Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860
8 best books like Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860 (Richard Slotkin): Richard Scarry's Bedtime Stories, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America, Selected Poems, Grandville, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks, Alone: A Story of Friendship in the Darkness of Space (A Children's Picture Book), Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
| Author | Richard Scarry |
| ISBN | 0394882695 |
The illustrations in this book were very well done and helped tell the story as it progressed. In this book there were actually multiple stories that were being told. I found most of them just okay stories, but the last story I really enjoyed. It added humor to an unfortunate day. It takes the reader through...
For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances,...
| Author | Denise Levertov |
| ISBN | 0811215202 |
Culled from two dozen poetry books, and drawing from six decades of her writing life, The Selected Poems of Denise Levertov offers a chronological overview of her great body of work. It is splendid and impressive to have at last a clear, unobstructed view of her ground-breaking poetry -- the work of a...
| Author | Bryan Talbot |
| ISBN | 1595823972 |
Two hundred years ago, Britain lost the Napoleonic War and fell under the thumb of French domination. Gaining independence after decades of civil disobedience and anarchist bombings, the Socialist Republic of Britain is now a small, unimportant backwater connected by a railway bridge, steampowered...
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
| Author | Timothy Morton |
| ISBN | 0816689237 |
Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global...
| Author | Robertson Davies |
| ISBN | 0140097716 |
In this collection of his newspaper pieces, mostly from the late Forties, Davies introduces us to his alter ego, a mildly irascible curmudgeon whose opinions and observations have been so popular in Canada that three volumes of his columns have been published there: The Diary , The Table Talk , and The...
Alone: A Story of Friendship in the Darkness of Space (A Children's Picture Book)
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We all feel different sometimes, and Earth, slowly spinning in the darkness of space, feels so very different from all the other planets.
Can Earth find friendship in the loneliest of places?
This lovingly illustrated children's book by Scott Stuart reminds us...
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
| Author | Aaron Bastani |
| ISBN | 1786632624 |
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism
In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury...
