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Abdullah, Sharif M.
The Power of One: Authentic Leadership in Turbulent Times
NSP 96pp ISBN: 0-86571-325-1 $13.00
From the Introduction: "An individual, acting alone, acting from the depths of their commitment, can change the world. That is something ‘the system' does not want you to think about. It is a subversive thought." A subversive book on power, compassion, responsibility and leadership, and how you can mobilize the power of the spirit to effect meaningful social change. A highly motivating little book.

Beer & Stief
The Mediator's Handbook (Revised & Expanded 3rd Edition)
NSP 176pp ISBN: 0-86571-359-6 $24.95
A valuable resource book for any person involved in mediation - in building bridges between diverse perspectives. Highly recommended.

Berlin, Susan
Ways We Live: Exploring Community
NSP 176pp ISBN: 0-86571-363-4 $19.95
The concept of community is central to our well being as individuals and as a society. Yet fragmented families, constant moving and job changes have led to a pervasive feeling of isolation and a sense that we've somehow lost community to the past. Ways We Live explores how we've created new models of community that provide the spiritual sustenance that we crave. From RV communities to "virtual" communities created through electronic communication; from intentional communities and communes to urban neighborhoods; and from retirement communities to single parent co-housing - Ways We Live ponders how we respond to our inner yearning for belonging, meaning, and fulfillment and our ability to create community in the 1990s.'

Burch, Mark A.
Simplicity: Notes, Stories and Exercises for Developing Unimaginable Wealth
NSP 144pp ISBN: 0-86571-323-5 $15.95
Simplicity is a hands-on manual for personal and community-wide change. While providing the philosophical and theoretical basis for the pursuit of simple living, Simplicity focuses on practical exercises for expanding awareness of one's own patterns of consumption and taking steps to reduce them. It also includes a section on engaging one's family, friends, and colleagues in the challenging but joyful process of simplifying one's material gains while enriching one's emotional, social and spiritual life. These tools separate Simplicity from the strictly theoretical works which have traditionally promoted simple living.

Burch, Mark A.
Stepping Lightly. Simplicity for People and the Planet
NSP 224pp ISBN: 0-86571-423-1 $18.95
Evolves the concept of voluntary simplicity as not only an enriching approach to life for individuals, but as a strategy to solve the planet's social, economic, and environmental problems.

Forsey, Helen (ed)
Circles of Strength: Community Alternatives to Alienation (New Catalyst 5)
NSP 144pp ISBN: 0-86571-259-X $11.95
Volume 5 in the New Catalyst Bioregional Series. A book about building communities based upon circles of mutual caring and support. From diverse visions and experience these essays offer a culture of hope.

Kivel, Paul
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
NSP 208pp ISBN: 0-86571-338-3 $19.95
A manual on empowering people to act on racism. 'At once gentle and provocative, Uprooting Racism will help you intervene strategically wherever racism occurs in public policy, institutional settings or interpersonal interactions'. While many of the examples are North American, the lessons can be applied to any racially diverse society.

Martin, Brian
Strip the Experts
Freedom 69pp ISBN: 0-900384-63-8 $6.90
This booklet is designed for people who oppose a gang of scientific experts and want to strip them naked.....Perhaps its time to encourage people to think for themselves rather than always trusting someone else. A step by step guide to challenging experts.

Meyer & Moosang(eds)
Living with the Land: Communities Restoring the Earth (New Catalyst 4)
NSP 144pp ISBN: 0-86571-251-4 $11.95
Number 4 in The New Catalyst Bioregional Series. Industrial "progress" has destroyed so much: sources of food and medicine; the knack of living in harmony with each other and the Earth; even the imagination to envision more sustainable ways of living. Living With the Land restores our imagination and hope by bringing us the stories of more than 20 urban and rural communities which are struggling successfully to regain control of their land or neighborhoods and to rebuild sustainable communities and environments.

Moyer, Bill, McAllister, J, Finley, ML & Soifer, S.
Doing Democracy: The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements
NSP 240pp ISBN: 0-86571-418-5 $22.95
Doing Democracy provides both a theory and working model for understanding and analyzing social movements, ensuring that they are successful in the long term. Beginning with an overview of social movement theory and the MAP (Movement Action Plan) model, Doing Democracy outlines the eight typical stages of social movements, the four roles of activists, and case studies from the civil rights, anti-nuclear energy, Central America, gay/lesbian, women's health (breast cancer), and globalization movements.

Peavey, Fran
By Life's Grace: Musings on the Essence of Social Change
NSP 182pp ISBN: 0-86571-285-9 $14.95
A collection of essays by an extrordinary woman, including essays on Strategic Questioning and Heart Politics.

Roseland, Mark
Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens & their Governments
NSP 256pp ISBN: 0-86571-374-X $26.95
Offers practical suggestions and innovative solutions to a wide range of municipal and community problems in clear, accessible language.' A useful resource for all community development and planning activists.

Seo, Danny
Be the Difference: A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World
NSP 224pp ISBN: 0-86571-432-0 $18.95
An energized primer for beginning activists on how to start their own activist group, fund raise, gain media exposure, organise a protest, use the internet as a tool for change, and make legislators listen - all with a unique emphasis on activism for service and personal growth.

Slim, Hugo et al
Listening for a Change: Oral Testimony and Community Development
NSP 176pp ISBN: 0-86571-304-9 $14.95
Listening for a Change takes an important step towards a development strategy which honors the contributions of the local people on whose actions and commitment community development ultimately depends. With case studies from around the world, Listening for a Change describes how community members and community organizers can use oral testimony to amplify the voices of the people in their communities who do not have access to the corridors of power. It includes a wealth of practical suggestions for collecting, transcribing, translating, and disseminating oral testimony. It also explores the limitations, ambiguities and ethics involved with collecting and using oral evidence.

Theobald, Robert
Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium
NSP 128pp ISBN: 0-86571-367-7 $12.95
An eloquent call for fundamental social change in the face of the overwhelming challenges facing humankind at the start of the new millenium.

Various
Alternative Australia: Celebrating Cultural Diversity
Enabler Publications 248pp ISBN: 952331640 $22.50
A rich cross-section of articles from countercultural Australia. Shows some of the many facets of people engaged in social change and alternative lifestyles. Includes an essay by Anarres collective member, John Englart, on 'Collectives, radical politics and feminist issues'.

Wadsworth, Yoland
Everyday Evaluation On The Run
Action Research Issues Association 89pp ISBN: 0-7316-7153-8 $4.00
Valuable for any group or individual to understand the evaluation process and how to use it effectively in everyday life. Full of examples, charts, different approaches and references. This, the 1991 First edition, has been remaindered by the author. Although a 2nd edition has been published in 1998, only minor changes to the text, examples and bibliography have occurred.

Ward, Colin
Influences : Voices of Creative Dissent
Green Books 160pp ISBN: 1870098439 $18.70
Discusses 10 major dissenters who created change. Through his books and other writing, Colin Ward has been a quiet influence in many environmental and social fields. His range of interests includes education, politics, economics, society, architecture and planning. In this new book he writes about the people who have most influenced him in these fields: William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alexander Herzen, Peter Kropotkin, Martin Buber, William Richard Lethaby, Walter Segal, Patrick Geddes, and Paul Goodman.

Welton, Neva & Wolf, Linda
Global Uprising. Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century - Stories from a New Generation of Activists
NSP 288pp ISBN: 0-86571-446-0 $27.95
There's a growing new global movement for justice today, and it's largely driven by a new generation of activists. Young people from the US and around the world, are standing up for peace, the environment, and for social justice - and they're demanding to be heard. This book documents this new youth movement through compelling first person narratives, interviews with both new and seasoned activists, poster art, poetry, and striking black and white photographs. Issues addressed include globalization and economic inequity, racism and women's rights, police brutality, media control, sweatshop labor and fair trade, the prison industrial complex and the criminalization of youth, old-growth forest destruction, and biotechnology. Older activists and world leaders tell their own stories, offering historical perspective and context. Youth-run organizations are highlighted throughout, as well as other key resources.