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Type: documentary

Status: now reading

Author: Philip Ball

Tags: sociology own psycology physcs

2005-11-02

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Joe Simpson

Tags: biography own mountaineering

2005-10-28

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Joe Simpson

Tags: biography own mountaineering

2005-10-28

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Joe Simpson

Tags: biography own mountaineering

2005-10-28

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Joe Simpson

Tags: biography own mountaineering

2005-10-28

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Type: scientific

Status: I recommend

Author: Jared Diamond

Tags: read own

2005-10-27

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Aldous Huxley

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Description: ""Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian""Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come."...

2005-10-27

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Authors: George Orwell Robert W. Taylor Tom G. Field blair

Tags: fiction read

2005-10-27

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Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: George Orwell

Tags: fiction read

Description: In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the ThoughtIn a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be....

2005-10-27

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Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: William R Trotter

Tags: history war own finland

2005-10-27