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My dad developed a collection while i was growing up - of confiscated flashlights i had used for reading after the lights were out. I plundered his collection of ScienceFiction thoroughly, so i guess we're even :). Nonfictionally, i'm working on the history of, and practical approaches to changing, the predominance of domination systems/culture in the world (see Eisler, Wink, Quinn, Abdullah below).

Me: http://ourpla.net/ Linky goodness: http://del.icio.us/johnabbe/books http://del.icio.us/johnabbe/writing

Non-fiction on my short shelf:

I really ought to read RianeEisler?'s PartnershipWay?; similar theme to Wink's stuff but feminist rather than Christian angle (Quinn's and Abdullah's stuff are less 'angled', and Abdullah's is more activist). Also TheNewState? by MaryParkerFollett? (who coined the term "power-with" - distinguish "power-over")

I'd like to get my copy of TheWikiWay back, or break down and buy another one.

Other non-fiction, near my short shelf:

Fiction i've much enjoyed, and the earlier ones especially with something really substantial to say imho:

Okay, that's enough for now. Some of what i think of ScienceFiction in general is at http://ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?ScienceFiction

I read a story as a small child about some aliens (maybe us) showing up on a planet, covering it up with technology & roads, and chopping down trees, then leaving when there was nothing of value left to them. There's a scene of hope at the end when a plant grows through a crack in the pavement and the animals look around wonderingly, an image that probably contributed to my ecological concerns. If you recognize this book, please let me know title/author!

Hi John ! Welcome here, and thanks for helping out with the SF stuff. Do books like GettingToYes belong with the NonviolentCommunication (NVC) theme ? -- LaurentBossavit

I can certainly think of several categories they'd both belong in. ConflictResolution? being the obvious one i guess. Other categories for NonviolentCommunication would be personal development, community building, and activism. Each can get a category page/label when we have enough books in it.

John, something or someone keeps creating new empty pages from links on your page - ConnectingAcrossDifferences, JaneMarantzConnor?, DianKillian?, PostCorporateWorld?

There's no easy way to delete them so I suppose we'll have to fill those pages up somehow. --ade

I've also been wondering. I can write something brief at least for ConnectingAcrossDifferences, and e-mail Dian and Jane and suggest they claim their pages. --ja

I was moving a page to a WikiCase? name and ran into the disallowing of external links. Two problems: 1) it prevented me from pasting a link that already existed on the old page into the new page, and 2) it also prevented me from editing the old page - appropriately, [A Series of Unfortunate Events]? - in any way at all (intending to REDIRECT of course). Help? --ja

Nowadays I post URLS without specifying http://, or I put "nowiki" tags around the URL. I've posted a nonlinking URL to ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents and gotten rid of [A Series of Unfortunate Events]?. Okay? -- ElizabethWiethoff

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