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Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times by Zoe Weil
Price: $16.15 | More about this bookAbove All, Be Kind shows you how to teach children to be humane in the broadest sense: not only to become more compassionate towards family and friends, but also to make choices that demonstrate respect for the environment, other species and all people.
There is a way to change the world.
Imagine that the next generation has the commitment and skills to solve the most pressing challenges of our time. Above All Be Kind helps parents and other adults like you nurture that generation to become more aware, compassionate and empowered.
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Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist's World by Alan Atkisson
Price: $15.25 | More about this bookIn a style that is refreshingly candid and vivid, Atkisson provides us with a bridge passing over the brink of despair to the crest of an enticing future.
Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future by Paul & Anne Ehrlich
Price: $15.25 | More about this bookChallenges those who use appealing but misleading rhetoric to downplay the reality and importance of global environmental problems.
Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future by Donella H. Meadows, et al
Price: $15.95 | More about this bookWhile detailing the dimensions of our crisis, Beyond the Limits seeks to show how we can support all the world's people adequately and sustainably long into the future.
Captive Kids: A Report on Commercial Pressures on Kids by Consumer Reports
Price: $4.50 | More about this bookSurveys trends of marketing to kids, especially in schools. Available free online.
Claude and Medea: The Hellburn Dogs by Zoe Weil
Price: $10.80 | More about this bookThe first in a series of children's novels (ages 9 & up) promoting humane values through an exciting mystery. Claude and Medea are two very different Manhattan 7th graders who become clandestine activists seeking out opportunities to right wrongs and do good in the world. In The Hellburn Dogs, the duo and a group of friends team up to solve the mystery of a rash of dog thefts.
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Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood by Susan Linn
Price: $17.95 | More about this bookTakes a comprehensive and unsparing look at the demographic advertisers call "the kid market," taking readers on a compelling and disconcerting journey through modern childhood as envisioned by commercial interests.
Crossing the Blvd: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America by Warren Lehrer & Judith Sloan
Price: $15.95 | More about this bookA brilliant mosaic of personal stories offering insights into the "rich and combustible cauldron of cultures and ethnicities in the most diverse corner of America -- the borough of Queens, New York."
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Kevin Bales
Price: $16.15 | More about this bookHow are consumerism and the global economy linked to slavery? Bales provides an expose of modern day slavery and offers strategies for combating this horrific oppression of other people.
Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy by Matthew Scully
Price: $13.45 | More about this bookExplores the many ways our society has turned its gaze away from animals and countenanced a shameful climate of exploitation and cruelty toward them.
Faces of Racism by Josef Szwarc
Price: $14.35 | More about this bookAn in-depth look at significant aspects of racism throughout world history.
For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child Rearing & the Roots of Violence by Alice Miller
Price: $13.50 | More about this bookExamines the backgrounds of several extreme cases of self-destructive individuals to illustrate the long-term consequences of abusive child-rearing, generating conclusions that conflict with psychoanalytic dogma about human nature.
Good News for a Change: How Everyday People Are Helping the Planet by David Suzuki & Holly Dressel
Price: $12.95 | More about this bookThe litany of environmental bad news can be overwhelming, but there's hope too. In this thoughtful look at what’s happening behind the grim headlines, the authors highlight the growing number of profitable companies with a positive presence in their communities, activists and developing villages practicing true participatory democracy, farmers and ranchers sharing their land with other species — even some governments, local and national, basing economic development on an eco-friendly model.
Marketing Madness: A Survival Guide for a Consumer Society by Michael F. Jacobson & Laurie Ann Mazur
Price: $27.00 | More about this bookCovers the gamut of techniques used to push products and serves as a survival guide for living in a culture of massive marketing.
Mass Hate: The Global Rise of Genocide and Terror by Neil J. Kressel
Price: $17.10 | More about this bookExplores why the brutality of humankind erupted and flowed so expansively in the twentieth century and why terrorist violence now threatens the very core of Western civilization.
Material World: A Global Family Portrait by Peter Menzel
Price: $18.50 | More about this bookA visual portrait of life, families -- and all their stuff -- in 30 nations.
Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful LIfe by Zoe Weil
Price: $13.50 | More about this bookWith a world steeped in materialism, environmental destruction, and injustice, what can one individual possibly do to change it? While the present obstacles we face may seem overwhelming, Most Good, Least Harm shows us that change doesn't have to start with an army. It starts with you. Through straightforward approaches to living a MOGO, or "most good," life, author Zoe Weil reveals that the true path to inner peace doesn't require a retreat from the world. Rather, she gives us powerful and practicable tools to face these global issues, and improve both our planet and our personal lives.
Weil explores direct ways to become involved with the community, make better choices as citizens, and develop positive messages to live by, showing us that our simple decisions really can change the world. Most Good, Least Harm is the next step beyond "green" -- a radical new way to empower the individual and motivate positive change.
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Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G. Johnson
Price: $25.55 | More about this bookProvides students with an easily applied theoretical model for thinking about systems of privilege and difference.
Readings for Diversity and Social Justice by Maurianne Adams, ed.
Price: $29.95 | More about this bookThe first reader to cover the scope of oppressions in America, Readings for Diversity and Social Justice covers six thematic issues: racism, sexism, Anti-Semitism, heterosexism, classism and ableism.
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Price: $11.70 | More about this bookThe classic book that changed environmental advocacy and altered the course of history.
Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry by Gail Eisnitz
Price: $23.35 | More about this bookA gut-wrenching, chilling, yet carefully documented expose of unspeakable torture and death in America's slaughterhouses.
So You Love Animals: An Action-Packed, Fun-Filled Book to Help Kids Help Animals by Zoe Weil
Price: $5.00 | More about this bookTeaches children about what is happening to animals in our world and offers hundreds of activities to help young people enjoy animals and nature and become involved in their protection.
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So, You Love Animals (Bulk Discount: 5 for $20)
Price: $20.00 | More about this bookTeaches children about what is happening to animals in our world and offers hundreds of activities to help young people enjoy animals and nature and become involved in their protection.
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Sustainable Planet: Solutions for the 21st Century by Juliet Schor & Betsy Taylor, eds.
Price: $14.40 | More about this bookAn anthology focused on finding ways of living that are sustainable and deeply satisfying, that ensure economic and political democracy, and that are passionate about beauty, elegant design, and the wildness of nature.
Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader by William Ayers, ed.
Price: $14.95 | More about this bookAn enlightening book whose topics include community building, adult literacy, empowerment, diversity education, responsibility, social action education, and writing.
The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen
Price: $16.20 | More about this bookInterweaving political, historical, philosophical and deeply personal perspectives, Jensen argues that only by understanding past horrors can we hope to prevent future ones.
The Power and Promise of Humane Education by Zoe Weil
Price: $14.35 | More about this bookIn The Power and Promise of Humane Education, learn how to engage young people to explore social justice, environmental ethics, animal protection and more. Get the keys to unlock each person's potential - and your own - to be a force for good and to help lead us to a better future.
Get activities, stories, examples, case studies, resources and more to help implement your own program. This inviting and easy-to-use book is written for teachers, activists, educational reformers and home-schooling parents. Learn how to bring humane education to classrooms, youth groups, camps, religious settings or other gatherings.
The Witness (video) by Tribe of Heart
Price: $18.00 | More about this bookYou could perhaps call The Witness a story about a man and a cat. Or maybe you could say it is really a story about what lurks behind the doors of the fur industry. All these descriptions fall painfully short of the richness contained in this remarkable documentary.
Toxic Sludge is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies & the Public Relations Industry by John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton
Price: $15.25 | More about this bookThis book names names and reveals how public relations wizards concoct and spin the news, organize phony "grassroots" front groups, spy on citizens, and conspire with lobbyists and politicians to thwart democracy.
When Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten
Price: $17.95 | More about this bookAn alarming exposé of the devastating consequences of economic globalization and a passionate message of hope.
Watch and share IHE President, Zoe Weil's TEDx talk -- an inspiring vision of how to create a just, compassionate, healthy world for all through solutionary education.
