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Websites
- The Quietus
- A new rock music and pop culture website
- Seed
- online version of the SEED magazine
- Kevin Kelly: Cool Tools
- a review site for tools, gadgets, trends, films and more
- Sustain
- The alliance for better food and farming
- James Nayler Foundation
- A Quaker website dedicated to dealing with issues of personality disorders and the violence related to them
- The Idler
- Idler is a bi-annual, book-shaped magazine that campaigns against the work ethic. This is the online version
- Autonomous Geographies
- Two year action research project run jointly by geographers at the University of Leeds and the University of Leicester
Books
- The Man Who Saved Britain
- Author: Simon Winder
Description: Reflecting on Flemings 007 creation from the change of Britain- the loss of Empire and the political landscape of the 50s/60s/70s.
ISBN: 0330442465 - Rubbish!: (Dirt on our hands and crisis ahead)
- Author: Richard Girling
Description: An exploration of rubbish, our attitudes towards it, our methods for dealing with it and the huge short falling in our attitudes toward it
ISBN: 1903919444 - The Brothers of Karamazov
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Description: Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested
ISBN: 978-0140449242 - Interface
- Author: Neal Stephenson & Frederick George
Description: A conspiracy tale dealing with the attempt by an organization with virtually unlimited resources to take effective control of the United States.
ISBN: 0099427753 - The Bread Builders
- Author: Daniel Wing and Alan Scott
Description: Bakers are finding new ways to link traditions with a sophisticated new understating of natural leavens, baking science and over construction
ISBN: 1890132055 - Knulp
- Author: Herman Hesse
Description: This book is about the life of a vagrant who ponders the meaning of life and realizes his life had a purpose
ISBN: 3518380710 - Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
- Author: Ned Sherrin
Description: Over 5,000 anecdotes, witty one-liners, and comments
ISBN: 0192806572
Organisations
- Wiser Earth
- It is a community directory and networking forum that maps and connects non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals addressing the central issues of our day
- Welcome Collection
- Wellcome Collection is a unique mix of galleries, events, and meeting, reading and eating places where you can consider what it means to be human.