Showing posts with label Media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Media. Show all posts
Friday, September 9, 2011
Arab and Muslim Civil Rights and Identity: A Selection of Scholarly Writings from the Decade after 9/11
As a subscriber to American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee I receive fascinating gems of information. I look forward to reading Arab and Muslim Civil Rights and Identity: A Selection of Scholarly Writings from the Decade after 9/11
Friday, December 3, 2010
About the 100 most notable books of 2010
the New York Times 100 most notable books of 2010 list just came out today. I found some that intrigued me. I read nonfiction, mostly. My potential favs are noted below.
The links lead to book reviews at the NYT. Membership at the site is free. (Not any more. -ed) I have set up my account with the NYT so that I get no spam from them.
ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. By Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera. (Portfolio/Penguin, $32.95.) More than offering a backward look, this account of the disaster of 2008 helps explain today’s troubling headlines and might help predict tomorrow’s
CHANGING MY MIND: Occasional Essays. By Zadie Smith. (Penguin Press, $26.95.) The quirky pleasures here are due in part to Smith’s inspired cultural references, from Simone Weil to “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
COMMON AS AIR: Revolution, Art, and Ownership. By Lewis Hyde. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.) Hyde draws on the American founders for arguments against the privatization of knowledge.
CLEOPATRA: A Life. By Stacy Schiff. (Little, Brown, $29.99.) It’s dizzying to contemplate the ancient thicket of personalities and propaganda Schiff penetrates to show the Macedonian-Egyptian queen in all her ambition, audacity and formidable intelligence. I saw the author on The Daily Show. She said that Cleopatra was Greek-Macedonian, and looked semitic, if one goes by the images on her coins.
WILD CHILD: Stories. By T. Coraghessan Boyle. (Viking, $25.95.) In these tales, Boyle continues his career-long interest in man’s vexed tussles with nature
THE BOOK IN THE RENAISSANCE. By Andrew Pettegree. (Yale University, $40.)A thought-provoking revisionist history of the early years of printing.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History. By S. C. Gwynne. (Scribner, $27.50.) The story of the last and greatest chief of the tribe that once ruled the Great Plains.
FINISHING THE HAT: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes. By Stephen Sondheim. (Knopf, $39.95.) Sondheim’s analysis of his songs and those of others is both stinging and insightful.
THE HONOR CODE: How Moral Revolutions Happen. By Kwame Anthony Appiah. (Norton, $25.95.) A philosopher traces the demise of dueling and slavery among the British and of foot-binding in China, and suggests how a fourth horrific practice — honor killings in today’s Pakistan — might someday meet its end.
KOESTLER: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. By Michael Scammell. (Random House, $35.) Scammell wants to put the complex intelligence of Koestler (“Darkness at Noon”) back on display and to explain his shifting preoccupations.
LAST CALL: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. By Daniel Okrent. (Scribner, $30.) A remarkably original account of the 14-year orgy of lawbreaking that transformed American social life.
SCORPIONS: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices. By Noah Feldman. (Twelve, $30.) A group portrait of Felix Frankfurter, Robert Jackson, Hugo Black and William O. Douglas.
SUPREME POWER: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court. By Jeff Shesol. (Norton, $27.95.) Contention over Roosevelt’s proposal to transform the court nearly paralyzed his administration for over a year and severely damaged fragile Democratic unity.
The links lead to book reviews at the NYT. Membership at the site is free. (Not any more. -ed) I have set up my account with the NYT so that I get no spam from them.
ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. By Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera. (Portfolio/Penguin, $32.95.) More than offering a backward look, this account of the disaster of 2008 helps explain today’s troubling headlines and might help predict tomorrow’s
CHANGING MY MIND: Occasional Essays. By Zadie Smith. (Penguin Press, $26.95.) The quirky pleasures here are due in part to Smith’s inspired cultural references, from Simone Weil to “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
COMMON AS AIR: Revolution, Art, and Ownership. By Lewis Hyde. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.) Hyde draws on the American founders for arguments against the privatization of knowledge.
CLEOPATRA: A Life. By Stacy Schiff. (Little, Brown, $29.99.) It’s dizzying to contemplate the ancient thicket of personalities and propaganda Schiff penetrates to show the Macedonian-Egyptian queen in all her ambition, audacity and formidable intelligence. I saw the author on The Daily Show. She said that Cleopatra was Greek-Macedonian, and looked semitic, if one goes by the images on her coins.
WILD CHILD: Stories. By T. Coraghessan Boyle. (Viking, $25.95.) In these tales, Boyle continues his career-long interest in man’s vexed tussles with nature
THE BOOK IN THE RENAISSANCE. By Andrew Pettegree. (Yale University, $40.)A thought-provoking revisionist history of the early years of printing.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History. By S. C. Gwynne. (Scribner, $27.50.) The story of the last and greatest chief of the tribe that once ruled the Great Plains.
FINISHING THE HAT: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes. By Stephen Sondheim. (Knopf, $39.95.) Sondheim’s analysis of his songs and those of others is both stinging and insightful.
THE HONOR CODE: How Moral Revolutions Happen. By Kwame Anthony Appiah. (Norton, $25.95.) A philosopher traces the demise of dueling and slavery among the British and of foot-binding in China, and suggests how a fourth horrific practice — honor killings in today’s Pakistan — might someday meet its end.
KOESTLER: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. By Michael Scammell. (Random House, $35.) Scammell wants to put the complex intelligence of Koestler (“Darkness at Noon”) back on display and to explain his shifting preoccupations.
LAST CALL: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. By Daniel Okrent. (Scribner, $30.) A remarkably original account of the 14-year orgy of lawbreaking that transformed American social life.
SCORPIONS: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices. By Noah Feldman. (Twelve, $30.) A group portrait of Felix Frankfurter, Robert Jackson, Hugo Black and William O. Douglas.
SUPREME POWER: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court. By Jeff Shesol. (Norton, $27.95.) Contention over Roosevelt’s proposal to transform the court nearly paralyzed his administration for over a year and severely damaged fragile Democratic unity.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Important Political Films and Videos
When Democracy Failed: Thom Hartmann
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
State of the Union
The Corporation Watch it.
Orwell Rolls in His Grave
My Man Godfrey
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Silkwood
An Inconvenient Truth
Norma Rae
The Battle of Algiers
The Bicycle Thief
The Grapes of Wrath
Why We Fight
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Great Dictator
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
Salud
From Freedom to Fascism
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. An eyeopening film about the US backed coup against Hugo Chavez of Venezuela
Walmart-The High Cost of Low Prices
Many of these films, as well as other excellent documentaries, may be found at ALLUC.ORG
Got a suggestion? Add it to Comments and I will add it to the list!
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis
State of the Union
The Corporation Watch it.
Orwell Rolls in His Grave
My Man Godfrey
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Silkwood
An Inconvenient Truth
Norma Rae
The Battle of Algiers
The Bicycle Thief
The Grapes of Wrath
Why We Fight
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Great Dictator
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
Salud
From Freedom to Fascism
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. An eyeopening film about the US backed coup against Hugo Chavez of Venezuela
Walmart-The High Cost of Low Prices
Many of these films, as well as other excellent documentaries, may be found at ALLUC.ORG
Got a suggestion? Add it to Comments and I will add it to the list!
Saturday, April 7, 2007
Discovery the Hidden History Behind the Bush Dynasty
http://www.secrecyandprivilege.com/
Discover the Hidden History
Behind the Bush Dynasty
Secrecy & Privilege
by Robert Parry
390 pages (paperback)
$22.95
Tracing investigative leads back through three decades, Secrecy & Privilege explores the mystery of how the two George Bushes rose to the pinnacle of American political power – and what the rise of their dynasty has meant to the nation’s democratic principles.
Purchase 'Secrecy & Privilege' along with Parry's 1999 book 'Lost History' for only $32, a 30% discount!
Two ‘must-read’ books, Lost History and Secrecy & Privilege fill in missing chapters of modern U.S. history – from the truth about the Reagan administration’s complicity in drug trafficking of the 1980s to the real story of how the Bush Family’s rise to power transformed American democracy.
When you order now, $10 from the purchase will be donated to Consortiumnews.com.
Discover the Hidden History
Behind the Bush Dynasty
Secrecy & Privilege
by Robert Parry
390 pages (paperback)
$22.95
Tracing investigative leads back through three decades, Secrecy & Privilege explores the mystery of how the two George Bushes rose to the pinnacle of American political power – and what the rise of their dynasty has meant to the nation’s democratic principles.
Purchase 'Secrecy & Privilege' along with Parry's 1999 book 'Lost History' for only $32, a 30% discount!
Two ‘must-read’ books, Lost History and Secrecy & Privilege fill in missing chapters of modern U.S. history – from the truth about the Reagan administration’s complicity in drug trafficking of the 1980s to the real story of how the Bush Family’s rise to power transformed American democracy.
When you order now, $10 from the purchase will be donated to Consortiumnews.com.
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