books about: decline

books about: decline

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Decline

George Saunders

Riverhead Trade, 1997

A Message to America
This book is funny and prophetic. Americans should really consider what the future may be like if they continue their rampant pollution of our constitutional system and our ecological systems. One of the reviews inside the cover says it best, 'the characters doggedly ...

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

James Howard Kunstler

Free Press, 1994

Superb Diagnosis of the dysfunctional American land use situation
Fantastic book about modern American society. One of the best. Specifically addresses what's wrong with our living spaces, and how our ideas of Americanism lead to the zoning codes that define housing development. Well told in Kunstler's sharp and descriptive style ...

The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth in Bush's America

Frank Rich

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007

A troublesome, truthful 'must read' about the incompetent Bush years.
In this day and age of sanitized/filtered news and monopolized corporate media, it is refreshing to read a 'timeline' book that delineates all the mistakes, bad schemes, and outright lies of 'Bush 2' and company, written by an astute and honest researcher and ...

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Modern Library Classics)

Edward Gibbon

Modern Library, 2003

The Book
First one thing: do not, on any account, get the abridged version. If I could take one book to a desert island, it would be this one. That's because it is extremely long, and every word of it is worth it. Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire remains as ...

Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

Selwyn Raab

St. Martin's Griffin, 2006

Interesting and Accurate
I've read about half the book and I enjoy it very much. It's the best book I've read on this topic from a complete historical and objective perspective.

Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (New Society Publishers)

Richard Heinberg

New Society Publishers, 2007

Peak Everything, Waking Up to a Century of Decline
Excellent summation of the ecological problems facing us, not only as a people but a nation and world. Pulls it all together in one book. Excellent.

Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline

Theodore Dalrymple

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2008

"Britishness" Lost
Theodore Dalrymple's newest book, a collection of essays chiefly written for the magazine "City Journal," documents beneath the author's trademark wit and irony the sad decadence of contemporary Britain and the resultant loss of "Britishness," a grand tradition of ...

How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

Francis A. Schaeffer

Crossway Books, 2005

Thoughtful review of worldviews
This is a very thoughtful and penetrating book about different worldviews, especially modernism or post-modernism and Christianity. Helpful for helping those influenced by current Western culture.

Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil

Michael C. Ruppert

New Society Publishers, 2004

The Occams Razor for 9-11 and our times.
This book is the best explanation yet for why the executive level of government committed the 9-11 false flag operation. Being an engineer, the physics of 9-11 is what got me asking questions. But for most peope this will not be compelling for they lack physics ...

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, ...

North Point Press, 2001

Good stuff.......
Very well written. The book makes it very easy to understand why our towns and cities are set up like they are and why some are more livable than others. I purchased this book about five years ago and often still think about the concepts that are explained inside. ...

The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream

Jacob S. Hacker

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

A cautious analysis of the present and a red flag warning of what needs to be done
Now in a newly revised and expanded edition, The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the American Dream is a no-nonsense deconstruction of how current American policy has been systematically shifting economic risk from government and businesses onto the ...

Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

Christopher Lasch

W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

Superbly Written and Incisive Critique
Christopher Lasch is intellect, you sense it as you read a flowing description of well-structured prose. He develops arguments, marshals facts, and presents his critique of so much that is debilitating modern society - American - and through ill-thought out emulation, ...

Decline and Fall

Evelyn Waugh

Back Bay Books, 1999

Deliciously scathing
In this his first novel, Evelyn Waugh lampoons the English education system, sporting events, theological study, the landed gentry, and prison reform, to name just some of the targets of his razor-sharp satirical barbs. Paul Pennyfeather, a third-year divinity student ...

Decline and Fall: Byzantium at War (Field Of GLory)
Richard Scott

Osprey Publishing, 2008

Field of Glory provides the historical tabletop wargamer with a new, accessible rules set. Byzantium at War provides an accessible, detailed gaming companion, covering the forces of conflicts during the years of the Byzantium Empire. It includes a well-designed, visually stunning and comprehensive army listing, with detailed historical ...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, all six volumes, with active table of contents, version ...

B&R Samizdat Express, 2008

Great value for dollar, and TOC and line break problems appear to have been fixed
This is an enormous amount of content and value for just 99 cents. Regarding this Kindle edition: I have purchased a number of inexpensive books on the Kindle, and as I have posted elsewhere, I feel that getting great works at cheap prices is one of the great things ...