rooneymcnibnug rated Devil House: 4 stars
Devil House by John Darnielle
A true crime writer gets the opportunity to move into a 'murder house' from satanic panic area. But writing the …
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rooneymcnibnug rated Sailing alone around the world: 4 stars
Sailing alone around the world by Joshua Slocum (Penguin classics)
Joshua Slocum, one of the most famous of American sea captains, really was the first to single-handedly circumnavigate the world. …
rooneymcnibnug rated The way things are: 3 stars
Titus Lucretius Carus: The way things are (1969, Indiana University Press)
The way things are by Titus Lucretius Carus (Midland Book -- MB125.)
This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. Epicurians discarded both the idea of immortality and …
rooneymcnibnug rated The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics): 3 stars
The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics) by Henry James
A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at …
rooneymcnibnug rated Nationalism and Culture: 4 stars
rooneymcnibnug rated All Things are Nothing to Me: 4 stars
rooneymcnibnug rated Billions and billions: 4 stars
rooneymcnibnug rated Universal Harvester: 3 stars
rooneymcnibnug rated The Myth of Sisyphus: 4 stars
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus (French: Le mythe de Sisyphe) is a 1942 philosophical essay by Albert Camus. Influenced by philosophers …
rooneymcnibnug rated Cosmos: 5 stars
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
This book is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. It is the …
rooneymcnibnug rated CIA: The Cult of Intelligence, The: 3 stars
rooneymcnibnug rated Carceral Capitalism: 3 stars
Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang
In this collection of essays in Semiotext(e)’s Intervention series, Jackie Wang examines the contemporary incarceration techniques that have emerged since …
rooneymcnibnug rated Shadows of forgotten ancestors: 3 stars
rooneymcnibnug rated Blogistan: 3 stars
rooneymcnibnug rated Failed States: 3 stars
Failed States by Noam Chomsky
The United States has repeatedly asserted its right to intervene militarily against "failed states" around the globe. Chomsky turns the …