Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
by Daniel Goleman (2009-04-21)
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Goleman brings his invaluable behavioral insights to our most urgent dilemma: how to halt environmental catastrophe. What’s required is ecological intelligence, defined as understanding the “hidden web of connections between human activity and nature’s systems, and the subtle complexities of their intersections.”
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Posted: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 8:21 pm by Sylvhania
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Palimpsest
by Konrad Niewolski (2009-03-10)
Cinema Epoch (85 minutes)
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Marek, is a police inspector, a man on the verge of psychological disintegration trying to solve an intricate case. The story is told on two planes. The first one is a crime story, which constitutes the framework of the film. In the course of events, another theme appears - psychological experiences of the main character.
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Posted: Monday, July 20, 2009 at 8:53 am by Sylvhania
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A Child Called “It”: One Child’s Courage to Survive
by Dave Pelzer (1995-09-01)
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David Pelzer's mother, Catherine, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, somewhat nurturant to her children--but not to David, whom she referred to as "an It." This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy.
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Posted: Saturday, July 18, 2009 at 1:54 pm by Sylvhania
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Welcome to the Departure Lounge: Adventures in Mothering Mother
by Meg Federico (2009-02-10)
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In this frank account, by turns sad and terribly funny, the journalist Federico describes how her distant, patrician octogenarian mother, Addie, grew batty and vulnerable. Federico, the youngest of Addie's five children, rearranged her life to assist her mother and her mother's Alzheimer's-addled second husband, Walter.
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Posted: Friday, July 17, 2009 at 11:40 pm by Sylvhania
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Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice
by Ronald M. Green ()
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Bioethicist Green embraces a vision of future parenthood bound to stir controversy, arguing that parents will, and should, give children the advantage of more "attractive physical features." Starting with the assumption that "we are entering the era of directed human evolution," he suggests that coming methods of in vitro fertilization will allow parents to genetically pre-select babies.
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Posted: Friday, July 17, 2009 at 3:47 am by Sylvhania
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Gattaca
by Andrew Niccol (2008-03-11)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (106 minutes)
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In the not-too-distant future, a less than perfect man wants to travel to the stars. To move ahead, he assumes the identity of Jerome Morrow, a perfect genetic specimen who is a paraplegic as a result of a fall.
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Posted: Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 5:01 pm by Sylvhania
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Green Dragon
by (2002-09-10)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (115 minutes)
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A little-known aspect of America's Vietnam War debacle--life in the temporary camps set up in the States for the thousands of refugees who came here after the fall of Saigon in 1975--is the subject of this 113-minute film.
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Posted: Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 4:10 pm by Sylvhania
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Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage
by Sophia Raday (2009-05-01)
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Raday, known among her friends as a “pot-smoking feminist,” goes on a blind date with Barrett, an Oakland police officer, West Point graduate, and major in the Army Reserve—a “redneck soldier turned cop.” Despite vast differences in their politics and philosophical attitudes toward minorities and the oppressed, they marry.
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Posted: Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 8:04 pm by Sylvhania
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My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey
by Jill Bolte Taylor Ph.D. (2009-05-26)
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In 1996, 37-year-old neuroanatomist Taylor experienced a massive stroke that erased her abilities to walk, talk, do mathematics, read, or remember details. Her remarkable story details her slow recovery of those abilities (and the cultivation of new ones) and recounts exactly what happened with her brain.
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Posted: Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 11:57 am by Sylvhania
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Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
by Michael Lewis ()
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After the birth of his first child, bestselling writer Lewis (Moneyball) felt he was a stranger in a strange land, puzzled at the gap between what he thought he should be feeling and what he actually felt. Lewis attempts to capture the triumphs, failures, humor, frustration and exhilaration of being a new father during the first year of each of his three children's lives.
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Posted: Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 9:59 am by Sylvhania
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