Product Description: A careful, lively look at the creation of the Emancipation Proclamation 150 years ago (January 1, 1863) and the tragic results that followed in the war, in Reconstruction, and the aftermath, by an often-published historian.

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: 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

Focuses on the development of these bioregionally focused communities and the places where they are established to create a society that is both ecologically sustainable and satisfying to its inhabitants. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Kirkpatrick Sale is at the tumultuous center of a technology backlash, actively challenging Bill Gates on the one hand and the Unabomber on the other. The subject of bets, barbs, and grudging praise in the pages of WIRED, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The New Yorker,Rebels Against the Future takes us back to the first technology backlash, the short-lived and fierce Luddite rebellion of 1811...read more (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.