
Against His-story Against Leviathan
Fredy Perlman
Publisher: Black & Red Books
Paperback: 296 pages
ISBN-10: 0934868255
ISBN-13: 9780934868259
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A monumentally imaginative recounting of the origins and development of civilization, conceived as the systematic self-enslavement and self-alienation of human communities. One of the most significant and influential anarchic texts of the last few decades. Highly recommended.
Against the Megamachine
David Watson
Publisher: Autonomedia
Paperback: 338 pages
ISBN-10: 1570270872
ISBN-13: 9781570270871
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Revised collection of Watson's essays from Fifth Estate magazine.
Collapse
How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
Jarred Diamond
Publisher: Penguin
Paperback: 592 pages
ISBN-10: 0140279512
ISBN-13: 9780140279511
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In Collapse, Diamond investigates the fate of past human societies, and the lessons for our own future. What happened to the people who built the ruined temples of Angkor Wat, the long-abandonded statues of Easter Island, the crumbling Maya pyramids of the Yucatan? All saw their cultures collapse because of environmental crises. And it looks as if those crises were self-induced.
The Culture of Make Believe
Derrick Jensen
Publisher: Chelsea Green
Paperback: 720 pages
ISBN-10: 1931498571
ISBN-13: 9781931498579
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An e ye-opening exploration of civilisation’s darkheart. Details American racism, from the slave-trade and genocide to the present. Linking brutality to a culture of abstraction that simply reduces everything to elements in a system.
Elements of Refusal
John Zerzan
Publisher: CAL Press
Paperback: 308 pages
ISBN-10: 1890532010
ISBN-13: 9781890532017
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' Everyone can feel the nothingness, the void, just beneath the surface of everyday routines and securities. '
This is the first collection of John Zerzan's writings - and this second edition of the collection is long overdue. No less than as they first appeared, these essays are provocative and important.
Endgame Volume 1
The Problem of Civilization
Derrick Jensen
Publisher: Seven Stories
Paperback: 528 pages
ISBN-10: 158322730X
ISBN-13: 9781583227305
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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 how this relationship impels us towards a revolutionary and as-yet undiscovered shift in strategy. Building on a series of simple but increasingly provocative premises, Jensen leaves us hoping for what may be inevitable: a return to agrarian communal life via the disintegration of civilization itself.
Endgame Volume 2
Resistance
Derrick Jensen
Publisher: Seven Stories
Paperback: 496 pages
ISBN-10: 1583227245
ISBN-13: 9781583227244
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Whereas Volume 1 of Endgame presents the problem of civilization, Volume 2 of this pivotal work illustrates our means of resistance. Incensed and hopeful, impassioned and lucid, Endgame leapfrogs the environmental movement’s deadlock over our willingness to change our conduct, focusing instead on our ability to adapt to the impending ecological revolution.
Guns, Germs and Steel
Jared Diamond
Publisher: Vintage
Paperback: 480 pages
ISBN-10: 0099302780
ISBN-13: 9780099302780
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This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious synthesis of history, biology, ecology and linguistics, Guns, Germs and Steel is one of the most important and humane works of popular science.
Against Civilisation
John Zerzan (Ed)
Publisher: Feral House
Paperback: 260 pages
ISBN-10: 0922915989
ISBN-13: 9780922915989
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Against Civilization, first published in 1999 by Uncivilized Books and out of print for several years, is the well-regarded primer to Green Anarchism, Anarcho-Primitivism and the most radical but relevant form of anarchism to develop in the past decade. Anarcho-primitivism is a shorthand term for a radical current that critiques the totality of civilisation from an anarchist perspective and seeks to initiate a comprehensive transformation of human life. Revised and expanded edition.
Beyond Geography
The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness
Frederick Turner
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Paperback: 360 pages
ISBN-10: 0813519098
ISBN-13: 9780813519098
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Offers a jarring view of European separation from nature and the resultant devastation of expansion into the New World.
My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization
Chellis Glendinning
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Paperback: 240 pages
ISBN-10: 087773996X
ISBN-13: 9780877739968
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"You and I are not people who live in communion with the earth," Glendinning begins. "We exist instead dislocated from our roots by the psychological, philosophical, and technological constructions of our civilization, and this alienation leads to our suffering: massive suffering for each and every one of us, and mass suffering throughout our society." Discusses how the process used to recover from addiction could be used to help heal our society and the earth.
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