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Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature by Tony Burns

Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed is of interest to political theorists partly because of its association with anarchism and …

The collapse of complex societies by Joseph A. Tainter (New studies in archaeology)

A survey of complex (post-hunter-gatherer, hierarchical) societies and their collapse, and the various theories proposed to account for collapse. The …

October the First Is Too Late by Fred Hoyle

Immoderate greatness by William Ophuls

"Immoderate Greatness* explains how a civilization's very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They …

Why hope? by John Zerzan

COSM by Gregory Benford

In search of the multiverse by John R. Gribbin

Tetralogue by Timothy Williamson

The bottom billion by Paul Collier

The dancing girl of Izu and other stories by Yasunari Kawabata

The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories. A high school boy, disenchanted with his school, went on a trip …

Laravel : Up & Running by Matt Stauffer

The Digital Nomad Survival Guide by Peter Knudson, Katherine Conaway, Lauren Hom

Lysis by Plato

Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato …

De zwarte brug by Erik Vlaminck

Mesopotamia by Kathleen Kuiper (The Britannica guide to ancient civilizations)