heather Coburn Flores
Chelsea Green, 2006
Food not lawns
+ Food in your own yard
Great ideas. It would be nice if everyone who had a little patch of lawn would convert it to garden. It is a lot of work to care for either a lawn or a garden but the dividends of the garden are better than the looks of a lawn.
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Real Food: What to Eat and Why 94 reviews Nina Planck
Bloomsbury USA, 2007
Who Knew!?
+ Real Food-What to Eat & Why by Nina Planck + If you only read one book about food and nutrition, read this book!
Nina's book is very informative and interesting. I didn't want to put it down. It really shatters all of the popular dieting advice of present day America. I was intrigued from beginning to end & have already begun making changes to my purchasing and eating habits. The book gives great ...
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Atheist Preacher: How to be Spiritual without a God concept: What Conservatives and Liberals wish each other ... Mike Wolfe
BookSurge Publishing, 2005
Spiritual atheism is achieved mything one's own life, while avoiding the encumbrances of incongruent theism. Faith-transitioning from conservative Christian to spiritual atheist is modeled pillar by pillar, platform by platform. This insider whistle-blows on the deception of the ages! The interrelation of our psychological-spiritual dimensions is astutely demonstrated.
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Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats 420 reviews Sally Fallon
NewTrends Publishing, 1999
Helpful to a vegetarian if you're willing to look outside yourself!!
+ life changing + Back to Health + Best Cookbook I Own
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The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book: A Guide to Whole-Grain Breadmaking 56 reviews Laurel Robertson, Carol Flinders, ...
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
Awesome book!
+ Great book for learning to make bread + Bread
Just got a bread maker and this is the perfect book! Most of it is the fundamentals of bread making in the whole grain world. If found that very helpful.
Great section on bread makers! Suggestion to buy Zoj machine is a good one. I've baked the "Basic Whole Wheat Bread" on page 434 several ...
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Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich (Revised edition) 36 reviews Duane Elgin
Quill (William Morrow), 1998
Some great insights from several years ago, better living through better living
+ The "Dolce Vita" explained
Elgin, the author of Voluntary Simplicity, however, is bringing up his Now observation to point out that we can't even get to voluntary if we get strangled by a mind all bound up in phantasms of the past or the future. That's an interesting argument, and I wonder how it might apply to the freedom ...
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Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection 16 reviews Jessica Prentice
Chelsea Green, 2006
The spiritually intelligent nutrient dense book
+ Intriguing & Intuitive + Fantastic, delicious, informative book + Perfect Blend of Science and Lore. Amazing Read! + I love this book on so many levels.
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Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally 20 reviews Alisa Smith, J.B. Mackinnon
Harmony, 2007
Wonderful love story
+ Great idea, interesting story of a couple and living locally + When you would kill for some wheat flour! + Best Memoir I've Read
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