The depletion of nonrenewable fossil fuels is about to radically change life much sooner than anticipated. This title describes what to expect after the honeymoon of affordable energy is over, preparing readers for economic, political, and social changes of an unimaginable scale.
In "The Long Emergency" celebrated social commentator James Howard Kunstler explored how the terminal decline of oil production, combined with climate change, had the potential to put industrial civilization out of business. In "World Made by Hand," an astonishing work of speculative fiction, Kunstler brings to life what America might be, a few ...
The depletion of nonrenewable fossil fuels is about to radically change life much sooner than anticipated. This title describes what to expect after the honeymoon of affordable energy is over, preparing readers for economic, political, and social changes of an unimaginable scale.
In "Home from Nowhere", the author of the landmark book "Geography of Nowhere" not only shows that the original American dream--the desire for peaceful, pleasant places in which to work and live--still has a strong hold on our imaginations, but offers innovative, eminently practical ways to make that dream a reality. Photos & line drawings.
Kunstler traces America's evolution from a land of village commons to a nationof main streets to a world reshaped by the automobile, and explains how developers deliberately replace community with consumerism, creating a man-made landscape that ignores the needs of humans and nature.
In a follow-up to THE GEOGRAPHY OF NOWHERE (1993), James Howard Kunstler again deplores the state of cities in America and elsewhere--cities that he sees as victims of poor planning, specifically urban sprawl and the tyranny of the automobile. Here he considers Paris, Atlanta, Mexico City, Berlin, Las Vegas, Rome, Boston, and London.
What happens when four guys confront the enormity of being thirty? If it's Sandy Stern, he worries about the fact that he's a down-and-out artist about to lose both his apartment and his girl. If it's Joel Harlowe, a materialistic drug dealer, his charmed life in the fast lane is leading to a dead end. If it's Edmund Black, he's crushed by the ...
In a follow-up to THE GEOGRAPHY OF NOWHERE (1993), James Howard Kunstler again deplores the state of cities in America and elsewhere--cities that he sees as victims of poor planning, specifically urban sprawl and the tyranny of the automobile. Here he considers Paris, Atlanta, Mexico City, Berlin, Las Vegas, Rome, Boston, and London.
The critically acclaimed author of The Geography of Nowhere, the milestone book that described the horrendous blighting of America's landscape, now explores the movement to restore our everyday world and create places to live and work that are worthy of our affection. Photos throughout.
Maggie Darling is a Martha Stewart-like homemaking guru whose perfect life is turned upside down when her husband, Kenneth, is unfaithful. Maggie begins her own odyssey of infidelity, which includes a tryst with a movie star and a romantic weekend with her editor--all without a hair out of place, and with a pot of coq au vin simmering on the stove.
James Howard Kunstler describes various episodes of Davy Crockett's life, from his boyhood confrontation with a hungry bear to his campaign for Congress to his heroic role at the battle of the Alamo. This lively tale shows how an early frontiersman became a true American legend. Full color.
The last two hundred years have seen the greatest explosion of progress and wealth in the history of mankind. But the age of oil, that fuelled this expansion, is coming rapidly to an end. The depletion of fossil fuels is about to transform life as we know it, and do so much sooner than we think. In "The Long Emergency", the distinguished ...
Davy Crockett is the ultimate American backwoods legend. This lively tale follows the original ring-tailed roarer of the western woods through a series of outlandish adventures, including the Battle of the Alamo, where he literally brags himself into American History.
A fictionalized account, told as if by Will Rogers, of the life of the female sharpshooter who became famous starring in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Menlo Park, California: Ramparts Magazine, 1964.
Description: -Quarto, 11-1/4 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcovers, bound in color pictorial stapled white wraps. The covers are dampstained and creased with a couple of small chips and short tears to the edges. 64 pages, including the covers. Profusely illustrated throughout including 3 full-page photographic portraits of the slain civil rights workers. The book is illustrated mostly in black & white though there is a powerful color portrait of James Chaney's mother. The pages are creased and ... read more
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Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Declineof America's Man-Made Landscape
