The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
10 best books like The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (Leo Marx): The Medium is the Massage, Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, The Meadow, Platform, Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help, Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History), The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, The Waiter
The Medium is the Massage
| Author | Marshall McLuhan |
| ISBN | 1584230703 |
The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that was later copied by Wired, McLuhan and coauthor/designer Quentin Fiore combine word and image to illustrate and enact the ideas that were first put forward...
| Author | Thomas G. Andrews |
| ISBN | 0674031016 |
On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children...
| Author | James Galvin |
| ISBN | 0805027033 |
An American Library Association Notable Book
In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, and...
| Author | Michel Houellebecq |
| ISBN | 1400030269 |
In his new work, Michel Houellebecq combines erotic provocation with a terrifying vision of a world teetering between satiety and fanaticism, to create one of the most shocking, hypnotic, and intelligent novels in years.
In his early forties, Michel Renault skims through his days with as...
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help
| Author | Larissa MacFarquhar |
| ISBN | 1594204330 |
How far do you really go to “do unto others”? New Yorker journalist Larissa MacFarquhar reveals the individuals who devote themselves fully to bettering the lives of strangers, even when it comes at great personal cost
There are those of us who help and those who live to help. Larissa MacFarquhar...
| Author | William Cronon |
| ISBN | 0393315118 |
In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through...
| 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 | Patricia Nelson Limerick |
| ISBN | 0393304973 |
The 'settling' of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures–most with happy endings–and a process that came to an end with the 'closing' of the frontier in the 1890s.
But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues,...
| Author | Walter J. Ong |
| ISBN | 0415281296 |
This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures offering a very clear account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.
In the course of his study, Walter J. Ong offers fascinating insights into oral...
| Author | Matias Faldbakken |
| ISBN | 1501197525 |
In the tradition of modern classics The Dinner and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a grand European restaurant (that has seen better days) is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest.
In a centuries-old European restaurant called The Hills, a middle-aged...
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
| Author | Michael J. Sandel |
| ISBN | 0374203032 |
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities?...
