Recommended readings
Below are some of the key books - both older classics and newer work - that have informed Local Futures' perspectives on our central issues:
• Hard-hitting critiques and analyses of globalization, corporate power and agribusiness; • thought-provoking explorations of localization alternatives; • cultural diversity versus monoculture; and more.
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The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business
Author: Courtwright, David
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2019
Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture, and The Overworked American, and The Overspent American (reprint edition)
Author: Schor, Juliet B.
Publisher: Scribner, 2005
Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture
Author: Ewen, S.
Publisher: Basic Books, 2001
Confronting Consumption
Editor: Princen, Thomas
Publisher: MIT Press, 2002
The High Price of Materialism
Author: Kasser, Tim
Publisher: MIT Press, 2002
Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World
Author: Kasser, Tim and Kanner, Allen
Publisher: APA Books, 2004
Braiding Sweetgrass
Author: Wall Kimmerer, Robin
Publisher: Milkweed Editions, 2015
Craeft: an Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts
Author: Langlands, Alexander
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019
Cultures of Habitat: On Nature, Culture and Story
Author: Nabhan, Gary, Paul
Publisher: Counterpoint, 1998
Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect
Author: Orr, David, Washington, D.C. and Covelo, California
Publisher: Island Press, 1994
Ethnobiology for the Future: Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity, edited by Gary Paul Nabhan
Edited: Nabhan, Gary Paul
Publisher: University of Arizona Press, 2016
Hind Swaraj and other writings
Author: Gandhi, Mohandas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; New Ed edition, 1997
Humankind
Author: Bergman, Rutger
Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2020
Indigenous Sustainable Wisdom: First-Nation Know-How for Global Flourishing
Author: Narvaez, Darcia, et al. (eds.)
Publisher: Peter Lang, 2019
A Language Older Than Words
Author: Jensen, Derrick
Publisher: New York: Context Books, 2000
Last Child in the Woods
Author: Louv, Richard
Publisher: Workman Publishing, 2008
The Practice of the Wild
Author: Snyder, Gary
Publisher: Counterpoint, 2010
On Time and Water
Author: Magnason, Andri Snær
Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 2019
Restoring the Kinship Worldview
Author: Topa, Wahinkpe (Four Arrows) and Narvaez, Darcia
Publisher: North Atlantic Books, 2022
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World
Author: Yunkaporta, Tyson
Publisher: Harper One, 2020
Seeds of Peace
Author: Sivaraksa, Sulak
Publisher: Parallax Press, 1992
The Snow Leopard
Author: Matthiessen, Peter
Publisher: Penguin Books, 1978
The Spirit of Regeneration: Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development
Edited by: Apffel-Marglin, Frédérique and PRATEC
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1998
Team Human (1st edition)
Author: Rushkoff, Douglas
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019
Walden: Or, Life in the Woods New Edition
Author: Thoreau, Henry David
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 1995
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
(main edition)
Author: Zuboff, Shoshana
Publisher: Profile Books, 2019
Ancestral Future
Author: Krenak, Ailton
Publisher: Polity, 2024
Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
Author: Frerick, Austin. Foreword by Schlosser, Eric
Publisher: Island Press, 2024
Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money
Author: Teachout, Zephyr
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers, 2020
Capitalist Globalization: Consequences, Resistance and Alternatives
Author: Hart-Landsberg, Martin
Publisher: Monthly Review Press, 2013
The Case Against the Global Economy: and For a Turn Toward the Local
Author: Mander, Jerry, and Edward Goldsmith (eds.)
Publisher: San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1996
Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy
Author: Walden, Bello
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004
The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
Author: Hickel, Jason
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2018
Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision and Human Scale
Author: Sale, Kirkpatrick
Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2000
Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace (1st edition)
Author: Shiva, Vandana
Publisher: South End Press, 2005
Globalization Unmasked: Imperialism in the 21st Century
Author: Petras, James and Veltmeyer, Henry
Publisher: Zed Books, 2001
Farewell to Growth
Author: Latouche, Serge
Publisher: Polity Press, 2009
Free Trade: Myth, Reality and Alternatives
Authors: Dunkley, Graham
Publisher: Zed Books, 2004
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Manager Own the World
Authors: Christophers, Brett
Publisher: Verso, 2024
One World Mania: A Critical Guide to Free Trade, Financialization and Over-Globalization
Authors: Dunkley, Graham
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016
The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization
Authors: Ellwood, Wayne
Publisher: New Internationalist Publications, 2011
The Regeneration Handbook
Author: Hall, Don
Foreward: Hopkins, Rob
Publisher: New Society Publishers, 2024
Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
Author: Hall, Don
Foreward: Provost, Claire and Kennard, Matt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023
They Rule: the 1% vs. Democracy
Author: Street, Paul
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers, 2014
There is an Alternative
Author: Bennholdt-Thomsen, Veronika, Faraclas, Nicholas and Von Werlhof, Claudia
Publisher: Spinifex Press, 2001
In the Wake of the Affluent Society
Author: Latouche, Serge
Publisher: Zed Books, 1993
When Corporations Rule the World
Author: Korten, David
Publisher: West Hartford, Connecticut: Kumarian Press, 1995
Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible
Author: International Forum on Globalization
Publisher: San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc, 2002
Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation
Author: Williams, Elandria Plattus, Rachel Feghali, Eli and Schneider, Nathan
Publisher: OR Books Alternative Publishing, 2024
The Bioregional Economy: Land, Life and the Pursuit of Happiness
Author: Scott-Cato, Molly
Publisher: Routledge, 2013
Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up
Author: Flaccavento, Anthony - Foreword by Bill McKibben
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky, 2016
Connected to Place
Authors: Biggar, Matt
Publisher: Comstock Publishing Associates, 2025
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Authors: McKibben, Bill
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2008
Green Alternatives to Globalization
Authors: Woodin, Michael and Lucas, Caroline
Publisher: Pluto Press, 2004
Happier People, Healthier Planet
Authors: Belton, Teresa
Publisher: Silverwood Books, 2014
Home Economics
Author: Berry, Wendell
Publisher: North Point Press, 1987
Less is More
Author: Andrews, Cecile and Urbanska, Wanda
Publisher: New Society Publishers, 2009
Local is Our Future
Author: Norberg-Hodge, Helena
Publisher: Local Futures, 2019
Localism in the Mass Age
Authors: Mitchell, Mark T. and Peters, Jason
Publisher: Front Porch Republic Books, 2018
The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift
Authors: Young De, Raymond and Princen, Thomas
2019
Selling Local: Why Local Food Movements Matter
Authors: Robinson, Jennifer, M. and Farmer, James.R.
2017
Short Circuit: Strengthening Local Economics for Security in an Unstable World
Author: Douthwaite, Richard.J.
1998
Slow is Beautiful
Author: Andrews, Cecile
Publisher: New Society Publishers, 2006
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Author: Schumacher, E.F.
Publisher: New York: Harper and Row, and London: Blond and Briggs Ltd, 1973
The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (2nd edition)
Author: Shuman, Michael
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007
The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (2nd edition)
Author: Shuman, Michael
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007
The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalised Economy
Authors: Bennholdt-Thomsen Veronica & Mies Maria
Publisher: Zed Books, 1999
Sufficiency Economy: Enough, for Everyone, Forever
Author: Alexander, Samuel
Publisher: Simplicity Institute Publishing, 2015
Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming our Communities
Authors: Gibson-Graham, J.K. Cameron, Jenny. Healy, Stephen
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 2013
Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience (1st edition)
Author: Hopkins, Rob
Publisher: Green Books, 2008
True Wealth
Author: Schor, Juliet
Publisher: Penguin, 2011
The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays
Author: Berry, Wendell
Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005
What matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth (first edition)
Author: Berry, Wendell
Publisher: Counterpoint, 2011
A Year of Living Locally (free to download)
Author: Gorenflo, Neal and Mitchell, Stacy
Publisher: Shareable, 2021
The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World
Author: Stone, Glenn, Davis
Publisher: Routledge, 2022
Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal
Author: Magdoff, Fred and Tokar, Brian
Publisher: Monthly Review Press, 2010
Agroecology: Science and Policy
Author: Rosset, Peter and Altieri Miguel
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing, 2017
A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food
Author: Harris, Will
Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2023
Bringing the Food Economy Home: Local Alternatives to Global Agribusiness
Authors: Norberg-Hodge, Helena. Merrified, Todd. Gorelick, Steven
Publisher: Zed Books (UK) and Kumarian Press (USA), 2002
Climate: A New Story
Author: Eisenstein, Charles
Publisher: North Atlantic Books, 2018
Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods
Author: Nabhan, Gary, Paul
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009
Eating Tomorrow:
Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food
Author: Wise, A.
Publisher: Small Planet Institute, 2019
The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community and the Land
Author: Wirzba, Norman
Publisher: Counterpoint Press, 2004
The Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture
Author: Kimbrell, Andrew (ed)
Publisher: Washington D.C.: Island Press, 2002
Farming While Black
Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Author: Penniman, Leah
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018
Food
Author: Clapp, Jennifer, 2020
Food, Inc. 2: Inside the Quest for a Better Future for Food (a guide to the film)
Edited: Participant and Webber, Karl
Publisher: Hachette Book Group, 2024
Food Sovereignty: Reconnecting Food, Nature and Community
Authors: Desmarais, Annette. Wittman, Hannah, Kay. Wiebe, Nettie
Publisher: Food First Books, 2010
Food Town USA
Author: Winne, Mark. 2019.
Publisher: Island Press, 2019
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Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity
Author: Pimbert, P. Michel
Publisher: Routledge, 2017
Formerly Known as Food
Author: Lawless, Kristen
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2018
From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture
Author: Norberg-Hodge, Helena. Goering, Peter. Page, John
Publisher: Local Futures/International Society for Ecology and Culture & Zed Books, 2000
The Global Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming
Author: Weis, Tony
Publisher: Zed Books, 2007
The Nature of Nature
Author: Shiva, Vandana
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishers, 2024
Local: The New Face of Food and Farming in America
Author: Gayeton, Douglas
Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, 2014
The New Agrarianism: Land, Culture and the Community of Life
Authors: Freyfogle, Eric
Publisher: Island Press, 2001
Reaping What She Sows
Authors: Matsumoto, Nancy
Publisher: Melville House, 2025
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch
Authors: Freeman, Andrea
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers, 2024
Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future
Authors: Smaje, Chris
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2023
School Food Politics in Mexico: The Corporatization of Obesity and Healthy Eating Policies
Author: Tenorio, José
Publisher: Routledge, 2023
A Small Farm Future
Authors: Smaje, Chris
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020
Selling Local: Why Local Food Movements Matter
Author: Robinson, Jennifer, Meta and Farmer, James, Robert
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2017
Tending the Earth: Traditional, Subsistence Agriculture in the US
Author: Colby, Ashley
Publisher: Routledge, 2021
Tending the Earth: Traditional, Sustainable Agriculture in India
Author: Pereira, Winin
Publisher: Bombay. Earthcare Books, 1993
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
Author: Berry, Wendell
Publisher: San Francisco. Sierra Club Books, 1977
We Feed the World:
A Celebration of Smallholder Farmers and Fishing Communities
Author: The Gaia Foundation, Foreword by Shiva, Vandana
Publisher: The Gaia Foundation, 2020
Diagnosis and critique:
The Age of Insanity: Modernity and Mental Health
Author: Schumaker, J. F.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2001
Attensity!
Author: The Friends of Attention
Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2026
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Author: Wu, T
Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2016
Depression and Globalization: The Politics of Mental Health in the Twenty First Century
Author: Walker, C.
Publisher: Springer Nature Link, 2008
The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit
Author: Alexander, B.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2010
The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being
Author: Davies, W.
Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2016
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
Author: Layard, R.
Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2006
Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
Author: Cacioppo, J.T. and Patrick, W.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009
The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies
Author: Lane, R.E.
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2001
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
Author: Hari, J.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Author: McGilchrist, I.
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2019
The Myth of Normal
Author: Maté, G. with Maté, D.
Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2024
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
Author: Schor, J.B.
Publisher: Hatchette Book Group, 1993
The Political Self: Understanding the Social Context for Mental Illness
Edited by: Tweedy, R.
Publisher: Routledge, 2017
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Author: Maté, G.
Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2010
In Search of Happiness: Understanding an Endangered State of Mind
Author: Schumaker, J.F.
Publisher: Gyan Books Ltd, 1949
The Selfish Society: How We All Forgot to Love One Another and Made Money Instead
Author: Gerhardt, S.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2011
Shades of Loneliness: Pathologies of a Technological Society
Author: Stivers. R.
Publisher:
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention
Author: Hari, J.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023
What About Me? The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
Author: Verhaeghe, P.
Publisher: Scribe, 2014
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Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind
Edited by: Buzzell, L. and Chalquist, C.
Publisher: Counterpoint, 2009
The Evolved Nest: Nature's Way of Raising Children and Creating Connected Communities
Author: Narvaez, D. and Bradshaw, G.H.
Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2023
Happier People, Healthier Planet
Author: Belton, T.
Publisher: SilverWood Books, 2014
The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being
Author: Wilkinson, R. and Pickett, K.
Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2020
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Author: Louv, R.
Publisher: Hatchette Book Group, 2008
Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
Author: Jones, L.
Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2022
Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality
Author: Narvaez, D.
Publisher: Norton Professional Books, 2014
Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future
Author: Eisler, R. and Fry, D.P.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2019
Radical Ecopsychology
Author: Fisher, A.
Publisher: Sunypress, 2013
Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy
Author: Lyne, S.
Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2018
The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier and Happier
Author: Pinker, S.
Publisher: Penguin Random House
The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
Author: Stuart-Smith, S.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2015
Beyond Developmentality: Constructing Inclusive Freedom and Sustainability
Author: Deb, Debal
Publisher: Routledge, 2009
The Breakdown of Nations and the Overdeveloped Nations (new edition)
Author: Kohr, Leopold
Publisher: Green Books, 2001
Carbon Metrics, Global abstractions and ecological epistemicide
Authors: Moreno, Camila and Speich Chassé, Daniel and Fuhr, Lili.
Volume 42 of the Publication Series Ecology. Edited by the Heinrich Böll Foundation
2015
Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India
Authors: Kothari, Ashish and Srivastava, Aseem
Publisher: Viking India, 2012
Climate: A New Story
Author: Eisenstein, Charles
Publisher: North Atlantic Books, 2018
Climate: A New Story
Author: Eisenstein, Charles
Publisher: North Atlantic Books, 2018
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition
Author: Perkins, John
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture
Author: Pascoe, Bruce
Publisher: Magabala Books, 2018
Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era
Author: D'Alisa, Giacomo, Demaria, Federica and Kallis, Giorgos
Publisher: Routledge, 2014
The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power
Author: Sachs, Wolfgang (ed.)
Publisher: London and New Jersey. Zed Books, 1992
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
Author: Escobar, Arturo
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2011
Energy Transition and Economic Sufficiency
Edited by: Hawkins Kreps, Bart and Cobb, W. Clifford
Publisher: Post Carbon Institute, 2021
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
Author: Heinberg, Richard
Publisher: Clairview Books, 2011
Exploring Degrowth:
A Critical Guide
Author: Liegey, Vincent. Nelson, Anitra
Publisher: Pluto Press, 2020
The Good Life Beyond Growth
Author: Hartmut Rosa (ed.)
Publisher: Routledge, 2019
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Author: Polanyi, Karl
Publisher: Beacon Press, 2002
Happier People Healthier Planet: how putting wellbeing first would help sustain life on earth
Author: Belton, Teresa
Publisher: Silver Wood Books Ltd, 2014
The Inner Level: Howe More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Wellbeing
Author: Pickett, Kate and Wilkinson, Richard
Publisher: Allan Lane, 2018
Less Is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness
Author: Andrews, Cecile and Urbanska, Wanda
Publisher: New Society Publishers, 2009
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
Author: Hickel, Jason
Publisher: Penguin, 2020
Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity
Author: Shuman, Michael H.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012
Money Makes You Crazy: Custom and Change in the Solomon Islands
Author: McDonald, Ross
Publisher: Internet Archive, 2003
Myth of the Machine
Vol 1 & 2
Author: Mumford, Lewis
Publisher: Mariner Books, 1971
The New Peasantries: Rural Development in Times of Globalization
Author: Van der Ploeg, Jan Douwe
Publisher: Routledge, 2018
The New Possible: Visions of Our World Beyond Crises
Author: multiple (with essay by: Helena Norberg-Hodge, Vandana Shiva, Michael Pollan, and more)
Publisher: Cascade Books, 2021
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Author: Ghosh, Amitav
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, 2021
Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary
Author: Kothari, Ashish et al
Publisher: AuthorsUpFront, 2019
Post-Capitalist Futures
Paradigms, Politics, and Prospects
Author: Alexander Samuel, Chandrashekeran Sangeetha, Gleeson Brendan
Publisher: Springer Link, 2022
The Post-Development Reader
Author: Rahnema, Majid (ed.)
Publisher: London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1997
Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (reprint edition)
Author: Jackson, Tim
Publisher: Routledge, 2011
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
Author: Stoll, Steven
Publisher: Hill & Wang, 2017
Rethinking Tourism and Ecotravel: The Paving of Paradise and What You Can Do to Stop It
Author: McLaren, Deborah
Publisher: West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1998
Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray
Author: Dyer, Nat
Publisher: Bristol University Press, 2024
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition
Author: Eisenstein, Charles
Publisher: Evolver Editions, 2011
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World
Author: Yunkaporta, Tyson
Publisher: Harper One, 2020
Seeing Like a State
Author: Scott. James, C.
Publisher: Yale University Press, 1999
Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure, and Joie de Vivre
Author: Andrews, Cecile
Publisher: New Society Publishers, 2006
Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We have so Little Left
Author: Taylor, Mark C.
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2014
Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention
Author: Hari, Johann
Publisher: Crown, 2022
Stone Age Economics
Author: Sahlins, Marshall
Publisher: Aldine Transaction, 1974
The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalised Economy
Author: Mies, Maria and Bennholdt-Thomsen, Veronika
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999
Tools for Conviviality, and Deschooling Society
Author: Illich, Ivan
Publisher: Marion Boyars, 2001
The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology (new edition)
Author: Winner, Langdon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1988
Victims of Progress (5th edition)
Author: Bodley, John H.
Publisher: AltaMira Press, 2008
Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
Author: Galeano, Eduardo
Publisher: St. Martins's Press, 2001
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh
Author: Norberg-Hodge, Helena
Publisher: Local Futures, 1991 (updated in 2016)
Ladakh: Crossroads of High Asia (2nd edition)
Author: Rizvi, Janet
Publisher: Delhi: Oxford India Press, 1998
Trekking in Ladakh (3rd edition)
Author: Loram, Charlie
Publisher: India Trekking Guides, a Trailblazer publication, 2004