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Derrick Jensen

Author of A language older than words

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Derrick Jensen is the best-known voice, of the growing deep ecology movement. Winner of numerous awards and honors including the Eric Hoffer Book Award, USA Today's Critic's Choice, and Press Action s Person of the Year, Jensen is the author of over fifteen books, including Endgame, A Language Older Than Words, What We Leave Behind (with Aric McBay) and Deep Green Resistance (with McBay and Lierre Keith). Philosopher, teacher, and radical activist, he regularly stirs packed auditoriums across the country with revolutionary spirit. Jensen holds degrees in creative writing and mineral engineering physics. He lives in Crescent City, California. — biography from Dreams… (more)
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A language older than words (Author) 647 copies, 7 reviews
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization 593 copies, 8 reviews
The Culture of Make Believe 486 copies, 9 reviews
Endgame, Vol. 2: Resistance 342 copies, 3 reviews
Walking On Water: Reading, Writing And Revolution 288 copies, 3 reviews
As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial 197 copies, 4 reviews
Listening to the Land: Conversations About Nature, Culture and Eros 192 copies, 2 reviews
Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control 150 copies, 2 reviews
Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet 148 copies, 7 reviews
Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests 146 copies, 3 reviews
What We Leave Behind 136 copies, 3 reviews
How Shall I Live My Life?: On Liberating the Earth from Civilization (PM… 79 copies
Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos 63 copies
The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad 56 copies, 1 review
Dreams 49 copies, 2 reviews
The Myth of Human Supremacy 46 copies
Resistance Against Empire 45 copies, 1 review
Truths Among Us: Conversations on Building a New Culture 32 copies
Bright Green Lies: The False Promises of Mainstream Environmentalism 32 copies, 11 reviews
Songs of the Dead (Flashpoint Press) 31 copies, 1 review
Railroads and Clearcuts: Legacy of Congress's 1864 Northern Pacific… 29 copies
Lives Less Valuable: A Novel 25 copies, 1 review
Earth at risk : building a resistance movement to save the planet 23 copies
Mischief in the Forest: A Yarn Yarn 20 copies, 3 reviews
The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution 15 copies
Monsters (Flashpoint Press) 10 copies
The Other Side of Darkness (Recorded Live at the Four Winds Survival… 8 copies
Now This War Has Two Sides (PM Audio) 6 copies
Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political… 4 copies
Voices of Resistance 3 copies
Enemy of the State: An Interview With John Zerzan 2 copies
Endgame, Vols. 1+2 2 copies
Ecologie en résistance Stratégies pour une Terre en… 2 copies
Change Everything Now 2 copies
You May Be an Anarchist--And Not Even Know It 1 copy
ZOOS : Le cauchemar de la vie en captivité 1 copy, 1 review
Le mythe de la suprématie humaine 1 copy
Unsettling Ourselves 1 copy
Pacifism as Pathology (Introduction) 1 copy
Investing With Good Karma 1 copy
Animal Farm(S) 1 copy
Hacking 1 copy
How to Disappear: From Abusive Spouses, Bloodhounds, and the CIA… 1 copy
The A to Z of Hate Groups and Their Corporate Sponsors (Grassroot Guides) 1 copy
Crimes of Punishment: an interview with Christian Parenti on race & the… 1 copy
How To Grow Your Own Herbal Cures 1 copy
Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation,… 1 copy
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Crescent City, California, USA
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Eastern Washington University
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