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Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan, reviewed by New York Review of Books thirty years of nutritional advice have left us fatter, sicker, and more poorly nourished. Which is why we find ourselves in the predicament we do: in need of a whole new way to think about eating.	books toread	hexmode	04/21/2008 14:06
Powell's Books - Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living by Doug Fine	books toread	hexmode	04/18/2008 17:45
Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City Hunt's is above all a tale of merchant princes in Manchester and Liverpool, in Glasgow, Leeds, and Birmingham (that city's mayor, Joseph Chamberlain, is the dominant personality in the book), who built not only roads and sewers but galleries, libraries, and some of the greatest edifices and public spaces of nineteenth-century urban civilization -- Bradford's Venetian Gothic Wool Exchange; Liverpool's Albert Dock and St. George's Hall (which the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner praised as among the greatest neo-Grecian buildings in the world); Birmingham's broad boulevards, stately squares, and grand domed council house; and Manchester's palazzo-inspired warehouses and magnificent neo-Gothic town hall.	books building toread victorian	hexmode	02/21/2006 17:58
The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History Particularly engrossing is the analysis of relations between Moscow and Washington and their defiant clients, which turned domestic rifts into world conflict from the 1950s through the potentially nuclear crisis of 1994 and the present famine.	books korea toread	hexmode	02/21/2006 17:53
No More Prisons homeschooling (and other subjects) from a left-wing perspective	books toread	hexmode	01/12/2006 16:01
The missing peace An alternate peaceful history of America	books toread	hexmode	01/06/2006 03:49
Life of pi	books toread	hexmode	11/16/2005 18:25
Amazon.com: John Coltrane : His Life and Music (The Michigan American Music Series): Books: Lewis Porter A definitive assessment of the life and work of jazz musician John Coltrane, based on new interviews with his colleagues and never-before-published material	biography books coltrane jazz	tuirgin	11/09/2005 17:27
Amazon.com: Beneath the Underdog : His World as Composed by Mingus (Vintage): Books: Charles Mingus A wild, lyrical, and anguished autobiography, in which Charles Mingus pays short shrift to the facts but plunges to the very bottom of his psyche, coming up for air only when it pleases him. He takes the reader through his childhood in Watts, his musical education by the likes of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Parker, and his prodigious appetites--intellectual, culinary, and sexual. The book is a jumble, but a glorious one, by a certified American genius.	biography books jazz mingus	tuirgin	11/09/2005 17:25
3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated The text found in chapter 3, verse 16, of most books in the Bible is a typical verse with no special distinction. But when Knuth examined what leading scholars throughout the centuries have written about those verses, he found that there is a fascinating story to be learned in every case, full of historical and spiritual insights. This book presents jargon-free introductions to each book of the Bible and in-depth analyses of what people from many different religious persuasions have said about the texts found in chapter 3, verse 16, together with 60 original illustrations by many of the world's leading calligraphers.	books	tuirgin	10/27/2005 20:05
The Name of the Rose	books toread	hexmode	10/27/2005 20:04
about a medieval monastery (13th century? 14th?) and a series of murders there. It involves a library and is very much about books creating meaning, or the meaning we create out of books. It's also very good.
Foucault's pendulum	books toread	hexmode	10/27/2005 20:01
... hermeticism, esotericism, conspiracy theorists, Rosicrucians, free-masons, occultists, and skepticism. It's fabulous, and mysterious, and debunks everything, and maybe undebunks it in a way too, gives a small apologia for Christianity.
The PayPal Wars battles with eBay, the media, the mafia, and the rest of planet Earth	books toread	hexmode	10/26/2005 15:45
The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon	books toread	hexmode	10/12/2005 17:12
Till My Tale Is Told: Women's Memoirs of the Gulag In her memoirs, Nadezhda Mandelstam recalled how in the early 1930s her		tuirgin	10/12/2005 01:32
LibraryThing Catalog your books online		seifert	10/10/2005 19:13
Confessions of a Video Vixen	books library toread	hexmode	10/09/2005 19:35
A memoir by the star of numerous videos provides a behind-the-scenes expose of the hip hop industry that takes the glitter off a world of trysts with celebrities, physical abuse, rape, and drugs.
Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms Are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men There is nothing a woman can do that is so fundamentally self-centered that it won't be met with a cackle of "You go, girl!" from a female somewhere on the planet. It's a way of transforming an essentially selfish act into one of liberation, and thereby protecting it from male criticism.		hexmode	10/04/2005 15:25
The boys in the study pine for their fathers. Drexler notes that they share a peculiarly intense fascination with father-son athletes from the world of professional sports, and that they have an outsize interest in superheroes. Those who have ongoing relationships with their "seed daddies" mourn piteously when the men fail to take a fatherly interest in them. A humane assessment of these impulses would be that boys want fathers, but when the world does not mete them out (because of either tragedy or maternal intention), good mothers can ease the pain and do what widows and abandoned women have done throughout time: raise their sons as best they can, often with great success. But this is "You go, girl!" territory, and no quarter can be given to any fact that might suggest the women are slighting their children. None of these boys is exhibiting "father hunger," Drexler reports; it's only natural "to long for what you don't have." Not having a father is a bit like not having a skateboard -- kind of a bummer, but at least you don't have to worry about head injuries.
The Big Time by Fritz Leiber early urban scfi/fantasy	books library toread	hexmode	09/30/2005 15:17
SignPosts: Purposelessly Driven Lives However, shortly before the multiple murders, he'd bought a copy of — wait for it — The Purpose Driven Life, a book that of course inculcates the idea that every action and event in the world is part of God's plan for us.	books christian interesting pop	hexmode	09/28/2005 21:50
Version Control with SVK This book started out as a branch of the Version Control With Subversion book. Over time is was morphed into an SVK specific book by the authors.	books online svk vcs	hexmode	09/24/2005 16:10
Bicycling Street Smarts - Table of Contents	books online	hexmode	09/21/2005 21:48
Amazon.com: So You'd Like to... Visit Twain's World Joan		tuirgin	09/20/2005 19:40
The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide by Susan Nathan	books toread	hexmode	09/04/2005 18:47
The control of nature	books library toread	hexmode	08/28/2005 20:18

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