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Price of Inequality How Todays Divided Society Endangers Our Future
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Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Mary Ann Dimand
, January 30, 2013
Stiglitz explains macroeconomics, and the role economic inequality plays in macroeconomic performance. This is an accessible and yet sophisticated presentation, despite Stiglitz's tendency to attribute social disequities to underclasses internalizing stereotypes rather than being limited by upperclasses and punished for divergence from stereotype.
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Under the Harrow
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Mark Dunn
Mary Ann Dimand
, January 20, 2012
This is a kind - of - not - quite - a - palimpsest of Dickensian / Victorian culture, and also a kind of anti-utopia. It offers peculiar delights without reaching perfection-- and there's nothing else like it, really. The culture of Dingley Dell is based on the works of Charles Dickens and a classic edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannia-- the only books left to an enclave of orphans isolated from the rest of the world to protect them from a devastating plague. Most of the residents of Dingley Dell live under the harrow (domination) of the Brahmins of their small society. Nonetheless, they're satisfied enough, by and large-- despite the class issues that appear in microcosm here. At least, they're comfortable enough if they're middle-class. Except for those who leave the valley for the perilous outside world, and are necer seen again, or return to be confined for insanity....
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Wild Life of Our Bodies Predators Parasites & Partners That Shape Who We Are Today
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Rob Dunn
Mary Ann Dimand
, January 19, 2012
A fascinating, intimately ecological account of how humans and other mammals make part of biological networks. Anthropological, medical, historical, and biological stories amplify the story of how we live best in balance with microorganisms and macro-competitors despite our mental clinging to absolute notions of purity and safety.
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Black Hole War My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
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Leonard Susskind
Mary Ann Dimand
, October 18, 2011
This is a fantastic discussion of how physicists arrive at, work through and argue about conceptual problems. Susskind not only explains with tremendous lucidity, but he intersperses the account of dispute over the problem of whether black holes destroy information with the history of physics that led to this point, discussion of the sociology of physics, character portraits of well-known scientists, and a bit of Susskind's own biography. The result is a brilliantly paced, entertaining, shiningly illuminating book that's my current pop-physics favourite. And it would be worth it just for the explanation of relativity physics.
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Million Miles in a Thousand Years What I Learned While Editing My Life
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Donald Miller
Mary Ann Dimand
, September 19, 2011
Miller's Blue Like Jazz became a bestseller by voicing the Zeitgeist of disconnected yet wistful Gen-X men. His stylish, jaundiced dissection of church-as-he's-known-it, and his appreciation of the goodness of faith-leavened lives was attractive, but ultimately negative. In A Million Miles in a Thousand Years Miller tells of a journey toward finding something he can live positively. It starts-- and largely continues-- with a turn of his dissection toward himself, to acknowledge and consider a void he's been carrying in a sort of impermeable bubble inside him. He has never grappled with what it has meant to him that his father left the family when he was young. This book lacks the kind of loose-limbed grace of Blue Like Jazz. Nonetheless, its recounting of the awkward process by which Miller gains psychological, spiritual, and physical strength tells about how grace can be imbibed.
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Meet Wild Boars
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Meg Rosoff
Mary Ann Dimand
, September 10, 2011
Meet Wild Boars has been (wildly) applauded not only by my son and his Kindergarten colleagues, but by parents who will be engaged by the amusing text and the funny, appropriate art. Of, course, it's possible to appeal to the example of the wanton, wicked wild boars in Talks about naughty behavior-- but much more fun simply to enjoy contemplating housemates as nasty as the boars. (And watch out! No matter how adorable they look as piglets, they are only poised for mayhem.)
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Cryoburn
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Mary Ann Dimand
, January 02, 2011
In the world of Miles Vorkosigan novels, this one lacks some of the tour de force backturns and perils of others. But its presentation of what constitutes life, and what are the cold temptations of suspended animation, lift it above its elements into excellence.
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