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The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
T.R. Reid
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005
Informative, well written, fairly current
+ Perhaps a bit over the top
+ Enlightening. A concise read!
Having lived in Europe for 7 months, I found this book to be very resourceful. It covers a wide range of topics from political and industrial development, to Eurovision and the younger generation.
One chapter seemed to ramble a bit about the details of the life of an American CEO, but nothing ...
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The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
Thomas Dunne Books, 2007
The World Without Us
+ Give me a moment of pause
+ a clever book and a decent interesting read
Excellent book. Full of information on what we are doing to our environment and food for thought as to possible solutions. Definitely not a scare tactic treatise like many environmentalist-type books tend to be, but a honest look at where we've come from, and where we're going. Things look OK and ...
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
Vintage, 1992
The triumph of common sense
+ Read it!
+ Read it
+ It'll make a city slicker out of the most ardent farm boy
+ A classic
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Superpatriotism
Michael Parenti
City Lights Publishers, 2004
Brilliant, powerful, riveting and alarming!
+ Parenti, a True Patriot!
+ Makes you think about patriotism
+ If you hate communists, does that mean you love nazis?
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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)
Kwame Anthony Appiah
W. W. Norton, 2007
Becoming Cosmopolitan
+ A Easy to Read Introduction to an Appealing Ethical System
+ Culture clashes are not limited to the transnational
+ Essays by Appiah
+ An importance exploration of what it means to be a responsible part of today's world
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Pantheon, 2002
Your life could depend on reading this book.
+ Eye Opener
+ Eye Opening
+ One of Chomsky's best (and still applicable today)
+ Chomsky's pinnacle
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Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
Norman G. Finkelstein
University of California Press, 2005
An essay about the truth
+ Ain't that the truth?
+ meticulously documented
+ Jewish soul-searching and anti-Semitism.
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The Culture of the New Capitalism
Yale University Press, 2007
Mysteries of Corporate Mayhem Revealed!
+ Working in the New Economy
Richard Sennett in THE CULTURE OF THE NEW CAPITALISM reflects upon the reactionary extirpation over the past three decades of the Western social capitalist state. Starting with a discussion of Bismarckian social capitalism which was founded on the model of the Prussian Army's highly successful ...
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
James Howard Kunstler
Free Press, 1994
Superb Diagnosis of the dysfunctional American land use situation
+ An Excellent Overview of America's Growth Culture
+ A life-changing book
+ A few oddities, but good.
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Attention Deficit Democracy
James Bovard
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Useful discussion of what democracy would be like
+ Politician's Lies and Citizen Docility.
+ Think you know all about democracy ?
+ Even if the facts are 95% true
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Whose Trade Organization?: A Comprehensive Guide to the World Trade Organization, Second Edition
Lori Wallach, Patrick Woodall, ...
New Press, 2004
Looking on WTO info? This is the one!
Just what are all those protesters so upset about, anyway? This book will tell you. It's a quick, accurate, well-composed book examining the effects of the WTO on developing countries' poverty, health care, natural resources, and human rights. This review doesn't need to be lengthy: Look, there ...
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
Vintage, 2006
Probably one of my favorite non fiction reads of all time
+ Book Review
+ Good, but not convincing
+ Fascinating and informative
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins
Plume, 2005
You will be surprised how interesting this book is!
+ Great book to read
+ What's all the commotion about?
+ 5 stars!
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The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
Houghton Mifflin, 2006
Flawed and Judgemental
Overall, the book was decent, but a couple huge points that really knock it down. First, the author clearly has an ax to grind with Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. The book could be re-titled "Why I dislike Theistic Religions originating in the Middle East." Second, he dodges a huge ...
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The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home
Pico Iyer
Vintage, 2001
Smart, humane , edgy and I couldn't stop reading
+ A little too much?
+ Struck by Disconnect - Customer v. Editorial Reviews
I love this book. I'm sending it to all my relatives who, like the author, are modern post-ethnics with no true sense of ethnic allegiance. His insights are quite droll: a person with no deep national loyalty may be staunchly loyal to one airline. And some huge portion of all airmiles are earned on ...
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