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list included Police Officer, Vegan, Male Nanny and Lifelong Activist as well as Person with Mental Health Difficulties and Young Person Excluded from School. I was there as Gay Man.

First out were Social Worker (“naive”) and Immigrant (“wasting resources”) and then Muslim (“beard”) was borrowed for a quick chat, presumably about bombs and his attitude to women.

introduced to my first reader, a young Romanian woman

We launched into a frank conversation about how much seeing two men kissing in Leicester Square had unexpectedly upset her

Back in the shelving room, the conversation was alive with first impressions. “Have you been borrowed yet?”

Scientists on their "life-changing" books

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:59:46 GMT

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I always enjoy hearing about the reading habits of people who are much smarter and more interesting than me. New Scientist has a feature package where seventeen big name scientists recommend books that they considered "life-changing." Here is the list of the scientists and the books they suggest, with each title linking to Amazon. Follow the link at the bottom of the post to the New Scientist article where you can read the scientists' thoughts on their picks. From New Scientist:

1. Farthest North - Steve Jones, geneticist

2. The Art of the Soluble - V. S. Ramachandran, neuroscientist

4. The Foundation trilogy - Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist

5. Alice in Wonderland - Alison Gopnik, developmental psychologist

6. One, Two, Three... Infinity - Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist

13. Catch-22 / The First Three Minutes - Lawrence Krauss, physicist

15. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Chris Frith, neuroscientist

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Line your walls with books to save heat

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:43:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Kill trees to make books to line your walls to save the planet

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The editorial staff of the UK's Bookseller magazine want you to know that lining your exterior walls with books is practically a moral imperative, since it reduces your energy costs and saves the world. You don't have to tell me -- I've been lining my walls with books for decades.

"Books are the original insulator. A shelf of books along an outside wall works well to prevent heat escaping,"

Link (Thanks, wiseGEEK!)

Emotional Pollution and the Cult of Feelings

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:47:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: <<<No matter how many self-help books and experts on talk shows insist that your feelings are "valid" and "appropriate," they cannot feel authentically like your own so long as they are mere reactions to someone else. If we allow the meaning of our lives to be subject to the vagaries of our reactions to the subtle emotional displays of others, we cannot help but fall into the present day quagmire of emotional pollution.

To feel genuine and empowered, like a person of substance, folks need to know more than whether their emotions are "appropriate." They need to know what they mean about the self. The meaning of our emotions cannot lie in how they feel, but in what they tell us about the current fidelity to your deepest values.>>>

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The popular psychology movement in the United States consists of hundreds of self-help books, magazines, Internet blogs, TV talk shows, and radio advice/call-in programs. The movement derives from an outdated form of psychotherapy based on the superficial doctrine that how you feel is who you are. Thus we live in a "cult of feelings," where what you feel has become at least as important as what you do.

Self-help books claim that to be "real" you have to explore all your feelings, without regard to the fact that "exploring" feelings amplifies and magnifies, i.e., distorts them, not to mention the fact that "exploring" your own feelings makes it difficult to see anyone else apart from your reaction to them.

People are now entitled to express every negative feeling they have, without regard to the effects on others,

result is a world rife with emotional pollution that divorces the superficial experience of emotions from their deeper meaning.

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Bicycles

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:27:15 GMT

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In From Dawn to Decadence Jacques Barzun writes: "To the modern lover of books, the product of the press is an object that arouses deep feelings, and looking at Dürer's charcoal drawing of hands holding a book, one likes to think the artist felt the same attachment. The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form."

The repetition of triangles, the balance of the two wheels, the formal echo achieved by the circles in the chainwheels, the cassette, and the dropbars is all, just as Barzun says, perfection. Like the shark. They are, after all, pure, Greek forms - the circle, the triangle. They give rise to a simplicity of design, something that differentiates the traditional bicycle from those monocauque carbon fiber beasts.

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A pair of metal bicycle clips.

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The great magic in reading the books...

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:41:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: You should read the whole article...very nice

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The silky touch of the new book covers, the amazing trials and turbulences of the lives of the people within the colorful covers, the sheer volume of the books, the photos and the pictures, the life-long journey of the characters! There is magic in reading the books!

The spring gives you a different sort of an experience altogether! The fusion of the colors and fragrance of the grass, flowers and leaves, the dipping orange sun of the late evening, the dazzling night sky filled-in with spectacular vision of stars, people milling around late into the night…The spring demands something more than a cup of coffee to accompany the reading of any book! A light book, peppered with some hot snacks would make a wonderful accompanying combination for reading in the spring!

The sharp rays of the Sun dazzle every little object it touches on! The raising mercury does not deter a serious reader from the absorption of his book!

he book-lovers belong to a wonderful world of their own!

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Free Books, A Chapter A Day

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:26:43 GMT

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Welcome to the ArcaMax Book Club. We offer the largest collection of free classic books by email. Sign up to as many classic books as you want. For each subscription, you'll receive the full text free by e-mail -- one chapter per day. You'll also get weekly updates of the newest books.

Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy), J. M. Barrie

Tales of Terror and Mystery, Arthur Conan Doyle

Amusements in Mathematics, Henry Ernest Dudeney

Sonnets, William Shakespeare

Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

Andersen's Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen

The Adventures of Colonel Daniel BooneJohn Filson, John Filson

Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill

Bible, King James Version

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

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THE FUTURE OF LOVE

Frshbook.com

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:54:05 GMT

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FrshBook is offering a fresh, new and innovative way to check out new books without having to leave the comfort of your own desk. Forget about Oprah's book club or your local newspaper's reading picks, for Frshbook is a patently gripping new media experience. Powered by Flash, FrshBook allows you to virtually grab books, rotate them, zoom in and out, and flip them over to read the publisher's note. You're given an almost tactile means to browse through new books. There are fifteen books in total, each of which form a sort of viewing wall. The selection appears to be updated daily. Today's reads include a selection from Valerie Bertinelli, Anne Rice, and Danielle Steele.

frshbook...fresh books served daily.

Mar 11, 7:10am 2 reviews books, flash, web-2-0, frshbook
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Toxic Psychiatry

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:02:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Useful website for work of psychiatrist Dr Breggin. Up to date.
WARNING!
When trying to withdraw from many psychiatric drugs, patients can develop serious and even life-threatening emotional and physical reactions. In short, it is dangerous not only to start taking psychiatric drugs but also can be hazardous to stop taking them. Therefore, withdrawal from psychiatric drugs should be done under clinical supervision. Principles of psychiatric medication withdrawal are discussed in Dr. Peter Breggin's book, Brain Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock and the Psychopharaceutical Complex (Springer, NY, 2008).

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Peter Breggin, M.D. began the full time private practice of psychiatry in 1968. Dr. Peter Breggin has been informing the professions, media and the public about the potential dangers of drugs, electroshock, psychosurgery, involuntary treatment, and the biological theories of psychiatry for over three decades. Since 1964 Dr. Peter Breggin has been publishing peer-reviewed articles and medical books in his subspecialty of clinical psychopharmacology. He is the author of dozens of scientific articles and more than 20 professional books, many dealing with psychiatric medication, the FDA and drug approval process, the evaluation of clinical trials, and standards of care in psychiatry and related fields.

Selected Scientific Papers by Peter Breggin, M.D.

SSRI - InducedViolence, Suicide& Abnormal Behavior

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Review of Stimulant Side Effects by Dr. Peter Breggin

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Benzodiazepines:
Adverse Effects and Withdrawal

Neuroleptics
"Antipsychotic" drugs

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110 best books:The perfect library

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:42:04 GMT

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110 best books: The perfect library

From classics and sci-fi to poetry, biographies and books that changed the world… we present the ultimate reading list. Illustrations by David Juniper

CLASSICS

The Illiad and The Odyssey
Homer

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen

Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë

POETRY

Sonnets
Shakespeare

Divine Comedy
Dante

Odes
John Keats

Paradise Lost
John Milton

Songs of Innocence and Experience
William Blake

LITERARY FICTION

The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James

For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez

ROMANTIC FICTION

Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier

Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell

Dr Zhivago
Boris Pasternak

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

The Lord of the Rings
J.R. R. Tolkien

The Railway Children
E. Nesbit

SCI-FI

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne

The Time Machine
H.G. Wells

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley

1984
George Orwell

2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick

CRIME

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The Pushkin factor in romantic relationships

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:36:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Brainy women are probably more sensitive to literary deal breakers than are brainy men. Rare is the guy who’d throw a pretty girl out of bed for revealing her imperfect taste in books.After all, women read more, especially when it comes to fiction. “It’s really great if you find a guy that reads, period,” said Beverly West.“Most of my friends and men in my life are nonreaders,” she said, but “now that you mention it, if I went over to a man’s house and there were those books about life’s lessons learned from dogs, I would probably keep my clothes on.”

James Collins, whose new novel, “Beginner’s Greek,” is about a man who falls for a woman he sees reading “The Magic Mountain” on a plane, recalled that after college, he was “infatuated” with a woman who had a copy of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” on her bedside table. “I basically knew nothing about Kundera, but I remember thinking, ‘Uh-oh; trendy, bogus metaphysics, sex involving a bowler hat’...

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It’s Not You, It’s Your Books

Anyone who cares about books has at some point confronted the Pushkin problem: when a missed — or misguided — literary reference makes it chillingly clear that a romance is going nowhere fast.

These days, thanks to social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, listing your favorite books and authors is a crucial, if risky, part of self-branding. When it comes to online dating, even casual references can turn into deal breakers. Sussing out a date’s taste in books is “actually a pretty good way — as a sort of first pass — of getting a sense of someone,” said Anna Fels, a Manhattan psychiatrist

“It’s a bit of a Rorschach test.”

“It tells something about ... their level of intellectual curiosity, what their style is,” Fels said. “It speaks to class, educational level.”

sometimes, it’s the Howard Roark problem as much as the Pushkin one

“I did have to break up with one guy because he was very keen on Ayn Rand,” said Laura Miller

this may be a gender issue

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Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:28:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Fascinating artworks

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Brian Dettmer carves into books revealing the artwork inside, creating complex layered three-dimensional sculptures.

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Death of a Dream - The Future is Life

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:34:30 GMT

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Tags: art, library, books, future, old