Less is More

Less is More

By
Jason Hickel
Jason Hickel
2020 • 320 pages

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31 books

For the Love of Gaia

glimmer
✨
Thinking in systems : a primer
Overshoot
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Merchants of Doubt
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

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6 books

Degrowth

cactu5head
cactus
Towards a Society of Degrowth
Towards a Political Economy of Degrowth
The Case for Degrowth
Less is More
Ralentir ou périr: L'économie de la décroissance

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434 books

Faction

geirertz
Geir
A Pilgrimage to Eternity
We Should All Be Feminists
Hersketeknikker: Nyttige og nådeløse
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
God, Human, Animal, Machine

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237 books

Leseliste

geirertz
Geir
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Year of the Monkey
The Ongoing Moment
The Communist Manifesto
A Long Way Gone: The True Story Of A Child Soldier
Off The Map

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17 books

Birmingham Library OverDrive

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Awen
The Thursday Murder Club
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Yellowface
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
How to Kill Your Family
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Really Good, Actually

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157 books

Curiosity

akoliyot
Aswin
Brainwashing : The science of thought control
A History of Mathematical Notations
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
Programming pearls
More programming pearls

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15 books

Non Fiction

Vitamin_E
Ethan Manning
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Reaganland
Less is More
Sprawl Repair Manual

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17 books

Topic Climate Change

Rkishu
Jan
The Physics of Climate Change
Flight Behavior
A Brief History of Earth
Aurora
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

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39 books

World

karenhinh
Karen
Headstrong
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
Where the Shoreline Used to Be
Five-Carat Soul
The Ideas Industry
Sortir de la grande nuit. Essai sur l'Afrique décolonisée

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25 books

To Read Nonfiction

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Eva
Single at Heart: The Power, Freedom, and Heart-Filling Joy of Single Life
The Invention of Nature
Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World
The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants
What's Gotten Into You: The Story of Your Body's Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner
Less is More
How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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31 books

Owned

rvoyaging
Nathan
Tesla
Inferno
The Catcher in the Rye
The Grapes of Wrath
Dracula
Anne of Green Gables
The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

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44 books

Factual

rvoyaging
Nathan
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
The Town That Died: A Chronicle of the Halifax Explosion
Less is More
In Case Of Fire: Please Remain Calm Then Slowly Rebuild Your Life
Cosmos
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

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19 books

Burn Down Neoliberalism

aerlenbach
AE
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
Democracy at work
The New Corporation: How "Good" Corporations Are Bad for Democracy
A People's Guide to Capitalism
Less is More
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Four Futures

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16 books

My Favorite Books

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AE
Operation Gladio
Blackshirts and Reds
The Devil's Chessboard
Lies My Teacher Told Me
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Less is More

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3 books

Environmentalism

aerlenbach
AE
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
Less is More
Drawdown

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75 books

Nonfiction

levtt
Joey
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Happy City
Feral

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30 books

Recs

mariiquite
Maria
The Sun Also Rises
The Winter of Our Discontent
They Both Die at the End
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Soul Talk, Song Language: Conversations with Joy Harjo
The Sting of the Wild
Insects and Flowers: The Biology of a Partnership

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460 books

2024

linzhang
lin
Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Practice and Principles
Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy
Strangers to Ourselves
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
In an Unspoken Voice

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135 books

Learn

linzhang
lin
Rocket Surgery Made Easy
Free play
The Myth of Sisyphus
Planets in Transit: Life Cycles for Living
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change

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14 books

Sustainability

linzhang
lin
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
Design Systems for Developers
Visual Delight in Architecture: Daylight, Vision and View
Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineering
Designing for Sustainability: A Guide to Building Greener Digital Products and Services

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25 books

Favorites

Merlin
Merlin
Animal Farm
The Knife of Never Letting Go
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Overlord, Light Novel Vol. 1: The Undead King
Solo Leveling, Vol. 1
Classroom of the Elite (Light Novel), Vol. 1
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 1

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251 books

Economics General

dalee9000
David A. Lee
The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
The Economics of Inequality
Basic Economics : A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
The Entrepreneurial State

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356 books

Physical Collection

Kaydot
Katie
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
Pebble in the Sky
Surfacing
Mort
A Green and Ancient Light
Oryx and Crake