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- The Posthuman Dada Guide (5)
- Tzara and Lenin Play Chess
- By Andrei Codrescu
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Reading since Apr 30, 2009
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- Displacement of Concepts (1)
- (International Behavioural and Social Sciences, Classics from the Tavistock Press)
- By Donald Schon
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Reading since Aug 18, 2008
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- Mason and Dixon (92)
- By Thomas Pynchon
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Reading since Feb 8, 2008
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- Sustainability by Design (1)
- A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture
- By John R. Ehrenfeld
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Finished on Apr 28, 2011
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- Sweetness and Power (21)
- The Place of Sugar in Modern History
- By Sidney W. Mintz
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Finished on Mar 15, 2010
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- Made in Italy (19)
- Food and Stories
- By Giorgio Locatelli
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Finished on Jun 25, 2009
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- Stuffed and Starved (31)
- Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System
- By Raj Patel
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Finished on Jun 3, 2009
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- The Bastard of Istanbul (63)
- By Elif Shafak
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Finished on Apr 30, 2009
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- The Mirror and Man
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- The Mirror and Man (1)
- By Benjamin Goldberg
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Finished on Apr 15, 2009
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- A Deepness in the Sky (66)
- A Novel (Zones of Thought)
- By Vernor Vinge
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Finished on Mar 22, 2009
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- The Omnivore's Dilemma (195)
- The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-food World
- By Michael Pollan
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Finished on Mar 16, 2009
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interesting, but...
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the writing style is journalistic and painfully repetitious. Inside these 400 pages, there is a very good 250-pages book screaming to get out. I guess this is the fate of American books...
The repetitions manage to water down some compelling, apparently well researched and well written pieces ... (continue)
- — Feb 16, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- The System of the World (152)
- Volume Three of the Baroque Cycle (P.S.)
- By Neal Stephenson
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Finished on Mar 10, 2009
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if you don't know how to close a book
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... and this has always been Stephenson's problem, being a genius at setting up incredible situations, complex characters, weird genius and almost-historical crises, perhaps a good solution is never to come to a close: or to borrow the closing from history.
And this is more or less what happen ... (continue)
- — Mar 22, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- On Food and Cooking (77)
- The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
- By Harold McGee
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Finished in Oct 2008
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- The Ministry of Special Cases (41)
- A Novel
- By Nathan Englander
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Finished in Oct 2008
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- Great Scientific Experiments (2)
- Twenty Experiments that Changed our View of the World
- By Rom Harre
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Finished on Sep 2, 2008
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Stuffed and Starved
Oscillates between anedoct and statistics. To convince us that GMO cotton is bad for farmers, he tells us the story of how bad it was for one specific group of farmers in Africa.
What is more, he does not provide us with a credible alternative. It fashionably badmouths the green revolution.
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