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The Economic Growth Engine
Robert Ayers, Benjamin Warr
Crossing the Energy Divide
Robert Ayers, Edward Ayers
Energy Complexity and Wealth Maximization
Robert Ayers
Affluence Without Abundance
James Suzman
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C. Scott
Small Is Beautiful
E. F. Schumacher
On the Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity
William Ophuls
Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future
Donella H. Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers
Energy and Equity
Ivan Illich
Tools for Conviviality
Ivan Illich
Deschooling Society
Ivan Illich
Energy & Society
Fred Cottrell
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
The Challenge of Man’s Future
Harrison Brown
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky
At Home in the Universe
Stuart Kauffman
The Green Paradox: A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming
Hans-Werner Sinn
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Barbara W. Tuchman
Ultrasociety
Peter Turchin
Sane Polity: A Pattern Language
William Ophuls
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
Mariana Mazzucato
Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World
Paul Collier
The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World
Stephen Castles, Mark J. Miller, Hein Haas
World Water Resources at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Shiklomanov, I.A. and J.C. Rodda
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World
Joel K. Bourne
Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air
David J.C. MacKay
The Coming Oil Crisis
Colin Campbell
When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation
Alice J. Friedemann
The Collapsing Bubble: Growth And Fossil Energy
Lindsey Grant
Food, Energy, and Society
David Pimentel, Marcia Pimentel
Global Warming: The Complete Briefing
John Houghton
A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic
Peter Wadhams
The Social Conquest of Earth
Edward O. Wilson
Half-Earth
Edward O. Wilson
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors’ Toolkit
Dmitry Olrov
Shinking the Technosphere
Dmitry Orlov
Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization
Derrick Jensen
The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein
Prosperity Without Growth
Tim Jackson
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
Richard Heinberg
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman
Debt: The First 5000 Years
David Graeber
PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
Paul Mason
Ishmael
Daniel Quinn
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows
Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
William Ophuls
Merchants of Doubt
Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway
The Ingenuity Gap
Thomas Homer-Dixon
The Great Influenza
John M. Barry
Toxic Cocktail: How Chemical Pollution Is Poisoning Our Brains
Barbara Demeneix
Our Daily Poison
Marie-Monique Robin
The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity
Sandra Postel
The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World
Joel K. Bourne
Growing a Revolution: Bringing our Soil Back to Life
David Montgomery
The Soil Will Save Us
Kristin Ohlson
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Michael Mann
The End of the Long Summer
Dianne Dumanoski
The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health
David Montgomery, Anne Biklé
The King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon
David Montgomery
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
Carl Safina
The Hidden Life of Trees
Peter Wohlleben
Tuna: A Love Story
Richard Ellis
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert
Who Rules the World?
Noam Chomsky
Burn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels
Dieter Helm
Lights Out
Ted Koppel
After Progress: Reason and Religion at the End of the Industrial Age
John Michael Greer
Filters Against Folly
Garrett Hardin
Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse
William R. Catton
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
William R. Catton
The Growth Illusion
Richard Douthwaite
Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering
Clive Hamilton
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea
Callum Roberts
The Race for What’s Left
Michael Klare
Reinventing Collapse
Dmitry Orlov
The Collapse of Complex Societies
Joseph A. Tainter
Only One Chance
Philippe Grandjean
The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth’s Future
Bruce Elliott Johansen
Terminus Brain: The Environmental Threats to Human Intelligence
Christopher Williams
Swallow This: Serving Up the Food Industry’s Darkest Secrets
Joanna Blythman
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
David R. Montgomery
Our Stolen Future
Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers
Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web
Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis
The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
Richard Manning
Drilling Down: The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma
Joseph A. Tainter, Tadeusz W. Patzek
Requiem For Modern Politics
William Ophuls
Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications
Herman E. Daly, Joshua Farley
Plato’s Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology
William Ophuls
Blackout: Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis
Richard Heinberg
A Short History of Progress
Ronald Wright
The Fatal Inheritance
John Bligh
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
Energy and the Wealth of Nations: Understanding the Biophysical Economy
Charles A. S. Hall, Kent A. Klitgaard
Failing States, Collapsing Systems: BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink
William Perry
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