 | |
  | |
| Searching ... |
| 0 % | ||
Books by Kirkpatrick Sale
  | | The Collapse of 2020 by Kirkpatrick Sale Paperback, 58 Pages, Published 2020 by Outskirts Press ISBN-13: 978-1-977221-77-3, ISBN: 1-977221-77-7 "In this short, powerful, and thoroughly documented book, Kirkpatrick Sale, who has been on the cutting edge of American social commentary for fifty years, makes a compelling case for the dangers that this world faces now and the real possibility of the imminent collapse of civilization as we know it. It is a work that is a must-read for those who are prepared to figure out how to survive this coming catastrophe." |
 | | Emancipation Hell The Tragedy Wrought by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation by Kirkpatrick Sale Paperback, 78 Pages, Published 2015 by Shotwell Publishing Llc ISBN-13: 978-0-692-59211-3, ISBN: 0-692-59211-3 "Emancipation—freeing the slaves—Hell? The Emancipation Proclamation—one of the sacred icons of American history—a tragedy? How can this be? That was the opinion of Frederick Douglass, the most important African American leader of the 19th century, who proclaimed, “I denounce the so-called Emancipation.” Douglass wrote: “I admit that the Negro…has made little progress from barbarism to civilization, and that he is in a deplorable cond ..." |
 | | After Eden(Updated) The Evolution of Human Domination by Kirkpatrick Sale Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2006 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-3938-0, ISBN: 0-8223-3938-2 "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. How did humankind come to rule nature to such an extent? To regard the planet’s resources and creatures as ours for the taking? To find ou ..." |
 | | The Fire of His Genius(Reprint) Robert Fulton and the American Dream by Kirkpatrick Sale Paperback, 242 Pages, Published 2002 by Touchstone ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-2321-8, ISBN: 0-7432-2321-7 " 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. Set agai ..." |
 | | Human Scale Revisited A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future by Kirkpatrick Sale Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2017 by Chelsea Green Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-712-9, ISBN: 1-60358-712-8 "Big government, big business, big everything: Kirkpatrick Sale took giantism to task in his 1980 classic, Human Scale, and today takes a new look at how the crises that imperil modern America are the inevitable result of bigness grown out of control—and what can be done about it. The result is a keenly updated, carefully argued case for bringing human endeavors back to scales we can comprehend and manage—whether in our built environme ..." |
 | | Dwellers in the Land(Updated) The Bioregional Vision by Kirkpatrick Sale Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2205-6, ISBN: 0-8203-2205-9 "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 ..." |
 | | The Green Revolution The American Environmental Movement, 1962-1992 (A Critical Issue) by Kirkpatrick Sale, Eric Foner Paperback, 148 Pages, Published 1993 by Hill And Wang ISBN-13: 978-0-8090-1551-1, ISBN: 0-8090-1551-X "The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics. "The Green Revolution" documents the tremendous change in public awareness and attitudes since the publication of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring." Sale assesses the growth of national environmental organizations and the influence of scientists and their theories about global warming, the greenhouse effect, ac ..." |
 | | No More Mushrooms Thoughts About Life Without Government by Kirkpatrick Sale Paperback, Published 2021 by Autonomedia ISBN-13: 978-1-57027-390-2, ISBN: 1-57027-390-1 "There is one overriding fact about government that condemns it to being forever wrong: it is a contrivance abhorrent to nature, including human nature, and cannot be formed in any such way to prevent it being so." |
 | | Power Shift The Rise of the Southern Rim and Its Challenge to the Eastern Establishment by Kirkpatrick Sale Paperback, 362 Pages, Published 1976 by Random House Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-394-72130-9, ISBN: 0-394-72130-6 "Teamsters Pension Fund: Jim Drinkhall, Overdrive (Los Angeles), a publication of independent truckers, 6/72 through 9/74; Walter Sheridan, The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa, Saturday Review Press, 1972; Congressional Record, 11/20/69, pp. 350 ff.; Ed Reid and Ovid Demaris, The Green Felt Jungle, Trident, 1963, Ch. 5; Reid, The Grim Reapers, Bantam, 1970, Ch. 10, 11. $1.5 billion: NYT, 2/29/74, p. 26. Investments: calculated from abo ..." |
 | | Christopher Columbus and the Conquest of Paradise(Reprint) Second Edition (Tauris Parke Paperbacks) by Kirkpatrick Sale Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2006 by Tauris Parke Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-1-84511-154-0, ISBN: 1-84511-154-0 "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. Sale also looks at the global consequences of the discovery, revealing the colossal impact this brief moment in history had not only on a continent but also on ..." |
 | | Rebels Against the Future The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution: Lessons for the Computer Age by Kirkpatrick Sale, Piers Blofeld Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1996 by Quartet Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7043-8007-3, ISBN: 0-7043-8007-2 "The first technology backlash was in 1811, when the Luddites fought to preserve their jobs by wrecking the machines that were to replace them." |
 | | The Conquest of Paradise(Reprint) Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy (Plume) by Kirkpatrick Sale, Patrick Sale Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 1991 by Plume ISBN-13: 978-0-452-26669-8, ISBN: 0-452-26669-6 "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. " |
 | | The Conquest of Paradise(1st Edition) Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy by Kirkpatrick Sale, Frederick Sale Hardcover, 453 Pages, Published 1990 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-57429-5, ISBN: 0-394-57429-X "Provides an account of the voyages of Christopher Columbus and analyzes the myths surrounding him. The author also examines Columbus from an ecologist's viewpoint. 1992 is the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the New World." |
 | | Human Scale(2nd Edition) by Kirkpatrick Sale Paperback, 558 Pages, Published 1982 by Tarcherperigree ISBN-13: 978-0-399-50621-5, ISBN: 0-399-50621-7 "Size matters. And "progress", as it translates into sprawl, congestion, resource depletion, overpopulation, the decline of communities and the rise of corporate rule, is quite literally killing us. In his landmark work Human Scale, Kirkpatrick Sale details the crises facing modern society and offers real solutions, laying out ways that we can take control of every facet of our lives by building institutions, workplaces and communities t ..." |
 | | The Collapse of 2020 (Hardback or Cased Book) by Kirkpatrick Sale 58 Pages, Published 2020 by Outskirts Press 1/29/2020 ISBN-13: 978-1-977222-06-0, ISBN: 1-977222-06-4 "In this short, powerful, and thoroughly documented book, Kirkpatrick Sale, who has been on the cutting edge of American social commentary for fifty years, makes a compelling case for the dangers that this world faces now and the real ..." |
 | | Human Scale Revisited A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future by Kirkpatrick Sale 408 Pages, Published 2017 by Chelsea Green Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-60358-713-6, ISBN: 1-60358-713-6 "... when the school is large and the staff distant and the surroundings impersonal the nervousness can develop into real terror and dread, feelings that some children never get over even when they learn to get through the day. There is probably a ... The World Health Organization once observed: So many wise books and reports have appeared in recent years on the principles which should be followed in organizing institutions for chil ..." |
 | | Why the Sea Is Salt Poems of Love and Loss by Kirkpatrick Sale 140 Pages, Published 2001 by Iuniverse ISBN-13: 978-1-4697-8804-3, ISBN: 1-4697-8804-7 "This volume of Kirkpatrick Sale's poetry, the first to bring together his work of over twenty years, is unusual in two important ways." |
 | | The Conquest Of Paradise(Updated) Christopher Columbus And The Columbian Legacy by Kirkpatrick Sale, These Sellers Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 1992 by Papermac ISBN-13: 978-0-333-57479-9, ISBN: 0-333-57479-6 |
 | | Secession(1st Edition) How Vermont and All the Other States Can Save Themselves from the Empire by Thomas H. Naylor, Kirkpatrick Sale Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2008 by Feral House ISBN-13: 978-1-932595-30-7, ISBN: 1-932595-30-9 "“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.”—from the introduction by Kirkpatrick Sale, author of Rebels Against the FutureSecession, the grow ..." |
 | | Rebels Against the Future(1st Edition) The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution: Lessons for the Computer Age by Kirkpatrick Sale Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1995 by Addison-Wesley Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-201-62678-0, ISBN: 0-201-62678-0 "The first popular history of the rebellion against technology that still reverberates today. In the 1990s we use the term "luddite" to refer to anyone not enamored of technology. Now the author of The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy takes us back to the time when being a Luddite could get you hanged." |
All Authors
All Bindings
All Editions
All Years
All Regions
Kirkpatrick Sale
All Bindings
All Editions
All Years
All Regions