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Jeffrey Rasley
BRINGING PROGRESS TO PARADISE - What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal
What does it mean to bring progress—schools, electricity, roads, running water—to paradise? Can our consumer culture and desire to “do good” really be good for a community that has survived contentedly for centuries without us?
256pp 20 b& w photographs - October 2010 (Conari Press)
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Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio
GAIA AND THE NEW POLITICS OF LOVE - Notes for a Poly Planet
A manifesto for global and personal healing through ecofeminism and the arts of loving. Gaia and the New Politics of Love is bracing in its range, weaving together issues of human and global health; the relationship of politics, sexuality, and ecology; practices and styles of love; the changing roles of eroticism and gender in our lives; and polyamory, bisexuality, and the AIDS reappraisal movement.
272pp - 20 b/w photos and illustr. (North Atlantic Books)
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Joel Kramer / Diana Alstad
THE PASSIONATE MIND REVISITED
The book takes readers on a liberating inner journey into the workings of their mind, transforming the way people look at themselves and the world - showing how the world’s life-threatening dramas are largely a function of people’s beliefs and experiences, and how humanity is on an evolutionary cusp requiring expanded awareness and conscious social evolution.
320pp - 31 b/w photos; 73 b/w illustratr. (North Atlantic Books)
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