Last week I compiled a list of books that inspired participants at a conference I attended to pursue unconventional career paths. As is often the case when a group of creative and educated individuals get together, the list of inspirational books went on at length, and far exceeded the number of readings I generally work into these columns. I thought it would be preferable to spread the list out over 2 weeks rather than trying to fit everything into one post. So without further ado, here is the second half of the list of books recommended by the conference participants.
- Bill Plotkin, Nature and the Human Soul
- Jason Tetro, The Germ Files
- Karl Ove Knausgaard, My Struggle
- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
- Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- Emma Goldman, Living My Life
- Daniel Qwann, The Story of B and Ishmael
- David Orr, The Nature of Design
- Gary Paul Nabhan, Cultures of Habitat
- Russell Smith, Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture
- Satyanarayana Dasa, Sri Bhagavat Sandarbha
- Herman Daly, For the Common Good
- Bruce Lipton, The Biology of Belief
- Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
- Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
- Donald Worster, Shrinking the Earth
- David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé, The Hidden Half of Nature
- John Thackara, How to Thrive in the Next Economy
- Fran Peavy, Heart Politics
- Harry Frankfurt, The Reasons of Love
- Thomas Pikkety, Capital in the 21st Century
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