false 7 91 91 true 5703618 read 0 true 320950 currently-reading 0 true 320949 to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2588555 The Studio (Paperback) by Jeffrey Jones
Beautiful pictures, limited technique, a new group of preraphealites almost emerged from the depths of comics... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2588498 Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love (Paperback) by Dorothy Tennov
Should be required reading for high school. Although It would probably be better to write a version FOR high school. Lots of behavioural paradigms from psychology are like witchcraft metaphors, apparently. This book helps dispel the phlogiston.... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2560389 Three green soup (Unknown Binding) by Randy Klauzer
An anthropolgical artifact. Unselfconscious in the extreme, not a good book, really, but good for what it reveals about subcultural perceptions of themselves and the world around them, ala "Divine Right's Trip" but totally straight-faced. a master's thesis waiting to happen. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2560274 Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus: What Your History Books Got Wrong (Paperback) by James W. Loewen
fun, even if you don't like history. Only slightly political. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2559580 The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed (Hardcover) by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
This book and its companion, "the well-tempered sentence", are musts for the grammar-nazi in all of us. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2559529 Biometry, the Principles and Practice of Statistics in Biological Research (Hardcover) by Robert R. Sokal
two graudate students wrote the best and easiest to read introduction to data analysis I've ever read. The new versions are useful, and the computer stuff is outdated in the original(programs are in fortran) but the first edition is the best for any math geek, science nerd or field-lab guy. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2558524 Windigo Psychosis: American Ethnological Society Proceedings (Paperback) by Morton I. Teicher
An oldy but a goody. Gave me my first insight into how a cultural context can affect the interpretation of a set of physical and mental symptoms, with terrifying consequences. In this case, the anxiety, paranoia, nausea and cannibalistic (fat and protein hunger) fantasies brought on by chronic gall-bladder disease, interpreted as demonic possession. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2558374 Wieland: Or the Transformation: An American Tale (Paperback) by Charles Brockden Brown
If you want to know where Lovecraft, Poe and Hawthorne were coming from, read this. THEN read "Walden". Some serious abyss-gazing going on. (Ex)puritans always seem to use the wild places as their own little rorshach blots, and when the wendigo starts looking back at them, it's usually from the mirror.... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2558268 Down and Out in Paris and London (Paperback) by George Orwell
Just a plain fun read. Orwell was the Kipling of the WWII generation, and this is his best non-fiction. ]]>