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The Ultimate Journey: Consciousness and the Mystery of Death
Stanislav Grof
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), 2006
Going With Love
+ Stan Grof's Legacy
Death and dying are the most universal and important experiences in human life, yet until the late 1960s, prominent members of Western civilization - including our medical doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, anthropologists, and philosophers - showed an astonishing lack of interest in these ...
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The Beekeeper
Tori Amos
Sony, 2005
Quite Tori
+ One of her best
+ Not her best, but still good!
+ It's Tori; what can you expect?
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The Col Girl in the Ring: A Guyanese Woman Remembers
Brenda Chester DoHarris
Tantaria Pr, 1997
Excellent
+ Excellent!
+ Unique and Original
+ Book contents quoted at another book launch in Guyana
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Shameless: Women's Intimate Erotica (Live Girls)
Seal Press, 2002
Give it a try!
If you just want something quick, cheap, and tawdry, this probably is the wrong book for you. This is much, much better than that. These are visceral, emotional, introspective, and above all literary stories about the range of ways that sex has a part to play in women's lives, encompassing ...
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Biography - Frederick Douglass (A&E DVD Archives)
Biography
A&E Home Video, 2005
To be Real
+ Courage and Conscience
This story being a part of history goes without challenge in my mind because, the reports as recorded cannot change what was the way of living then.This is the story of a challenged man , challenged not only by the society that he was a part of but also his own personal being. A must for history ...
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Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants: The Looting of the News In a Time of Terror
James Wolcott
Miramax, 2004
Good read
+ Excellent fun at the expense of the dark side
+ Why Terrorists are winning the supposed "War on Terror"
It shouldn't be such a surprise to anyone: news organizations play nice with the powers that be or they lose access. While this isn't new to the Bush administration it's gotten a lot worse since 2000. Actually there are two and only two sources of liberal news right now: Air America Radio and ...
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Oil!
Upton Sinclair
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
Dad Liked It
+ Very different from the loosely adapted film
+ I enjoyed this book. But....
+ Highly Entertaining!
+ On every list, at every school
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This American Life: Stories of Hope and Fear
Various Artists
Shout Factory, 2006
Unexpectedly heartwarming
+ This American Life
+ great worth getting
+ Providing a sense of hope and normalcy to someone who is Severely Depressed
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Dream a Little Dream of Me: The Life of Cass Elliot
Eddi Fiegel
Chicago Review Press, 2007
Very Sad and Selfish people
+ If You Love Cass, BUY THIS GREAT BOOK!!
+ Excellent, well written biography on Cass Elliot
+ I think the book is intresting thus far Im still reading it.
+ Mama Baltimore
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Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair
Anthony Arthur
Random House, 2006
Upton Sinclair the author of the Jungle is well served in this fine biography
+ Well written and fascinating biography of Upton Sinclair
Dr. Anthony Arthur has written a superb biography of Upton
Sinclair (1878-1968) whose long, colorful and controversial career in writing novels and in California politics takes the
reader through the twentieth century.
Sinclair was born to a fading southern family with aristocratic pretensions ...
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Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development
Herman E. Daly
Beacon Press, 1997
Growth isn't everything
+ Outstanding work, Daly's predictions have come to pass 10 years later
+ Surprising Religious Angle from Serious Economist
+ Good enough
+ A Truly Important Book
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John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism
Alan Ryan
W. W. Norton & Company, 1995
The life of Dewey and 100 years of American thought
+ A Visionary of the Everyday
Ryan, from a British perspective, offers a detailed biography of Dewey the philosopher while enveloping the reader in the context of Dewey's varied and shifting America. Ryan also wrestles with the issues America wrestled with and continues to struggle with today. The work blends nicely the ...
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John Dewey: Knowledge Products (Giants of Philosophy) (Library Edition)
Charleton Heston (Narrator) Professor John J. Stuhr
Knowledge Products, 2006
John Dewey was America’s most influential philosopher. He wanted philosophy to rise above old tired disputes to address new, more vital questions and problems. Dewey’s views are known as "pragmatism," which emphasizes action and results. He believed that knowledge and ethics, as well as art and religion, live only in the daily practice of one’s life. Philosophy isn't a system of beliefs but a ...
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Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World
Christopher Mark O'Brien
New Society Publishers, 2006
Grab a pint and grab this book.
+ Excellent beer information!
+ A microcosm in a microbrewery
+ An actionable history of beer in society; Drink for Thought.
+ A fine survey of corporate and non-corporate powers and divisions makes for involving reading.
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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
Catherine Clinton
Back Bay Books, 2005
A BLACK 'GENERAL' LEADS HER PEOPLE TO FREEDOM
The story of the ex-slave, Civil War `general' and black liberation fighter Harriet Tubman is the stuff of legends. Although in recent decades she has received more of the proper attention due her the fight she so ardently fought for the real freedom for blacks still is the wave of the future. Her ...
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