Books:
(Books and mini-reviews and links and why and
what this text maybe meant)
Books I've Heard About that Sound Interesting:
- Kabir: Ecstatic Poems - Robert Bly - Robert Bly has re-translated
some of the work of a fifteenth century poet-saint from India, Kabir; Kabir
often writes about the soul's longing for the divine. (TTBOOK) 0807063843
- The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into
a War on American Ideals - Jane Mayer - 2008 0385526393
- Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture, Edited by Paul
D. Miller aka Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid - 0262633639
- The Brave Little Toaster - Thomas Dish - Has a sequel, children's
book by SF author
- My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey - Jill
Bolte Taylor - (TTBOOK) ISBN 1430300612 - Amazing first person look at left/right
brain perseption/cognition/emotion, strong ties into spirituality
- A Summer of Hummingbirds - Christopher Benfey (TTBOOK) Sounds interesting,
jumps around a bit,
- The Chemical Muse - David Hillman, Heard on WPR's To the Best of
Our Knowledge, recreational drug use in antiquity; drug use was common in
Greco-Roman times, and that the ancients thought it helped them get closer
to the gods.
- Born On A Blue Day - Daniel Tammet. Heard on WPR's To the Best
of Our Knowledge, book is a memoir from a rare autistic sevant who can verbalize
his reality.
- Waiting for Daisy - Peggy Orenstein. Heard on WPR's To the Best
of Our Knowledge, its about ambivalence about having children, sounds funny
and poigent.
- Not for Mothers Only - Catherine Wagner, Rebecca Wolff. Heard
on WPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge, a poetry anthology.
- Sherman Alexie wrote a book, title unknown, to teach his kids about war
(not sure if I want to read this as it might be preachly/predictable/to violent),
also the auther of Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (on
which the movie Smoke Signals was based), from an WPR's To the Best
of Our Knowledge podcast, of course.
- Lush Life - Richard Price. Heard on WPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge,
its a lower East Side of New York novel.
- Classics for Pleasure - Michael Dirda. Heard on WPR's To the Best
of Our Knowledge, classics are books that merit repeated re-reading, regardless
of genre.
- The Detox Book: How to Detoxify Your Body to Improve Your Health, Stop
Disease, and Reverse Aging - Bruce Fife, ISBN 0941599329
- The Body Ecology Diet: Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity
(Paperback) - Donna Gates (Author), Linda Schatz (Author) amazon
- Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of
Capitalism (Co-author: Karl Weber); Public Affairs; 2008; wikipedia
- Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President
- Lincoln Chafee (Fresh Air, WHYY, NPR interview) Rhode Island Senater during
"W," while I don't think I'm gonna go out and buy this, it sounds
very honest and rightious and informative and I wanted to note it here
- Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
- Bill McKibben. Makes the case that "more" does not lead to a happier
life and that people seem to be happier with what's good for the planet. Heard
on WPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge GOING GREEN Program 07-05-27-B.
Kind of depressing as one realizes how off purpose they are while listening!
- Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving,
Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging - Jeff Ferrell. Dumpster diver tells
about the underground world of street scavenging in a consumer society. Heard
on WPR's To the Best of Our Knowledge GOING GREEN Program 07-05-27-B.
I liked this guy.
- Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being
and Why No One Saw It Coming - Paul Hawken. Over a million people and
organizations who are quietly trying to save the world. Heard on WPR's To
the Best of Our Knowledge GOING GREEN Program 07-05-27-B.
Books I've Read and Liked and Why:
- Just like we're reading Chonicles of Narnia to Nastasja summer 2008, there
is another series whos name I need to remember as I'd like to share with her
- time traveling and dancing with the microcondria kids?
- The Master Cleanser by Stanley Burroughs, ISBN: 0963926209 and
Lose Weight, Have More Energy & Be Happier in 10 Days by Peter
Glickman, ISBN: 0975572229; (some links here)
Burroughs created the diet and laid down the rule and logic behind it and
his book is intense, Glickman evangelizes the diet and I guess is behind therawfoodsite.com,
from whence a good chunk of his book comes, a great pair together, but if
you're only gonna get one, go for Burroughs'.
- Dr. Jensen's Guide to Better Bowel Care, By Bernard Jensen, ISBN
0895295849; awesome text, really ties everything together, I'm not gonna try
the whole colmic thing with the slant board and all, but there is a wealth
of info here about the body, foods, society, and much more
- The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, by Barbera T, excellent
writting, engrossing, un-biased, insightful releaving of history
- Zig Zag Zen by
- Comet in Moominland (this might be the title of a book I really liked as
a kid and want to share again with Nastasja. 0140302867) Tove Jansson
- Dune
- God Emperor of Dune
Book Related Links:
- wikibooks - a Wikimedia
community for creating a free library of educational textbooks
- http://www.wpr.org/book/ (you can
also get here via ttbook.org)- Here the last
few books reviewed or discussed or whos auther's were interviewed on Wisconsin
Public Radio's To the Best of Our Knowledge are listed
- amazon
- books.google
- bookpool
- wikipedia
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