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Pest Control for Organic Gardening: Natural Methods for Pest and Disease Control for a Healthy Garden
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3.72 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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4.19 avg rating — 209,914 ratings
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Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
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4.19 avg rating — 14,048 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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3.94 avg rating — 74,451 ratings
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Candide
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3.76 avg rating — 299,335 ratings
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The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative Lifestyle
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4.17 avg rating — 2,915 ratings
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The One-Straw Revolution
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4.34 avg rating — 9,105 ratings
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Chainbreaker Bike Book: A Rough Guide to Bicycle Maintenance
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4.13 avg rating — 135 ratings
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The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener
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4.41 avg rating — 1,288 ratings
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Rodale's Ultimate Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening: The Indispensable Green Resource for Every Gardener
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4.23 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
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4.24 avg rating — 1,752 ratings
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Introduction to Permaculture
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4.35 avg rating — 1,257 ratings
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
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4.09 avg rating — 6,988 ratings
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Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered
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3.96 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
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4.20 avg rating — 778 ratings
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Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
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4.49 avg rating — 1,721 ratings
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The Conquest of Happiness
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4.02 avg rating — 15,997 ratings
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The Plague
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4.02 avg rating — 310,738 ratings
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The Collapse of Complex Societies
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4.15 avg rating — 1,479 ratings
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Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
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4.05 avg rating — 1,588 ratings
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The Technological Society
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4.32 avg rating — 1,196 ratings
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Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
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4.27 avg rating — 1,369 ratings
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The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
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3.98 avg rating — 2,537 ratings
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Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works
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4.15 avg rating — 465 ratings
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The New Complete Book Of Self Sufficiency
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4.45 avg rating — 770 ratings
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Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects
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3.97 avg rating — 599 ratings
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The 'One Planet' Life: A Blueprint for Low Impact Development
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4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Soul of Soil: A Soil-Building Guide for Master Gardeners and Farmers, 4th Edition
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4.06 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
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4.33 avg rating — 6,653 ratings
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Living on the Earth
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4.44 avg rating — 230 ratings
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Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: A Field Guide
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4.50 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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4.21 avg rating — 26,543 ratings
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The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure
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4.41 avg rating — 1,047 ratings
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Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
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4.11 avg rating — 2,209 ratings
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Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
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4.30 avg rating — 2,295 ratings
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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4.19 avg rating — 25,704 ratings
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The Yankee Way to Simplify Your Life: Old-Fashioned Wisdom For A New-fangled World
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3.57 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Cob Builders Handbook: You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home
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4.21 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
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4.20 avg rating — 2,034 ratings
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Back to Basics: Traditional Garden Wisdom: Time-Tested Tips and Techniques for Creating a Natural, Sustainable Outdoor Space
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3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Permaculture: Principles and Pathways beyond Sustainability
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4.17 avg rating — 789 ratings
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The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
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4.18 avg rating — 695 ratings
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Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things: 2,317 Ways to Save Money and Time
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4.02 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Dwelling Portably 1980-89
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4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving
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4.46 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Country Wisdom Almanac: 373 Tips, Crafts, Home Improvements, Recipes, and Homemade Remedies (Wisdom & Know-How)
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3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Basic Book of Organic Gardening
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3.56 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance
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4.23 avg rating — 1,009 ratings
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Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22,273 ratings
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The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving
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3.80 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
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4.41 avg rating — 3,336 ratings
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Storey's Guide to Growing Organic Orchard Fruits: Market or Home Production Site & Crop Selection Planting, Care & Harvesting Business Basics
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4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Stolen Sharpie Revolution 2: A Diy Resource for Zines and Zine Culture
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4.15 avg rating — 785 ratings
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Country Wisdom & Know-How
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4.34 avg rating — 980 ratings
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The Stranger
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4.03 avg rating — 1,372,010 ratings
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All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941
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3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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An Inquiry into the Human Prospect: Updated & Reconsidered for the 1990s
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3.70 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Canning & Preserving Your Own Harvest: An Encyclopedia of Country Living Guide
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3.78 avg rating — 69 ratings
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21st Century Capitalism
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3.67 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Home Remedies from a Country Doctor: Oatmeal, Cucumbers, Ammonia, Lemon, Gin-Soaked Raisins: Timeless Solutions to More Than 200 Common Aches, Pains, and Illnesses
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3.79 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy
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3.90 avg rating — 178 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Country Living
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4.43 avg rating — 3,152 ratings
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The Making of Economic Society
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3.70 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Joey Green's Incredible Country Store: Potions, Notions and Elixirs of the Past--and How to Make Them Today
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3.78 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Economic Problem
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3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Wildlife Gardener's Almanac: A seasonal guide to increasing the biodiversity in your garden
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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An Agricultural Testament
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4.13 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
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4.21 avg rating — 1,786 ratings
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The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture
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4.14 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Easy Fixes for Everyday Things: Over 1,000 simple repairs to household equipment, including cell phones, tablets and media players, computers, pipes ... and stoves, garden tools, bikes, and more!
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3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth
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4.28 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Joey Green's Gardening Magic: More Than 1,120 Ingenious
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3.80 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
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3.83 avg rating — 2,210 ratings
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Slug Bread & Beheaded Thistles: Amusing and Useful Techniques for Nontoxic Housekeeping and Gardening
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3.88 avg rating — 72 ratings
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A Green History of the World: The Environment & the Collapse of Great Civilizations
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3.94 avg rating — 788 ratings
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The Natural Navigator: The Rediscovered Art of Letting Nature Be Your Guide
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3.78 avg rating — 1,267 ratings
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World History: A New Perspective
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4.31 avg rating — 129 ratings
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British Isles: A Natural History
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4.23 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Twentieth Century: A World History
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4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Nature Instinct: Relearning Our Lost Intuition for the Inner Workings of the Natural World
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3.75 avg rating — 583 ratings
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The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought
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3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Essential Oils for Healing: Over 400 All-Natural Recipes for Everyday Ailments
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4.24 avg rating — 110 ratings
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A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present, 4th Edition
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3.79 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Prescription for Natural Cures: A Self-Care Guide for Treating Health Problems with Natural Remedies Including Diet, Nutrition, Supplements, and Other Holistic Methods
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4.30 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse
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3.89 avg rating — 84 ratings
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1001 Natural Remedies
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4.02 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered
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3.56 avg rating — 197 ratings
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The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills
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3.77 avg rating — 5,068 ratings
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The Arrogance of Humanism (Galaxy Books)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Healing Remedies: Over 1,000 Natural Remedies for the Prevention, Treatment, and Cure of Common Ailments and Conditions
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4.35 avg rating — 362 ratings
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Beginning Again: People and Nature in the New Millennium
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4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Earth Almanac: Nature's Calendar for Year-Round Discovery
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4.31 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Becoming Good Ancestors: How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology
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4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World
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4.12 avg rating — 1,156 ratings
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Applying Economics to the Environment
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
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3.44 avg rating — 1,489 ratings
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War in Human Civilization
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4.36 avg rating — 335 ratings
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Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Healing Herbs & Spices: From a Medical Anthropologist's Files, Here Are Nature's Own Healing Herbs and Spices for Hundreds of Today's Most Common Health Problems
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4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World
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3.88 avg rating — 191 ratings
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The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
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3.97 avg rating — 14,476 ratings
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Also, books by Sim Van Der Ryn. I've only read Ecological Design, which has a broader scope, but he seems to be an expert on composting toilets, and has books about that too.