description: a social movement encouraging migration from urban to rural areas
198 results
by Bruce Sterling · 15 Mar 1992 · 345pp · 105,722 words
vogue during the late 60s and early 70s, when it offered hundreds of practical (and not so practical) tips on communitarian living, environmentalism, and getting back-to-the-land. The Whole Earth Catalog, and its sequels, sold two and half million copies and won a National Book Award. With the slow collapse of American
by Tamara Kneese · 14 Aug 2023 · 284pp · 75,744 words
of unsettling startup culture’s accelerationism, expanding and slowing down the pace of technological production. Similar to the Whole Earth Catalog, the Long Now unites back-to-the-land communalism and libertarian-tinged techno-utopianism. Members intend to foster long-term thinking and responsibility, providing an alternative to the short attention spans of social
by Juliet Schor, William Attwood-Charles and Mehmet Cansoy · 15 Mar 2020 · 296pp · 83,254 words
computing and the internet developed in the 1990s, New Communalists hailed them as the route to the ecotopias they had failed to create in their back-to-the-land phase. The New Communalists’ views morphed into what became known as the Californian Ideology.7 It combined libertarian politics, countercultural aesthetics, and techno-utopian visions
by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett · 14 May 2017 · 550pp · 89,316 words
by Stephen Westaby · 14 May 2019 · 259pp · 85,514 words
by Franklin Foer · 31 Aug 2017 · 281pp · 71,242 words
place to begin. The hippies shoved all the store-bought crap from the plate and replaced it with a vision of goodness. Communes, with their back-to-the-land faith in self-sufficiency, cultivated gardens and raised livestock. Bohemian neighborhoods across the country opened nonprofit cooperatives with aisles of ethically produced food. Vegetarianism—once
by Kamal Ravikant · 7 Jan 2020
by Thomas Rid
the San Francisco Bay Area by Stewart Brand, an iconic, technology-embracing hippie maven, the Whole Earth Catalog was an early techno-utopian vision of back-to-the-land living that embraced cybernetic feedback loops, community, wholeness, flattened hierarchies, and the motto “access to tools.” Brand’s catalog would become a prototypical social media
by Dk Eyewitness · 5 Apr 2023 · 168pp · 33,200 words
string lights at Scribe Winery, a palm-flanked hacienda. Farm town Healdsburg, an hour’s drive north, is the beating heart of the sleeve-tattooed, back-to-the-land scene, where eco-chic boutique hotel h2 tempts environment warriors, and living roof-art galleries coax creatives from the city. Healdsburg even has a seasonal
by Emrys Westacott · 14 Apr 2016 · 287pp · 80,050 words
by DK Eyewitness · 4 Oct 2021 · 268pp · 35,416 words
by Eddie Huang · 29 Jan 2013
by Tom Cox · 9 Oct 2013 · 185pp · 62,502 words
by Eli Pariser · 11 May 2011 · 274pp · 75,846 words
by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams · 1 Oct 2015 · 357pp · 95,986 words
by Jonathan Taplin · 17 Apr 2017 · 222pp · 70,132 words
by Michael Pollan · 15 Dec 2008 · 213pp · 61,911 words
by Stephen Fry · 27 Sep 2010 · 487pp · 132,252 words
by Lonely Planet and Alison Bing · 31 Aug 2012
by Beth Hensperger · 30 Apr 2000 · 1,249pp · 207,227 words
by Fran Lebowitz · 8 Nov 1994 · 208pp · 67,890 words
by Cixin Liu · 11 Nov 2014 · 420pp · 119,928 words
by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness · 28 Mar 2010 · 532pp · 155,470 words
by Joshua Applestone, Jessica Applestone and Alexandra Zissu · 6 Jun 2011 · 363pp · 11,523 words
by Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman · 2 Jan 1980 · 376pp · 118,542 words
by Becky Hogge, Damien Morris and Christopher Scally · 26 Jul 2011 · 171pp · 54,334 words
by Marc Maron · 28 Apr 2013 · 201pp · 67,347 words
by Tavis Smiley · 15 Feb 2012 · 181pp · 50,196 words
by Mark Greif · 5 Sep 2016 · 319pp · 103,707 words
by Dava Sobel · 25 May 2009 · 363pp · 108,670 words
by John B. Judis · 11 Sep 2016 · 177pp · 50,167 words
by Donna Jackson Nakazawa · 21 Feb 2013
by James Bridle · 18 Jun 2018 · 301pp · 85,263 words
by Anna Wiener · 14 Jan 2020 · 237pp · 74,109 words
by Blake J. Harris · 12 May 2014
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
by Elizabeth Bear · 5 Oct 2020 · 537pp · 146,610 words
by Jon Gertner · 15 Mar 2012 · 550pp · 154,725 words
by John Michael Greer · 30 Sep 2009
by Alastair Reynolds · 14 Feb 2006 · 436pp · 124,373 words
by John Markoff · 1 Jan 2005 · 394pp · 108,215 words
by Molly Scott Cato · 16 Dec 2008
by Parag Khanna · 11 Jan 2011 · 251pp · 76,868 words
by Richard Heinberg and James Howard (frw) Kunstler · 1 Sep 2007 · 235pp · 65,885 words
by Ryan Grim · 7 Jul 2009 · 334pp · 93,162 words
by Gary Greenberg · 1 May 2013 · 480pp · 138,041 words
by Karen T. Litfin · 16 Dec 2013 · 322pp · 89,523 words
by James Wallman · 6 Dec 2013 · 296pp · 82,501 words
by Jacob Goldstein · 14 Aug 2020 · 199pp · 64,272 words
by Derek S. Hoff · 30 May 2012
by Alexander Zaitchik · 7 Jan 2022 · 341pp · 98,954 words
by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words
by David Enrich · 5 Oct 2022 · 373pp · 108,788 words
by Mj Demarco · 8 Nov 2010 · 386pp · 116,233 words
by Kristen R. Ghodsee · 16 May 2023 · 302pp · 112,390 words
by Gretchen Bakke · 25 Jul 2016 · 433pp · 127,171 words
by Scott. Branson · 14 Jun 2022 · 198pp · 63,612 words
by The Passenger · 11 Aug 2020 · 213pp · 57,595 words
by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words
by Jeff Faux · 16 May 2012 · 364pp · 99,613 words
by Peter Millar · 1 Oct 2009 · 220pp · 88,994 words
by Lonely Planet
by Bruce Sterling · 31 May 1988 · 509pp · 137,315 words
by Jeffrey Sachs · 1 Jan 2008 · 421pp · 125,417 words
by Jaron Lanier · 21 Nov 2017 · 480pp · 123,979 words
by Mark Lynas · 3 Oct 2011 · 369pp · 98,776 words
by Jeremy Paxman · 29 Jan 2013 · 364pp · 103,162 words
by Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu · 29 May 2012 · 329pp · 85,471 words
by James Suzman · 10 Jul 2017
by David Friedman · 2 Jan 1978 · 328pp · 92,317 words
by Hattie Ellis · 25 Apr 2006 · 216pp · 69,480 words
by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel · 30 Sep 2007 · 571pp · 162,958 words
by John Scalzi · 2 Jan 2005 · 320pp · 92,799 words
by Thomas Rid · 27 Jun 2016 · 509pp · 132,327 words
by Jamie Bartlett · 12 Jun 2017 · 390pp · 109,870 words
by David Boyle and Andrew Simms · 14 Jun 2009 · 207pp · 86,639 words
by Stephen Cave · 2 Apr 2012 · 299pp · 98,943 words
by Jamie Bronstein · 29 Oct 2016 · 332pp · 89,668 words
by Nathan Schneider · 10 Sep 2018 · 326pp · 91,559 words
by Timothy Ferriss · 6 Dec 2016 · 669pp · 210,153 words
by Tom Wolfe · 9 Nov 2004
by Stephen Morris · 1 Sep 2007 · 289pp · 112,697 words
by Jenny Odell · 8 Apr 2019 · 243pp · 76,686 words
by Lonely Planet · 17 Apr 2017 · 1,181pp · 163,692 words
by Michael Pollan · 27 May 2002 · 273pp · 83,186 words
by Walter Isaacson · 6 Oct 2014 · 720pp · 197,129 words
by Diane Ackerman · 9 Sep 2014 · 380pp · 104,841 words
by David E. Hoffman · 9 May 2016
by Paul Mason · 30 Sep 2013 · 357pp · 99,684 words
by Jeremy Rifkin · 31 Mar 2014 · 565pp · 151,129 words
by Jonathan Sacks · 19 Apr 2010 · 305pp · 97,214 words
by Elaine Morgan · 1 Feb 2001 · 293pp · 92,446 words
by Xiaowei Wang · 12 Oct 2020 · 196pp · 61,981 words
by Izzeldin Abuelaish · 15 Jan 2010
by Lonely Planet
by Richard Heinberg · 1 Jun 2011 · 372pp · 107,587 words
by Jamie Raskin · 4 Jan 2022 · 450pp · 144,939 words
by Dan Senor and Saul Singer · 3 Nov 2009 · 285pp · 81,743 words
by Rebecca Walker · 15 Mar 2022 · 322pp · 106,663 words
by Lonely Planet
by Virginia Nicholson · 27 Nov 2003 · 644pp · 156,395 words
by Chris Hayes · 28 Jan 2025 · 359pp · 100,761 words
by J. B. MacKinnon · 14 May 2021 · 368pp · 109,432 words
by Lonely Planet
by Tim Wu · 4 Nov 2025 · 246pp · 65,143 words
by Lonely Planet
by Fred Turner · 31 Aug 2006 · 339pp · 57,031 words
by Robert Michael Pyle · 31 Jul 2017 · 413pp · 134,755 words
by Iain Overton · 15 Apr 2015 · 436pp · 125,809 words
by David Eimer · 13 Aug 2014 · 316pp · 103,743 words
by Richard Dawkins · 21 Sep 2009
by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson · 17 Sep 2024 · 588pp · 160,825 words
by Lonely Planet
by Lonely Planet
by Sofi Thanhauser · 25 Jan 2022 · 592pp · 133,460 words
by James R. Hansen · 4 Jul 2023 · 362pp · 134,405 words
by Kevin Smith · 24 Sep 2007 · 728pp · 233,687 words
by Steve Coll · 29 Mar 2009 · 413pp · 128,093 words
by Anthony Doerr · 6 May 2014 · 464pp · 129,804 words
by Stewart Brand · 15 Mar 2009 · 422pp · 113,525 words
by Christopher Paolini · 14 Sep 2020 · 1,171pp · 309,640 words
by Kim Stanley Robinson · 6 Jul 2015 · 488pp · 148,340 words
by Po Bronson · 2 Jan 2001 · 446pp · 138,827 words
by Charles Stross · 7 Jul 2009
by Charles Eisenstein · 11 Jul 2011 · 448pp · 142,946 words
by Michael J. Durant and Steven Hartov · 1 Dec 2006 · 402pp · 123,199 words
by Tony Horwitz · 1 Jan 2008
by Dominic Sandbrook · 29 Sep 2010 · 932pp · 307,785 words
by Novella Carpenter · 25 May 2010 · 306pp · 94,204 words
by Nancy Isenberg · 20 Jun 2016 · 709pp · 191,147 words
by David Else · 14 Oct 2010
by Yossi Klein Halevi · 4 Nov 2014 · 752pp · 201,334 words
by Wilfred Thesiger · 15 Sep 1959 · 403pp · 138,026 words
by Rough Guides · 24 Mar 2010
by Simon Fairlie · 14 Jun 2010 · 614pp · 176,458 words
by Nick Edwards and Mark Ellwood · 2 Jan 2009
by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay · 2 Jan 2009 · 603pp · 182,781 words
by Michael Pollan · 15 Dec 2006 · 467pp · 503 words
by Martin Meredith · 1 Jan 2007 · 649pp · 181,179 words
by Matt Ridley · 17 May 2010 · 462pp · 150,129 words
by Nicola Williams · 14 Oct 2010
by Iain M. Banks · 14 Jan 2011 · 348pp · 185,704 words
by Simon Bradley · 23 Sep 2015 · 916pp · 248,265 words
by Iain M. Banks · 14 Jan 2011 · 225pp · 121,045 words
by Nick Harkaway · 18 Oct 2017 · 778pp · 239,744 words
by Tom Clancy and Peter Telep · 13 Jun 2011 · 640pp · 177,786 words
by Nancy Stout · 2 Feb 2013 · 519pp · 160,846 words
by Michael Pollan · 15 Jan 1997 · 317pp · 107,653 words
by Lewis Dartnell · 13 May 2019 · 424pp · 108,768 words
by Heidi Cullen · 2 Aug 2010 · 391pp · 99,963 words
by Diana Leafe Christian · 1 Jan 2003
by Diana Leafe Christian · 14 Jun 2007
by Lonely Planet
by Kim Stanley Robinson · 14 Mar 2017 · 693pp · 204,042 words
by Kurt Andersen · 4 Sep 2017 · 522pp · 162,310 words
by Margaret O'Mara · 8 Jul 2019
by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre · 31 Dec 1970 · 784pp · 229,648 words
by John Nichol · 27 May 2020
by Daniel Gordis · 17 Oct 2016 · 632pp · 171,827 words
by Bruce Sterling · 1 Jan 1995 · 533pp · 145,887 words
by Jeremy Rifkin · 31 Dec 2009 · 879pp · 233,093 words
by Jessica Bruder · 18 Sep 2017 · 273pp · 85,195 words
by Sarah Stewart Johnson · 6 Jul 2020 · 400pp · 99,489 words
by Greg Palast · 14 Nov 2011 · 493pp · 132,290 words
by David Gange · 10 Jul 2019
by Chris Smaje · 14 Aug 2020 · 375pp · 105,586 words
by Kurt Andersen · 5 Sep 2017
by David Graeber · 1 Jan 2010 · 725pp · 221,514 words
by Gardner R. Dozois · 1 Jan 2005 · 1,280pp · 384,105 words
by Guy Shrubsole · 1 May 2019 · 505pp · 133,661 words
by Andrew McAfee · 30 Sep 2019 · 372pp · 94,153 words
by Rough Guides · 27 Apr 2024 · 960pp · 267,168 words
by Hunter S. Thompson · 6 Nov 2003 · 893pp · 282,706 words
by Edward J. Larson · 13 Mar 2018 · 422pp · 119,123 words
by Scott Carney and Jason Miklian · 28 Mar 2022 · 553pp · 153,028 words
by Michael Leinbach and Jonathan H. Ward · 23 Jan 2018 · 424pp · 114,094 words
by Iceland's Secret The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con-Harriman House (2021)
by John Markoff · 22 Mar 2022 · 573pp · 142,376 words
by Adrian Shirk · 15 Mar 2022 · 358pp · 118,810 words
by Rachel Slade · 9 Jan 2024 · 392pp · 106,044 words
by Doug Stanton · 16 Apr 2009 · 530pp · 151,616 words
by Malcolm Harris · 14 Feb 2023 · 864pp · 272,918 words
by Kristin Ohlson · 14 Oct 2014
by Lonely Planet · 1,410pp · 363,093 words
by Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears · 24 Apr 2024 · 357pp · 132,377 words
by Mark Synnott · 14 Apr 2025 · 443pp · 140,219 words
by Christian Davenport · 6 Sep 2025 · 441pp · 127,950 words
by Lonely Planet
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
by Sara Benson · 15 Oct 2010
by Vernor Vinge · 30 Sep 2001 · 659pp · 203,574 words
by Thomas L. Friedman · 1 Jan 1989 · 639pp · 212,079 words
by Neal Stephenson · 3 Jun 2019 · 993pp · 318,161 words
by Norman Mailer · 20 Jul 2010 · 879pp · 272,328 words
by Hugh Howey · 5 Jun 2012
by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway · 19 Oct 1991 · 496pp · 162,951 words
by Dan Gretton
by Rough Guides · 1 Jan 2024 · 1,383pp · 367,401 words