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		<title>Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The author of Shop Class as Soulcraft makes some points that I completely agree with: that pushing all teenagers to college is counter-productive, that what we pompously call knowledge work is often plain silly, that the feeling we have after fixing a tangible object such as a motorbike is uncomparably fullfilling.
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		<title>Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The author of Dead Aid, a Zambian-born woman with several advanced degrees in economics,starkly stakes that traditional, government-to-government aid, simply serves to line the pockets of corrupt leaders and chokes the economies of the receiving countries. She makes a very strong argument that fostering economic growth in very poor countries and there&#8217;s a good to-to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1228&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lacuna tells the life story of a teenager to young man who makes his own way in the world between Mexico and the United States, thanks to a Mexican mother whose main purpose is to find a husband and a distracted, remote, and often inept American father. Along the way he works for Diego [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1226&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Naming Nature by Carol Kaesuk Yoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naming Nature tells the story of taxonomy, organizing animals and plants into families, from the 18th century efforts of Linnaeus and others to create order by simply looking carefully at specimens all the way to today&#8217;s DNA-driven and sometimes counter-intuitive results: is there no such thing as a fish?
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		<title>The Other Side of Sadness by George Bonanno</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever felt that your grief did not quite follow what the books say you &#8220;should&#8221; feel after a loss, The Other Side of Sadness is for you. It seems that the standard denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance stages simply do not apply to a lot of otherwise completely normal and sensitive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1222&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Uncertain Peril by Claire Hope Cummings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the author of Uncertain Peril, Bush&#8217;s largest wrongdoing in his handling of the Iraq war is not the killing or torturing of civilians, no, it&#8217;s the destruction of the seed bank of Baghdad. Seriously? While I understand the wisdom and need to preserve a diversity of seeds for the long-term safety of all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1219&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American on Purpose is the memoir of the host of the Late, Late Show, which I have to admit I have never watched (no time for TV: how else do you think I read all these books?) Craig Ferguson has had a storied life including very humble beginnings as a musician and stand-up comic in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1216&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hands of my Father by Myron Uhlberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hands of My Father is the sweet remembrance of the author&#8217;s childhood, growing up with two deaf parents asa hearing child who had to serve as an interpreter in a world that was not too kind to any kind of disability and certainly not to deafness. Even his parents&#8217; families treated them with surprising callousness: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1214&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NurtureShock by Po Bronson and Ashley Merriman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother was a genius. And her mom as well. They knew that children function better with consistent sleep. They knew that empty praise makes kids suspicious, while heartfelt, suitably rare praise fills them with pride. They made it clear that telling the truth was always much more important than the original misbehavior. They counseled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1206&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Invisible by Paul Auster</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Invisible is the perfectly constructed, tortuously complicated story of a psychopath and an incestuous brother (two different characters), mixed in with a number of airhead women who tolerate their ways. And it left me completely and absolutely cold. It turns out that I have great difficulty finding anything likable or even interesting in psychopaths or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ftbooks.wordpress.com&blog=2705105&post=1204&subd=ftbooks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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