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A Real Life

Restoring What Matters: Family, Good Friends and a True Community

By: Ferenc Máté

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Hardcover | 15 August 2011 | Edition Number 1

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With our environment on its knees, our great myths and cities crumbling, Ferenc Mate argues in this passionate, darkly funny book that now is the time to begin our lives anew, on a more human scale. With our lust for mechanized "progress" we have damaged and endangered not only our planet but also our communities, families, and even friendships. He warns that our environmental movement by itself is as effective as "trying to stop a freight-train with a feather." He argues for fundamental change--by each of us. We must place simple human needs and the human spirit far ahead of material wealth. We must rethink our concepts of career, home life, habits, and what we call security and success. And we must resurrect our foundations: the small town, the family, and a dignified caring self. Only then will our earth become the paradise we once had and mistakenly took for granted.

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"We need this book now more than ever" -- NBC TV "His book comes out of an amazing life experience, and it inspires us to travel in search of the ultimate souvenir: Learning to live a more fulfilling life." -- Rick Steves - Travel with Rick Steves "A handbook of survival in these strange times." -- CW Magazine

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Author's note	p. 7
The Pursuit of Happiness	p. 11
Time Was on Our Side	p. 17
Sunday, Lovely Sunday	p. 21
Love Thy Neighbor, Live Forever	p. 30
A Man's Neighborhood is His Castle	p. 36
The True Cost of a Thing	p. 51
The Steady Job: Now You See It, Now You Don't	p. 75
Gone Fishin'	p. 92
TGIM-Thank Goodness It's Monday!	p. 99
Honor Thy Vegetable Garden	p. 110
Financial Obesity	p. 135
Mortgage, Sweet Mortgage	p. 141
How Do You Hug an Electronic Friend?	p. 165
The Shallowing of our Minds	p. 178
Our Inner Depths	p. 191
Talk to Me	p. 199
Strangers in the Night (and Day)	p. 204
Let Us Play	p. 215
Teach Your Children Well	p. 225
All You Need Is Love	p. 239
Appendix 1	p. 253
Appendix 2	p. 257
Acknowledgments	p. 275
Endnotes	p. 277
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A Real Life

Restoring What Matters: Family, Good Friends and a True Community

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