The 100 Books We Most Often Refer To.
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Alexander, Christopher, et al. (1977). A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, New York, Oxford University Press
Bacon, Christopher M, et al. (2008). Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Fair Trade, Sustainable Livelihood and Ecosystems in Mexico and Central America. MIT Press
Barba, Eugenio (1995). The Paper Canoe: A Guide to Theatre Anthropology. London, Routledge
Bentley, Tom (1998). Learning beyond the classroom: education for a changing world. London, Routledge/Demos
Benyus, Janine (1997). Biomimicry: innovation inspired by nature, New York, William Morrow
Berners-Lee, Mike (2010). How Bad Are Bananas: The Carbon Footprint of Everything. London, Profile
Beukers A, Hinte E van (1998) Lightness, the inevitable renaissance of minimum energy structures (Netherlands Design Institute) Rotterdam, 010 Publishers
Black, Maggie (2007) The No Nonsense Guide to International Development, Oxford, New Internationalist
Borges, Adele (2012), Design And Craft The Brazilian Path ed: Terceiro Nome
Borasi, Giovanni, et al (2009), What To Do With The City, Canadian Center for Architecture
Boyle, David, and Simms, Andrew (2010). The New Economics: A Bigger Picture . Earthscan
Brand Stewart (2000). The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility London, Phoenix
Brown, Azby (2010) Just Enough: Lessons In Living Green from Traditional Japan. Kodansha.
Calvino, Italo (1992). Six memos for the next millenium, London, Cape
Capra, Fritjof (1996). The web of life New York, Random House
Carroll, John M (2003). Making Use: Scenario-Based Design of Human-Computer Interactions, Cambridge MA, MIT Press
Corbin, Alain (1995) Time, Desire and Horror: Towards a History of the Senses, Cambridge, Polity Press
Crawford, Matthew (2009). Shop Class As Soul Craft. Penguin
Daly, Herman E. & Joshua Farley (1975). Ecological Economics: Principles And Applications, Island Press
Davidson, Robyn, ed (2000). The Picador Book of Journeys
Diamond, Jared M (2005). Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. Viking
Duffy, Francis, (1998) Architectural knowledge, London, E+FN Spon
Dunbar, Robin (2000), Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
Dupuy, Jean-Pierre (2003) The medicalisation of life: medicine and power
Eisenstein, Charles, 2011, Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society In The Age of Transition Evolver Editions
Elbek, Uffe ed (2004) KaosPilot A-Z, Aarhus, Denmark
Foer, Jonathan Safran (2010), Eating Animals, Back Bay Press
Fletcher, Kate (2008), Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys
Freese, Barbara (2003). Coal: a Human History. London: Arrow
Goldberg, Ken ed. (2000). The robot in the garden, Cambridge MIT Press
Gombrich, E H. (1979). The Sense of Order, London, Phaidon
Goonatilake, Susantha (1998). Toward a global science: mining civilizational knowledge, Bloomington, Indiana University Press
Gowdy, John, editor, (1997) Limited Wants Unlimited Means: A Reader On Hunter-Gatherer Economics And The Environment, Washington DC, Island Press
Gray, Alasdair (1985) Lanark: a life in four books, Glasgow, Canongate
Gray, John (2002). Straw dogs: thoughts on humans and animals, Granta, London.
Greer, John Michael, The Long Descent. New Society
Greer, John Michael (2011). The Wealth of Nature: Economics as If Survival Mattered. New Society
Hall, Edward T (1959) The Silent Language, New York, Doubleday
Hamdi, Nabeel (2008), Small Change: About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities
Hamilton, Clive (2010) Requiem for a Species Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change, Earthscan
Harding, Stephan (2009) Animate Earth: Science, Intuition, and Gaia. Green Books. http://tiny.cc/gtrZO
Henderson, ed (1995) Dictionary of Biological Terms (11th ed) London Longman
Himanen, Pekka (2001) The hacker ethic, and the spirit of the Information Age, New York, Random House
Hinte, Ed van (1997), Eternally Yours. Visions on product endurance Rotterdam, 010 publishers
Holmgren, David (2002) Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability, Holmgren Design Services
Hopkins, Rob (2010). The Transition Handbook: from oil dependency to local resilience. Green Books
Hopkins, Rob (2011). The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times. Green Books
Hoven, Birgit van den (1996) Work in ancient and medieval thought: ancient philosophers, medieval monks and theologians and their concept of work, occupations and technology, J C Geiben
Huizinga, Johan (1972). Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture. Beacon Books
llich, Ivan (1974). Energy and Equity.
Illich, Ivan (1974). Medical Nemesis. London: Calder & Boyars.
Irving, Robert (1988), Being and Circumstance: Notes towards a Conditonal Art, San Francisco
Jackson, Tim (2009). Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet. Earthscan
Jegou, Francois, and Manzini, Ezio (2004) Sustainable Everyday: A Catalogie of Promising Solutions, , Milan, Edizione Ambiente
Jones, John Chris, “the internet and everyone”
Kennedy, Margrit (1995), Interest and Inflation Free Money. Seva International
King, F H (2004) Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea, and Japan, Dover
Kohn, Marek (2010). Turned Out Nice: How The British Isles Will Change As The Earth Heats Up. Faber & Faber
Kormondy, Edward (1969). Concepts of Ecology. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall.
Kumar, Satish (1992), No Destination: Autobiography of an Earth Pilgrim, Green Books
Lakoff and Johnson (1980), Metaphors we live by, University of Chicago Press
Latour, Bruno and Porter, Catherine (1996), Aramis: Or the Love of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press
Lessig, Lawrence (2001), The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World. New York, Random House.
Levine, Robert (1997) A Geography of Time, New York, Basic Books
Lietaer, Bernard (2002) The Future of Money. Random House
MacAdam, James (2010). Green Infrastructure for Southwestern Neighbourhoods. Watershed Management Group.
Mamet, David (1998) Three uses of the knife: on the nature and purpose of drama, New York, Vintage
Manguel, Alberto (1997), A History of Reading, London, Flamingo
Mast, Gregory, ed, (1988). Film theory and criticism, Oxford University Press, London
Maxmin, James, and Zuboff, Shoshana (2003). The Support Economy
McCullough, Malcom (1996). Abstracting Craft, Cambridge Mass, MIT Press
McKay, David, (2008) Sustainable energy – without the hot air UIT. http://www.withouthotair.com/
Meadows, Donatela (2009). Thinking in Systems. Earthscan
Murray, Robin et al (2010), Social Venturing, London, Young Foundation
Murray, Robin (2011) Co-operation in the Age of Google. Cooperatives UK.
Robert Neuwirth, (2011) The Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy, New York, Pantheon
North, Peter, (2010). Local Money: How to Make it Happen in Your Community, Transition Books
Norretranders, Tor (1998) The user illusion: cutting consciousness down to size, New York, Viking
Odum, Eugene (1975). Ecology. Holt Rinehart and Winston
Orlov, Dmitri, (2008) Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects, New Society
Orr , David (1992), Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World, New York, State University of New York Press
Papanek, Victor (1972), Design for the real world: human ecology and social change, New York, Random House
Patel, Raj (2010). The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
Pauli, Gunther (2010) The Blue Economy
Redwood, Mark ed (2009), Agriculture in Urban Planning Generating Livelihoods and Food Security. Earthscan
Ross, Andrew (1991), Strange Weather: Culture, Science and Technology in the Age of Limits, London, Verso
Roszak, Theodore et al (1995) Ecopsychology, San Francisco, Sierra Club Books
Sahlins, Marshall (1972) Stone age economics, New York, Aldine de Gruyter
Schechner Richard (2002), Performance Studies: An Introduction London. Routledge
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang (1987), The Railway Journey: the Industrialisation Of Time And S~pace in the Nineteenth Century, Berkeley, University of California Press
Seelig, Thomas et al, eds, (2001), Trade: Commodities, Communication and Consciousness, Zurich, Scalo
Seely Brown, John, and Duguid, Paul (1999), The Social Life of Information.
Shiva, Vandana (2000) Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, South End Press
Silvester, Hans, (2007) Les habits de la Nature, Paris, Eds de la Martiniere,
Sontag, Susan (2003) Regarding the pain of others, London, Hamish Hamilton
Steele, Carolyn (2009) Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives. Vintage.
Stickdorn, Marc, and Schneider, Jakob (2011). This Is Service Design Thinking. Amsterdam, BIS.
Thayer, Robert L (2003). Life Place: Bioregional Thought and Practice. University of California Press
Tuchman, Barbara W (1987) (A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century , New Yorkl, Random House
Vincent, J V F (1990) Structural Biomaterials, Princeton, Princeton University Press
Virilio, Paul and Polizzotti, Mark (1986), Speed and Politics: An Essay on Dromology, New York, Semiotext(e)
Whitelegg, J. (1997) Critical Mass: Transport Environment and Society in the Twenty-first Century Pluto Press, London
Wilson, Edward O (1998) Consilience, the unity of knowledge, London, Little Brown
Woelfle-Erskine, Cleo, et al (2007) Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground, Soft Skull Press
Wynants, Marleen (2010); We Can Change The Weather: 100 cases of changeability. Crosstalks
Zimmerman, Brenda et al (2000), Edgeware: Complexity Resources for Health Care Leaders, Plexus Institute
