Offers guidelines, ten laws for balancing simplicity and complexity in business, technology, and design - for needing less and actually getting more. This work explores the question of how we can redefine the notion of improved so that it doesn't always mean something more, something added on.

Originally published in 1854, Walden or Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature.

This work contains 366 inspirational daily meditations for women who want richer lives. It aims to take the reader on a journey of self-discovery, bringing simplicity, harmony, beauty, order and joy into life.

Based on two PBS documentaries, this work uses the metaphor of a disease to tackle a very serious subject: the damage done to our health, our families, our communities, and our environment, by the obsessive quest for material gain. It also ups the ante for the continuing war we should wage against consumerism nationwide.

Radical Simplicity is a hand-lettered, illustrated book that speaks directly and elegantly to that craving we all have for an authentic life, one that we've each hand-made for ourselves.

Deftly introduced and enriched by the remarkable ink paintings of Stephen Addiss, this new translation of Tao Te Ching captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original while resisting the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions. Along with the translation of the complete work, Lombardo and Addiss provide the reader with a measure of interaction with the

Across the western world more and more people are slowing down. Slower is better: better work, better productivity, better exercise, better sex, better food.

Simplexity. A groundbreaking new concept that reveals the hidden ways the world really works.

Imagine you are first in line at a potluck buffet. The spread includes not just food and water, but all the materials needed for shelter, clothing, healthcare, and education. How do you know how much to take? How much is enough to leave for your neighbours behind you -- not just the six billion people, but the wildlife, and the as-yet-unborn? In the face of looming ecological disaster, many ...

In It's All Too Much, organizing icon Peter Walsh offers advice and psychological insights on how to let go of the physical and mental clutter that is holding you back from living a happier more fulfilled life.

Shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. This title is part memoir, part journalistic investigation, and is full of original recipes.

A controversial study, first published in 1973, of the economic structure of the western world. Schumacher maintains that man's current pursuit of profit and progress has resulted in gross economic inefficiency, environmental pollution and inhumane working conditions.

Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance.

* Gift book approach to a popular subject * Accessible and fun to use * Bestselling book on the subject

In this book, Shane Claiborne describes an authentic faith rooted in belief, action and love, inviting us into a movement of the Spirit that begins inside each of us and extends into a broken world.

Provides inspiration for women to find excitement and joy in the ordinary events of daily life - encouraging each one to discover what makes her heart skip a beat or moves her to tears.

William Coperthwaite is a teacher, builder, designer and writer, who for many years has explored the possibilities of true simplicity on a homestead on the north coast of Maine. A Handmade Life carries Coperthwaite's ongoing experiments out into the world to challenge and inspire.

A collection of simple and effective ways to stress less and make more time for things without sacrificing lifestyle. The book shows how to recognize a stressful situation and learn to approach it differently, by staying focused and relaxed. The aim is to change attitudes, not lifestyles.

Do we live in a simple or a complex universe? This work explores the ability of complicated rules to generate simple behaviour in nature through 'the collapse of chaos.

This is a book about simplicity - not destitution, parsimony or self-denial - but the restoration of wealth in the midst of an affluence in which the author believes we are starving the spirit. It involves having less and enjoying more, spending time on work you love, family and creative projects.