books by James Howard Kunstler     books:     James Howard Kunstler      Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century James Howard Kunstler Touchstone Press, 1998 Progressing back to a scale of living that will benefit humans in the future as well If Ownership Society (G.W. Bush) instead of Great Society (L.B Johnson) sounds good to you, then US Suburbia is right for you. "Home from Nowhere" by James Kunstler, however, predicts the demise of suburbia in the near future and lays out principles and detailed ...             The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the ... Grove Press, 2006 prophetic -- read this excerpt I'm posting this mid-October 2008, in the midst of the global financial crisis. Here's a phophetic excerpt from The Long Emergency that was written in mid-2004: "By the time you read this, it is very likely that the housing bubble will have begun to come to grief... ...             The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition James Howard Kunstler Free Press, 2002 Notes from a curmudgeon In many ways, James Kunstler's "The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition" is simply one long bash against big cities. London is "sordid", Mexico City is a "hypertrophied organism", Las Vegas a "dubious urbanoid organism", Atlanta is a "galaxy of Edge City ...             The Life of Byron Jaynes James Howard Kunstler W W Norton & Co Inc, 1983 lament for an era i love this book. it went out of print far too quickly. i first found it almost two decades ago in a a used-book store in winnipeg. it is an amazing trip through the long, slow, devouring of innocence that was the 1960's. (side note here, it is very hard sometimes for ...             The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape James Howard Kunstler Free Press, 1994 A total eye opener; ESSENTIAL reading for urban planners As a student and professional of urban planning for nearly 20 years, I really wish I'd read this book in the mid-90s. Nevertheless, I walked away from this read yesterday, when I finished it, with a much broader perspective on where we are as a society and why. For ...             World Made by Hand: A Novel James Howard Kunstler Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008 World Made By Hand Is A Great Book World Made By Hand is a good fictional read. First book I've read by James Howard Kunstler. Interesting what if this should happen to our country situation. The story moves along at a good pace & is well written. Enjoyed it so much I ordered 2 more for gifts.             The City in Mind **ISBN: 9780743227230** James Howard Kunstler Simon & Schuster, 2003             Johnny Appleseed (Rabbit Ears) James Howard Kunstler Rabbit Ears, 1995 Johnny Appleseed This old folk tale comes to life in this wonderfully written story of the legendary Johnny Appleseed. The author draws the reader into his life using story and narrative form. The reader gets an inside look at what Applessed thought, how he lived and his interaction ...             Aladdin and the Magic Lamp James Howard Kunstler Rabbit Ears, 1997 Actor John Hurt brings to life this enchanting tale from "A Thousand and One Nights" about a young rogue and a genie who helps him win the love of the Sultan's daughter. Weaving the evocative rhythms of the Middle East, Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead scoress this classic telling of Aladdin's quest.             Maggie Darling: A Modern Romance James Howard Kunstler Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004 Modern-day Americana, comically written That's right, Portland, Oregon. (See above.) Of course I'm going to like it. The Amazon-review scandals of the past few months require full disclosure. So I'll come out: I think Kunstler's a goddam hero, Mencken+Orwell+Balzac, with a wicked eye for the puerile and a ...             Cooking Fresh from the Mid-Atlantic: Tantalizing Recipes, Celebrated Chefs, and Conversations on the ... Fran McManus, Wendy Rickard Eating Fresh Publications, 2002 Try the Duck Confit, Gumbo Style! This is just one of the many "out of this world" recipes in this cook book. The fresh ingredients are key, which is why is certainly helps to follow the seasonal recommendations, but for food lovers, and those interested in where our food comes from, this book is magic!             American Home: From Colonial Simplicity to the Modern Adventure David Larkin, Wendell Garrett, ... Universe Publishing, 2001 American Homes and Architecture A beautiful big book of photographs, some of them fold-out, it presents in exquisite detail a history of America's finest homes and architecture. Selecting delicious cream puff examples of how we have lived in all regions of the United States, this book would appeal to ...          products you might be interested in search for books 9780743227230, catastrophes, conversations, mid-atlantic, tantalizing, twenty-first      geepe.com    web randomly chosen music: Love and Hate in Dub