Stuart Chase

An introduction to the geography, history, economy, culture, government, and people of the very varied country of Mexico.

The destruction of American way of Life or Fundamentally Changing America

Discusses the development of language, its importance to communication, and how it enables man to understand and control his world.

"Selected bibliography": p. 319-322.

Philosophers such as Peter Singer, Tom Regan and Gary Francione join scientists Melanie Joy, T. Colin Campbell, Johnathan Balcombe and many others to shed light on the ethical, health and environmental perspectives of veganism. Through these stories, Live and Let Live showcases the evolution of veganism from its origins in London 1944 to one of the fastest growing lifestyles worldwide, with more and more people realizing what's on their plates matters to animals, the environment and ultimately, themselves. -- Container.

In this book, Stuart Chase outlines a proposition that ended up being the basis of FDR's New Deal.

From Chapter 1... Certain philosophers hold that machinery is enslaving us. I am not a machine tender, but first and last I encounter a good many mechanisms in a day's march, particularly when that day is spent in a city so large and so complicated that it could never have been built by human muscle. Before analyzing the extent of serfdom in others, it might be well to determine how far I am myself a slave. The first thing that I hear in the morning is a machine —a patented alarm clock. It calls and I obey. But if I do not feel like obeying, I touch its back, and it relapses humbly into silence. Thus we bully each other, with the clock normally leading by a wide margin. (Once, however, I threw a clock out of the window, and it never bullied anyone again.)