In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations
10 best books like In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology & the Survival of the Indian Nations (Jerry Mander): Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization, Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1), What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth, My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization, Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections, Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism, Against His-Story, Against Leviathan!, The Age of Missing Information, Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front
| Author | Susan Griffin |
| ISBN | 1578050472 |
In this famously provocative cornerstone of feminist literature, Susan Griffin explores the identification of women with the earth—both as sustenance for humanity and as victim of male rage. Starting from Plato’s fateful division of the world into spirit and matter, her analysis of how patriarchal...
The long-awaited companion piece to Derrick Jensen's immensely popular and highly acclaimed works A Language Older Than Words and The Culture of Make Believe. Accepting the increasingly widespread belief that industrialized culture inevitably erodes the natural world, Endgame sets out to explore...
Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1)
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| ISBN | 0156623412 |
Mumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because of significant parallel inventions in ritual, language, and social organization. “It is a stimulating volume, informed both with an enormous range...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1582436061 |
Over the years, Wendell Berry has sought to understand and confront the financial structure of modern society and the impact of developing late capitalism on American culture. There is perhaps no more demanding or important critique available to contemporary citizens than Berry’s writings —...
| Author | Chellis Glendinning |
What is the relationship between addiction and the ecological crisis? How can we use the lessons of individual recovery to address our collective need to heal society and the Earth? Chellis Glendinning goes beyond the personal to the very heart of Western civilization to answer these questions, and...
| Author | John Zerzan |
| ISBN | 0922915989 |
Dacia spied this beside my chair recently, flipped through it and muttered that it sounded like just a bunch of angry old men. Sadly, it didn't even live up to that. The way themes overlap in the first half of the book is a textbook case of how NOT to do an anthology - the repetitions were pointless and/or borrowed...
| Author | Jack D. Forbes |
| ISBN | 1583227814 |
Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbes’s Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has inspired America’s...
| Author | Fredy Perlman |
| ISBN | 0934868255 |
Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! is a 1983 book by Fredy Perlman, for which he is best known. It is a personal critical perspective on contemporary civilization and society. The work defined anarcho-primitivism for the first time, and was a major source of inspiration for anti-civilization...
“Highly personal and original . . . McKibben goes beyond Marshall McLuhan’s theory that the medium is the message.”
——The New York Times
Imagine watching an entire day’s worth of television on every single channel. Acclaimed environmental writer and culture critic Bill...
| Author | Sharon Astyk |
| ISBN | 0865716145 |
Why are so few peak oil authors women? There's been much debate about this, and no one has yet arrived at a definitive answer. But whatever the reason, Sharon Astyk has established herself as a true rarity within the peak oil community by virtue of being a woman who has chosen to write about peak oil. The...
| Author | Philip Slater |
| ISBN | 0807042013 |
Even though this was written in 1970, sadly enough the social commentary is as applicable today. This book does a great job of dissecting the American psyche and pointing out what needs to change for us to survive as a viable community. While some of the examples are a bit dated (there's a lengthy discussion...
The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
| Author | Ivan Illich |
| ISBN | 0714526630 |
Short and accessible, and a good reframing of the rather tired debates about 'the lack of work' and the need to provide jobs for those in poverty. Jobs don't do anyone any good if they pay crap wages and still don't allow people to take care of themselves. This holds doubly true if the majority of our society's...
| Author | Vine Deloria Jr. |
| ISBN | 1555915647 |
In his final work, the great and beloved Native American scholar Vine Deloria Jr. takes us into the realm of the spiritual and reveals through eyewitness accounts the immense power of medicine men. The World We Used To Live In, a fascinating collection of anecdotes from tribes across the country, explores...
| Author | James Howard Kunstler |
| ISBN | 0802142494 |
Kunstler is like that super-intelligent, yet vitriolic friend whose opinions you totally jibe with but find yourself apologizing to others after he's totally ripped them a new one at the cocktail party you hosted last saturday night.
Yeah, he's kind of bitter. But then again, he's so right....
| Author | Maria Mies |
| ISBN | 1856491560 |
Two of Zed's best-known authors, one an economist, the other a physicist and philosopher, come together in this book on a controversial environmental agenda. Using interview material, they bring together women's perspectives from North and South on environmental deterioration and develop and...
Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution: Lessons for the Computer Age
| Author | Kirkpatrick Sale |
| ISBN | 0201407183 |
Kirkpatrick Sale is at the tumultuous center of a technology backlash, actively challenging Bill Gates on the one hand and the Unabomber on the other. The subject of bets, barbs, and grudging praise in the pages of WIRED, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The New Yorker,Rebels Against the Future takes...
| Author | Murray Bookchin |
| ISBN | 1904859267 |
“The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human.” With this succinct formulation, Murray Bookchin launches his most ambitious work, The Ecology of Freedom. An engaging and extremely readable book of breathtaking scope, its inspired synthesis...
| Author | Peter Glassgold |
| ISBN | 1582430403 |
In March of 1906, Emma Goldman published the first issue of Mother Earth, a "Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature." Conceived as a forum for anarchists of every school and variety, Mother Earth laid the groundwork for American radical thought. It did more than report on the contemporary...
