Books

I have published twenty books in recent years. They are listed below (hardback, paperback and some pdfs). For my full list of articles and books, see here.

  • S M P L C T Y: Ecological Civilisation and the Will to Art (2023), Samuel Alexander (paperback, hardback, pdf).
  • Post-Capitalist Futures: Paradigms, Politics, and Prospects, edited by Samuel Alexander, Sangeetha Chandrashekeran, and Brendan Gleeson (2022, Palgrave Macmillan) (hardback, EPUB, and pdf here).
  • Beyond Capitalist Realism: The Politics, Energetics, and Aesthetics of Degrowth (2021, Collected Essays Vol VI) (paperback here).
  • Urban Awakenings: Disturbance and Enchantment in the Industrial City (Palgrave, 2020, co-authored with Brendan Gleeson) (available here).
  • Extinction Rebellion: Insights from the Inside (2020, edited collection of Rupert Read’s essays) (paperback, Kindle, pdf)
  • Death for Gaia: Ecocide and the Righteous Assassins (2020, co-authored with Peter Burdon) (paperback and ebook).
  • The Simpler Way: Collected Writings of Ted Trainer (2020, co-edited with Jonathan Rutherford) (paperback and ebook).
  • Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary (2019, co-authored with Brendan Gleeson) hardback and ebook.
  • This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the End of Empire – and What Lies Beyond (2019, co-authored with Rupert Read) (paperback and ebook).
  • Carbon Civilisation and the Energy Descent Future: Life Beyond This Brief Anomaly (2018, co-authored with Josh Floyd) paperback and ebook.
  • Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth (2017) – paperback and ebook
  • Compost Capitalism: The Art and Aesthetics of Degrowth (2017) – paperback
  • Wild Democracy: Degrowth, Permaculture, and the Simpler Way (2017) – paperback and ebook
  • Words for Awakening: Voices of Inspired Revolt (2017) paperback (pdf to come)
  • Just Enough is Plenty: Thoreau’s Alternative Economics (2016) – paperback and ebook
  • Deface the Currency: The Lost Dialogues of Diogenes (2016) – paperback and ebook
  • Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits (2015) – paperback and ebook
  • Sufficiency Economy: Enough, for Everyone, Forever (2015) – paperback and ebook
  • Simple Living in History: Pioneers of the Deep Future (2014) – paperback and ebook
  • Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation (2013) – paperback / ebook / Kindle
  • Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture (2009) – paperback