Books from OR Books
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Welcome to Dystopia: 45 Visions of What Lies Ahead
By Harry Turtledove, James Sallis, Brian Francis SlatteryIt reminded him of the first time, as a twelveyear-old boy, he had seen Anita Bryant singing about oranges on television. “Take your pick, Mike. Sex isn't nasty or ungodly; it's productive! Especially since we started using our wombs to ...
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Definable Traces in the Atmosphere: Selected Writings
By Mike MarquseeIn the course of the film, Edwards comes to resemble more and more his 'savage' adversary. A stark scene depicts the aftermath of a massacre of Native civilians by US Cavalry. Categories of savage and civilised, profane and religious, ...
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Lucid Dreaming: Conversations with 29 Filmmakers
By Pamela CohnOne of my favorite scenes in the film that I fought to keep in was when he's in the van with the bass player Ross Valory, Ross's wife, and their friends. Arnel starts riffing on his life and the things he had to do when he was a ...
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Not Working: Losing a Job in Today's Great Recession
By D. W. GibsonIn telling the stories of people who could be our neighbors, our friends, our relatives, "Not Working" holds up a mirror to our times, showing us the individuals behind the unemployment statistics--their fears and hopes--and offering a map ...
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Alive Inside the Wreck: A Biography of Nathanael West
By Joe WoodwardIn his introduction to a later edition of In the American Grain, Horace Gregory calls Williams' book the writer's “discovery of an American heritage.” Gregory goes further to explain that Williams “. . . . is not here to record American ...
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Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movemement
By Carl Cederström and André SpicermBut, in the course of a year spent researching this book, they wore head-bands designed to optimize meditation, attempted to boost their memory through learning associative techniques (and failed to be admitted to MENSA), trained for ...
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Creditocracy: And The Case For Debt Refusal
By Andrew RossInhis 2004 annualreport to Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders, CEO WarrenBuffet warned that, contrary to George Bush's vaunted ideal of an “ownership society,” the U.S. was becoming more of a “sharecropper's society.
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John the Posthumous
By Jason SchwartzThis is a literary album of a pre-Internet world, focused on physical elements — all of which are tools for either violence or sustenance.
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President Trump Unveiled: Exposing the Bigoted Billionaire
By John K. WilsonFormer Newsweek reporter Harry Hurt III described Trump's history of assault in his book, The Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump. In 1989, Trump had scalp-reduction surgery for his bald spot. He blamed Ivana for the painful ...
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Dialogues on Consciousness
By Tim Parks, Riccardo ManzottiNot long ago, Parks suggested to his friend that they condense their exchanges “into a series of focused dialogues to set out the standard positions on consciousness, and suggest some alternatives.” Fifteen of the resultant ...
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Surf, Sweat and Tears: The Epic Life and Mysterious Death of Edward George William Omar Deerhurst
By Andy Martin... shape in Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa (1929) which depicts sexually permissive beach girls disporting themselves, and it gets injected into the mainstream via the Beach Boys and the music of Brian Wilson in the sixties.
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People Get Ready!: Preparing for a Corbyn Government
By Christine Berry, Joe GuinanOWEN. JONES. Britain's social order is irretrievably broken. Workers have suffered the longest squeeze in wages since the Napoleonic Wars; the most severe of any industrialised nation other than Greece.
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Parrot Tales: Our 30 Years with a Magical Bird
By Michael Steven Smith, Debby SmithIn hearing Charlie's tales in this charming book, we come to realize that parrots are intelligent, sociable and loving creatures, to an extent that, as the renowned avian scientist Professor Irene Pepperberg insists in her introduction, ...
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Who Killed Che?: How the CIA Got Away with Murder
By Michael Ratner, Michael Steven SmithIn compelling detail two leading U.S. civil rights attorneys recount the extraordinary life and deliberate killing of the world's most storied revolutionary: Ernesto Che Guevara.
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Lawyers for the Left: In the Courts, On the Streets, and On the Air
By Michael Steven SmithBut the lawyers featured in this book are different. The stories they tell and the cases they fought are admirable and often inspiring. They devoted their careers to representing victims of injustice rather than the rich and the privileged.
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The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online
By Robert BarryIn 2011 the computer programmer Aaron Swartz was indicted for downloading several million articles from the site, though he did not actually disseminate them. The Federal government went after him with the full force of the law anyway, ...
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Dream or Nightmare: Reimagining Politics in an Age of Fantasy
By Stephen DuncombeIn this way, art critic John Berger reminds us, advertising is never about the present, always the future.2 Consider the McDonald's ad. The promise here is that McDonald's will transform your family (busy, alienated, normal) into the ...
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Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security
By Robert GuffeyMore shocking still, Guffey discovered that the DoD has been experimenting with its newest technologies on a number of American citizens. A condensed version of this story was the cover feature of Fortean Times Magazine (September 2013).
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The Lost Tetrads of Marshall McLuhan
By Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan—Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, pp. 21-22 Opposite (d): The Organization of Ignorance. For example, consider: ...They had, that is, achieved a paradigm that proved able to guide the whole group's research.
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The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power (2nd Edition)
By Alex NunnsFor more on the historical relationship between the unions and Labour, see Lewis Minkin, The Contentious Alliance: Trade Unions and the Labour Party (Edinburgh University Press, 1992). 4. 'Trade Union Membership 2014: Statistical ...