Books We Like

Books We Like

Justice for All Ventura County has graciously shared their "Library for All" - where many of our favorite books can be downloaded free for personal reading.  See more information below the list.

From our Climate Change committee:

  • The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others - by Tali Sharot
  • No Miracles Needed: How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air - by Mark Z. Jacobson
  • Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming - edited by Paul Hawken
  • Video: Drawdown Roadmap: Accelerating Climate Solutions (17 minute video)
  • Video: Just Have a Think: Have we got enough minerals? (15 minute video)
  • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need - by Bill Gates
  • Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future - by Elizabeth Kolbert
  • All we can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis - edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
  • This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate - by Naomi Klein

From our Civics Education Committee:

  • Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change - by Jared Diamond
  • The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy - by Katherine M. Gehl & Michael E. Porter
  • We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights - by Adam Winkler
  • The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others - by Tali Sharot
  • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know - by Adam Grant

From our Racial and Social Justice Committee:

  • Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness by Laura Coates
  • Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - by Bryan Stevenson
  • The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together - by Heather McGhee
  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents  - by Isabel Wilkerson
  • The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration - by Isabel Wilkerson
  • Don't Label Me: How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars - by Irshad Manji
  • So You Want to Talk About Race - by by Ijeoma Oluo

Justice for All Ventura County's "Library for All"

Is made possible by the work of the nonprofit Internet Archive, Open Library and Anna's Archive, generously funded by grants from the California State Library and Kahle-Austin Foundation. These open-access libraries specialise in digital preservation, providing students, researchers and the public with books in online formats for academic and research purposes.

The Internet Archive provides books under fair use law and the Copyright Exceptions for Libraries & Archives (Title 17, Section 108 of the U.S. Code). This practice is known as digital lending and is in use by all participating libraries. To maintain compliance, A Library for All abides by three limitations as mandated by Title 17, Section 108:

  • Do not make copies to sell commercially
  • If making copies for academic or research purposes, do not engage in bulk copying
  • Include a notice in all copies that materials are protected under copyright

Here is the link:   https://justiceforallvc.org/your-government/#lwvvc-civics-education