Better Off_ Flipping the Switch on Technology - Eric Brende [112]
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Credits
Map courtesy of Justin P. Leland
Jacket design by Patrick Kilkelly
Image of Light Switch by C Squared Studios/Getty Images
Author photograph courtesy of the author
Portions of this book appeared in another form in Technology Review/New York Times Syndicate, Mother Earth News, New Oxford Review, and Caelum et Terra.
BETTER OFF. Copyright © 2004 by Eric Brende. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
ePub edition July 2004 eISBN 9780061738999
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Explanatory Note
Contents
Cast of Neighbors
Prologue: Taking Orders
Section I: Planting
One: Seeds of Discontent
Two: Paring Back
Three: Lightening Up
Four: Artfully Answering Nature
Five: The Ram
Six: The Missing Refrigerator
Seven: The Sounds of Silence
Section II: Growing
Eight: Quickening
Nine: A Church Meeting
Ten: A Barn Raising
Eleven: The Dating Game
Twelve: Meet the Neighbors
Thirteen: Secrets and Politics
Fourteen: Heatstroke
Fifteen: Weighing the Work
Section III: Harvesting
Sixteen: As the Pumpkins Turn
Seventeen: After the Fall: Even Farmers Get the Blues
Eighteen: Birth
Nineteen: Husbandry
Twenty: Pulling in the Reins
Twenty-One: Closing Time
Twenty-Two: Outside, and the Box
Epilogue: Recipe for a Leisurely, Laborsaving Life
Acknowledgments
E-Book Extra
E-Book Extra
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