Friday, November 20, 2009

And yet there is more new books for our library!

Blog written by: Machelle Lehr




Small is Possible Life in a local economy by Lyle Estill. This is a book about the people of Chatham County, North Carolina, who have discovered the meaning of "Hometown Security". This town is unwilling to rely on government and big business, set about finding actual solutions to actual problems at their local level. It is filled with newspaper columns, log entries and essays, servingup sustainablility, local economy, whoe foods nd small business.

One Nation Uninsured Whe the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance by Jill Quadagno is a new edition to our library. One in eight americans (43 million people) do not have any health care insurance at all. This book shows how each attempt to enact national health insurance was met withfierce attacks by powerful stakeholders, who mobilezed their considerable resounces to keep the financing of health care out of the governments hands.

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