Dmitri's Bookshelf: Other Books Wishlist

Short List

• The Intersection of Joy and Money
• Optimal Thinking: How to be your best self

General

• Adventuring with Children
• What If?
• The Twelve Chairs
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough, Michael Braungart
• Barefoot Contessa Parties! Ideas and Recipes for Easy Parties That Are Really Fun by Ina Garten
• The Space Child's Mother Goose by Frederick Winsor, Marian Parry (Illustrator)
• Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
• Essential 21st Century Booklist
• Reality Is What You Can Get Away With: A Screenplay by Robert Anton Wilson
• Men and the Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of Men
• Art of Talking So That People Will Listen: Getting Through to Family, Friends, and Business Associates
• Digital Geography: The Remaking of City and Countryside in the New Economy
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
• Time and the Technosphere: The Law of Time in Human Affairs
• Jump Time: Shaping Your Future In A World of Radical Change
• Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man
• Cosmicomics
• Supercade : A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984 by Van Burnham, Ralph H. Baer
• Magic: The Gathering -- Official Encyclopedia, Volume 6: The Complete Card Guide by Brian Tinsman, Cory Herndon

Religion

• Lost Christianities by Bart D. Ehrman
• A New Christianity for a New World : Why Traditional Faith is Dying & How a New Faith is Being Born

Poetry

• A Shropshire Lad by Richard H. Davis, Alfred E. Housman

Writing and Storytelling

• Robert McKee Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Construction and Design

• Follies and Grottoes by Barbara Mildred Jones
• Smart Homes For Dummies
• Earth Plasters for Straw Bale Homes
• Build Your Own Earth Oven: A Low-Cost, Wood-Fired Mud Oven; Simple Sourdough Bread; Perfect Loaves
• The Hand-Sculpted House: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage (The Real Goods Solar Living Book) by Ianto Evans

Energy and Utilities

• More Power to You! a Proven Path to Electric Energy Independence by H. Skip Thomsen
• The Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook: The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living by John Schaeffer, Doug M. Pratt

Cooking

• How to Cook Without a Book: Recipes and Techniques Every Cook Should Know by Heart
• Cooking With the Sun: How to Build and Use Solar Cookers by Beth Halacy, Dan Halacy

Land

• How to Make a Forest Garden by Patrick Whitefield
• Finding and Buying Your Place in the Country by Les Scher, Carol Scher
• The Modern Homestead Manual by Skip Thomsen

Community Building

• Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World by Alan Weisman
• Community Design Booklist
• Booklist: Prerequisite reading before designing/building a Utopia
• Booklist: Books for the new urbanist
• The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape
• Tribes: How Race, Religion, & Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy