Works by
John Robbins
(Writer)
[October 26, 1947 - ]

• Diet for a New America : How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth (1987)
  Few of us are aware that the act of eating can be a powerful statement of commitment to our own well-being, and at the same time to the creation of a healthier world. In Diet for a New America, John Robbins brilliantly documents that our food choices can provide us with ways to enjoy life to the fullest, while making it possible that life itself might continue.

• May All Be Fed: Diet For a New World (1992) with recipes by Gia Patton and others

• Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing (1996)
  A Prescription for Real Health Care Reform In his rousing and inspirational style, John Robbins, author of the acclaimed best-seller, Diet for a New America, turns his attention to the national debate on health care. Calling for nothing short of a revolution in the basic beliefs on which health care is based, he convincingly demonstrates the enormous human and financial costs of the polarization of conventional and alternative medicine.
  
  Although Americans spend far more money on health care than any other people in the world, many of us cannot afford the most basic coverage. We rank 25th amount the worlds nations in infant mortality; the toll in human suffering from degenerative disease continues to rise; the danger from virulent communicable diseases is increasing daily; and, meanwhile, women are growing increasingly frustrated with the care they receive from a male-dominated system.
  
  With a foreword by Marianne Williamson and an introduction by Riane Eisler, Reclaiming Our Health offers a brilliant, refreshing and uplifting new vision of what health care in America might be, as well as practical solutions for us as individual and for a health-care system gone awry.

• The Awakened Heart: Meditations on Finding Harmony in a Changing World (1997) with Ann Mortife (1997)
  From one of Americas leading-edge thinkers, a contemporary book of timeless wisdom. It is a book of balanced principles that will speak with gentle passion not only to John Robbins existing fans, but to mainstream readership as well. An inquiry into issues and concerns of the heart, The Awakened Heart touches the core of what it means to bring our lives into harmony and to discover our own path amidst the contradictions that challenge us daily. A book of accessible and beautiful reflections, The Awakened Heart speaks of the many kinds of human hunger and need to feed our spirit. Speaking of the human quest for inner peace and the urge to live life at the highest level of meaning and purpose, it nurtures a sense of balance from which real solutions can flow.
   
  Specific life choices and issues are addressed including Acceptance and Love, Self-Work, Growth Rhythms and Cycles, The Courage to Love Again, Transforming Fear, Sex and Love, Confronting the Worlds Pain, and many more.

• The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World (2001)
  Here, the man who started the "food revolution" with the million-plus-selling Diet for a New America, boldly posits that, collectively, our personal diet can save ourselves and the world. If, according to chaos theory, the beating of a butterfly's wing can cause a hurricane in another part of the world, try this out for chaotic cause and effect: monarch butterflies are dying in droves due to genetically-engineered corn growing in the Midwest. There is also a direct correlation between the Big Mac in your hand and the mile-wide river now running across the North Pole. Learn the truth about foods we are eating that are, in Robbins' words, "unsafe on any plate."

• Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World’s Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples  (2006)
  Why do some people age in failing health and sadness, while others grow old with vitality and joy?
  
  In this revolutionary book, bestselling author John Robbins presents us with a bold new paradigm of aging, showing us how we can increase not only our lifespan but also our health span. Through the example of four very different cultures that have the distinction of producing some of the world’s healthiest, oldest people, Robbins reveals the secrets for living an extended and fulfilling life in which our later years become a period of wisdom, vitality, and happiness. From Abkhasia in the Caucasus south of Russia, where age is beauty, and Vilcabamba in the Andes of South America, where laughter is the greatest medicine, to Hunza in Central Asia, where dance is ageless, and finally the southern Japanese islands of Okinawa, the modern Shangri-la, where people regularly live beyond a century, Robbins examines how the unique lifestyles of these peoples can influence and improve our own.
  
  Bringing the traditions of these ancient and vibrantly healthy cultures together with the latest breakthroughs in medical science, Robbins reveals that, remarkably, they both point in the same direction. The result is an inspirational synthesis of years of research into healthy aging in which Robbins has isolated the characteristics that will enable us to live long and–most important–joyous lives. With an emphasis on simple, wholesome, but satisfying fare, and the addition of a manageable daily exercise routine, many people can experience great improvement in the quality of their lives now and for many years to come. But perhaps more surprising is Robbins’ discovery that it is not diet and exercise alone that helps people to live well past one hundred. The quality of personal relationships is enormously important. With startling medical evidence about the effects of our interactions with others, Robbins asserts that loneliness has more impact on lifespan than such known vices as smoking. There is clearly a strong beneficial power to love and connection.

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• Imagine: What America Could Be in the 21st Century (2000) by Marianne Williamson
  In the realm of highest possibilities, what could America look like in 50 years? What kinds of changes would have to occur in order for that to happen? How can an individual or an institution best contribute to such change? And what is the deeper story trying to emerge within this nation and the world?
  
  Best-selling author Marianne Williamson posed these questions to nearly 40 of her well-known contemporaries, inviting them to open their imaginations to all the possibilities that could exist. Imagine is their collective response: a powerful, provocative, and compelling vision of a better America and a prescriptive call to action for significant positive change.

  Between the covers of Imagine, an unprecedented assembly of America's foremost visionaries, academics, activists, and spiritual leaders -- including Anne Lamott, bell hooks, Caroline Myss, Dean Ornish, Deepak Chopra, John Gray, John Robbins, Marianne Williamson, Neale Donald Walsch,  Sarah Ban Breathnach, and Thomas Moore -- addresses issues of personal, internal transformation as well as institutional, external change, recognizing that the internal and external are not separate but intertwined, that we must find peace within ourselves before we can change the world around us.
  
  Today, America is plagued by darkness, home to a plethora of problems and millions of troubled souls. Imagine moves beyond the present, aiming a shining beacon of light on a brighter tomorrow.
  
  All author royalties from the sales of this book will be donated to the Global Renaissance Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to imagining and working toward a better world for our children and our children's children.