Abbey, Ed
Hayduke Lives!
The Monkeywrench Gang
Abrams, David
Spell of the Sensuous
Adilkno
Cracking the Movement: Squatting beyond the media - great Amsterdam squatting history. Militant!
Black, Bob
Anything you can find.
Crimethinc Ex-workers Collective
Days of War, Nights of Love
Devall, Bill, and George Sessions
Deep Ecology
Glendenning, Chellis
My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery From Western Civilization
Griffin, Susan
Woman and Nature
Hartman, Thomas
Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
Hoffman, Abby
Steal this Book
Hooks, Bell
Feminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics
Kane, Joe
Savages
Jensen, Derrick
A Language Older than Words
Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture, and Eros
The Culture of Make-Believe
Lawlor, Robert
Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime
Llwellyn, Grace
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff, and Susan McCarthy
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
McLuhan, T.C.
Touch the Earth: A Self-Portrait of Indian Existence
Ponting, Clive
A Green History of the World
Quinn, Daniel
Ishmael
My Ishmael
Redden, Jim
Snitch Culture: How Citizens are Turned Into the Eyes and Ears of the State
Semiotext(e)--whatever you can find by them. very inspiring.
Wolf, Naomi
The Beauty Myth
Zerzan, John and Alice Carnes
Questioning Technology: Tool, Toy, or Tyrant?, A Critical Anthology
Zerzan, John
Against Civilization: Readings and Reflections
Elements of Refusal
Future Primitive and Other Essays
Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization
Do or Die-
We think this is the best publication to come out of the UK. They have a section in Issue # 8 entitled
From
Napping To Crapping, with a list and reviews of some interesting skills books and zines.
The green anarchists from the Cascadia Media Collective/GA Tour photo albums seem to recommend the following titles:
Anonymous
Secrets of the Ninja
Burnham, David
The Rise of the Computer State: A Chilling Account of the Computer's Threat to Society.
Churchill, Ward
From A Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism 1985-1995
Since Predator Came: Notes from the Struggle of American Indian Liberation
Cook, Blanche Wiesen (Editor)
Crystal Eastman: On Women and Revolution
Freud, Sigmund
Civilization and Its Discontents
Lee, Marth F.
Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse
Merchant, Carolyn
Radical Ecology
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution
Perlman, Freddy
Against History, Against Leviathan
Robotham, Sheila
Women, Resistance & Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World
Sale, Kirkpatrick
Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on The Industrial Revolution.
Scarce, Rik
Eco Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement.
Shabecoff, Philip
A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement
Shiva, Vandana
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge
Taylor, Bron Raymond
Ecological Resistance Movements: The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism
Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement: Radical Environmentalism and Comparative Social Movements by ?
Recommendations from other sources:
Berman, Morris
The Reenchantment of the World
Bodley, John
Victims of Progress
Mander, Jerry
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations
enemies of civilization
PRIMITIVE SKILLS
Teaching Drum Outdoor School
They have a cool program and catalogue.
PERMACULTURE
Permaculture Activist
They have a nice magazine and catalogue.
Primal Seeds
Check out the slide show on the home page. The have a good selection
of books in their catalogue.
CATALOGUES/DISTROS/BOOKSELLERS
AK Press
Large catalog of radical and anarchist stuff.
Black and Green Network Distributors
Black Cat Distro
Essential for the underground.
Loompanics Unlimited
Barking mad whacked-out libertarian fringe of the increasingly
bizarre American political scene. Has publications on everything from
surviving interrogation to building your own weapons. The catalogue
is worth getting - if only for a laugh.
Paladin Press
A warning here - Paladin Press is chock-full of militaristic
authoritarian US militia shit. Despite this, once you have stripped
away the offensive ideologies you may find some useful, universally
applicable nuggets of information. Use a false name and address when
ordering this catalogue.
GETTING BOOKS FREE THROUGH THE LIBRARY
I'm sure we are all aware of how truly wonderful libraries are: free- to-use public spaces, filled with thousands of books on a wide variety of ideas and interests, existing to serve anyone who walks through their doors.
Of course, a library is only as good as the books on its shelves.
Libraries are very responsive to properly filled out book request slips, and in fact a fair amount of books purchased by libraries are the result of requests made by library patrons. Simply go to the library, ask for book purchase request forms and fill them out properly (see below), and odds are the library will procure the books you request. Of course, the more people who request the book at any given library, the more likely it is they will pick it up. Also, you can do this at several libraries in your city, including both public and university libraries.
As a result of your actions, anyone will be able to find out about and read these books for free, and if you ask me, I think we owe it - to all of the shy teenagers, homeless philosophers and desperate seekers - to all who are looking to the shelves for a way out of this reality.
Ideas should never be held hostage by the dollar sign, and we thank you for helping us to make these free for anyone to read, in every city, in every library.
Practical Tips
The key ingredient in having success at this is to fill out the form as perfectly and completely as possible - make it as easy and appealing for them to purchase the books as possible. Use neat handwriting and provide answers to every question on the form. Below we have included all the information as it should appear on the form, to facilitate an error free database look-up. Most request slips ask for your address and sometimes library card number, etc., it is best to fill this out as truthfully as you feel comfortable with (some stuff like the primitive skills and permaculture stuff that isn't really subversive you need not really worry, but other books you do not want associated with you). Also, if you are not a member of the library, it would help to become one before filling out the form, and it is free anyway! The more serious they believe your request to be, the more likely it will be filled. OK, that should cover all the bases, and I am sure you could have figured out all this on your own, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to go over it. Good luck, and carry forth!
An example of the info needed:
Title: Days of War, Nights of Love
Author: CrimethInc Workers' Collective
Publisher: CrimethInc Workers' Collective
ISBN: 0-9709101-0-X
LC#: HX833 .D39 2000
Price: $9.95
Format: Soft cover
Edition: 1st. Edition
Date: 2001
Note: Do not check out any books that are sketchy, the FBI is keeping tabs on who is checking out subversive materials. Spend the day at the library and read it or smuggle it out then return it later.