Get Your War On
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| Author | Van Burnham |
| ISBN | 0262024926 |
Washington City Paper
Arts & Entertainment : Book Review
No Quarter
By Glenn Dixon • December 7, 2001
If you think videogame history is in its infancy, just get a load of videogame historiography. Stick to the stuff in English and it makes for a mighty short bookshelf:...
| Author | Glenn Greenwald |
| ISBN | 0307408027 |
A takedown of the GOP's deceitful propaganda machine from the hugely popular blogger of Salon.com's Unclaimed Territory and the author of the New York Times bestsellers How Would a Patriot Act? and A Tragic Legacy.
Long since Americans were wooed by images of Ronald Reagan astride a horse, complete...
| Author | G.B. Trudeau |
| ISBN | 0030000726 |
Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip. In 1970, Trudeau's creation of Doonesbury was syndicated by the newly formed Universal Press Syndicate. Today Doonesbury is syndicated to almost 1,400 newspapers worldwide and is accessible...
| Author | Nicholas Gurewitch |
| ISBN | 1593078447 |
There's a theory about the instigation of the French Revolution -- and I'm not saying I ascribe to it, but I certainly am enamored of it -- that there was so little knowledge of food science that wheat and other grains were stored without regard for safety or preservation. So much of the grain used for baking...
| Author | Matt Groening |
| ISBN | 0007179243 |
I first encountered this book when I was...oh, about 9 or 10. And, while I didn't understand all the humor contained within, I, being a school student and immersed in daily school life, could certainly "get" much of it. And the rest? Well, it went right over my sweet and innocent little pig-tailed head....
| Author | Joseph Frank |
| ISBN | 0691115699 |
This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's justly celebrated literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky renders with a rare intelligence and grace the last decade of the writer's life, the years in which he wrote A Raw Youth, Diary of a Writer, and his crowning triumph: The Brothers Karamazov.
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| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0060902469 |
There are essays here on pretty much anything that struck Huxley's interest - which is, in itself, inspiring and admirable - but the unspoken theme running through much of the book is an effort to reconcile humanism with the colder truths of the 20th century (i.e. the long view of history, the long view...
| Author | John N. Gray |
| ISBN | 1565849876 |
While many Americans view the September 11th terrorist attack as the act of an anachronistic and dangerous sect, one that champions medieval and outmoded ideals, John Gray here argues that in fact the ideology of Al Qaeda is both Western and modern, a by-product of globalization’s transnational...
| Author | Robert B. Reich |
| ISBN | 0375725121 |
If you think it’s getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but we’re paying a steep price: we’re working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting.
With...
| Author | Thomas Frank |
| ISBN | 0385495048 |
In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go '90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone.
Frank's target is "market populism"--the widely held belief that markets are a more democratic...
| Author | Chris Onstad |
| ISBN | 1593079974 |
Well, I loved the concept of this book. . .
I mean - GEEZ! Right?
Thousands of men duking it out until the one still standing is declared the winner. It sounds kind of like when the WWE boys snap their collective caps and start whaling on each other and for once the whole thing doesn't...
| Author | Lynda Barry |
| ISBN | 0060963042 |
Down the Street by Lynda Barry
p. 23, "... being in your school at night makes everything feel like it's on another planet."
p. 27 "Have you ever run in the freezing night wearing just your shoes with no socks? That's the feeling of emergency."
p. 33 "Just because someone is shy...
| Author | Aaron McGruder |
| ISBN | 1400083168 |
If this were a movie (as Hudlin and McGruder originally intended), it'd be the most entertaining Hollywood movie I've seen since 1977; and maybe now someone will make a movie in which East St Louis secedes from the Union and renames itself Blackland and prints up currency featuring the likenesses of...
| Author | The Onion |
| ISBN | 0609804634 |
The Onion is the world's most popular humor periodical. Its first book, Our Dumb Century, was a New York Times #1 best-seller and winner of the 1999 Thurber Prize for American Humor. Now The Onion returns with Volume One of the paper's greatest, most hard-hitting stories, including:
--Clinton...
| Author | Peter Bagge |
| ISBN | 1560976233 |
These legendary stories, from the classic first fifteen issues of Bagge's Hate comic, are a defining icon of Seattle's early 1990s culture (the Seattle Weekly has written, "20 years from now, when people wonder what it was like to be young in 1990s Seattle, the only record we'll have is Hate."), as well...
| Author | B. Kliban |
| ISBN | 0911104674 |
All the Kliban people--from Houdini escaping New Jersey to the famed Genghis and Sylvia Khan.
“Not to put down Crumb or Koren or Booth or Rodgriguez or Trudeau or anybody else, but Kliban’s Never Eat Anything Bigger than Your Head & Other Drawings is the only book I’ve read in years...
