Recommendations: Stuffed and Starved, Raj Patel: about the world food system, the problems with it, and some ways to change it.* The Rebel Sell: about how the idea of a 'counterculture' feeds into and supports capitalism. ** A Cartoon History of the Universe: the book I got all of my history from as a child, it's quite well-researched.* The Anarchist in the Library and Free Culture: close to my work, about new openness in information flow and also attempts to stop it.
Also, I like Banana Yoshimoto, although she is not necessarily all that educational, and The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (although I haven't read it for a few years), and Middlesex is one of the best books I've read in forever, and of course Flora Segunda, and and and...
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* I can lend you this. ** Kale is reading this right now, if you want it just ask him to pass it on afterwards.
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on 2008-06-03 02:02 am (UTC)Stuffed and Starved, Raj Patel: about the world food system, the problems with it, and some ways to change it.*
The Rebel Sell: about how the idea of a 'counterculture' feeds into and supports capitalism. **
A Cartoon History of the Universe: the book I got all of my history from as a child, it's quite well-researched.*
The Anarchist in the Library and Free Culture: close to my work, about new openness in information flow and also attempts to stop it.
Also, I like Banana Yoshimoto, although she is not necessarily all that educational, and The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (although I haven't read it for a few years), and Middlesex is one of the best books I've read in forever, and of course Flora Segunda, and and and...
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* I can lend you this.
** Kale is reading this right now, if you want it just ask him to pass it on afterwards.