Provides a history of zoos, examines the faults of zoos, and argues for their dissolution.

Basing much of Not in His Image on the Nag Hammadi and other Gnostic writings, John Lamb Lash explains how a little-known messianic sect propelled itself into a dominant world power, systematically wiping out the great Gnostic spiritual teachers, the Druid priests, and the shamanistic healers of Europe and North Africa. They burned libraries and destroyed temples in an attempt to silence the ancient truth-tellers and keep their own secrets. But as Lash reveals, when the truth is the planet Earth it cannot be hidden or destroyed.Not in His Image delves deeply into the shadows of ancient Gnostic writings to reconstruct the story early Christians tried to scrub from the pages of history, exploring the richness of the ancient European Pagan spirituality--the Pagan Mysteries, the Great Goddess, Gnosis, the myths of Sophia and Gaia--and chronicles the annihilation of this Pagan European culture at the hands of Christianity.Long before the birth of Christianity, monotheism was an anomaly; Europe and the Near East flourished under the divine guidance of Sophia, the ancient goddess of wisdom. The Earth was the embodiment of Sophia and thus sacred to the people who sought fulfillment in her presence. This ancient philosophy was threatening to the emerging salvation-based creed of Christianity that was based on patriarchal dominion over the Earth and lauded personal suffering as a path to the afterlife. As Derrick Jensen points out in the afterword, in Lash's hands Jesus Christ emerges as the agent provocateur of the ruling classes.

Designed for anyone who wants to understand the relationship between deforestation and our ecological crisis, this text serves as a 'handbook' for forest and anti-globalization activists.

In the companion volume to A Language Older Than Words, the author journeys into the dark heart of human civilization to understand the atrocities that frequently characterize human culture, interweaving historical, philosophical, political, and personal perspectives in a study of the genocide, environmental destruction, and other cruelties. Original. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Here for the first time is Derrick Jensen live, recorded at several of his standing-room-only performances. Speaking in an almost improvisational style, Jensen explores the nature of injustice, of what civilizations do to the natural world, and how, in the face of the resulting horror that is one of the all too apparent consequences of grave injustice, civilized human beings create intricate systems of denial, silence, abnegation, deception, and self-hatred to keep it at bay...read more

The author explores the theme of violence as a universal pathology affecting all life on earth, collecting interviews from contemporary environmentalists, feminists, psychologists, and philosophers. Reprint. (view table of contents)

The author challenges traditional modes of education, offering a new, experience-based approach that is both fun and effective. Original. 25,000 first printing.