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A reasonable life : toward a simpler, secure more humane existence
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- Summary
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Argues that the best type of existence is a life in the country, growing one's own food, and spending time at home, and offers suggestions from his own experience for accomplishing this.
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- Creator
- by Ferenc Maté
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- [Vancouver] : Albatross Publishing House, [1993]
- New York : Distributed in the U.S. by W.W. Norton, [date of distribution not identified]
- ©1993
- Physical Details
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- xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 0920256252, 9780920256251, 0920256309, 9780920256305
- OCLC
- ocm27831387
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-259).
- 1. The American Dream: No Vacancy -- 2. The True Cost of a Thing -- 3. Sunday -- 4. Home?! -- 5. The Home Garden -- 6. The Myth of the Steady Job -- 7. Humane Corporations -- 8. Our Devastated Agriculture -- 9. True Security in the Country -- 10. Unlivable Cities -- 11. Humane Small Towns -- 12. The Death of the Individual: Mechanical Lovers, Electronic Friends -- 13. Losing Our Children: The Failure of Education -- 14. The Self-Helpless Society -- 15. Television: Zeros as Heroes -- 16. A Government of the $ by the $ for the $: The Business State -- 17. Reasonable Lives -- 18. A Reasonable Future -- Epilogue: A New Life in Tuscany -- Appendix. A Reasonable Garden