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Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections

9 best books like Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections (John Zerzan): The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, The Dharma Bums, Homage to Catalonia, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals, The Elementary Particles, In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations, Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America, Canzoniere, Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
AuthorEmily Dickinson
ISBN0316184136
THE ONLY ONE-VOLUME EDITION CONTAINING ALL 1,775 OF EMILY DICKINSON’S POEMS

Only eleven of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early posthumously published collections-some...
The Dharma Bums
AuthorJack Kerouac
Two ebullient young men search for Truth the Zen way: from marathon wine-drinking bouts, poetry jam sessions, and "yabyum" in San Francisco's Bohemia, to solitude in the high Sierras and a vigil atop Desolation Peak in Washington State. Published just a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation...
Homage to Catalonia
AuthorGeorge Orwell
ISBN0156421178
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell is one of my favourite writers. 1984 and Animal Farm were game-changers for me when I first picked them up at 12 years old, and they fostered an interest in politics...
The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
AuthorJeffrey Moussaieff Masson
ISBN0345452828
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s groundbreaking bestseller, When Elephants Weep, was the first book since Darwin’s time to explore emotions in the animal kingdom, particularly from animals in the wild. Now, he focuses exclusively on the contained world of the farm animal, revealing startling,...
The Elementary Particles
AuthorMichel Houellebecq
ISBN0375727019
Brilliant, caustic, comic, and severe, The Elementary Particles is an unflinching look at a modern world plagued by consumerism, materialism, and unchecked scientific experimentation.

An international bestseller and controversial literary phenomenon that drew immediate comparison...
In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations
AuthorJerry Mander
ISBN0844669512
Mander goes beyond television (which he proclaimed as being dangerous to personal health and sanity in Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television) to critique our technological society as a whole, challenge its utopian promises, and track its devastating impact on native cultures worldwide....
Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America
AuthorWard Churchill
ISBN1904859186
"This extraordinarily important book cuts to the heart of one of the central reasons movements to bring about social and environmental justice always fail. The fundamental question here is: is violence ever an acceptable tool to help bring about social change? This is probably the most important...
Canzoniere
AuthorFrancesco Petrarca
ISBN8806179497
In concomitanza con il settimo centenario della nascita del poeta, la curatrice, tra i massimi specialisti del Petrarca volgare, conclude un lavoro durato quasi vent'anni. Commentando minuziosamente ogni verso e ogni espressione petrarchesca, il fittissimo richiamo dei testi classici e della...
Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
AuthorHaemin Sunim
ISBN0143132288
A #1 internationally bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about learning to love ourselves, with all our imperfections, by the Buddhist author of The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down.

When you care for yourself first, the world begins to find you worthy of care.

No one is...
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