From the Introduction:"Although more than twelve years have passed since Our Synthetic Environment was first published (under the pen-name Lewis Herber), the book seems as contemporary as it did in the early sixties. On rereading it, I find very little I would now want to change. The environmental deterioration that the book emphasized and documented has worsened since 1962 and perhaps taken more sinister forms. We are confronted as seriously with the problems of subclinical illness, the changing spectrum of disease, soil deterioration, low-quality food, urban breakdown, chemical food additives, environmental cancer from air, water, and radioactive pollution - in short, the grave problems of 'human ecology' - as we were more than a decase ago...."In my view it is not a specific book that has withstood the test of time and retained its relevancy after the passing of so many years. What time has verified is a mode of thought - ecological in its natural outlook, libertarian in its social perspectives, and utopian in its ideals. Herein lies the book's reconstructive message. Herein, too, lies the hope, not the shalllow optimism, that humanity will find its way toward a healing of the ancient split between human and human - and between humanity and nature.".............................................................................."At the time of its publication, Our Synthetic Environment was the most comprehensive and enlightened book on the environmental crisis. Many other books on this topic have been published since, but none, I believe, as comprehensive." --René Dubos

Our synthetic environment (Harper colophon books ; CN 363)

Politics & Social Sciences

BOOKCHIN, MURRAY

Social Sciences

Harper&Row

The seminal history of Spanish anarchism: from its earliest inception to the organizations that claimed over two million members on the eve of the 1936 Revolution. Hailed as a masterpiece, it includes a new prefatory essay by the author."I've read The Spanish Anarchists with the excitement of learning something new. It's solidly researched, lucidly written, and admirably fair-minded... Murray Bookchin is that rare bird today, a historian." —Dwight MacDonald"I have learned a great deal from this book. It is a rich and fascinating account... Most important, it has a wonderful spirit of revolutionary optimism that connects the Spanish anarchists with our own time." —Howard ZinnMurray Bookchin has written widely on politics, history, and ecology. His books To Remember Spain: The Anarchist And Syndicalist Revolution Of 1936, The Ecology of Freedom, Post-Scarcity-Anarchism, The Ecology of Freedom, and Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm—are all published by AK Press.

The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years, 1868-1936

History

Harpercollins

The Limits Of The City de Bookchin Murray. NY, Harper, 1974.

The limits of the city (Harper colophon books/CN)

Harper Colophon Books

"City air makes people free." With this medieval adage, Murray Bookchin begins a remarkable essay on the evolution and the dialectics of urbanism. In an age when city air makes people cought, and, indeed, city life makes many of them psychoticc, there is a certain grim irony to the saying. But with a wealth of learning and a depth of passion, Bookchin convincingly argues that there was once a human and progressive tradition of urban life, and that this heritage has reached its "ultimate negation in the modern metropolis."

The Limits of the City (Harper Torchbooks; Tb1944)

Harper-Torchbooks

This work represents Murray Bookchin's riposte to the antihumanism, mysticism and antirationalism which are influencing many people's attitudes to environmental problems. Bookchin offers a critique of, among others, social Darwinists, deep ecologists, new agers, technophobes, Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. This intellectual tour-de-force offers a positive alternative approach to politics based on a refreshing confidence and belief in human potential.

Re-Enchanting Humanity: A Defense of the Human Spirit Against Antihumanism, Misanthropy, Mysticism and Primitivism (Cassell Global Issues Series)

UNKNO

In this scholarly critique, Murray Bookchin sets out his ideas about the nature of community. Bookchin presents resounding arguments suggesting that the tension between rural and urban societies can be a vital source of human creativity, potentially enabling the power of the individual and restoring the positive values and quality of urban life. Tracing the history of the city from pre-history through the Ancient Greek "polis" to the medieval city state, Bookchin reclaims the idea of the city as a major creative force in our civilization. Advocating a new approach to politics, this work offers a case for a new municipal agenda revitalizing citizenship and city life.

From Urbanization to Cities: Toward a New Politics of Citizenship (Cassell Global Issues Series)

Sociology

Politics & Government

This work represents Murray Bookchin's riposte to the antihumanism, mysticism and antirationalism which are influencing many people's attitudes to environmental problems. Bookchin offers a critique of, among others, social Darwinists, deep ecologists, new agers, technophobes, Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. This intellectual tour-de-force offers a positive alternative approach to politics based on a refreshing confidence and belief in human potential.

Re-Enchanting Humanity: A Defense of the Human Spirit Against Antihumanism, Misanthropy, Mysticism, and Primitivism (Cassell Global Issues Series)

Philosophy

This text gives a detailed account of the great revolutions that have swept over Europe and America during the last three centuries. The author starts with a look at the peasant wars that preceded the modern era, then gives accounts of the English Revolution of the mid-17th century, the American Revolution of the 1770s-1780s, and the French Revolution. The work emphasizes the popular movements that propelled the great revolutions to radical peaks, the little-known leaders who spoke for the people, and the liberatory social forms to which the revolutions gave rise.

The Third Revolution : Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era (Volume 1)

Cassell

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Our synthetic environment (Harper colophon books ; CN 363)

The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years, 1868-1936

The limits of the city (Harper colophon books/CN)

The Limits of the City (Harper Torchbooks; Tb1944)

The limits of the city (Harper colophon books/CN)

Re-Enchanting Humanity: A Defense of the Human Spirit Against Antihumanism, Misanthropy, Mysticism and Primitivism (Cassell Global Issues Series)

From Urbanization to Cities: Toward a New Politics of Citizenship (Cassell Global Issues Series)

From Urbanization to Cities: Toward a New Politics of Citizenship (Cassell Global Issues Series)

Re-Enchanting Humanity: A Defense of the Human Spirit Against Antihumanism, Misanthropy, Mysticism, and Primitivism (Cassell Global Issues Series)

The Third Revolution : Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era (Volume 1)