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Whole Earth Review, May 1985

“There is a connection between what we do with all kinds of death and how we live. It’s worth investigating.”

Sections:
  1. Features
  2. Whole Earth Software Catalog
Whole Earth Review, May 1985
  1. FEATURES
      1. Death. Something. by Charles Pappas. Confessions of a vulture, concerning his fascination with death.
        1
      2. Izum in Rinkydinkaragua by Will Baker: The ruinous politics of belief in Nicaragua.
        4
      3. Cartoon History of the United States by Larry Gonick
        21
      4. The Ecosphere by Peter Warshall: Introducing an Einsteinian ecology inside the small watershed of a sealed glass globe.
        28
      5. Anarchy that Works by Szanto: When designing a fast-changing world, a little chaos helps.
        36
      6. “Keep Designing” edited by Stewart Brand: How the information economy is being created and shaped by the Hacker Ethic.
        44
      7. Doomed: collected by Paul Sieveking and Robert J.M. Rickard
        58
      8. MoTzuing by Robert Fuller: Notes on discussions regarding nuclear with Chinese and Soviet scientists.
        60
      9. Kommi-Punks by Tom Starr and Norbert Haase: Punk rock behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany.
        74
    2. WHOLE SYSTEMS
      1. Second View
        20
      2. What Shall We Do Without Us?
        20
      3. The Historian’s Handbook
        25
      4. Nearby History
        25
      5. Practicing History
        25
      6. Deep Ecology
        26
      7. The Satellite Experimenter’s Handbook
        26
      8. Small Business Management
        26
      9. Space Calendar
        27
    3. LAND USE
      1. Gnu's Letter
        32
      2. Katuah
        32
      3. How to Cope with the Corps
        32
      4. Scientific Event Alert Network Bulletin
        32
      5. Probe Post
        33
      6. The Creekwalker's Journal
        33
      7. Meeting the Expectations of the Land
        34
      8. Beyond Geography
        34
      9. Identifying Diseases of Vegetables
        35
      10. Herbal Bounty!
        35
    4. SMALL BUSINESS
      1. Starting on a Shoestring
        40
      2. Successful Small Business Management
        40
      3. In Business for Yourself
        41
      4. Setting Up Shop
        41
      5. How to Start and Operate a Mail-Order Business
        42
      6. Straight Talk About Small Business
        42
      7. Filofax
        43
      8. The General Ledger Software Consultant
        43
    5. COMMUNICATIONS
      1. Powers of the Press
        56
      2. AudioCraft
        56
      3. Rock & Roll Confidential
        57
      4. Simplicity Cardboard Dulcimers
        57
      5. McSpadden Mountain Dulcimers
        57
      6. The Vanishing Hitchhiker .
        59
      7. The Choking Doberman
        59
      8. Rumor!
        59
      9. The Drama of the Soviet 1960s
        66
    6. NOMADICS
      1. SaddlePack
        67
      2. Lowe Alpine Systems
        67
      3. Free Campgrounds
        67
      4. China
        68
      5. International Workcamp Directory
        68
      6. Undercurrent
        69
      7. Alaska-Yukon Handbook
        69
    7. SOFT TECHNOLOGY
      1. Counterpoint Opus II Tandem
        70
      2. Midvale Books
        70
      3. Pocket Survival Tool
        70
      4. Radial Reaction Turbine
        70
      5. Alternative Light Styles
        71
      6. A Catalog of Independent Power Systems and Components
        71
      7. Timber Frame Construction
        72
      8. Haywire Klamper
        72
      9. Architect’s Drawing Kit
        72
      10. Masterpiece Tools
        73
      11. Wood Finisher’s Handbook
        73
    8. COMMUNITY
      1. Ylem
        78
      2. We Will Not Be Disappeared!
        78
      3. Kaleidoscope
        79
      4. Yellow Silk
        79
      5. Good Movies by Sheila Benson
        80
    9. BACKSCATTER
      1. Echoes from readers back to Whole. Earth Review
        104
    10. GATE FIVE ROAD
      1. Gossip
        109
      2. WER Update
        110
      3. “Or Whole Earth Access”
        110
      4. “Or Computer Literacy”
        110
      5. Subscriptions
        110
      6. Masthead
        110
      7. Whole Earth Threefold Pyramid Scheme
        111
      8. Financial Report
        111
      9. Thank You
        111
      10. How to submit things to Whole Earth Review
        112
  2. WHOLE EARTH SOFTWARE CATALOG
    1. HARDWARE
      1. HARDWARE
        81
    2. MAGAZINES
      1. DTACK Grounded
        83
      2. COMPUTE!’s Gazette
        83
    3. PLAYING
      1. GATO
        84
      2. UNIVERSE
        84
      3. Book of Adventure Games
        85
    4. WRITING
      1. WORDSTAR 2000 PLUS
        86
      2. Improve Your Writing with Word Processing
        87
    5. ANALYZING
      1. SUPERCALC 3
        88
    6. ORGANIZING
      1. File Managers for the Commodore 64
        89
      2. File Managers for the PC
        90
    7. ACCOUNTING
      1. PC/TAXCUT
        92
    8. MANAGING
      1. MACPROJECT
        93
      2. SUPERPROJECT
        94
      3. TIME LINE
        94
      4. PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
        95
    9. DRAWING
      1. DRAWING
        96
    10. TELECOMMUNICATING
      1. FIDO
        96
      2. Magazine ASAP
        96
    11. PROGRAMMING
      1. Running MS-DOS
        98
      2. All About Applewriter Ile
        98
      3. Enhancing Your Apple II (Vol. 1)
        98
      4. Assembly Cookbook for the Apple II/Ile
        98
      5. BETTERBASIC
        99
    12. LEARNING:
      1. VOYAGE OF THE MIMI
        100
    13. ETC.
      1. JAMES F. FIXX: THE RUNNING PROGRAM
        102
      2. THE BOOK OF CHANGE: I CHING
        102
      3. SKYTRAVEL: WINDOW ON OUR GALAXY
        103
      4. COINS
        103
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