Abram Bergen is a logophile, thinker, reader, and writer. His research/writing interests include gender and sexuality issues, hybridity and identity politics, secular ethics, and ecosensitive technologies and lifestyles. His day job keeps him too much removed from the world of ideas and words.
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Book Review: Something About the Blues - an unlikely collection of poetry by Al Young
The poetry in Something About the Blues is beautiful, captivating, painful, powerful, sometimes soothing, and often thought-provoking. Highly recommended.
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Book Review: Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics by William Bonner and Lila Rajiva
A serious and hilarious guide to surviving the public spectacle in finance and politics.
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Book Review: Ecohouse: A Design Guide, 3rd Edition, by Sue Roaf, Manuel Fuentes, and Stephanie Thomas
A beautifully designed, well-written, thorough guide to the ecohouse. Much recommended as both an inspiration and a technical guide.
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Book Review: The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In, by Hugh Kennedy
A fascinating, powerful, and engaging narrative told in a remarkably straightforward and balanced way.
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Book Review: Consider the Source: A Critical Guide to the 100 Most Prominent News and Information Sites on the Web by James F. Broderick & Darren W. Miller
Whether you are a newshound, student, journalist, or writer, this handy guide to news websites should save you a great deal of time.
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Book Review: Adland: a Global History of Advertising by Mark Tungate
An excellent resource and primer for anyone interested in getting into advertising, with insight into its history and major players.
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Book Review: Teeth by Aracelis Girmay
Teeth is, whatever one's stylistic preferences, an important collection of poems. Girmay's is a bold and fresh voice in poetry.
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Book Review: Virtual Worlds - Rewiring Your Emotional Future by Jack Myers
A near Utopian vision of human transformation and evolution through immersion in virtual worlds.
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Book Review: An Ocean of Air - Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere by Gabrielle Walker
A wonderful journey behind the science of air through a series of biographical narratives to be read and re-read.
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Book Review - The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War by David Livingstone Smith
If David Livingstone Smith's analysis in this book is correct, then we all should read it: it is that important.
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