When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
9 best books like When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century (Fred Pearce): Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, Address Unknown, The Collected Poems, 1957-1982, Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West, No Nature: New and Selected Poems, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Archie: 1941
Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
| Author | Karl Marx |
| ISBN | 0140445684 |
Capital, one of Marx's major and most influential works, was the product of thirty years close study of the capitalist mode of production in England, the most advanced industrial society of his day. This new translation of Volume One, the only volume to be completed and edited by Marx himself, avoids...
| Author | William McDonough |
| ISBN | 0865475873 |
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative, visionary book, such an approach only perpetuates the one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing...
| Author | Kathrine Kressmann Taylor |
| ISBN | 0743412710 |
A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and literary sensation. Published in book form a year later and banned in Nazi Germany, it garnered high...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 0865471975 |
A longtime spokesman for conservation, common sense, and sustainable agriculture, Wendell Berry writes eloquently in several styles and methods. Among other literary forms, he is a poet of great clarity and sureness. His love of language and his care for its music are matched only by his fidelity...
| Author | Steven Solomon |
| ISBN | 0060548304 |
“I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi—it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and there's no backup...
| Author | Daniel Ladinsky |
| ISBN | 0142196126 |
Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafiz
In this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky—best known for his gifted and bestselling interpretations of the great...
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 0679742522 |
Snyder is great, and this represents him quite well. However, I think his body of work will remain just a hair's breadth away from full illumination until a devoted editor annotates many of his very particular regional, botanical, anthropological and non-English references. It's somewhat astounding...
| Author | Lester R. Brown |
| ISBN | 0393330877 |
In this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The world faces many environmental trends of disruption and decline, including rising temperatures and spreading water shortage. In addition to these looming...
| Author | Mark Waid |
| ISBN | 1682558231 |
Archie Andrews and the gang have seen it all since the characters made their comics debut in 1941, and this fall they're going back to their roots in a tale set in Riverdale during World War II.
Written by comics legend Mark Waid (Archie, Captain America) with longtime collaborators co-writer...
