 | To Have or to Be? by Erich Fromm
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £5.47 Great thoughts from someone with a great mind and an even greater heart
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 | Wherever You Go, There You are: Mindfulness Meditation for Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Buy new: £7.93 / Used from: £5.51 A thought-provoking, life changing book and a 'how to' guide to mindfulness meditation
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 | No Logo: No Space. No Choice. No Jobs by Naomi Klein
Buy new: £5.20 / Used from: £0.25 The subversive polemic that became the bible of the anti-globalisation movement
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 | The Rebel Sell: How the Counter Culture Became Consumer Culture by Joseph Heath
Buy new: £7.39 / Used from: £5.50 Another polemic that suggests 'No Logo' may not be so subversive after all
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 | Happiness: Lessons from a New Science by Richard Layard
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £3.10 An eminent economist surprisingly makes the case for replacing GDP with 'Gross National Happiness'
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 | The Psychology of Happiness by Michael Argyle
Buy new: £13.70 / Used from: £8.50 A more scientific appraisal of current psychological research on happiness
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 | Affluenza by Oliver James
Buy used from: £2.45 American style 'selfish capitalism' (is there any other kind?) is spreding like a plague around the world - and we're all infected
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 | The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £2.65 A theme park ride through centuries of philosophy and whatnot, with pictures and everything
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 | The Unconscious Civilization by John Ralston Saul
Buy used from: £0.13 I'm just ploughing through this right now - watch this space
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 | Free to Be Human: Intellectual Self-defence in an Age of Illusions by David Edwards
Buy new: £7.47 / Used from: £5.12 I have read this. It's Chomsky with chunks of Buddhism in every bite
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 | Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift) by Henry David Thoreau
Buy new: £2.20 / Used from: £0.01 The original slacker's bible, full of homespun wisdom
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 | Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky
Buy used from: £10.48 Everything you ever wanted to know about who really controls the media but were too paranoid to ask
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 | Love All the People by Bill Hicks
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.90 It's just a ride ... iconoclastic humour from a modern day prophet
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 | Vegetable and Herb Expert by D.G. Hessayon
Buy new: £4.78 / Used from: £0.29 This book will pay for itself many, many times over
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 | The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency: The Classic Guide for Realists and Dreamers by John Seymour
Buy used from: £15.66 The original downsizing manual, as used by Tom and Barbara
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 | Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered by E.F. Schumacher
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.70 Thirty years on and still as vital as ever - you will be wiser for reading it
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 | 365 Ways to Change the World by Michael Norton
Buy new: £6.29 / Used from: £0.01 'Whatever you do won't make a difference, but it is important that you do it anyway' - Ghandi
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 | Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!: An Easy Household Guide by Nicky Scott
Buy new: £2.89 / Used from: £0.01 Or better still, avoid buying so much stuff in the first place ...
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 | Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin
Buy new: £5.67 / Used from: £0.14 ... and if that sounds daft, have a read of this for inspration
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 | In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays (Routledge Classics) by Bertrand Russell
Buy new: £8.46 / Used from: £6.11 This heavyweight intellectual explains why we need to work less and play more - what a guy
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