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William Powers

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William Powers hails from Long Island, NY and has worked for over a decade in development aid and conservation in Latin America, Africa, Washington, D.C., and Native North America. From 2002 to 2004 he managed the community components of a project in the Bolivian Amazon that won a 2003 prize for environmental innovation from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His essays and commentaries on global issues have appeared in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, and on National Public Radio. He was a 2004-2005 recipient of the Open Door Foundation for non-fiction and is currently based in New York City as a freelance writer, speaker, and senior fellow at the the World Policy Institute.

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Average rating: 3.58 · 1,473 ratings · 370 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors

	Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age by William Powers, William Powers, Jr. 3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 755 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream 3.51 of 5 stars 3.51 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Clay People: Seasons on Africa's Fragile Edge 3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 159 ratings — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whispering in the Giant's Ear: A Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia's War on Globalization 3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2006	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Control of Perception by William Powers, Shelley Powers 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2007	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Quakers: Brief Biographies by Kenneth Ives, Martha Tyson, Rosalind C. Wiggins 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1991	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In a multi-tasking world where pure focus is harder and harder to come by, paper’s seclusion from the Web is an emerging strength. There’s nothing like holding a sheaf of beautifully designed pages in your hands. The whole world slows down, and your mind with it.”
― William Powers, Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

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“The difference between actually very serious and actually very funny is actually very thin.”
― William Powers

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“Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things." We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next generation; they typically preserve the environment for the ten-thousandth generation. While human industrial processes can produce Kevlar, it takes a temperature of thousands of degrees to do it, and the fiber is pulled through sulfuric acid. In contrast, a spider makes its silk - which per gram is several times stronger than steel - at room temperature in water.”
― William Powers, Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream

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