Briarpatch Book Authors
Sharing Points of View
A Sampling
In this page you'll find examples of the breadth and depth of topics Briars have chosen to write about. Click on an author's name to jump to their book title(s). Use your back button to return to here.
Kristin Anundsen
Stevanne Auerbach, Ph.D. (R.I.P.)
- My Butterfly Collection / On The Wings of the Butterfly
- Smart Play/ Smart Toys: How to Select and Use the Best Toys & Games – 4th Edition
- Toys for a Lifetime
- Dr. Toys Smart Play
- The Whole Child: A Sourcebook
- Keys to Choosing Childcare
Joani Blank (R.I.P.)
- Femalia
- Good Vibrations: The New Complete Guide to Vibrators
- Kids First Book About Sex
- Herotica 2: A Collection of Women’s Erotic Fiction (with Susie Bright)
- First Person Sexual: Women & Men Write About Self-Pleasuring
- I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves
- Playbook for Women About Sex
- Playbook for Men About Sex
- Playbook for Kids About Sex
- Still Doing It
Stewart Brand
- How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built
- The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World’s Slowest Computer
- The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT
- SALT Summaries, Condensed Ideas About Long-Term Thinking
- Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Trasgenic Crops, Restored Wildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary
Bart Brodsky
Ernest (Chick) Callenbach (R.I.P.)
- Ecotopia
- Ecotopia: Emerging
- Living Cheaply with Style
- Ecology: A Pocket Guide
- EcoManagement: The Elmwood Guide to Ecological Auditing and Sustainable Business (with Lenore Goldman and Fritjof Capra)
- Bring Back the Buffalo: A Sustainable Future for America’s Great Plains
- Citizen Legislature
- A People’s Parliament/A Citizen Legislature (Sortition and Public Policy) (with Michael Phillips, Keith Sutherland, Peter Stone)
Debra Lynn Dadd
- Home Safe Home: Protecting Yourself and Your Family from Everyday Toxics and Harmful Household Products in the Home
- The Nontoxic Home and Office: Protecting Yourself and Your Family from Everyday Toxics and Health Hazards
- Healthful Houses: How to Design and Build Your Own The Nontoxic Home and Office
- Healing Environments: Your Guide to Indoor Well Being (with Carol Venolia)
- Healthful Homes: How to Design and Build Your Own (with Clint Good)
- Nutritional Analysis System
- Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise: How to Protect Yourself and Your Family from Harmful Products and Live in Harmony With the Earth
- Nontoxic & Natural
Jed Diamond
- The Whole Man Program: Reinvigorating Your Body, Mind and Spirit After 40
- Surviving Mail Menapause: A Guide for Women and Men.
- Male Menopause
- Inside Out: Becoming My Own Man
- The Warrior’s Journey Home: Healing Men, Healing the Planet
- Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Overcoming Romantic and Sexual Addictions
Gordon Grabe (R.I.P.)
David Harp
- Instant Blues Harmonica 9 Ed: Three Minutes to Blues and Rock Improvisation!
- The Pocket Harmonica Songbook/over 40 Folk, Blues, & Country Favorites for Beginning & Intermediate Players!
- Instant Chromatic Harmonica: The Blues/Jazz Improvisation Method
- Bending the Blues
- How to Play Country & Western Harmonica
- Blues & Rock Harp Positions Made Easy
- Blues & Rock Harmonica Made Easy: The Complete Method That Everyone Understands!
- Music Theory Made Easy
- Blues, Rock, and Jazz Improvising Made Easy: For Guitar, Keyboard, Harmonica, Flute, or Any Other Instrument- Including Vocalists
- David Harp’s Instant Flute/Book and Flute
- Make Me Musical: Book, Cassette, Harmonica
- David Harp’s Instant Blues Harmonica: Zen & the Art of Blues Harp Blowing
- How to Whistle Like a Pro (Without Driving Anyone Else Crazy)
- Instant Harmonica for Kids
- The Three-Minute Meditator (with Nina Feldman)
- The New Three Minute Meditator: 30 Simple Ways to Unwind Your Mind Anywhere Anytime (with Nina Feldman)
Paul Hawken
- The Magic of Findhorn
- Growing A Business
- The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
- Natural Capitalism (with Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins)
- Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty in the World
- Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Revrse Global Warming
- Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
Arthur Hough
Joanna Macy
- Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy (with Chris Johnstone)
- Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
- Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age
- Despairwork: Awakening to the Peril & Promise of Our Time
- Dharma and Development: Religion As Resource in the Sarvodaya Self-Help Movement
- Greening of the Self
- Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems
- World As Lover, World As Self: Courage for Global Justice and Planetary Renewal
- A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of OUr Time
- Active hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy
- Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects
- Widening Circles: A Memoir
Patricia Ryan Madson
Kathryn McCamant & Charles Durrett
- Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourslelves (with Ellen Hertzman)
- Creating Cohousing: Building Sustainable Communities
Kathryn McCamant’s Wikipedia Page
Freda Morris
Ken Norwood
Yana Parker (R.I.P.)
Fran Peavey (R.I.P.)
- A Shallow Pool of Time: An Hiv+ Woman Grapples With the AIDS Epidemic
- Heart Politics (with Charlie Varon and Myra Levy)
- Heart Politics Revisited
- By Life’s Grace: Musings on the Essence of Social Change
- I Remember: Writings by Bosnian Women Refugees (with Radmila Manojlović Zarkovic)
Michael Phillips
- Mental Snacks
- Transaction-Based Economics
- Gods of Commerce
- Commerce
With Salli Rasberry:
- The Seven Laws of Money
- Honest Business: A Superior Strategy for Starting and Managing Your Own Business
- Running a One-Person Business: Business as Lifestyle (First edition).
- Marketing Without Advertising
With Ernest Callenbach:
With Catherine Campbell:
- Simple Living Investments for Old Age
With Claude Whitmyer:
- Running a One-Person Business: Business as Lifestyle (First edition).
Salli Rasberry (R.I.P.)
- Rasberry Exercises: How to Start Your Own School and Make a Book (with Robert Greenway)
- Living Your Life Out Loud: How to Unlock Your Creativity and Unleash Your Joy (with Patti Selwyn)
- The Art of Dying: Honoring & Celebrating Life’s Passages (with Carole Rae Watanabe)
With Michael Phillips:
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- The Seven Laws of Money
- Honest Business: A Superior Strategy for Starting and Managing Your Own Business
- Running a One-Person Business (First Edition).
- Marketing Without Advertising
With Claude Whitmyer:
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- Running a One-Person Business (First Edition).
- Running a One-Person Business (Second Revised Edition).
In 2017, Salli participated in a panel at the San Francisco Library entitled: Women of the 60s Counterculture.
It shared remembering what led up to the Summer of Love and after, all from the point of view of remarkable women who were there and making it happen, despite the chauvinism and other challenges of the time.
You can listen to an audio recording of it with still pictures here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwhxv9ttZTM
Dave Smith (R.I.P.)
Joan Leslie Taylor
Carole Rae Watanabe
- The Art of Dying: Honoring & Celebrating Life’s Passages (with Salli Rasberry)
Michael Wenger
Claude Whitmyer
- Running a One-Person Business: Business as Lifestyle (First edition, co-authors Salli Rasberry & Michael Phillips; second revised edition, co-author Salli Rasberry [with Michael Phillips])
- Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood
- In the Company of Others: Making Community in the Modern World
- Running A Good Business