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I Know How to Draw an Owl I Know How to Draw an Owl (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 263 ratings — published 2024
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Saturday at the Food Pantry Saturday at the Food Pantry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.57 — 873 ratings — published
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Promise Me Promise Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 6,825 ratings — published 2010
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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 7,524 ratings — published 2013
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Enough: Notes From a Woman Who Has Finally Found It Enough: Notes From a Woman Who Has Finally Found It (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 672 ratings — published 2019
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Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 7,905 ratings — published 2023
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Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 8,917 ratings — published 2023
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कुबड़ा कुबड़ा (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 214 ratings — published
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Prosperity and Poverty: The Compassionate Use of Resources in a World of Scarcity Prosperity and Poverty: The Compassionate Use of Resources in a World of Scarcity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 27 ratings — published 1988
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Kalki Kalki (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,691 ratings — published 1976
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The Children of Men The Children of Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 52,920 ratings — published 1992
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The Road The Road (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,053,064 ratings — published 2006
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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 8,021 ratings — published 2007
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No Impact Man No Impact Man (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 5,200 ratings — published 2009
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Lazarus, Vol. 1: Family Lazarus, Vol. 1: Family (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 11,618 ratings — published 2013
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We Found a Hat We Found a Hat (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 9,105 ratings — published 2016
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Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a  Painful Childhood Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 269 ratings — published 1993
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The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 260 ratings — published 2011
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The Company of Strangers: Christians & the Renewal of America's Public Life The Company of Strangers: Christians & the Renewal of America's Public Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 68 ratings — published
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The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 241 ratings — published 1980
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Hollow World Hollow World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 5,423 ratings — published 2013
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 41,536 ratings — published 2013
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Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 159 ratings — published 2000
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If You Give a Pig a Pancake If You Give a Pig a Pancake (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 67,255 ratings — published 1998
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The Great Kapok Tree The Great Kapok Tree (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 6,043 ratings — published 1990
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The Doorbell Rang: An Enjoyable Read-Aloud About Sharing and Counting for Children The Doorbell Rang: An Enjoyable Read-Aloud About Sharing and Counting for Children (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 7,918 ratings — published 1986
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The Lorax The Lorax (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 372,028 ratings — published 1971
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (If You Give...) If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (If You Give...)
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avg rating 4.30 — 315,842 ratings — published 1985
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The Mitten The Mitten (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 94,911 ratings — published 1989
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Dune (Dune, #1) Dune (Dune, #1)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,650,772 ratings — published 1965
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Rutger Bregman
“To economists, everything revolves around scarcity - after all, even the biggest spenders can't buy everything. However, the perception of scarcity is not ubiquitous. An empty schedule feels different than a jam-packed workday. And that's not some harmless little feeling. Scarcity impinges on your mind. People behave differently when they perceive a thing to be scarce.
What that thing is doesn't much matter; whether it's too little time, money, friendship, food - it all contributes to experience a "scarcity mentality". And this has benefits. People who experience a sense of scarcity are good at managing their short-term problems. Poor people have an incredible ability - in the short term - to make ends meet, the same way that overworked CEOs can power through to close a deal.
Despite all this, the drawbacks of a "scarcity mentality" are greater than the benefits. Scarcity narrows your focus to your immediate lack, to the meeting that's starting in five minutes or the bills that need to be paid tomorrow. The long-term perspective goes out of the window. "Scarcity consumes you", Shafir explains. "You're less able to focus on other things that are also important to you."
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There's a key distinction though between people with busy lives and those living in poverty: You can't take a break from poverty.”
Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

Ramez Naam
“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though...”
Ramez Naam, Crux

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