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Chelsea Green
Biography


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Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: the Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi (07 Edition)
Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: the Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi (07 Edition)
by Les Leopold
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A CIA-connected labor union, an assassination attempt, a mysterious car crash, listening devices, and stolen documentseverything youd expect from the latest thriller. Yet, this was the reality of Tony Mazzocchi, the Rachel Carson of the U.S. workplace; a... (read more)

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Language Older Than Words (04 Edition)
Language Older Than Words (04 Edition)
by Derrick Jensen
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At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth. This... (read more)

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The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi
The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi
by Les Leopold
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A CIA-connected labor union, an assassination attempt, a mysterious car crash, listening devices, and stolen documents--everything you'd expect from the latest thriller. Yet, this was the reality of Tony Mazzocchi, the Rachel Carson of the U.S. workplace;... (read more)

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Farm Friends: From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond
Farm Friends: From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond
by Tom Fels
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Farm Friends is a memoir and a study of the generation of the 1960s. Beginning on a communal farm in 1969, it continues as a personal chronicle of the author and his extended family up to the present day. From the greenhouse in the spring to haying in... (read more)

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An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas
An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas
by Diane Wilson
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The gripping true story of one woman's fight to save her town and her way of life from deadly industrial chemicals. Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, proves that one "ordinary" woman can force a giant chemical... (read more)

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An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas
An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas
by Diane Wilson
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When Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, learns that she lives in the most polluted county in the United States, she decides to fight back.... (read more)

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Castaways: The Penikese Island Experiment
Castaways: The Penikese Island Experiment
by George Cadwalader
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Cadwalader, a Marine captain severely wounded in Viet Nam, recuperates but is unable to return to combat. Strongly influenced by his experience in the Marines, he recruits a small band of unlikely “teachers,” well-educated social drop-outs... (read more)

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The Making of a Radical: A Political Autobiography (Good Life Series)
The Making of a Radical: A Political Autobiography (Good Life Series)
by Scott Nearing
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Scott Nearing lived one hundred years, from 1883 to 1983—a life spanning most of the twentieth century. In his early years, Nearing made his name as a formidable opponent of child labor and military imperialism. Having been fired from university... (read more)

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Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; Or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus
Holy Roller: Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; Or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus
by Diane Wilson
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In this rollicking memoir, Diane Wilson — a Texas Gulf Coast shrimper and the author of the highly acclaimed An Unreasonable Woman — takes readers back to her childhood in rural Texas and into her family of Holy Rollers. By night at tent... (read more)

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Loving and Leaving the Good Life
Loving and Leaving the Good Life
by Helen Nearing
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"Loving and Leaving the Good Life" is Nearings testimonial to 53 years of marriage to her husband--who died at age 100--and the principles the couple stood for: self-sufficiency, generosity, social justice, and peace.... (read more)

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Visionaries : the 20TH Century's 100 Most Inspirational Leaders (07 Edition)
Visionaries : the 20TH Century's 100 Most Inspirational Leaders (07 Edition)
by Satish Kumar
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Visionaries brings together the lives and works of 100 great men and women who offered inspiration, hope and healing.The 20th century was marked by wars, dictatorships and environmental destruction, yet many individuals kept alive the hope of a sane and... (read more)

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The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography
The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography
by Richard Jefferies
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This is not an autobiography in the ordinary sense, as it contains no history of Richard Jefferies' life, but is an outpouring of his soul. At odds with the world, Jefferies saw the land's beauty, the sea's grandeur and the interest of life but he longed... (read more)

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No Destination: An Autobiography
No Destination: An Autobiography
by Satish Kumar
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Satish Kumar has been a wandering Jain monk, worked on Vinoba Bhave's campaign for land reform, undertaken an 8000-mile pilgrimage from India to America and guided a number of British ecological, spiritual and educational ventures. This is his account of... (read more)

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Scott Nearing: An American Radical, and American Homesteader, an American Original (Good Life Series)
Scott Nearing: An American Radical, and American Homesteader, an American Original (Good Life Series)
by John A Saltmarsh
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Scott Nearing (1883-1983) pioneered the modern homesteading movement. John Saltmarsh's biography traces Nearing's life from his early days as a social radical to his later life with wife Helen on their model homestead on the coast of Maine. Photos.... (read more)

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Business as Unusual: My Entrepreneurial Journey, Profits with Principles
Business as Unusual: My Entrepreneurial Journey, Profits with Principles
by Anita Roddick
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Anita Roddick is one of the world's most outspoken, controversial, and successful entrepreneurs of the age. Her autobiography, Business As Unusual, charts the story of Roddick and her company The Body Shop through all the highs and lows since 1990. It... (read more)

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Through the Eye of the Storm: Finding Faith and Redemption in the Aftermath of Katrina
Through the Eye of the Storm: Finding Faith and Redemption in the Aftermath of Katrina
by Cholene Espinoza
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A pioneering female fighter pilot loses her soul in the Iraq war, only to find it again in the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in this true story of recovery, relief, and redemption on the Mississippi coast.... (read more)

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