books about: live-culture

books about: live-culture

books:

Live-culture

True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society

Farhad Manjoo

Wiley, 2008

Does the "truth" set one free?
Thanks to Farhad Manjoo for the effort that went into this book. I began reading Manjoo's technical writings in Salon Magazine a while back, and thoroughly enjoy his writing style. Although he's employed primarily as a writer for technology developments, Mr. Manjoo ...

The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do

Clotaire Rapaille

Broadway, 2007

fascinating
Although the writer mainly does his (extremely highly paid) work for marketing and advertising purposes, the book gives an unusually deep insight into the underlying meanings of certain concepts for various cultures. Based on the learning of the particular culture ...

Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender, and Culture

Julia T. Wood

Wadsworth Publishing, 2008

A Great, Non-Stereotypical Feminist Book
Having read way too many textbooks in my academic career, I feel pretty confident saying that this is one of the best. The author presented the material (some of it difficult to swallow) in a straight-forward way, interjecting much-needed humor here and there. Many ...

Lives Across Cultures (4th Edition)
Harry W. Gardiner, Corinne Kosmitzki

Allyn & Bacon, 2007

Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods

Sandor Ellix Katz

Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2003

WILD fermentation not sterilized
This book is required reading for any and all who are on the verge of crossing the paper thin bounderies of fear that our sanitized, white bread culture has shocked us all into believing is right and true. I have read a few of the other comments that people have left ...

The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book

Frank Warren

William Morrow, 2007

enjoyed the insight
I enjoyed the range of emotions the pages and pictures brought out. It was interesting to see so many share without worry. It makes you know you aren't alone in some of your thoughts. Very unique and artistic.

PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives

Frank Warren

William Morrow, 2005

You can't resist picking this up
Finally, after having this on my wish list for forever, I finally bought it. This will be a great coffee table book. I loved the post card artwork and the layout of this book. This is more of an art book than a book meant for just revealing secrets. Don't let this ...

How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

Francis A. Schaeffer

Crossway Books, 2005

Thoughtful review of worldviews
This is a very thoughtful and penetrating book about different worldviews, especially modernism or post-modernism and Christianity. Helpful for helping those influenced by current Western culture.

Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

Steven Johnson

Scribner, 2002

Nice soft intro to concepts of self-organisation
For those with a technical interest in the matter, this is a nice soft intro to the topics with which concerned. It is written with a somewhat emotional style; probably not an ideal technical resource. For the readers not akin to the concepts at all, the book ...

The Ultimate History of Video Games: From Pong to Pokemon--The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives ...

Steven L. Kent

Three Rivers Press, 2001

Most concise history on video games available today
I think this book should be renamed to "The Ultimate History of ME!" cause it pretty much tells the story of my life growing up with consoles and trips to the arcade. It's a wealth of knowledge, the most concise history of video games you'll find out there - and ...

Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Chuck Klosterman

Scribner, 2006

Chuck Klosterman is the kind of man I would want a summer romance with
JUST SHUT UP AND BUY IT. I've read this and a Decade of Dangerous and they are both highly entertaining and very addicting if you are into music, obsessive habits and cosmic ideas. If you do not have a sense of humor, do not buy this book. If laughing out loud in quiet ...

In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (Sexual Cultures)

Judith Halberstam

NYU Press, 2005

oh, jack!
it's impossible for me to be entirely fair because i absolutely LOVE judith halberstam... as a student of gender and queer history, i find dr. halberstam's work so compelling because not only does it utilize pathbreaking and up-to-date theoretical schema, but the ...

Media Unlimited, Revised Edition: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives

Todd Gitlin

Holt Paperbacks, 2007

Gitlin, media studies syllabus standard
FYI - before you take in the reveiws below, know that Gitlin is considered advanced reading, and a standard among graduate level coursework in mass media, culture and politics. Consider 2003 version of "The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and ...

On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense

David Brooks

Simon & Schuster, 2005

An humorous and thought-provoking read
After writing "BoBos in Paradise," David Brooks certainly had a tough act to follow. I found that BoBos captured the psyche of the affluent baby boomers in a way that was both enlightening and rip roaringly humorous. For me, it's no overstatement to say that BoBos was ...

How Now Shall We Live?

Charles W. Colson, Nancy Pearcey, ...

Tyndale House Publishers, 1999

A Great Worldview Primer for Discipleship
As my title suggests, Colson's book would be a great worldview primer for discipleship purposes. In a day and age where people believe that creation is an accident and God is a non-issue, we have to begin by demonstrating that it is more logical to look to a Creator ...