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Here’s part one of the LandoftheFreeish Holiday Gift Guide, a roundup of the bestselling items from this year’s reviews. Today’s installment is nonfiction books…
Googling Security (Greg Conti)
A book that opens your eyes to how much you disclose to Google
The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism (Matt Mason)
To get rich off pirates, copy them
Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights (Bill Ivey)
How the DMCA, Clear Channel and copyright extension are killing culture
The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It (Jonathan Zittrain)
How to save the Internet from the Internet
The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey (Emmanuel Goldstein)
Best of 2600 Magazine anthology. Great if you’ve missed a few issues.
A People’s History of American Empire (Howard Zinn)
Fantastic comic-book adaptation of Zinn’s classic A People’s History of the United States
My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us (Jessica Mills)
Kick-ass punk-parenting book
The Revolution: A Manifesto (Ron Pail)
Congressman, Republican Presidential candidate and author Paul says “Let the revolution begin” with this libertarian plea for a return to “the principles of our Founding Fathers: liberty, self-government, the Constitution, and a non-interventionist foreign policy.”
True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society (Farhad Manjoo)
The science, history and economics of self-deception
How Children Learn (John Holt)
Cllassic of human, kid-centered learning
How Children Fail (John Holt)
Angry lessons from failures to teach
Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology and Politics in Science (John Grant)
The history, cause, effect and state of bad science
Good Calories, Bad Calories (Gary Taubes)
Gary Taubes, whose NYT article on Atkins rekindled the low-carb eating movement, sums up his research on low-carb eating. One of my personal favorites.
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‘The Pirates Dilemma” is probably the worst thought out, executed, and presented piece of garbage I’ve ever seen. the title is misleading, the book is full of shit, it cites false statistics, and the author is a general dumbass and waste of life. Also, ‘Johnny’