some reading resources

 

“A Place Called School” by John I. Goodlad

“Big Doctoring in America” by Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D.

“Bowling Alone” by Robert D. Putnam

“Closing of the American Mind” by Allan Bloom

“Creating A World That Works For All” by Sharif Abdullah

“The Cultural Creatives” by Paul H. Ray, and Sherry Ruth Anderson

Food Politics” by Marion Nestle

“Giving for Social Change” by Althea K. Nagai, Robert Lerner, and Stanley Rothman

"Good to Great: Why Some Companies make the Leap...and Others Don't" by Jim Collins

"The Great Unraveling" by Paul Krugman

“Habits of the Heart” by Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton

“Hope Dies Last” by Studs Terkel

“Listening to America” edited by Linda Wertheimer

Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980” by Charles Murray

“The Manufactured Crisis” by David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle

“Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America” by Barbara Ehrenreich

“Oxymorons: The Myth of A US Health Care System” by J. D. Kleinke

“The Salinas Valley: A History of America’s Salad Bowl” by Burton Anderson

The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy” by William Greider

“Stolen Harvest” by Vandana Shiva

“Sustainable Cuisine” White Papers, Earth Pledge Foundation

“The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell

“Wealth and Poverty” by George Gilder

“The Wealth and Poverty of Nations” by David S. Landes

“What Matters Most: How a Small Group of Pioneers Is Teaching Social Responsibility to Big Business, and Why Big Business Is Listening” by Jeffrey Hollender

“You Can’t Eat GNP: Economics As If Ecology Mattered” by Eric A. Davidson

Your Child’s Growing Mind” by Jane M. Healy