Product Description: “Secession may seem like an outlandish idea at first, but when considered forthrightly and un-prejudicially it becomes a powerful alternative to other kinds of political action. Thomas Naylor has here charted a brave and inspiring course for any American interested in practical, useful, thoroughgoing social and political change in America...read more

Product Description: Writing from the perspective of Catholic Social Doctrine, the twelve Catholics who take their stand for an ideal in Beyond Capitalism and Socialism are offering an escape to modern man from the horns of the dliemma upon which he is hanging - and upon which he was hung by the makers of the modern world from centuries ago...read more

Demonstrating how man's belief in growth has created a continuing succession of crises, Sale examines ways to scale down our institutions

Product Description: When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly increasing the likelihood of an ecological catastrophe...read more

Product Description: Christopher Columbus' arrival on a small Bahamian island in 1492 is often judged to be a defining moment in the history of mankind, changing forever the map of the world. Kirkpatrick Sale offers readers a unique take on Columbus and his legacy, separating the man from the legend...read more

Product Description: None of the spectators who gathered on the Hudson River shore on August 17, 1808, could have known the importance of the object they had come to see and, mostly, deride: Robert Fulton's new steamboat. But as Kirkpatrick Sale shows in this remarkable biography, Fulton's "large, noisy, showy, fast, brash, exciting, powerful, and audacious" machine would -- for better or worse -- irrevocably transform nineteenth-century America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: If you ever thought there must be better ways of organizing society, or capturing the innate creativity of citizens, then this is the book for you! An encyclopedia like no other, The World's Greatest Ideas is the most exciting collection of schemes, plans and proposals you'll ever come across...read more

Product Description: This volume of Kirkpatrick Sale's poetry, the first to bring together his work of over twenty years, is unusual in two important ways.First, the poetry is for the most part traditional in form, with rhyme and rhythm, though the lengths and metric schemes are often inventive...read more

Product Description: Imagine a world structured around ecological and cultural diversity, rather than national and political parameters. In response to present and impending ecological and economic crises, Kirkpatrick Sale offers a definitive introduction to the unique concept of bioregionalism, an alternative way of organizing society to create smaller scale, more ecologically sound, individually responsive communities with renewable economies and cultures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The author tells the compelling story of the Liddites' struggle preserve their jobs and way of life by destroying the machines that threatedn to replace them. He calls for another sort of rebelion, an intellectually and ethically sound protest. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the history of environmental organizations, describes major environmental threats, and looks at how the federal governement has responded

Traces the history of environmental organizations, describes major environmental threats, and looks at how the federal governement has responded

Dispels the myths surrounding the journey of Christopher Columbus, with new translations of historical documents that reveal the European motivations for exploration. Reprint. NYT. K.