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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/475.Collapse_How_Societies_Choose_to_Fail_or_Succeed">Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/256.Jared_Diamond">Jared Diamond</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:42:22 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is a very well researched, surprisingly readable academic argument that societies built on environmentally fragile areas often collapse when they misuse their environment.  Using past examples of societies that failed because of poor environmental management, Diamond makes a strong argument tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69418928">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:36:41 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A great, balanced introduction to the 'food problem.'  I found the first two sections about the mass production of industrial corn and the industrial nature of Big Organic to be really insightful and interesting.  The final section on hunting and gathering seemed to be less practical and more merely...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47923405">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/478.Bowling_Alone_The_Collapse_and_Revival_of_American_Community">Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/260.Robert_D_Putnam">Robert D. Putnam</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:06:05 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Bowling Alone is a very thorough (exhaustive? exhausting?) analysis of how American community has fallen apart since 1965 or so, why people don't care about participating in community activities like they used to, whether attending meetings, signing petitions, going to church or helping out with a n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47923446">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:34:39 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:59:28 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[<em>Briggs wrote: &quot;I hear this is interesting. It was on a syllabus for a course I dropped. Muah-ha-ha *refills tobacco pipe, bumps leather-patched elbow on bust of Socrates*&quot;</em><br/>It is remarkably ... thorough (dense?  academic?).  But I enjoy it because it reminds me a lot of the differences between Panama and here.  I am glad you are still bumping around in the en-busted halls of academia.  I am plotting a return to chicago in the summer.  You gonna be around?  how is life?  We have not talked in forever.<br/>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2256591.The_Option_of_Urbanism_Investing_in_a_New_American_Dream">The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/110876.Christopher_B_Leinberger">Christopher B. Leinberger</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:34:55 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I unfortunately had to read this book in a very short timeframe because it came from the library and, being new, had all kinds of holds on it.  It's short, sweet, perhaps a little redundant (?). Leinberger knows what he is talking about and I really like his definition of drivable sub-urbanism versu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44844937">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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