| |
|
Censored 2008: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006-07 (Censored)
Seven Stories Press, 2007
Book is well written
+ Truth is a very powerful thing
+ Should be mandatory reading
+ Great book. Received it promptly and in good shape
+ Both Frightening and Inspiring
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior--and How We Can Reclaim Our ...
Martha Stout
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
Enlightening and Informative, Practical Tools for Self-Improvement
+ Switched on
+ Terror Rewires Our Brains
+ Paranoia Switch
+ Paranoia Switch
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
Ori Brafman, Rom Brafman
Doubleday Business, 2008
Well Written and Easy to Understand
+ Challenge to assumption of rationality
+ Great content, but is there better treatment of the subject elsewhere?
+ Too short, too far reaching, an okay book
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Dave Grossman
Back Bay Books, 1996
An eye opening read
+ on combat
+ Must read for the military or police.
+ Good but the second book is much better
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Age of American Unreason
Susan Jacoby
Pantheon, 2008
Contemplating Hofstadter and Jacoby
+ Read, Analyze. Discuss.
What is intelligence?
This is a question that stumped Richard Hofstadter in his 1963 Pulitzer Prize winning book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. And I think it stumps Jacoby as well.
There are, most likely, many different kinds of intelligence. And even though Hofstadter never really ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
Noam Chomsky
South End Press, 1999
I love it. If Only I Could Read It!
+ Necessary Reading
+ The Obligation of Silence, Containing The Enemy, & Awaiting The Hidden Hand
I am influenced by Chomsky more than any other political philosopher (although he seems to encompass much more than a mere career categorization). I've studied him on and off for the past five years, and I find it harder and harder to rely on mass media (TV, radio, movies, increasingly more of the ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Censored 2009: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007-08 (Censored)
Seven Stories Press, 2008
"Carefully orchestrated. . . . This well-researched work is highly recommended for most libraries."- Library Journal (starred review) "Buy it, read it, act on it. Our future depends on the knowledge this collection of suppressed stories allows us."- The San Diego Review "Required reading for broadcasters, journalists, and well-informed citizens."- Los Angeles Times The best-selling ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision
Thom Hartmann
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008
Getting deep
+ Heart-Felt, Intelligent, Useful but Still Believes in Democratic Party
+ Learn the subliminal codes to communication - and stop being manipulated!
+ Easy Read, Full of Information
+ Take back your power. Take back your country.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
George Lakoff
Viking Adult, 2008
Eviscerates neocon lies
+ Useful - But Only If You Use It
Lakoff is a genius at deconstructing the lies of neocon spinmeisters like Matthew Drudge and Andrew Sullivan. He carefully analyzes the fake GOP talking points of fear and masculine idolatry. I find it especially fascinating to explore the motivations of someone like Sullivan who literally adored ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
Scott McClellan
PublicAffairs, 2008
Intensely Reasonable
+ Scott Bashes DC, Not Bush.
+ Fantastic Book
+ WHAT HAPPENED
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives
Nick Turse
Metropolitan Books, 2008
An important read.
+ A Must Read!
+ A research feat, and an important book to read
+ Read The Complex
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
Jane Mayer
Doubleday, 2008
Fear and loathing in D.C. or when you lose the past the future makes no sense.
+ THE DARK SIDE:THE iNSIDE STORY OF HOW THE WAR OF TERROR TURNED INTO A WAR ON AMERICAN IDEALS
+ Fantastic and Scary
+ 4 AM Cold Sweat
+ We do torture!: Required reading for any thinking American (that means you, Sen. Obama)
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (Perennial Classics)
Stanley Milgram
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004
Disturbing Insights About Humanity
+ Freedom is Slavery and oxymorons of human nature
+ Must read for Psych students
+ Fascinating.....a must read!
+ Obedience to Authority
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
Drew Westen
PublicAffairs, 2008
Want to Win? Read this Book!
+ the best book ever
+ Every Democratic candidate should read this book!
+ The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation
+ Democratic strategists please read this book
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
John Taylor Gatto
New Society Publishers, 2002
a must for taxpayers, teachers, parents and students
+ A great opening argument in the case against government schooling
+ great for the most part
+ Great!
+ Makes you think.
|
|
|
|
|
|
