Archive for the 'Books' Category
The Unhealthy Truth: One Mother’s Shocking Investigation into the Dangers of America’s Food Supply
September 1st, 2010The Unhealthy Truth: One Mother’s Shocking Investigation into the Dangers of America’s Food Supply—and What Every Family Can Do to Protect Itself by Robyn O’Brien
The Death of Paper Money
August 5th, 2010Dying of Money: Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations by Jens O. Parsson: Amazon, HTML, PDF. Via: Telegraph: As they prepare for holiday reading in Tuscany, City bankers are buying up rare copies of an obscure book on the mechanics of Weimar inflation published in 1974. Ebay is offering a well-thumbed volume of […]
GCHQ by Richard Aldrich
June 16th, 2010GCHQ by Richard Aldrich on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. Via: Register: If information indeed is power, then GCHQ is undoubtedly the closest thing the British government has to the Death Star. As the historian Richard J Aldrich notes in the introduction to his excellent new history of the Cheltenham-based agency it represents by far our largest, […]
Why We Could All Use a Heavy Dose of Techno-Skepticism
May 15th, 2010Via: Technofascism Blog: A new prophet, Jason Silva, joins the ranks of Ray Kurzweil as evangelist for the emerging Singularity techno-religion. In his new film, “Turning Into Gods”, Mr. Silva promotes the central tenet of this new cult: that all of us will one day become all-powerful deities, that will play with genes and atoms […]
Barrick Gold Moves to Block Mining Book
May 13th, 2010Via: CBC: The threat of legal action from mining giant Barrick Gold has forced Vancouver-based Talonbooks to postpone publication of a book about the Canadian mining industry. Publisher Karl Siegler calls it a clear case of “libel chill” by one of Canada’s largest mining companies. The book, Imperial Canada Inc.: Legal Haven of Choice for […]
List of Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
April 6th, 2010Via: Wikipedia: This is a list of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction works, sorted by the nature of the catastrophe portrayed.
U.S. Enriches Companies Defying Its Policy on Iran
March 7th, 2010Some related reading: IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black Wall Street & the Rise of Hitler by Antony C. Sutton Spider’s Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq by Alan Friedman Via: New York Times: The federal government […]
Gever Tulley on Radio New Zealand
February 6th, 2010Via: Radio New Zealand: Our guest author is American computer scientist, Gever Tulley – founder of the Tinkering School, a summer camp that encourages kids to play with fire, throw spears and take risks. He has now released a new book called “Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)” which he co-wrote with […]
U.S. Special Forces Tracking and Countertracking Manual TC 31-34-4
November 17th, 2009I thought I’d just take a quick look, out of curiosity, because it’s a restricted manual… Don’t click through unless you have at least an hour to blow. Can you tell the difference between male and female footprints? Want to know what footprints left by someone walking backward over vegetation look like? Wonder how weather […]
“To Inhabit the Solar System”
November 16th, 2009Via: Register: The best mad scientist autobiography this year, perhaps the only one, is Tony Zuppero’s To Inhabit the Solar System. Better still, it’s free and in time for holiday reading. It’s a long but definitely not windy 391 pages. In it, Zuppero confirms everything – bad, weird, insane, amusing or simply astonishing – you […]
