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John Perich
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Bruce Schneier has an excellent post up on how democracies weight risk aversion:
Imagine two politicians today. One of them preaches fear and draconian security measures. The other is someone like me, who tells people that terrorism is a negligible risk, that risk is part of life, and that while some security is necessary, we should mostly just refuse to be terrorized and get on with our lives.Read more of this blog post »F...
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Too Close to Miss
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Too Hard to Handle (Mara Cunningham Series, #2)
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| A brutal, unflinching classic. Parker's sociopathy would be harder to swallow if Stark lingered on it, but the plot moves so swiftly that you don't have time. Not exactly a gripping or original story, but a good introduction to a classic character. | |
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| It's hard to imagine a more unlikely couple than 39-year-old schlemiel Lenny Abramov and 25-year-old pop culture obsessive Eunice Park. But the two of them work, in an oddly believable way, because in spite of Abramov's influential position in the "c...more | |
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| A remarkable and essential history, focusing on a segment of the population that's overlooked by traditional texts. Heavy on anecdotes, but rarely boring. The one thing it could have used more of is a focus on an overarching theme - a single thesis s...more | |
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| Given that the author's debut novel was SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS, I wanted to hate this. I really did. But it's a good yarn - a small town in New Hampshire, falling apart in the face of an impending apocalypse; one man, trying to solve...more | |
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| A quick read, but still packed full of detail. Hayes's theories on why meritocracies fail to live up to their potential - the tendency of those who climb the ladder to isolate themselves from correction, among other things - are insightful, and he of...more | |
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What made you decide to switch styles from plot to pants?" A willingness to experiment, really. I started writi...more " |
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