Critiques of civilization

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Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1)
Technological Slavery: Enhanced Edition (1) 4.17 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How 3.93 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial Society and Its Future 3.85 avg rating — 11,958 ratings
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael, #1)
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 102,551 ratings
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Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization 4.11 avg rating — 2,202 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,320 ratings
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Technics and Civilization
Technics and Civilization 4.30 avg rating — 601 ratings
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The Story of B (Ishmael, #2)
The Story of B (Ishmael, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 11,530 ratings
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Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet
Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet 3.92 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church
Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church 4.29 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Brave New World
Brave New World 3.99 avg rating — 2,015,737 ratings
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The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability 3.72 avg rating — 2,884 ratings
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Wild Land
Wild Land 3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Vainglorious Sun
Vainglorious Sun 3.96 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us Or the Environment
Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won't Save Us Or the Environment 3.97 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Practice of the Wild
The Practice of the Wild 4.19 avg rating — 2,688 ratings
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The Social Event
The Social Event 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better 3.94 avg rating — 2,484 ratings
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Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North
Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North 4.18 avg rating — 147 ratings
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The Crisis of the Modern World
The Crisis of the Modern World 4.10 avg rating — 2,155 ratings
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Digicrimination – Those are the Good Times: A New Type of Discrimination That Came with Digitization
Digicrimination – Those are the Good Times: A New Type of Discrimination That Came with Digitization 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Wild: An Elemental Journey
Wild: An Elemental Journey 4.13 avg rating — 841 ratings
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Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance
Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance 4.14 avg rating — 1,169 ratings
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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wétiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism
Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wétiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism 4.29 avg rating — 428 ratings
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Revolt Against the Modern World
Revolt Against the Modern World 3.99 avg rating — 2,199 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
by: Ayn Rand
3.69 avg rating — 402,796 ratings
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My Ishmael (Ishmael, #3)
My Ishmael (Ishmael, #3) 4.11 avg rating — 10,441 ratings
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Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization
Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization 3.78 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections
Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections 3.85 avg rating — 581 ratings
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Twilight of the Machines
Twilight of the Machines 3.76 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 102,505 ratings
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Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1)
Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1) 4.23 avg rating — 320 ratings
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Light at the Edge of the World
Light at the Edge of the World 4.22 avg rating — 823 ratings
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Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias
Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias 3.55 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to
Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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I Rule World
I Rule World 4.69 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 4.34 avg rating — 1,201,800 ratings
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While the Gods Play: Shaiva Oracles and Predictions on the Cycles of History and the Destiny of Mankind
While the Gods Play: Shaiva Oracles and Predictions on the Cycles of History and the Destiny of Mankind 4.49 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Annihilation of Caste
Annihilation of Caste 4.61 avg rating — 8,311 ratings
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Under The Canopy Of Heaven
Under The Canopy Of Heaven 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Fourth Political Theory
The Fourth Political Theory 3.33 avg rating — 749 ratings
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The Creation of Me, Them and Us
The Creation of Me, Them and Us 4.55 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa: An Ethnography of (In)vulnerability
Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa: An Ethnography of (In)vulnerability 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity
Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity 4.14 avg rating — 4,667 ratings
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Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How 3.93 avg rating — 597 ratings
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Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods
Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods 4.35 avg rating — 2,144 ratings
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies 3.72 avg rating — 4,190 ratings
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What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland
What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland 4.36 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure 3.90 avg rating — 2,756 ratings
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I Rule World
I Rule World 4.69 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times
The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times 4.33 avg rating — 667 ratings
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Christianity and Culture: The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
Christianity and Culture: The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture 3.88 avg rating — 558 ratings
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Coming Home to the Pleistocene
Coming Home to the Pleistocene 4.09 avg rating — 152 ratings
48.
Sultana's Dream and Padmarag
Sultana's Dream and Padmarag 3.86 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Storytellers at the Columbia River
Storytellers at the Columbia River 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia
Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia 4.14 avg rating — 659 ratings
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The Outsider
The Outsider 4.03 avg rating — 4,477 ratings
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The Idea of a Christian Society
The Idea of a Christian Society 3.79 avg rating — 115 ratings
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World 4.17 avg rating — 5,288 ratings
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The Portable Thoreau
The Portable Thoreau 4.17 avg rating — 836 ratings
61.
Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set)
Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set) 4.49 avg rating — 321 ratings
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The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times
The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times 4.41 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life
The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life 4.08 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization
Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization 3.98 avg rating — 440 ratings
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains 3.89 avg rating — 32,234 ratings
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Slow Death Zero: The Comix Anthology of Ecological Horror
Slow Death Zero: The Comix Anthology of Ecological Horror 3.46 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing
Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing 4.38 avg rating — 1,243 ratings
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The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations 3.97 avg rating — 4,172 ratings
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,356,611 ratings
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Mindlessness: The Corruption of Mindfulness in a Culture of Narcissism
Mindlessness: The Corruption of Mindfulness in a Culture of Narcissism liked it 3.00 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong 3.97 avg rating — 72,725 ratings
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My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization
My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization 4.04 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Kingfisher's Song: Memories Against Civilization
Kingfisher's Song: Memories Against Civilization 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education
No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education 4.08 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality 3.98 avg rating — 31,321 ratings
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The Plantation, the Postplantation, and the Afterlives of Slavery
The Plantation, the Postplantation, and the Afterlives of Slavery 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Museums and the Climate Crisis
Museums and the Climate Crisis really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology 4.17 avg rating — 1,672 ratings
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The Word for World Is Forest
The Word for World Is Forest 4.06 avg rating — 40,132 ratings
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Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization 3.77 avg rating — 1,142 ratings
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Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes
Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes 4.17 avg rating — 4,647 ratings
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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide 4.26 avg rating — 10,877 ratings
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Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling 4.14 avg rating — 11,729 ratings
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I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War
I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War 4.37 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains 4.46 avg rating — 2,868 ratings
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The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power
The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power 4.25 avg rating — 148 ratings
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A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism
A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism 4.42 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein 3.89 avg rating — 1,772,304 ratings
88.
"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide 4.23 avg rating — 3,483 ratings
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The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us 3.75 avg rating — 2,301 ratings
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Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy And the Protocols of the Elders Of Zion
Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy And the Protocols of the Elders Of Zion 4.08 avg rating — 159 ratings
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Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence
Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence 3.85 avg rating — 218 ratings
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Babel Tower
Babel Tower 3.84 avg rating — 2,837 ratings
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Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts
Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts 4.17 avg rating — 141 ratings
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The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life
The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life 4.13 avg rating — 1,027 ratings
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Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler
Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler 4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings
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And the Ocean Was Our Sky
And the Ocean Was Our Sky 3.61 avg rating — 8,677 ratings
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The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur
The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur 3.82 avg rating — 831 ratings
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The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel
The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel 4.22 avg rating — 26,964 ratings
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An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History)
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History) 4.32 avg rating — 475 ratings
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