what i'm reading
- Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.
what i read recently and liked
- Alexie, Sherman. The Toughest Indian in the World, Reservation Blues, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Flight, Ten Little Indians, Indian Killer
- Bishop, Anne, Becoming An Ally
- Brown & Wimsatt, eds. How To Get Stupid White Men Out of Office: the anti-politics, un-boring guide to power
- Coloroso, Barbara. kids are worth it! giving your child the gift of inner discipline
- Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth. I Remember The Fallen Trees
- Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth. Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays
- Greene, Brian (ed.). The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2006
- Murakami, Haruki, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- Nerburn, Kent, Neither Wolf Nor Dog
- Tinker, George, Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide
- Wiebe, Rudy and Yvonne Johnson. Stolen Life
what i plan to read someday
there are more than this, but I'll add them as I think of them. if you have any suggestions, fire away (nonviolently).
- Ackerman and Krueger. Strategic Nonviolent Conflict
- Alexie, Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
- Alinsky, Saul. Rules for Radicals, others?
- Anderson, Chris. The Long Tail
- Bageant, Joe. Deer Hunting With Jesus
- Barron, Robert. The Strangest Way.
- Berger, Peter L. Invitation to Sociology
- Berlinski, David. Infinite Ascent: a short history of mathematics
- Bly, Robert
- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
- Bowe, John. Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
- Breton, Denise and Chris Largent, Paradigm Conspiracy
- Brooks, Fred. The Mythical Man-Month
- Brown, Michael Jacoby. Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World
- Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Carnegie, Dale. How to Win Friends & Influence People.
- Carroll, James. House of War
- Chittister, Joan.
- Cob Cottage Company. Rocket Mass Heaters, Rocket Stoves to Heat Cob Buildings
- DeMarco?, Tom & Timothy Lister. PeopleWare?: Productive Projects and Teams
- Desroches, Len. Allow the Water
- Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, & Steel
- Dolan-Del Vecchio, Ken. Making Love, Playing Power.
- Dreikurs, Rudolf. Children: the Challenge
- Dworkin, Andrea. Scapegoat
- Fallon, Sally. Nourishing Traditions
- Falls-Borda, Orlando.
- Foreman, Patricia and Andy Lee. A Tiny Home to Call Your Own
- Gallagher, Maloney, Rousseau, Wilczak. Embodied in Love
- Gibson-Graham, J.K. A Postcapitalist Politics
- Glass, Robert. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
- Grandin, Greg. Empire's Workshop
- Graves, Robert. King Jesus
- Heiney, Paul. Country Life
- Hemingway, Toby. Gaia's Garden
- Hilfiger, David. Healing the Wounds, Not All Of Us Are Saints, and Urban Injustice: How Ghettos Happen
- Hofstadter, Douglas. I Am A Strange Loop
- Holmgren, David. Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability
- Illich, Ivan. Unschooling Society and others
- Jastrab, Joseph. Sacred Manhood, Sacred Earth
- Jensen, Derrick. Language Older Than Words, Endgame
- Katz, Sandor Ellix. Wild Fermentation
- Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Kidd, Sue Monk. Dance of the Dissident Daughter
- Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
- Kivel, Paul. Men's Work, How to Stop the Violence that Tears Our Lives Apart and Boys Will Be Men
- Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine
- Kozol, Jonathan. Shame of the Nation and Savage Inequalities
- Krug, Steve. Don't Make Me Think: A Common-Sense Approach to Web Usability
- LaMott?, Anne.
- Linn bros. Sleeping With Bread
- Lopez, Barry. Of Wolves & Men
- Lorde, Audre.
- Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- McConnell?, Steve. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
- McKee?, Robert. Story
- Meade, Michael. Men and the Water of Life
- Minieri, Joan and Paul Getsos. Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community
- Mollison, Bill. Permaculture: A Designer's Manual
- Moore, Thomas. Soul Mates, Care of the Soul
- Nabhan, Gary Paul. Enduring Seeds
- Neuger, Christie Cozad and James Newton Poling, eds. Men's Work in Preventing Violence Against Women
- Norman, Donald. The Design of Everyday Things.
- Nouwen, Henri JM.
- Palast, Greg. Armed Madhouse
- Perkins, John. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
- Perlman, Fredy. {+Against His-story, Against Leviathan}+
- Piven, Frances Fox & Richard Clowan. Poor People's Movements
- Planck, Nina. Real Food
- Poling, James Newton. Understanding Male Violence, Pastoral Care issues
- Pollan, Michael. Omnivore's Dilemma
- Preserving Food Without Canning or Freezing or Keeping Food Fresh
- Ponting, Clive. A Green History of the World
- Robinson, Randall. Quitting America
- Rohr, Richard. Adam's Return, Soul Brothers, Everything Belongs, Quest for the Grail, The Wild Man's Journey, Hope Against Darkness
- Rolheiser, Ronald. Seeking Spirituality
- Roy, Arundhati. {+An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire.}
- Salomon, Shay. Little House on a Small Planet
- Salz, Victor. Between Husband and Wife
- Schneider, Sandra. Written That You May Believe
- Schneier, Bruce. Applied Cryptography
- Segaran, Toby. Programming Collective Intelligence.
- Shafer, Jay. The Small House Book
- Shirky, Clay. Here Comes Everybody
- Smith, Andrea
- Smith, S.E., D.G. Willms, N. Johnson, eds. Nurtured by Knowledge: Learning to do Participatory Action Research
- St. John of the Cross. Dark Night of the Soul (poem)
- Sutherland, Jessie. WorldView? Skills
- Taiaiake Alfred. Peace, Power, & Righteousness: an indigenous manifesto, Wasase
- Thandeka. Learning to be White
- Thich Nhat Hahn. Anger and others
- Thomas, Dave & Andy Hunt. The Pragmatic Programmer, from Journeyman to Master
- Thompson, Gabriel. Calling All Radicals: How Grassroots Organizers Can Save our Democracy
- Tinker, George E. et al. A Native American Theology
- Trask, Haunani Kay.
- Treat, James, ed. Native & Christian: Indigenous Voices on Religious Identity in the US and Canada * Vanier, Jean. Becoming Human, others
- West, Traci. Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women's Lives Matter.
- Walker, Lester. The Tiny Book of Tiny Houses, A Little House of My Own, Tiny Houses
- Williams, Robin. The Non-Designer's Design Book.
- Wilmot, Sheila. Taking Responsibility, Taking Direction
- Wink, Walter. The Human Being: Jesus and the Enigma of the Son of Man
- Wise, Tim. White Like Me
- Yoder Neufeld, Tom. Recovering Jesus
- Yoder, John Howard. Preface to Theology
- ?, ?. Leadership on the Line
what I've already read but want to read again
- Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Montgomery-Fate, Tom. Beyond the White Noise