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books I recommend:
 

+ Sneetches and Other Stories -- by Dr. Seuss

+ The Transparent Society -- by David Brin

+ Maybe One -- by Bill McKibben

+ Carfree Cities -- by J.H. Crawford

+ Getting to Yes -- by Roger Fisher &  William Ury (review)

+ The Tipping Point -- by Malcolm Gladwell

+ The First Measured Century -- by Theodore Caplow et. al.

+ Vital Signs 200_ -- by The Worldwatch Institue

+ It's Getting Better All the Time -- by Stephen Moore & Julian Lincoln Simon

+ Beyond the Limits -- by Donella Meadows et. al.  (review)

+ Maps in a Mirror -- by Orson Scott Card

+ The Lathe of Heaven -- by Ursula LeGuin

+ Beggars in Spain -- by Nancy Kress

+ Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars -- by Kim Stanley Robinson

+ Dumbing Us Down -- by John Taylor Gatto

+ Tax Shift -- by Alan Thein Durning

+ The Moral Animal -- by Robert Wright

+ The Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition -- by Ed Regis

+ Seeing Nature -- by Paul Krafel

+ Earth in the Balance -- by Al Gore  (review)
+ How Much Is Enough? -- by Alan Thein Durning  (review)
+ Global 2000 Revisited -- by Gerald O. Barney
+ Filters Against Folly -- by Garrett Hardin (review)
 

 

classics:
 

+ Literary Machines -- by Ted Nelson (review)

+ Engines of Creation -- by K. Eric Drexler (review)

+ The Limits to Growth -- by The Club of Rome

+ The Population Explosion -- by Paul and Anne Ehrlich  (review)

+ The Foundation Triology -- by Isaac Asimov (review & why I like it)

 

books I haven't read but recommend anyway:
 

+ Guns, Germs, and Steel -- by Jared Diamond

+ Knowledge and Decisions -- by Thomas Sowell

+ The State of the World 200_ -- by The Worldwatch Institute  (review)