Independent Book Stores, New and Used:

Support access to literary variety: support you independent book dealers.

your arts and environment access to the Monterey Bay area.

Bookshop Santa Cruz


Copperfields Books of Sonoma County
Books West of San Luis Obispo County
order on line
Gateways Books, Santa Cruz
Capitola Book Cafe


Manfred's Books of Pt. Rayes
Book Loft, Ft. Bragg
order on line


The Bookworm bookstore/gallery, Gold Beach, OR

Crossroads Books, 1935 Main St., Watsonville, CA (831) 728-4139, email them

Bookpacker
Amazon.Com

We suggest the following Santa Cruz area book dealers for out-of-print, and hard to find books: (all are 831 area code)

After Effects Books 475.5991
The Book Loft 429.1812
Casabella Art Books 426.6475
Chimney Sweep Books 458.1044
Geiger's Books 335.5870
George Robert Kane Books, ABAA 426.4133
The Literary Guillotine 457.1195
Logos Books & Records 427.5100
Rare Oriental Book Company 689.0203
Top of the Heap 475.6364
Westside Stories 457.2021


Book Publishers we Recommend

Get Fit Now: Publisher of books for healthy living

Hatherleigh Press


Environmental organizations


VENTANA CHAPTER, SIERRA CLUB (Meade's the web designer for this one.)
Sierra Club
Ventana Wilderness Alliance Serving the Northern Santa Lucias and the Big Sur area,
Pelican Network: your arts and environment access to the Monterey Bay area.
Environmental Defence Fund
Rainforest Action Network
Greenpeace
Friends of the Earth
Earth First!
Bat Conservation International
Freinds of Moss Landing Marine Labs.,Inc
Calif Coastal Trails, Monterey Bay The Nature Conservancy
Home Depot (the environmental destruction company) Sucks. Find out why.
Cascade Rance State Park

 

Arts and Entertainment and Music

NEW ISART.COM, a collaborative intersection of activists and artists of all genres using their voices to build better communities. Look for gig schedules for local bands, cool bio stories, information on non-profits doing great work, upcoming art shows and benefits and more... If you like popular music and would like band bios, concert dates, lyrics, etc, click on the Ultimate Band List Every band you can think of, plus all the info.
If you are interested in current artists and their work, don't fly all over the country. shop from your computer.
Art Net Virtual gallery of art for sale. Or if you would simply like to enjoy some of the wonderful black and white photos for the master of that genre, click on Ansel Adams Photos. You can tour the world's fine museams the easy way: Fine art and doors to museams. Or if you wish to more specific and love art from the Renaissance period, try High Renaissance Art.
You can also check out the literary scene and get some interesting info on your favorite authors here:
Literature and Authors.
Santa Cruz Writers' Union

Blue Planet The Music of Chuck Greenberg

 

Things for your mind, spirit and heart

Free your Soul to Free your Mind

Spiritual Response Therapy

 


Buckholdt Associates- Self Esteem Advisory Service
Lucindas Mind Mall Yoga, meditation, past lives, etc.
THE TRUTH!!>/a>

 


SEARCH THE WEB FOR THINGS OF INTEREST

You want to get around and find interesting sites to peek at. Well here's an aptly namede place to stare: Starting Point.

Government

Capitol Web Little brother watching big brother; or everything you wanted to know about those people you pay to go to Washington.

Watch them churn out laws like mosquitos in a swamp by clicking into: Calif. Assembly, or Calif. Senate

 

Travel

 

Now you can become the Virtual Tourist, and tour before you tour.
Or for more low keyed travellers stop along your way at all of the many
Micro Breweries I plan my vacations around micro breweries. Doesn't everyone?
And for some local flavor, visit our lovely commnity of
Corralitos

 

Science and philosophy:


How Stuff Works answers your technological questions

Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider of Long Island (accelerates to 99.95% of light

Space Calendar brought to you by NASA

Robotics

liquid crystal non-gravity

Julian Barbour says time doesn't exist

Interview with Barbour

Talking Computers

Mark weiser's Ubiquitous-computing site

Max Plank

Bernard Haisch--Zero Point Field

Check out the recently discovered spiral star
Sky and Telescope Mag More pretty lights, and you don't have to go outside.

Wild physics


One stop shopping for physics, UFOs, and the 21st century


A butterfly flaps its wings in Katmandu, and weather predictions in California go up in smoke. Want to know more about Chaos Theory? Did you know that math can produce pictures that mimic the patterns of nature? The pictures are called Fractals.and here's more fractals

 

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