A Green History of the World: The Environment & the Collapse of Great Civilizations
10 best books like A Green History of the World: The Environment & the Collapse of Great Civilizations (Clive Ponting): My Name Is Asher Lev, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, The Promise, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods, Davita's Harp, The Gift of Asher Lev, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History), Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives, A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure
| Author | Chaim Potok |
| ISBN | 1400031044 |
Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy. In this stirring and often visionary novel,...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0143036556 |
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicide?
In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond...
| Author | Chaim Potok |
| ISBN | 1400095417 |
“A superb mirror of a place, a time, and a group of people who capture our immediate interest and hold it tightly.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
Young Reuven Malter is unsure of himself and his place in life. An unconventional scholar, he struggles for recognition from his teachers. With...
| Author | Michael Wex |
| ISBN | 0061132179 |
A delightful excursion through the Yiddish language, the culture it defines and serves, and the fine art of complaint
Throughout history, Jews around the world have had plenty of reasons to lament. And for a thousand years, they've had the perfect language for it. Rich in color, expressiveness,...
| Author | Chaim Potok |
| ISBN | 0449911837 |
For Davita Chandal, growing up in the New York of the 1930s and '40s is an experience of joy and sadness. Her loving parents, both fervent radicals, fill her with the fiercely bright hope of a new and better world. But as the deprivations of war and depression take a ruthless toll, Davita unexpectedly turns...
| Author | Chaim Potok |
| ISBN | 0449001156 |
"Rivals anything Chaim Potok has ever produced. It is a book written with passion about passion. You're not likely to read anything better this year."
THE DETROIT NEWS
Twenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist living in France, still uncertain of his artistic direction....
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
| Author | David Remnick |
| ISBN | 1400043603 |
No story has been more central to America’s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama’s life or explores the ambition behind his rise. Those familiar with Obama’s...
| Author | Alfred W. Crosby |
| ISBN | 0521546184 |
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain because in many cases they were achieved by using firearms against spears. Alfred Crosby,...
| Author | Michael Specter |
| ISBN | 1594202303 |
In this provocative and headline-making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet.
In Denialism, New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially...
A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure
| Author | Chris Gethard |
| ISBN | 0306820307 |
Chris Gethard has often found himself in awkward situations most people, including you, probably would have safely avoided. The good news is now, thanks to this book, you can enjoy the painfully funny consequences of his unfortunate decisions at a safe distance.
A Bad Idea I'm About to Do
invites...
Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
| Author | Michael Wood |
| ISBN | 0521316928 |
One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called Boom in contemporary Latin American fiction. Published in 1967, the novel was an instant success, running to hundreds of editions, winning four international prizes and being translated into 27 languages. In 1982,...
Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
| Author | Victor Davis Hanson |
| ISBN | 0385720386 |
Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any...
| Author | Chaim Potok |
| ISBN | 0449001148 |
Mysticism Demystified
Anarchism is a visionary politics
Mysticism is the anarchism of religion
Mystics don't rely on structure
- William Everson
Mystics, as William Everson suggests in his poem, are anarchists. This does not mean that they throw bombs, at least any...
