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Title: The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture by David Emory Shi ISBN: 0-8203-2340-3 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Source for Simple Living and High Thinking
Comment: This wonderful book traces the conflict between "the simple life" and "materialism" in American history. This historian has written the very best survey of "voluntary simplicity" I have found. If you have an interest in this subject, you will want to keep this book in your library. If you model "voluntary simplicity", you may not keep a library:-) I submit that this is an important work to cite in a college thesis, or to use as a "compass" to chart your route through America's conflict between "simple living" and "materialism".
Rating: 5
Summary: A candid, informative, scholarly examination
Comment: The Simple Life: Plain Living And High Thinking In American Culture by David E. Shi (President and Professor of History, Furman University) is a candid, informative, scholarly examination throughout American social history of the drive to simplify one's life and find meaning by the means of deliberately giving up excess material vanity, as embodied in the writings and lifestyles of Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Jimmy Carter, and others. Individual chapters discuss the simple life concept from the Puritan, Quaker, Republican, and other points of view, and the importance and value this way of thought, behavior, and culture retained even in today's increasingly fast-paced electronic world. A thoughtful book, filled with carefully assessed observations, The Simple Life is strongly recommended reading for anyone contemplating simplification of their personal lifestyles and circumstances as a means of improving the quality of their lives and themselves.
Rating: 5
Summary: Get this book first, if you're interested in simple living.
Comment: This is the best book I have ever read on simple living. The writer not only knows his history, but he can write. I especially liked the chapter on Emersonian views of simple living.
Richard J. Lorenz
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Title: Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin ISBN: 0140286780 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Voluntary Simplicity (rev) : Toward A Way Of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich by Duane Elgin ISBN: 0688121195 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 04 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need by Juliet B. Schor ISBN: 0060977582 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Simplicity Lessons: A 12-Step Guide to Living Simply by Linda Breen Pierce ISBN: 0967206790 Publisher: Gallagher Pr Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Small Is Beautiful : Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher ISBN: 0060916303 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 27 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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