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Rad Dad

October 17, 2012

Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood This book combines the best from the award-winning zine Rad Dad and from Daddy Dialectic, two kindred publications that have explored parenting as political…

Community Cinema – As Goes Janesville

September 24, 2012

As Goes Janesville is a verité documentary that records two years in the lives of laid-off workers, business leaders, and elected officials all trying to reinvent their lives and their…

Welcome to the Library, 7 Days a Week

September 18, 2012

Welcome to the Durland Alternatives Library, open 7 days a week and always taking your requests. Keep reading to find out what’s new this Fall 2012.  

Occupy!

September 18, 2012

Easy to read, affordable, loaded with photos and practical advice for activists, “Occupy is another vital contribution from Chomsky to the literature of defiance and protest, and a red-hot rallying…

New Shelving Schemes! A Mosaic of Sorts…

September 12, 2012

Come check out the library’s new shelving scheme! Along with some new sections, the library will be more browser friendly and feel more like a bookstore–although everything is still free…

FOOD JUSTICE

August 18, 2012

as requested… From www.foodjusticebook.org Food Justice (MIT Press, October 2010) addresses the enormous inequities and injustices of today’s increasingly globalized industrial food system. It tells of the increasing disconnect between food…

The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners: The Healing Power of Medicinal Plants

August 6, 2012

Traditional herbalists or wise women were not only good botanists or pharmacologists; they were also shamanic practitioners and keepers of occult knowledge about the powerful properties of plants. Traveling back…