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Type: educational

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Milton Friedman

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Tags: politics capitalism economics freedom libertarianism individualism

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Description: "How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses"How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy--one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. The result is an accessible text that has sold well over half a million copies in English, has been translated into eighteen languages, and shows every sign of becoming more and more influential as time goes on."...

2006-03-06

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Type: technical

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Howard Rheingold

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Tags: emergence anthropology internet futurism socialnetworks

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Description: "Smart Mobs offers a clear, reportorial insight into - not a brave new world, but rather"Smart Mobs offers a clear, reportorial insight into - not a brave new world, but rather the current state of our own, and especially how the next generation will turn out." - The Seattle Times...

2005-10-24

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Type: business

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Status: favorite

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Author: Lawrence Lessig

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Tags: copyright law internet copyfight commerce

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Description: "Lessig looks at the disturbing legal and commercial trends that threaten to curb the"Lessig looks at the disturbing legal and commercial trends that threaten to curb the incredible creative potential of the Internet. All innovations are derived from a certain amount of "piracy" of preceding innovations, Lessig argues, and he presents a catalog of technological breakthroughs in film, music, and television as illustrations. Drawing on distinctions between piracy that benefits a single user and harms the owner and piracy that is useful in advancing new content or new ways of doing business, Lessig strongly argues for a balance between the interests of the owner and broader society so that we can continue a "free culture" that encourages innovation rather than a "permission culture" that does not. He reviews an array of legal actions, including the restrictions on peer-to-peer sharing made famous by Napster, and the threat they represent to the kind of openness the law has traditionally allowed and from which the marketplace has benefited. This is a highly accessible and enlightening look at the intersection of commerce, the law, and cyberspace." - Vanessa Bush, Booklist...

2005-10-24

 

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Type: poetry

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Authors: E. E. Cummings Richard S. Kennedy

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Tags: poetry

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Description: This is the first selection from the poems of E.E. Cummings to be published since 1959, threeThis is the first selection from the poems of E.E. Cummings to be published since 1959, three years before his death. The one hundred and fifty-six poems selected by Richard S. Kennedy, Cumming's biographer (Dreams in the Mirror), are arranged in twelve sections, with introductions by Kennedy for each section. Also included are thirteen drawings, oils, and watercolors by Cummings, most of them never before published.
The selection includes most of the favorites plus many fresh and surprising examples of Cummings's several poetic styles. The corrected texts established by George J. Firmage have been used throughout....

2005-10-24

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Type: scientific

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Status: favorite

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Authors: Carl Sagan Ann Druyan

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Tags: science reason

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Description: "A clear vision of what good science means and why it makes a difference . . . A testimonial"A clear vision of what good science means and why it makes a difference . . . A testimonial to the power of science and a warning of the dangers of unrestrained credulity." - The Sciences...

2005-10-24

 

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Type: poetry

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Ted Kooser

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Tags: poetry plains midwest

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Description: 'There is a sense of quiet amazement at the core of all Kooser's work, but it especially'There is a sense of quiet amazement at the core of all Kooser's work, but it especially seems to animate his new collection of poems, a book of portraits and landscapes, Delights & Shadows. Every delight is shadowed by darkness in this book of small wonders and hard dualisms. The book begins with a poem called "Walking on Tiptoe" and ends with one entitled "A Happy Birthday." It takes an epigraph from Emily Dickinson -- "The Sailor cannot see the North, but knows the Needle can" -- but just as easily could have taken one from Wallace Stevens: "Death is the mother of beauty." Mortality is omnipresent and induces a deep attentiveness. Everyone here -- a young woman in a wheelchair, a skater dressed in black, a group of mourners after a funeral, the poet himself -- seems to be moving lightly over an invisible abyss. "There are days when the fear of death/ is as ubiquitous as light. It illuminates/ everything," he writes in "Surviving." "Were it not for the way you taught me to look/ at the world, to see the life at play in everything," he writes to his mother who has been dead just one month, "I would have to be lonely forever."' - Edward Hirsch, The Washington Post...

2005-10-24

 

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Type: poetry

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Status: favorite

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Authors: Jim Harrison Ted Kooser

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Tags: poetry letters conversationalpoetry correspondence

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Description: Longtime friends, Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser always exchanged poems in their letter writing.Longtime friends, Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser always exchanged poems in their letter writing. After Kooser was diagnosed with cancer several years ago, Harrison found that his friend's poetry became "overwhelmingly vivid," and they began a correspondence comprised entirely of brief poems, "because that was the essence of what we wanted to say to each other."...

2005-10-24

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Type: fiction

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Status: favorite

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Author: Orson Scott Card

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Tags: sciencefiction war space novel genius

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Description: "Intense is the word for Ender's Game. Aliens have attacked earth twice and almost"Intense is the word for Ender's Game. Aliens have attacked earth twice and almost destroyed the human species. To make sure humans win the next encounter, the world government has taken to breeding military geniuses - and training them in the arts of war. . . . The early training, not surprisingly, takes the form of 'games.' . . . Ender Wiggin is a genius among geniuses; he wins all the games . . . He is smart enough to know that time is running out. But is he smart enough to save the planet?" - The New York Times...

2005-10-24

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Type: fiction

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Stephen Chbosky

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Tags: fiction teen highschool novel characterstudy

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Description: "A coming-of-age tale in the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye and A Separate Peace...[Chbosky's]"A coming-of-age tale in the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye and A Separate Peace...[Chbosky's] poignant reflections on life, love and friendship are often inspirational and always beautifully written." - USA Today...

2005-10-24

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Type: poetry

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Status: favorite

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Author: Adam Zagajewski

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Tags: poetry polish

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Description: "Zagajewski's poems pull us from whatever routine threatens to dull our senses, from"Zagajewski's poems pull us from whatever routine threatens to dull our senses, from whatever might lull us into mere existence. This is an astonishing book." - Philip Boehm, The New York Times Book Review...

2005-10-24