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Give Me Liberty
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"This is hands down the best book I have read in years - I'm about 3/4 of the way through. I think it should be mandatory reading for all US citizens. Take the power back!"
Creating a World Without Poverty
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"Just started it: looks to be very interesting: analysis of how we can build socially minded business beyond the model of micro-loans in underdeveloped nations, for which Mr. Yunus won the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize."
The Culture Code
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"A very interesting analysis of how a French psychoanalyst used his ability to understand cultural psychology to find out how to market effectively to people (that's the read so far at least ... )"
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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"The concept of this book is quite ambitious, but well done. A thought provoking socio- anthropological account of how the many nations and people of the world got to be where they are today."
The Japan We Never Knew: A Journey of Discovery by David Suzuki and Keibo Oiwa
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"Is Japanese society completely homogenous and conformist? Canadian scientist David Suzuki and Japanese anthropologist Keibo Oiwa ask this question, and the answer takes them from Okinawa to Sakhalin Island. Along the way they meet people fighting for social and environmental justice, from indigenous Okinawans and Ainu to ethnic Koreans, feminists, food and environmental activists, and artists wh..."
Be Here Now by Ram Dass
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"Holy crap this dude experienced some crazy hallucinations! He writes about his transformation from everyday professional man to drug connoisseur to yoga chic hippy! Written in the most colorful way printed in the most attractive bold type, different sized lettering on most of the pages. Kinda like a dimension Alice (Alice in Wonderland) may have visited. He includes photographs from his personal p..."
Field Guide to Gestures: How to Identify and Interpret Virtually Every Gesture Known to Man
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"a guide to the practically obvious, with step-by-step instructions. recc'd by someone on lj, i am utterly amused by this. could be useful for folks w/ autism or other folks along the spectrum, as well as the extremely socially inept. i'm curious how using these instructions would work for someone - would it come out naturally, or is there still something lost between the acts and the actual mea..."
Talk To The Hand | Lynne Truss
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"Same author, same voice as Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, but this time Truss deals with the lack of civility between human-kind in the world today. In other words, I wouldn't really call it a guide or instructional book; I would call it an inspiration for real communication and conversation."
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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"The Tipping Point is a little older now (since Malcolm Gladwell's more recent book, Blink, has been published), but it's still a very insightful look at how ideas and trends become widespread hits."
Ubiquity: The New Science That Is Changing the World
1 recommendation
"It makes me schizophrenic (in a good way) in analysing and connecting everything around me: the woodgrains of my desk, the lateness of the train, to the way my spaghetti boils in the pot."
1984 by George Orwell
6 recommendations
"Published in 1948 and set thirty-six years in the future, 1984 is George Orwell’s dark vision of the future. Written while Orwell was dying and based on the work of the Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin, it is a chilling depiction of how the power of the state could come to dominate the lives of individuals through cultural conditioning. Perhaps the most powerful science fiction novel of the twentie..."
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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"Yet another book that can help you understand how little we really know. Raises enough doubt that you might not even trust what the book says."
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
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"I've been listening to the audiobook (from Audible.com, read by the author) on my commute. Though I'm not quite done with the book, I can recommend it strongly to anybody who is willing to question how they thought their mind worked. This is not a self-help book and it doesn't offer much in the way of advice on how to think better (I'll update this statement if the last bit takes a dramatic tur..."
What's So Great About America by Dinesh D'Souza
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"This book is insightful, thought provoking- & short! It's embarrassing for me to admit that I'm not a big reader- (the last book I read at my own leisure was "Jurassic Park"), but think this should be required. D'Souza's thinking is powerful & sharp- I wanted to retain every page. It helped me look at history & the world on a whole new level with great depth & fresh perspective that actually ma..."
Atlas of Contemporary Art for Use by Everyone: Denis Gielen, Laurent Busine
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"In the form of a geographic atlas, this volume initiates dialogue between art and other disciplines such as the sciences, sociology and politics. Four hundred pages of color images drawn from art, architecture and film are annotated with historical, thematic and iconographic information and a mosaic of texts formed from quotes by artists, scientists and intellectuals, as well as encyclopedic entri..."
Finite and Infinite Games
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"Author James P. Carse explore the implications and applications of game theory in the everyday. Thought provoking and insightful."
Bobos In Paradise - The New Upper Class and How They Got There
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"I enjoyed reading this one."
Small World: Uncovering Nature's Hidden Networks
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"Even better than his Ubiquity book! Mark Buchanan manages to explain something so scientific and mathematical in a simple, every day language by using metaphors and examples. Good stuff..."
Fashion Theory: A Reader
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"Contains writings ranging from Freud's 'Fetishism' to Barthes and Valerie Steele. Edited by Malcolm Barnard who wrote the comprehensive 'Fashion as Communication'. Can't go wrong"
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