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Book Review: Free To Choose by Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman's Free To Choose is another book I regret waiting so long to read. As I read it I felt that same way Mr. Jeffrey Tucker did when reading Against Intellectual Monopoly, "I've felt that sense of intellectual stimulation that comes along rarely in life — that... Wheel out the Dinosaurs
By Darren E Laws I tuned into BBC’s The Money Programme with high expectations to see an investigation into the current state of play in the world of publishing but was disappointed to find a programme that... 224 views | 12 recommendations | 3 comments
A Great Poet Ghalib Died Today
Perhaps the best known poet in the classical Urdu poetry tradition of the 'ghazal' or love poetry is Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, popularly known as Mirza Ghalib. Today is his 140th death anniversary. Born in the...
created by rumana husain | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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1040 views | 46 recommendations | 11 comments
Ricky Gervais attacks fat people
Comedian Ricky Gervais makes an uncompromising attack on the overweight in his new audiobook The Ricky Gervais Guide to Medicine. The Office writer and star uses a string of expletives to attack fat people and...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
378 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
378 views | 10 recommendations | 3 comments
20th Anniversary of Salman Rushdie Fatwa
Twenty years ago today, Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa calling for the death of author Salman Rushdie for his book The Satanic Verses, which Khomeini declared to be an insult to Islam. calling for...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
909 views | 17 recommendations | 1 comment
909 views | 17 recommendations | 1 comment
Soul mate, how attraction works. Find your twin mate now
by Mabel Iam When I find my soulmate Ill feel free. When our bodies come together, the pleasure well feel will be boundless. On that day my soul will recognize, at last, the other wing of love. Union or reunion? Two like souls will inevitably attract themselves... E-book sales to ignite
The demise of the book has been constantly heralded by modern day Cassandra's since the web took off but book sales have actually increased and E-books have never caught on well that looks about to change with a...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
467 views | 40 recommendations | 9 comments
467 views | 40 recommendations | 9 comments
Colombia's drug war investigated
"For several decades Colombian civilians have been caught in the midst of a cocaine and oil-fuelled conflict. Government forces, paramilitary soldiers and various guerrilla groups have been fighting to control the... Book Review - Fleeced
Book Review: Politics Fleeced Dick Morris & Eileen McGann (authors) 2008. 337p. Harper Collins, hardcover $26.95 (USD) Review: Ted Beagleman, (Thundermail@cox.net) First Published Feb. 1, 2009 Dick Morris, for anyone paying attention,... Three weeks to say goodbye by C. J. Box
If you listened to John Bedford Lloyd's narration of Box's previous novel, Blue Heaven, you know you're in for another splendid reading with Three Weeks to Say Goodbye. If you overlooked Blue Heaven, don't miss this one!... Ack and Melissa McGuane are an honest, hardworking... 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009
'social media today is a pure mess.' ""Social media" was the term du jour in 2008. Consumers, companies, and marketers were all talking about it. We have social media gurus, social media startups, social media...
created by Maireid Sullivan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
389 views | 14 recommendations | 8 comments
389 views | 14 recommendations | 8 comments
Are Environmentalists Fascists in Disguise Asks Jonah Goldberg?
I could not help but stop what I was doing when I heard Are environmentalists fascists in disguise ? as one of the questions posed in a BBC Interview of Jonah Goldberg promoting his book Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of... Avoiding Societal Economic Disaster requires new way of thinking
Government have sought to convince "the masses" that bailing out the very elites that spawned the world wide 'economic crises' is vital. However, the book entitled Quality-of-Living and Human Development by Horace Carby-Samuels, suggests that what is needed is a new way of... Winnie the Pooh's 80 year comeback
Winnie the Pooh is to make a literary comeback 80 years on from his first appearance. What? You thought that there had been lots of publications in the intervening years? Well lots of Disney adaptations but never...
created by Paul Conneally | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
607 views | 51 recommendations | 13 comments
607 views | 51 recommendations | 13 comments
CauseWired in Action: Daniella's Apartment Fund by David Armano
What's happening in the Typepad sphere is not all tech tips, marketing and all, there are also people using their 'megaphone' to do good deeds as many of us did in December with Menu for Hope 5. A good example of that is David Armano of Logic+Emotion who started the...
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