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Remaking Our Everyday World For the 21st Century
In his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravage...
Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
The author of The Long Emergency explains why technology can’t solve all our problems, and how excessive optimism can endanger our future. The Long ...
The Rise And Declineof America'S Man-Made Landscape
Argues that much of what surrounds Americans is depressing, ugly, and unhealthy; and traces America's evolution from a land of village commons to a ma...
From WATER STREET PRESS Two days before Christmas, eons ago in 1962, eleven-year-old Jeff Greenaway overhears his parents having an argument in their ...
Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward
Forget the speculation of pundits and media personalities. For anyone asking "Now what?" the answer is out there. You just have to know where to look....
Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
A “frightening and important” look at our unsustainable future (Time Out Chicago). A controversial hit that has sparked debate among business lead...
In this “richly imagined” dystopian vision, mankind must find a way to survive as modern civilization slowly comes apart (O, The Oprah Magazine). ...
Humanity hangs on after the fall of civilization in this “wily, funny, rip-roaring, and profoundly provocative page-turner” (Booklist, starred rev...
A Modern Romance
In this “wonderfully entertaining” novel, a famous domestic diva finds her perfect life falling to pieces (Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the...
Notes on the Urban Condition
This title takes an in-depth look at the history, development and state of architectural and societal success of cities, including London, Rome, Berli...
The dystopian epic of World Made by Hand continues in a novel hailed as “Larry McMurty’s Lonesome Dove, set in the dystopian world of The Road” ...
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Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century
The depletion of nonrenewable fossil fuels is about to radically change life much sooner than anticipated. This title describes what to expect after t...
The World Made by Hand postapocalyptic saga concludes with this “suspenseful tale spiked with suffering and violence, rough justice and love” (Boo...
Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century
In an apocalyptic vision of a post-oil future, the author of The Geography of Nowhere details the economic, political, and social changes of an unimag...
Aladdin outwits an evil magician who first tries to trick him into handing over an old lamp with a genie inside and later steals Aladdin's wife and po...
Recounts the story of the man who traveled west planting apple seeds to make the country a better place to live....
Relates the true story of Davy Crockett, one of the Old West's outstanding hunters, frontiersmen, and legislators....
She was an angel in buckskin on a big spotted horse. With two six guns blazin', Annie Oakley was the star of Buffalo Bill Cody's famous Wild West Show...
A Tale of Pluck and Salvation
A Manhattan apartment, 1962, two nights before Christmas.... Jeff Greenaway, age 11, discovers that he may actually be an orphan. He quickly resolves ...
This is the touching story of the benevolent naturalist who roamed the Ohio valley in the early 1800s, planting apple orchards, making friends, and sp...
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...
A Tale of Loss and Woe
This fifth installment of the Jeff Greenaway novella series finds our eleven-year-old hero shipped off from Manhattan for the summer (as usual) to Cam...
Ten years after his reported death, rock star Byron Jaynes is discovered in a New England country store by ex-"Rolling Stone" reporter Rick Sears, who...
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 ...
From Colonial Simplicity to the Modern Adventure
A Novel
Lord Byron in all his controversial splendor--the long-awaited, authoritative biography With this brilliant book, Fiona MacCarthy has produced the mos...
A Classic Tale
Classics of children's literature have delighted generations. Get ready to revisit some of your favorites in these beautifully illustrated books. Chee...
On orders of President Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Walker and his botanist uncle, William, set out to search the southern wilderness for a live specimen ...
Seventeen year-old Andy Newmark is having the time of his life, but the 1967 Summer of Love also brings with it some important lessons about growing u...
Grover Graff, a reporter who specializes in investigating religious cults, discovers a link between the scattered pieces of the body of his best frien...