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In the Shadow of the Sabertooth

A Renegade Naturalist Considers Global Warming, the First Americans and the Terrible Beasts of the Pleistocene

Doug Peacock

Our climate is changing fast. The future is uncertain, probably fiery, and likely terrifying. Yet shifting weather patterns have threatened humans before, right here in North America, when people...

When Gadgets Betray Us

The Dark Side of Our Infatuation With New Technologies

Robert Vamosi

Technology is evolving faster than we are. As our mobile phones, mp3 players, cars, and digital cameras become more and more complex, we understand less and less about how they actually work and...

Cyberpunk

Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Evolution, and Revolution

Victoria Blake

Before email, before “the web,” before hackers and GPS and sexting, before titanium implants, before Google Goggles, before Siri, and before each and every one of us carried a computer in our...

Nuclear Roulette

The Truth about the Most Dangerous Energy Source on Earth

Gar Smith

Nuclear power is not clean, cheap, or safe. With Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, the nuclear industry’s record of catastrophic failures now averages one major disaster every decade....

Let Them Eat Carbon

The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies, and How Governments and Big Business Profit From Them

Matthew Sinclair

Ordinary people are paying a ruinous price for the attempts politicians make to control greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change policies dramatically raise electricity bills, make it much more...

Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution e-book

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. With more than fifty chapters representing over twenty countries around the globe, Sparking A...

Small is Beautiful in the 21st Century

The Legacy of E.F. Schumacher

Diana Schumacher

An influential economist and profound thinker, E. F. Schumacher is widely known for his bestselling book Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered. In his later years he...

Future Primitive Revisited

John Zerzan

As our society is stricken with repeated technological disasters, and the apocalyptic problems that go with them, the "neo-primitivist" essays of John Zerzan seem more relevant than ever....

All That We Share

A Field Guide to the Commons

Jay Walljasper

In an accessible field guide format—replete with illustrations, charts, and other visual materials—Things We Share offers an engaging entrée into a broad range of key...