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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.17 — 29,408 ratings — published 2006
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,005 ratings — published 2015
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as social-good)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,187 ratings — published 2013
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.50 — 181,626 ratings — published 2013
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,150 ratings — published 1998
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,352 ratings — published 2019
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.44 — 47,379 ratings — published 2017
Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.01 — 371 ratings — published 2018
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,484 ratings — published 2018
Systems Thinking For Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 3.78 — 867 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.62 — 267,638 ratings — published 2014
Start Something That Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.02 — 11,323 ratings — published 2011
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,219 ratings — published 1997
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 4.28 — 55,821 ratings — published 2008
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,141 ratings — published 2006
Conscious Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as social-good)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,330 ratings — published 2012
The Upstream Doctors (TED)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.99 — 185 ratings — published 2013
The Laramie Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.19 — 14,506 ratings — published 2001
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,270 ratings — published 2001
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.27 — 64,995 ratings — published 2023
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,008 ratings — published
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,369 ratings — published 2016
When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.25 — 974 ratings — published 2023
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.93 — 392,886 ratings — published 2018
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,164 ratings — published 1988
The Celestine Prophecy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.74 — 124,197 ratings — published 1993
No One Is Talking About This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.55 — 56,960 ratings — published 2021
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.45 — 6,765 ratings — published 2017
Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.71 — 42 ratings — published 2008
Speed & Scale: A Global Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,631 ratings — published 2021
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,752 ratings — published 2020
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,517 ratings — published 2019
Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,611 ratings — published 2021
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.95 — 63 ratings — published 2002
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,190 ratings — published 2022
The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,377 ratings — published 1993
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,346 ratings — published 2021
Interface Culture: How the Digital Medium--from Windows to the Web--Changes the way We Write, Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.73 — 303 ratings — published 1997
Who Owns the Future? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,668 ratings — published 2013
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,768 ratings — published 2010
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,449 ratings — published 2010
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.65 — 56,986 ratings — published 2019
Politics Is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,511 ratings — published 2020
Men, Women, and Worthiness: The Experience of Shame and the Power of Being Enough (Audio CD)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.46 — 3,820 ratings — published 2012
Zero Waste Living, The 80/20 Way: The Busy Person's Guide To A Lighter Footprint (Resetting Our Future) (Volume 4)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.92 — 49 ratings — published
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,195 ratings — published 2019
No Shortcuts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,440 ratings — published 2016
What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 3.92 — 309 ratings — published 2013
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as social-good)
avg rating 4.09 — 270,271 ratings — published 1980
Marxism and Politics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 164 ratings — published 1977
“In our modern urban civilization, multitudes of our people have been condemned to urban anonymity — to living the kind of life where many of them neither know nor care about their own neighbors. They find themselves isolated from the life of their community and their nation, driven by social forces beyond their control into little individual worlds in which their own individual objectives have become paramount to the collective good. Social objectives, social welfare, the good of the nation, the democratic way of life — all these have become nebulous, meaningless, sterile phrases.
This course of urban anonymity, of individual divorce from the general social life, erodes the foundations of democracy. For although we profess to be citizens of a democracy, and although we may vote once every four years, millions of our people feel deep down in their heart of hearts that there is no place for them that they do not “count.” They have no voice of their own, no organization (really their own instead of absentee) to represent them, no way in which they may lay their hand or their heart to the shaping of their own destinies.”
― Reveille for Radicals
This course of urban anonymity, of individual divorce from the general social life, erodes the foundations of democracy. For although we profess to be citizens of a democracy, and although we may vote once every four years, millions of our people feel deep down in their heart of hearts that there is no place for them that they do not “count.” They have no voice of their own, no organization (really their own instead of absentee) to represent them, no way in which they may lay their hand or their heart to the shaping of their own destinies.”
― Reveille for Radicals
“Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, "My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy election-days, and never drink more than one cocktail, and end all war.”
― Kingsblood Royal
― Kingsblood Royal
