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This is one of the most important books ever written about our relationship with animals. Francione does an excellent job of explaining what animal "rights" actually are and how they contrast (and conflict) with animal "welfare", and clearly explains what we can do, right now, to decrease the suffering of animals. The confusion between these concepts has exploded in recent years, so this book is even more necessary than when it was written.

When I read The Long Emergency I found myself trying to imagine what life might be like in the post fossil fuel era, but World Made By Hand has helped fill that gap. It is a compelling and convincing depiction of what life might be like in the near future. While the catastrophes that precede the narrative are brutal (and hopefully, pessimistic) the story line provides a welcome alternative to the all-too-common "Mad Max" scenarios and shows how a particular small town starts to rebuild their lives and their community.

Making a Killing is a one of those rare, and vitally important, books which pulls together what seem to be separate movements and shows how they are really aspects of the same struggles. This book clears up a lot of confusion of what "animal rights" really means, and how it is yet another aspect of the struggle against oppression, domination and hierarchy.

This is the best book about gardening that I have ever read: a fascinating and detailed account of astounding variety of life in healthy soil and all the rich interconnections amongst them. Given this knowledge, it is obvious that fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and even roto-tilling are proufoundly damaging to the productivity of our plants, which I always understood on an intuitive level, but this book provides the scientific details behind it.