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Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization Hot Meta-Reality » Alternative History December 04, 2012 0 By Stephen Cave A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains, Stephen Cave’s Immortality investigates whether it just might be possible to live forever and whether we should want to. But it also makes a powerful argument, which is that it’s our very preoccupation with defying mortality that drives civilization. Central to this book is the... Read more Read reviews Write review	110	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir September 05, 2012 0 By William Souder Published on the fiftieth anniversary of her seminal book, Silent Spring, here is an indelible new portrait of Rachel Carson, founder of the environmental movement She loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries, including the international bestseller The Sea Around Us. But it was with her fourth book, Silent Spring, that this unassuming biologist... Read more Read reviews Write review	116	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Why Do I Keep Doing This!!? End bad habits, negativity and stress with self-hypnosis and NLP Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment August 29, 2012 0 By Judith Pearson Through the use of an easy, self-help method, even the most skeptical are able to overcome their worst habits. What prevents people from doing what they sincerely want to do is most usually the fact that people simply are not skilled in managing their minds. Hypnosis relaxes and quiets the mind's chatter and will help to ultimately access the... Read more Read reviews Write review	69	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Hot Inspiration » Self-Help & Empowerment August 18, 2012 0 By Susan Cain At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over brainstorming in teams. Although they are often labeled "quiet," it is to introverts that we owe many of the great contributions to society--from... Read more Read reviews Write review	113	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats Hot Inspiration » Art & Literature May 28, 2012 0 By Kristen Iversen Full Body Burden is a haunting work of narrative nonfiction about a young woman, Kristen Iversen, growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." It's the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at... Read more Read reviews Write review	145	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power Hot Our World » Activism & Social Justice April 07, 2012 0 By Rachel Maddow "One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier," Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792. Neither Jefferson nor the other Founders could ever have envisioned the modern national security state, with its tens of thousands of "privateers"; its bloated Department of Homeland Security; its rusting nuclear weapons, ill-maintained and difficult to dismantle; and its strange fascination with... Read more Read reviews Write review	142	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
While America Sleeps: A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era Hot Our World » Activism & Social Justice March 07, 2012 0 By Russ Feingold Former senator Russ Feingold looks at institutional failures, both domestic and abroad, since the 9/11 terrorist attacks and proposes steps to be taken—by the government and by individuals—to ensure that the next ten years are focused on solving the international problems that threaten America.In While America Sleeps, Russ Feingold details our nation’s collective failure to respond properly to the... Read more Read reviews Write review	123	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Hot Our World » Conscious Business January 27, 2012 0 By Daron Acemoglu James Robinson Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive... Read more Read reviews Write review	313	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
The Dukan Diet: 2 Steps to Lose the Weight, 2 Steps to Keep It Off Forever Hot Health » Food & Nutrition January 15, 2012 0 By Pierre Dukan Devised by Dr. Pierre Dukan, a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight, the Dukan Diet rejects counting calories and promises permanent weight loss while allowing adherents to eat as much as they like. Originally published in 2000, the Dukan Diet swept across France, championed by people who successfully lost weight following... Read more Read reviews Write review	181	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Unlikely Brothers: Our Story of Adventure, Loss, and Redemption Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir May 15, 2011 0 By John Prendergast Michale Mattocks “You don’t look like brothers . . .”Peace activist and cofounder of the Enough Project, John Prendergast is known as a champion of human rights in Africa. But the not-so-public face of J.P. is the life he’s led as a Big Brother to Michael Mattocks. As a curious, driven, and emotionally wounded twenty-year-old, J.P. made the life-changing decision to... Read more Read reviews Write review	440	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)
Escape from the Land of Snows: The Young Dalai Lama's Harrowing Flight to Freedom ... Hot Inspiration » Biography & Memoir February 05, 2011 0 By Stephan Talty On the evening of March 17, 1959, as the people of Tibet braced for a violent power grab by Chinese occupiers—one that would forever wipe out any vestige of national sovereignty—the twenty-four-year-old Dalai Lama, Tibet’s political and spiritual leader, contemplated the impossible. The task before him was immense: to slip past a cordon of crack Chinese troops ringing his... Read more Read reviews Write review	381	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 5.0 (1)
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich Hot Our World » Conscious Business April 17, 2009 0 By Timothy Ferriss What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:“I race motorcycles in Europe.”“I ski in the Andes.”“I scuba dive in Panama.” “I dance tango in Buenos Aires.” He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing... Read more Read reviews Write review	336	Editor rating 0.0 User rating 0.0 (0)