The Cowry-Kola Strategic Reading Series

1.
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,262 ratings
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Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements 3.93 avg rating — 4,244 ratings
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Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2) 4.32 avg rating — 77,788 ratings
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Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot
Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot 4.46 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet
Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet 3.92 avg rating — 1,992 ratings
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The Wealth Of The Commons: A World Beyond Market & State
The Wealth Of The Commons: A World Beyond Market & State 4.11 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons
Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons 4.16 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth
Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice 4.29 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition 4.22 avg rating — 1,844 ratings
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Invisible Capital: How Unseen Forces Shape Entrepreneurial Opportunity
Invisible Capital: How Unseen Forces Shape Entrepreneurial Opportunity 3.96 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience 4.01 avg rating — 967 ratings
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) 4.21 avg rating — 1,200 ratings
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The Producism Manifesto: A New Game For A New Economy
The Producism Manifesto: A New Game For A New Economy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 239,037 ratings
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No More Throw-Away People: The Co-Production Imperative
No More Throw-Away People: The Co-Production Imperative 4.14 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World 4.41 avg rating — 3,298 ratings
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Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies
Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies 3.86 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael, #1)
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 102,559 ratings
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Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure 3.90 avg rating — 2,756 ratings
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Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World
Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World 4.12 avg rating — 2,642 ratings
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex 4.29 avg rating — 2,424 ratings
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The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities
The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities 3.96 avg rating — 1,567 ratings
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What Comes After Money? Essays from Reality Sandwich on Transforming Currency and Community
What Comes After Money? Essays from Reality Sandwich on Transforming Currency and Community 3.78 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered 4.09 avg rating — 6,887 ratings
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future 4.06 avg rating — 3,994 ratings
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Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity
Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity 3.86 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution
Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution 4.29 avg rating — 164 ratings
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The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality 3.97 avg rating — 916 ratings
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The End of Growth Update: Europe & America Stumble, China Hits the Wall
The End of Growth Update: Europe & America Stumble, China Hits the Wall 4.09 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Local Economy Solution: How Innovative, Self-Financing Pollinator Enterprises Can Grow Jobs and Prosperity
The Local Economy Solution: How Innovative, Self-Financing Pollinator Enterprises Can Grow Jobs and Prosperity 4.07 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money 3.56 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0) 4.26 avg rating — 9,685 ratings
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People Powered Money
People Powered Money really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Trading Time: Can Exchange Lead to Social Change?
Trading Time: Can Exchange Lead to Social Change? really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets 3.93 avg rating — 13,711 ratings
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The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World 3.91 avg rating — 3,109 ratings
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Your Money or Your Life: Time for Both
Your Money or Your Life: Time for Both it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Money and Sustainability: The Missing Link
Money and Sustainability: The Missing Link 4.34 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Creating Sustainable Societies: The Rebirth of Democracy and Local Economies
Creating Sustainable Societies: The Rebirth of Democracy and Local Economies
by: John Boik
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Equal Time, Equal Value: Community Currencies and Time Banking in the Us
Equal Time, Equal Value: Community Currencies and Time Banking in the Us
by: Ed Collom
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Enough!: How to Liberate Yourself and Remake the World with Just One Word (For Readers of The Art of Saying NO)
Enough!: How to Liberate Yourself and Remake the World with Just One Word (For Readers of The Art of Saying NO) 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Open Collaboration Encyclopedia
The Open Collaboration Encyclopedia
by: Alpha Lo
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Occupy Money: Creating an Economy where Everybody Wins
Occupy Money: Creating an Economy where Everybody Wins 3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings
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People Money: The Promise of Regional Currencies
People Money: The Promise of Regional Currencies 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies
Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies 3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Time Dollars: The New Currency That Enables Americans to Turn Their Hidden Resource-Time-Into Personal Security and Community Renewal
Time Dollars: The New Currency That Enables Americans to Turn Their Hidden Resource-Time-Into Personal Security and Community Renewal 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies 3.91 avg rating — 3,747 ratings
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The Ecology of Money: Debt, Growth, and Sustainability
The Ecology of Money: Debt, Growth, and Sustainability liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Debt: The First 5,000 Years 4.21 avg rating — 25,627 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,443 ratings
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The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty
The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty 3.91 avg rating — 428 ratings
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The Black Social Economy in the Americas: Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets (Perspectives from Social Economics)
The Black Social Economy in the Americas: Exploring Diverse Community-Based Markets (Perspectives from Social Economics) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Money and Liberation: The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements
Money and Liberation: The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Wind(s) From Below: Radical Community Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible
Wind(s) From Below: Radical Community Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Social Economy: Communities, Economies and Solidarity in Atlantic Canada
Social Economy: Communities, Economies and Solidarity in Atlantic Canada 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State
Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. (Vol. 2)
Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. (Vol. 2) 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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World Social Forum: Challenging Empires
World Social Forum: Challenging Empires
by: Jai Sen
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The World Social Forum: Strategies of Resistance
The World Social Forum: Strategies of Resistance 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible?
A Movement of Movements: Is Another World Really Possible? 3.51 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The United States Social Forum: Perspectives of a Movement
The United States Social Forum: Perspectives of a Movement 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking
The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking 3.86 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Practicing Law in the Sharing Economy: Helping People Build Cooperatives, Social Enterprise, and Local Sustainable Economies
Practicing Law in the Sharing Economy: Helping People Build Cooperatives, Social Enterprise, and Local Sustainable Economies 4.58 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Nuts & Bolts: The ACORN Fundamentals of Organizing
Nuts & Bolts: The ACORN Fundamentals of Organizing it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Come Hell or High Water: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry
Come Hell or High Water: A Handbook on Collective Process Gone Awry 3.52 avg rating — 108 ratings
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How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century 3.90 avg rating — 2,112 ratings
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Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives
Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives 3.74 avg rating — 4,067 ratings
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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions 4.26 avg rating — 40,178 ratings
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The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crises
The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crises 4.13 avg rating — 242 ratings
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American Capitalism: A Reader
American Capitalism: A Reader 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Oppose and Propose: Lessons from Movement for a New Society
Oppose and Propose: Lessons from Movement for a New Society 3.91 avg rating — 92 ratings
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TRADE SCHOOL: 2009-2019
TRADE SCHOOL: 2009-2019 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Sociocracy 3.0 - A Practical Guide
Sociocracy 3.0 - A Practical Guide 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
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On Conflict and Consensus: a handbook on Formal Consensus decisionmaking
On Conflict and Consensus: a handbook on Formal Consensus decisionmaking 4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings
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A Consensus Handbook, Co-operative decision-making for activists, co-ops and communities
A Consensus Handbook, Co-operative decision-making for activists, co-ops and communities 4.34 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Consensus for Cities
Consensus for Cities liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups
The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups
by: Starhawk
4.30 avg rating — 174 ratings
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Whistling In The Wind
Whistling In The Wind 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Community Economies in the Global South: Case Studies of Rotating Savings, Credit Associations, and Economic Cooperation
Community Economies in the Global South: Case Studies of Rotating Savings, Credit Associations, and Economic Cooperation it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating