Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution

Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World

Kolya Abramsky

The world's energy system is on the verge of far reaching change, and its future is up for grabs.A worldwide struggle over who controls the sector, and for what purposes, is...

Unsuspecting Souls

The Disappearance of the Human Being

Barry Sanders

During the nineteeth century, something vital went missing: the human being. In Unsuspecting Souls, Barry Sanders examines modern society's indifference to the individual. From the Industrial...

Big History

From the Big Bang to the Present

Cynthia Stokes Brown

An epic for our time, Big History begins when the universe is no more than a single point the size of an atom, squeezed together in unimaginable density, and ends with a twenty-first-century...

Twilight of the Machines

John Zerzan

The mentor of the green anarchist and neo-primitive movements is back with his first book in six years, confronting civilization, mass society, and modernity and technoculture—both the...

We Know You Are Watching

Surveillance Camera Players

America's foremost anti-surveillance camera group documents its scripts, performances, maps and walking tours, and offers analyses of the right to privacy, the militarization of the police, the...

Nowtopia

How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today

Chris Carlsson

Outlaw bicycling, urban permaculture, biofuels, free software, and even the Burning Man festival are windows into a scarcely visible social transformation that is redefining politics as we know it....

Albert Einstein

Rebel Lives

Albert Einstein

This collection takes a subversive look at lesser-known aspects of the famous scientist's intellectual life - the man whom the FBI thought w as "too clever not to track". Herein you'll find...

Top Secret Tourism

Your Travel Guide to Germ Warfare Laboratories, Clandestine Aircraft Bases, and Other Places in the United S

Harry Helms

Here is the unseen America of government facilities and installations protected by a wall of secrecy, deception, and misinformation. It includes huge, isolated areas (some larger than the states of...

The Monster at Our Door

The Global Threat of Avian Flu

Mike Davis

Avian influenza is a viral asteroid on a collision course with humanity. In 1918, a pandemic strain of influenza killed at least 40 million people in three months. The World Health Organization...