"'We must be the youngest species on Earth,' as Harlem environmental activist Bernadette Cozart puts it, 'because everything else seems to know what to do.' Soul of a Citizen helps teach us what to do." DAVID BROWER, FORMER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE SIERRA CLUB, FOUNDER OF FRIENDS OF THE EARTH, EARTH ISLAND ACTION GROUP
"Soul of a Citizen is hopeful, compassionate, and powerfully written. In a time of cynicism and anxiety, it's important to hear about the work being done by courageous, active, everyday Americans." GRACE PALEY
"If you are ready to serve as a wounded warrior in order to bring peace and healing to our planet, read this book and then join the battle." BERNIE SIEGEL, M.D., AUTHOR OF LOVE, MEDICINE, & MIRACLES
"Paul Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work for some years now, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard Loeb as something of a national treasur
Introduction.........................................................1 Chapter One: Making Our Lives Count.................................14 Chapter Two: We Don't Have to Be Saints.............................34 Chapter Three: One Step at a Time...................................58 Chapter Four: The Cynical Smirk.....................................76 Chapter Five: Unforeseen Fruits.....................................98 Chapter Six: The Call of Stories...................................117 Chapter Seven: Values, Work, and Family............................149 Chapter Eight: Village Politics....................................185 Chapter Nine: Widening the Circle..................................214 Chapter Ten: Coping with Burnout...................................243 Chapter Eleven: Pieces of a Vision.................................282 Chapter Twelve: The Fullness of Time...............................310 Resource Guide.....................................................350 Acknowledgments....................................................358
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You'll need a Palm OS or PocketPC/Windows CE Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or a Windows or Macintosh desktop (or laptop) PC. Palm OS Hardware: PDAs including: Palm III series, V series, VII series, m100 series, m125 series, m500 series; Handspring Visor series; TRG Pro; Sony CLIE; IBM WorkPad. 134KB of free memory for the Palm Reader application, plus sufficient free memory for each book (varies from 200KB to 2MB, depending upon the length of the book). Palm Personal will not work with the Palm Reader. It doesn't have enough memory to handle all of our eBooks and there are some important technical differences in the Palm Personal's operating system that make it a less suitable platform for the Palm Reader. Palm OS Software: Palm OS 3.0 or greater. Synchronization software for downloading the Palm Reader and eBooks to your Palm device (e.g., the Palm Desktop software) PocketPC/Windows CE Hardware: PocketPC series handhelds 167-260K of free memory for the Palm Reader application, plus sufficient free memory for each book (varies from 200KB to 2MB, depending upon the length of the book) 256KB free program space PocketPC/Windows CE Software: PocketPC or PocketPC 2002 Synchronization software for downloading the Palm Reader and eBooks to your PocketPC device (e.g., the ActiveSync 3.1 software). Windows: Windows 98 / ME / NT 4.0 / 2000 / XP Macintosh: Mac OS 8.6 or later, using CarbonLib 1.5 or later/Mac OS X 10.1 or later
You'll need a Palm OS or PocketPC/Windows CE Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or a Windows or Macintosh desktop (or laptop) PC.
Palm OS Hardware:
Palm OS Software:
PocketPC/Windows CE Hardware:
PocketPC/Windows CE Software:
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The Palm Reader can read doc files. A doc file is a type of PDA file that ends in either .pdb or .prc. These text files have been specifically packaged for use on a PDA. Doc format is pretty much a standard for PDA documents, and the latest version of the Palm Reader can view them.
Yes, the Palm Reader is compatible with the following PocketPCs: Hewlett-Packard Jornada420, 430, 430se, 540, 545, 547, 548, 680, 690, 720, and 820 CompaqiPAQ H3600 series, iPAQ H3100 series and Aero 1500 series CasioCassiopeia E115, E-125 and EM-500 series.
Yes, the Palm Reader is compatible with the following PocketPCs:
