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Zingoleb:
I'm beginning No Logo by Naomi Klein.
One nice thing about an anarchist punk house: Excellent selection of books.
Is it cold in here?:
"Merchants of Doubt", Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway. It's about controversies over issues with a need for scientific input, where political controversy took place over scientific assessments.
Pretty disappointing, really. The authors confound science, engineering, economics, and policy. They drift from their claimed primary point to argue for their theory of the proper role of government.
There is, however, good material on how scientists have seen their work being manipulated for political ends, and how the same people and PR firms have been active over and over in issues as diverse as tobacco safety and climate change.
GroovyKinda:
Find a copy of Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. Not only is it one of the best novels ever, but it has a series of chapters where one of the main characters, a physicist, fights the government because his conclusions "contradict what the State believes." Yes, it's the Soviet Union. Amazing book.
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Fate-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590172019/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328769195&sr=1-1
Right now I'm reading "Walt & Skeezix: The Complete Gasoline Alley" volume 3. Great stuff. Gasoline Alley was one of the first strips where the characters aged. And it was HUGE in the 1920's.
And the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydidies.
Is it cold in here?:
"The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom"
Ralph Hassig
Kongdan Oh
Not as extensively documented as Bradley Martin's book, and more partisan, but presents much the same picture.
Zingoleb:
I don't wanna be disruptive in DISCUSS, but that one book you read...
...his name is Nodong.
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