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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 04/21/2008 14:06
Powell's Books - Farewell, My Subaru: An Epic Adventure in Local Living by Doug Fine books toread 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 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 02/21/2006 17:53
No More Prisons
homeschooling (and other subjects) from a left-wing perspective
 books toread 01/12/2006 16:01
The missing peace
An alternate peaceful history of America
 books toread 01/06/2006 03:49
Life of pi books toread 11/16/2005 18:25
Expand The Name of the Rose books toread 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.
Expand Foucault's pendulum books toread 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 10/26/2005 15:45
The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon books toread 10/12/2005 17:12
Expand Confessions of a Video Vixen books library toread 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.
Expand 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.
 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 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 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 09/24/2005 16:10
Bicycling Street Smarts - Table of Contents books online 09/21/2005 21:48
The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide by Susan Nathan books toread 09/04/2005 18:47
The control of nature books library toread 08/28/2005 20:18
Lance Armstrong's War : One Man's Battle Against Fate, Fame, Love, Death, Scandal, and a Few Other Rivals on the Road to the Tour de France books toread 08/23/2005 21:50
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit books toread 08/19/2005 12:50
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