Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change

10 best books like Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change (William R. Catton Jr.): Before Mars, World Made by Hand, A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients, My Big Fat Fake Wedding, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World, Atlas Alone, A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World, Augmented

Before Mars

Author

Emma Newman

After months of travel, Anna Kubrin finally arrives on Mars for her new job as a geologist and de facto artist-in-residence. Already she feels like she is losing the connection with her husband and baby at home on Earth--and she'll be on Mars for over a year. Throwing herself into her work, she tries her...

World Made by Hand

Author	James Howard Kunstler
ISBN	0871139782

For the townspeople of Union Grove, New York, the future is not what they thought it would be.  Transportation is slow and dangerous, so food is grown locally at great expense of time and energy. And the outside world is largely unknown. There may be a president and he may be in Minneapolis now, but people...

A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages

Author	Kristin Chenoweth
ISBN	1416580557

"Life's too short. I'm not."

You might know her as a Tony Award-winning Broadway star, who originated the role of Galinda the Good Witch in the smash musical Wicked and won a Tony for 1999's You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Or you may recognize her from her starring roles on TV—The West Wing,...

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Author	Bill Bryson
ISBN	0385539304

In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.

Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human...

The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

Author	Irvin D. Yalom
ISBN	0060938110

Anyone interested in psychotherapy or personal growth will rejoice at the publication of The Gift of Therapy, a masterwork from one of today's most accomplished psychological thinkers. From his thirty-five years as a practicing psychiatrist and as an award-winning author, Irvin D. Yalom imparts...

My Big Fat Fake Wedding

Author

Lauren Landish

Now a Washington Post and Amazon Charts Bestseller.
#1 in the Kindle Store.

He needs a wife.
I need a husband.
It’s just temporary… what could go wrong?

I’ve always wanted the fairy tale wedding. Not for the princess perfect dress or big party, but for Papa.
...

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

Author

Rutger Bregman

From a universal basic income to a 15-hour workweek, from a world without borders to a world without poverty – it’s time to return to utopian thinking.

Rutger Bregman takes us on a journey through history, beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he introduces ideas whose time has...

Atlas Alone

Author	Emma Newman
ISBN	0399587357

Hugo Award winner Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a novel about vengeance, and a woman deciding if she can become a murderer to save the future of humanity.

Six months after she left Earth, Dee is struggling to manage her rage toward the people who ordered the...

A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World

Author	Nicholas A. Basbanes
ISBN	0060580801

In A Splendor of Letters, Nicholas A. Basbanes continues the lively, richly anecdotal exploration of book people, places, and culture he began in 1995 with A Gentle Madness (a finalist that year for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and expanded in 2001 with Patience & Fortitude, a companion...

Augmented

Author

James D. Prescott

Breathable air on Earth is running out and no one knows why. A mysterious discovery nearly thirty million years old may hold the answer.
To find it, a glaciologist and the inventor of a cutting-edge brain implant will need to work together.
But can they unlock its shocking secrets in time to...