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Frances Moore Lappé

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Frances Moore Lappe--author of fifteen books, including three-million-copy bestseller Diet for a Small Planet --distills her world-spanning experience and wisdom in a conversational yet hard-hitting style to create a rare "aha" book. In nine short chapters, Lappe leaves readers feeling liberated and courageous. She flouts conventional right-versus-left divisions and affirms readers' basic sanity--their intuitive knowledge that it is possible to stop grasping at straws and grasp the real roots of today's crises, from hunger and poverty to climate change and terrorism. Because we are creatures of the mind, says Lappe, it is the power of "frame"--our core assumptions about how the world works--that determines outcomes. She pinpoints the domina...more

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Average rating: 3.92 · 2,288 ratings · 294 reviews · 29 distinct works

	Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé, Marika Hahn (Illustrator) 3.92 avg rating — 1,151 ratings — published 1971 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé, Anna Lappe, Frances Moore Lappe 3.91 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Getting A Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad by Frances Moore Lappé, Frances Moore Lappe 3.60 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	World Hunger: Twelve Myths by Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins, Peter Michael Rosset 4.00 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1982 — 9 editions	My rating:
	You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear by Frances Moore Lappé, Jeffrey Perkins (Goodreads Author), Frances Moore Lappe 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity by Frances Moore Lappé, Cary Fowler, Joseph Collins 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1977 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Democracy's Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Quickening of America: Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	What to Do After You Turn Off the TV 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1985	My rating:
	Aid As Obstacle: Twenty Questions About Our Foreign Aid and the Hungry 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1980	My rating:

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“Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.”
― Frances Moore Lappé

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“The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.”
― Frances Moore Lappé

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“Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action. ”
― Frances Moore Lappé

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