bookshelves: garden-and-plants, green-and-sustainable
"Right Food, Right Action, Right Awareness"
"When a decision is made to cope with the symptoms of a problem, it is generally assumed that the corrective measures will solve the problem itself. They seldom do. Engineers cannot seem to get this through their heads. These countermeasures are all based on too narrow a definition of what is wrong. Human measures and countermeasures proceed from limited scientific truth and judgment. A true solution can never come about in this way."
It's hard to believe a book this on topic came out thirty-five years ago. It captures the recent Michael Pollan craze and takes it a step further - here's how to simply , sustainably, and spiritually put the food on our tables that we should be eating.
I'm sad to see that Mr. Fukuoka passed on in 2008. I am glad to see that his ideas live on through the internet. A website dedicated to his Farming method can be found here. ]]>
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Jennifer
read and liked
pri's
review of The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3):
"entertaining. while it isn't mind altering, i appreciate the puzzles, action, and historical bent. the motivations of the characters seemed a bit off - slightly verging on soap opera. but all in all an entertaining read, i thought. "
"entertaining. while it isn't mind altering, i appreciate the puzzles, action, and historical bent. the motivations of the characters seemed a bit off - slightly verging on soap opera. but all in all an entertaining read, i thought. "
bookshelves: currently-reading
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bookshelves: 2009
It's a Dan Brown book. Fast paced, plenty of action / drama and a good share of puzzles. I appreciate his art bend - I tend to go google search paintings and artists after reading his books.
I thought the puzzles were not quite as captivating as the first book, and the characters... well, it's like they forgot their thinking caps. If you've been tricked several times into going to the wrong place, would you keep doing it?
He also got a bit more soap opear-y with this book. I was waiting for the long lost identical twin to show up at any time.
One small plot hole - When Bellamy looks at the shocking video on the computer, the camera had not yet been discovered. Am I missing something? ]]>
bookshelves: 2009, discworld
Fantastic! This book is the love child of Terry Pratchett and Time Lord. I do wish it was available in the States as an audiobook.
Key players are Death, Susan, the Auditors, and the History Monks. ]]>
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bookshelves: 2009
Fantastic book that moves between science and science fiction. It manages to be technical and readable. It was a bit of a slow read for me, a couple of pages would have me pondering for hours.
"Instead of being overwhelmed by the universe, I think that perhaps one of the deepest experiences a scientist can have, almost approaching a religious awakening, is to realize that we are children of the stars, and that our minds are capable of understanding the universal laws that they obey. The atoms within our bodies were forged on the anvil of nucleosynthesis within an exploding star aeons before the birth of the solar system. Our atoms are older than the mountains. We are literally made of star dust. Now these atoms, in turn, have coalesced into intelligent beings capable of understanding the universal laws governing that event." ]]>