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THIS PAGE IS A GUIDE FOR ALL WHO SEEK WISDOM.
When the miners' libraries closed down,
a valuable way to guide our minds disappeared.
We dedicate this Page to lists of "Top Ten Books"
recommended by those who have proven wisdom. (and by Poet)
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Andrew Bacovich has a BRILLIANT article at
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Andrew Bacovich's Article - BRILLIANT !!!
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Stan Goff (b. 1951 in San Diego, California)
is a writer, activist, and US Army veteran
having served from 1970 to 1996.
He is an anti-imperialist activist, feminist, and socialist.
He is the author of the weblog Feral Scholar.
He is the author of the books Hideous Dream,
Full-Spectrum Disorder: The military in the
New American Century and Sex & War.
He is also a contributor to Huffington Post.
STAN GOFF's TOP TEN BOOKS
1) "After Christendom,"
by Stanley Hauerwas
2) "Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale,"
by Maria Mies
3) "The Rivers North of the Future,"
by Ivan Illich, with David Cayley
4) "Bonds of Love,"
by Jessica Benjamin
5) "The Politics of Jesus,"
by John Howard Yoder
6) "The Sexual Contract,"
by Carole Pateman
7) "The Alchemy of Race and Rights,"
by Patricia Williams
8) "The Power of the Machine,"
by Alf Hornborg
9) "Money, Sex, and Power,"
by Nancy C M Hartsock
10) "Unbearable Weight,"
by Susan Bordo
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Archbishop Emeritus DESMOND TUTU's TOP TEN BOOKS (FICTION)
1. Tales from Shakespeare
by Charles and Mary Lamb
2. Naught for Your Comfort
by Fr Trevor Huddleston
3. Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
4. Cry the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
5. Down 6th Avenue
by E Mphahlele
6. Country of My Skull
by Antjie Krog
7. Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela
8. I write what I Like
by Steve B Biko
9. Let My People Go
by Albert Luthuli
10. July’s People
by Nadine Gordimer
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A bilingual award-winning author of 40 books on
Latin America, Latin@s, culture, migration, and
human rights, DR. JAMES D. COCKCROFT (Ph.D.,
Stanford University) is Internet professor for
the State University of New York.
A poet, three-time Fulbright Scholar, and
Honorary Editor of Latin American Perspectives,
he serves on the Coordinadora Internacional
de Redes en Defensa de la Humanidad, the
International Committee for the Freedom of the Cuban Five,
and civil society’s Benito Juárez Tribunal (vice-president)
that judged U.S. terrorism against Cuba in 2005.
A Canadian immigrant, he is a member of the
UNESCO-sponsored World Council of the José Martí
World Solidarity Project, la Coalition Venezuela
Nous Sommes Avec Toi, la Table de Concertation de
Solidarité Québec-Cuba, la Société Bolivarienne
du Québec, le Comité Fabio Di Celmo pour les 5,
and the Canada-Cuba Literary Alliance.
His multilingual blog is
www.jamescockcroft.com
I’m not one who retains a top ten list of anything,
but here - in no particular order - are
ten of my favorite books, as asked for: i.e.,
“a short list of those books which (I) believe
will help direct humans to a better way”:
JAMES COCKCROFT's TOP TEN FAVOURITE BOOKS
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz,
Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie.
Emma Goldman’s Autobiography.
Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook.
Chekhov, Collected Short Stories.
Walt Whitman, Collected Poems.
Malcolm X Speaks.
Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man.
The Communist Manifesto, by Marx and Engels.
The Speeches of Fidel Castro.
Che Guevara’s Essay on Man and Socialism
in almost any collection of his writings.
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Cage Innoye is an American writer.
His “Diverse philosophy” idea revolves about
diversity, individuality and creativity.
His book, “The Axxiad”, applies his ideas to many topics -
economics, theology, psychology, government,
creativity, media, identity, life etc.
His new book “The Axxiad” is now available from
a link on his blog:
http://diversephilosophy.blogspot.com/
and his email address:
cageinnoye@gmail.com
CAGE CURRENTLY HAS A SUPERB ARTICLE IN PRAVDA
You can access it by pasting this into your Browser:
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/
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CAGE INNOYE’S TOP TEN BOOKS (WHICH INFLUENCED HIS DEVELOPMENT)
1) Andre Breton, Surrealist Manifesto,
not a book, but a statement,
first piece ever read that I really liked.
After taking science and math classes in college this was a WMD.
2) Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx,
it blew my mind the first time I read it,
I have since critiqued the framework
but still it has truths within.
It caused me to turn toward the study of economics.
3) Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness
in the Breakdown of the Bicameral mind,
also blew my mind and still does,
if you are a right brain person this book is intriguing.
4) Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels,
powerful ideas, explained well, very influential upon me.
5) Creative Evolution, Henri Bergson,
here is a worldview that seems quite obvious today
6) Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci,
a very interesting analysis
of politics, culture and power
7) Buddhist Logic, Volume 1,
Theodor Stcherbatsky,
very informative, I learned much from it
about Eastern philosophy, but also the general issues
of all philosophy which were mirrored in India.
8) The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell,
the concept of myth was revolutionary to me
and I learned that personal myth supersedes all,
and incorporates all science and theory
as just a chapter within it.
9) The Phenomenology of Spirit,
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
a very fascinating thesis that unites ‘everything’
into one system, intellectually impressive.
10) Understanding the I Ching,
Hellmut and Richard Wilhelm,
the world’s first philosophy piece
and it still holds up, many profound perceptions.
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DAVE LINDORFF is both respected and famous,
as an investigative reporter, a columnist for CounterPunch,
and a contributor to Businessweek, The Nation,
Extra! and Salon.com. He's also a good modest man.
A former bureau chief and radio reporter-producer,
Dave founded and edited the Los Angeles Vanguard,
and has worked at three other quality US newspapers.
He is the author of four books, the most recent being
The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for
Removing President George W. Bush from Office,
written with attorney Barbara Olshansky of
the Centre for Constitutional Rights.
An investigative reporter since 1973, Dave Lindorff
has won numerous awards, including the grand prize
of the Los Angeles Press Club, a "Most Censored" award
from Project Censored and a Brock Award
for writing on agricultural issues.
Dave was a founder of the National Writers Union,
serving for many years in leadership positions.
He was also active in the Hong Kong Journalists Assn.,
during his five years in Hong Kong, when he was
a correspondent for Businessweek magazine.
Dave gained national US attention in recent years
when he ran a story, days before the 2004 election,
accusing Bush of using a remote wireless cueing device
under his jacket and embedded in his ear -
in the Presidential debates against John Kerry.
The article was printed in Mother Jones magazine.
The accusations were never repudiated.
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DAVE LINDORFF's TOP TEN BOOKS
1) Satanic Verses
By Salman Rusdie
2) Haroun and the Sea of Stories (children's book)
By Salman Rushdie
3) A Farewell to Arms
By Ernest Hemingway
4) A People's History of America
By David Wallechinsky and Howard Zinn
5) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
By Dee Brown
6) The Souls of Black Folk
By W.E.B. DuBois
7) Catch-22
By Joseph Heller
8) Manufacturing Consent
By Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky
9) The Tin Drum
By Gunther Grass
10) The Last Temptation of Christ
By Nikos Kazantzakis
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by pressing the link below...
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, daughter of a landless
farmer and half-Indian mother, was inspired by
stories of her grandfather (a labor activist and
Socialist with the Industrial Workers of the World),
into a lifelong commitment to social justice and activism.
She has a doctorate in History, and her account of
life in Oklahoma is recorded in Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie.
Her main period of intense activism, 1960-1975,
is told in Outlaw Woman: Memoir of the War Years.
In 1974, she became active in the American Indian Movement (AIM)
and the International Indian Treaty Council,
sparking a lifelong commitment to international human rights.
Her first published book, The Great Sioux Nation:
An Oral History of the Sioux Nation and its
Struggle for Sovereignty, was published in 1977
and was presented as the fundamental document at
the first international conference on Indians of
the Americas, held at UN headquarters in Geneva.
That book was followed by: Roots of Resistance:
A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1680-1980
and Indians of the Americas: Human Rights and Self-Determination.
In 1981, she was asked to visit Sandinista Nicaragua. Her book, Blood on the Border:
A Memoir of the Contra War, was published in 2005.
ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ' TOP TEN BOOKS (FICTION):
1. Susan Choi, American Woman
2. Susan Choi, A Person of Interest
3. J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
4. Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke
5. Leslie Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead
6. Ella Leffland, The Knight, Death and the Devil
7. Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde
8. Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter
9. Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Four Hands: A Novel
10. Michael Ondaatje, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ' TOP TEN BOOKS, (NON-FICTION):
1. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
2. John Rechy, About My Life and the Kept Woman: A Memoir
3. Scott Malcomson, One Drop of Blood:
The American Misadventure of Race
4. Howard Adams, Prison of Grass:
Canada from a Native Point of View
5. John Grenier, The First Way of War:
American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814
6. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie
7. Paco Ignacio Taiblo II, Guevara, Also Known As Che
8. Bucky Sinister, Get Up: A 12 Step Guide to Recovery
for Misfits, Freaks, and Weirdos
9. David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist:
The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil
War and Seeded Civil Rights
10. Richard Slotkin, Gunfighter Nation:
The Myth of the Frontier in 20th Century America
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photo by Ben Kettlewell 2003
Maireid Sullivan is an iconic folk singer,
poet, political economist, film maker
of extraordinary beauty and campaigner.
Her blog is a major cross-roads for political
news-hounds and social campaigners, world-wide.
MAIREID SULLIVAN's TOP TEN BOOKS (NON FICTION)
Maireid says:
"To begin, we need to go back
to the sources of western history...
1/ Bede Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation
Three links to the manuscript:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/bede-book1.html
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bede/history.txt
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/bede/index.htm
2/ The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles is one of the most
important documents from the middle ages. It was
originally compiled on the orders of King Alfred
the Great in approximately A.D. 890, and
subsequently maintained and added to by
generations of anonymous scribes until the middle
of the 12th Century. The original language was
Anglo-Saxon (Old English), but later entries were
probably made in an early form of Middle English.
I recommend Anne Savage's translation with illustrations
3/ The Knight, the Lady and the Priest
The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France
by French historian Georges Duby (1981)
Translated by Barbara Bray (Pantheon 1983)
4/ The Corruption of Economics by Professor Mason Gaffney
(I would have listed Fred Harrison, but he did co-author this book)
More articles here:
http://www.masongaffney.org
Excerpts here:
http://www.henrygeorge.org/science/gaffney.htm
5/ Myth and Ritual in Christianity by Alan Watts 1971
6/ The Women Troubadours by Meg (Magda) Bogin 1976
7/ The Druids by Nora Chadwick 1966
8/ The Druids by Peter Berresford Ellis 1994
9/ Pre-Christian Ireland by Peter Harbeson 1995
10/ Who Owns The World by Kevin Cahill.
This website has sample chapters;
http://www.who-owns-the-world.com/
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William Wall is a poet, prize-winning
writer of short stories, lecturer,
and mighty man !
(I feel I should explain, here, that William
sent 22 choices, which I miscounted as 19,
so he was kind enough to mention 2 more...
These lists, with superb poetic licence, reveal
the imprecise nature of the categories we've chosen....
and yes, some fiction choices appear here as non-fiction.
Hope you enjoy exploring them!)
WILLIAM WALL's TOP TEN BOOKS (FICTION)
Shakespeare – King Lear
Franz Kafka - The Trial
and Metamorphosis
Dante - The Inferno
James Joyce - Ulysses
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
TS Eliot - The Waste Land
Flann O'Brien - At Swim-Two-Birds
and The Third Policeman
John McGahern - The Barracks
and That They May Face the Rising Sun
Juan Rulfo - Pedro Paramo
Jorge Luis Borges - Collected Fiction
Richard Llewelyn - How Green Was My Valley
WILLIAM WALL's TOP TEN BOOKS (NON-FICTION)
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
Gunther Grass - The Tin Drum
Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 years of Solitude
Liam O'Flaherty - Famine
WG Sebald - Austerlitz
Walter Benjamin - The Arcades Project
Marx and Engels - The Communist Manifesto
M Hardt and A Negri - Empire
Adam Smith - In Beijing
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William asks you to play the song below...
which is full of clear-eyed advice
yet still made me cry.
In William's words;
"Maybe you’ll play it in the Rhondda today.
If so, play it for all of us.
We need to stand together. !!!"
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TONY BENN'S TOP TEN BOOKS: (NON-FICTION)
Tony put The Bible at the top.
(See notes below)
1) Das Capital
by Karl Marx
2) The Communist Manifesto
by Marx and Engels
3) Common Sense
by Tom Paine
4) Mein Kampf
by Adolf Hitler
5) Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
by Tawney
6) In Place of Fear
by Nye Bevan
7) The Making of the English Working Class
by E P Thompson
8) Origin of Species
by Darwin
9) Parliamentary Socialism
by Ralph Miliband
10) The World Turned upside Down
by Christopher Hill
For an excellent place to find Tony's
latest interviews and speeches...
PRESS THE LINK BELOW
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BRUCE KENT'S TOP TEN BOOKS (NON FICTION)
1) The Periodic table
by Primo Levi
2) The Withered Garland
by Peter Johnson
(Wartime Bomber Pilot)
3) The Psalms (especially Psalm 8)
The Bible
4) The Long Loneliness
by Dorothy Day
(Catholic Worker founder)
5) In Solitary Witness
by Gordon Zahn
(the Franz Jagerstatter story)
6) The Fourfold Vision
by Dr. Sherwood Taylor
(Four roads to knowledge)
7) Praise of Folly
by Desiderus Erasmus
8) The United Nations Charter
- especially the Preface.
9) Edmund Campion S.J.
(Jesuit priest and martyr)
by Evelyn Waugh
10) Double Harness
by Robin Tanner
(Quaker educationalist and artist)
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BRUCE KENT'S TOP TEN BOOKS (FICTION)
1) The Power and the Glory
by Graham Greene
2) A Suitable Boy
by Vikran Seth
3) South Riding
by Winifred Holtby
4) Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell
5) A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
6) Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
7) The Towers of Trebizond
by Rose Macauley
8) Put Out More Flags
by Evelyn Waugh
9) The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
10) Sarum
by Edward Rutherford
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RICHARD NEVILLE was/is a hero of mine.
Here is an Australian who made me feel
culturally inferior...and whose glorious
and artful anarchy "inspired millions !"
RICHARD NEVILLE'S TOP TEN BOOKS.
(These choices are NOT in order of merit!)
1) The Upside of Down.
(Catastrophe, Creativity and the
Renewal of Civilisation.)
by Thomas Homer-Dixon.
2) On the Road.
by Jack Kerouac.
3) Crime and Punishment.
(a timeless insight into serial killers,
psychopaths & generals).
by Dostoevsky
4) For the Term of His Natural Life
(Why Australians were once
so anti authoritarian).
by Marcus Clarke.
5) The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry.
(a reminder that alternative current of US
is so much wiser than the mainstream;)
edited by Alan Kaufman
6) Down & Out in London & Paris.
by George Orwell.
7) The Consolations of Philosophy
by Alain de Botton
8) East of Time
(“The determination of an entire community to
remain human in the face of its greatest peril”).
by Jacob G Rosenberg
9) Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,
(an incredible best seller, rarely reviewed,
the hidden & astonishing tale of Third World rape).
by John Perkins.
10) Martha Gellhorn
(A thrilling ride thru the modern era;
gossipy, intimate, geo-political,
truth seeking .....)
by Caroline Moorehead.
Richard Neville can be reached through his website
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DAFYDD IWAN'S TOP TEN BOOKS
... WALES' GREATEST FOLK-SINGER
(President of Plaid Cymru... founder of Sain, Wales' premier Record Label..
Councillor... the list is endless !)
DAFYDD IWAN's TOP TEN BOOKS (FICTION):
1) Cysgod y Cryman:
by Islwyn Ffowc Elis
2) Martha, Jac a Sianco:
by Caryl Lewis
3) A Passage to India:
by E.M. Forster
4) Rhys Lewis:
by Daniel Owen
5) A Man’s Estate:
by Emyr Humphreys
6) The Learning Lark:
by Glyn Jones
7) English Passengers:
by Matthew Kneale
8) Grapes of Wrath:
by John Steinbeck
9) Y Stafell Ddirgel:
by Marion Eames
10) Oliver Twist:
by Charles Dickens
DAFYDD IWAN's TOP TEN BOOKS (NON-FICTION):
1) Ysgrifau:
by T.H. Parry-Williams
2) Seeing the Blossom:
by Dennis Potter
3) Miscellany:
by Emyr Humphreys
4) Aros Mae:
by Gwynfor Evans
5) Hanes Cymru:
by John Davies
6) Cerddi:
by T.H. Parry-Williams
7) Y Coed:
by Gwenallt
8) Stupid White Men:
by Michael Moore
9) The Green Desert:
by Harri Webb
10) Owain Glyn Dwr:
by R.R. Davies
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JOHN STANTON'S TOP TEN BOOKS
JOHN STANTON, one of the world's greatest living authors.
TOP TEN BOOKS (FICTION)
1) Johnny Got His Gun -
by Dalton Trumbo
2) Life and Fate -
by Vasily Grossman
3) We —
by Yevgeney Zamyatin
4) Master and Margarita -
by Mikhail Bulgakov
5) Cement -
by Fyodor Gladkov
6) Three Tales -
by Gustave Flaubert
7) Death on the Installment Plan -
by Louis Celine
8) Briefing for a Descent into Hell -
by Dorris Lessing
9) Children's Book -
by Leo Tolstoy
10) Flatland -
by Edwin Abbot
TOP TEN BOOKS (NON-FICTION)
1) Five Moral Pieces -
by Umberto Ecco
2) Mimesis -
by Erich Auerbach
3) Talks with the Devil -
by PD Ouspensky
4) The Future of Life and Consilience -
by Edmund Wilson
5) One Dimensional Man -
by Herbert Marcuse
6) The Way of the Animal Powers -
by Joseph Campbell
7) On the Nature of the Universe -
by Lucretius
8) Tarrying with the Negative -
by Slajov Zizek
9) From Dawn to Decadence -
by Jacques Barzun
10) History and Class Consciousness -
by Georgy Lukacs
(John included these texts, in his choice:
see notes below.)
Tao Te Ching: Lao Tzu
Gospel According to Saint Matthew
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Image: Kathy Kelly.
KATHY KELLY'S TOP TEN BOOKS :
Kathy Kelly is co-founder of
Voices in the Wilderness
and co-coordinator of
Voices for Creative Nonviolence.
Kathy Kelly's TOP TEN BOOKS (FICTION):
1) Periodic Table
by Primo Levi
2) Survival in Auschwitz
by Primo Levi
3) Blindness
by Jose Saramago
4) Resurrection
by Leo Tolstoy
5) Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
6) When We Were Orphans
by Kazuo Ishiguro
7) Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
8) A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
9) Such a Long Journey
by Rohinton Mistry
10) Dubliners
by James Joyce
Kathy Kelly's TOP TEN BOOKS (NON-FICTION):
1) From Yale to Jail
by David Dellinger
2) We Are All Part of One Another
by Barbara Deming
3) The New Testament Jesus:
A Revolutionary Biography
by John Dominic Crossan
4) The Quiet Battle
by Mulford Q. Sibley
5) A Harsh and Dreadful Love
by William Miller
6) A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
7) Living My Life
by Emma Goldman
8) Lead Kindly Light
by Vincent Sheehan
9) Overthrow
by Stephen Kinzer
10) God and Empire
by John Dominic Crossan
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PROFESSOR ANDREW J. BACEVICH's TOP TEN BOOKS
Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of international relations at Boston University.
A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he received his
Ph.D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University.
He is the author of many books and articles,
arguing calmly and magnificently, for a new way forward,
which will benefit both America and the world.
ANDREW J. BACEVICH's TOP TEN BOOKS; FICTION.
Evelyn Waugh, Sword of Honour Trilogy (counts for three)
Graham Greene, The Quiet American
James Salter, The Hunters
James Jones, From Here to Eternity
F. Scott Fitgerald, The Great Gatsby
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels
Eric Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
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SUSAN ROSENTHAL'S TOP TEN BOOKS.
Susan Rosenthal M.D. whose latest book,
"Power and Powerlessness",
is a superb exposition of what we need to be and do
to effect meaningful change, has her own weblog.
Below are links, respectively, to her book and website.
www.powerandpowerlessness.typepad.com
SUSAN ROSENTHAL's TOP TEN BOOKS: NON-FICTION
1) Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell
2) Labor in Irish History
by James Connolly.
3) Ten Days That Shook the World
by John Reed
4) Labor and Monopoly Capital:
The Degradation of Work in the 20th Century
by Harry Braverman
5) The Hidden Injuries of Class
by Sennett & Cobb
6) The Overworked American:
The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
by Julliet Schor
7) Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at
Salaried Professionals and the Soul-
Battering System that Shapes their Lives
by Jeff Schmidt
8) The Abusive Personality:
Violence and Control in Intimate Relationships
by Donald Dutton
9) Myths of Male Dominance:
Collected Articles of Women
Cross-Culturally
by Eleanor Leacock
10) Capitalism and Slavery.
by Eric Williams
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ELLEN ROSSNER FEIG'S TOP TEN BOOKS.
Ellen Rosner Feig is both celebrated author
- The Ex Files: Women, Litigation and Liberty (Adams Media, 2006) -
and runs several websites, including
Literaturechick.com (see above);
an online magazine devoted to --- guess what !
Here are Ellen's Top Ten Books:
1) The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2) The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
3) You Can't Go Home Again
by Thomas Wolfe
4) The Executioner's Song
by Norman Mailer
5) The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
6) This Book Will Save Your Life
by AM Homes
7) World's End
by T.C. Boyle
8) Widow for One Year
by John Irving
9) In and Out of the Goldfish Bowl
by Rachel Tresize
10) Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
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DAVID CAMERON'S FAVOURITES.
David's favourite book as a child was
"Our Island Story",
and as an adult
"Goodbye to All That".
David Beal
Correspondence Secretary
David Cameron's Office.
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NORMAN FINKELSTEIN broke from his busy schedule
to send us this;
"I'm not sure I have 10 "favorite" books.
I have a few which made a deep impression
on me at some point in my life:"
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Das Capital by Karl Marx
Fateful Triangle by Noam Chomsky
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POETS TOP TEN BOOKS (FICTION)
1) The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists,
by Robert Tressell.
2) Ecce Homo,
by J.R. Seeley.
3) Island,
by Aldous Huxley.
4) Apocalypse,
by D.H. Lawrence.
5) The Cloister And The Hearth,
by Charles Reade.
6) Apocalypso,
by Robert Rankin.
7) There You Are, But Where Are You?,
by Robert F. Mirvish.
8) Catch 22,
by Joseph Heller.
9) Lady Chatterly's Lover,
by D.H. Lawrence.
10) In His Steps,
by Charles M. Sheldon.
POETS TOP TEN BOOKS (NON-FICTION)
(Excluding the major books of the worlds' religions...
eg., The Bible, because they have an obvious "special" place...
and therefore need no SPECIAL recommendation.)
1) You Can Heal Your Life,
by Louise L. Hay.
2) A Thousand Years Of Welsh History,
by Gwynfor Evans.
3) The Healing Echo,
by Eugene Heimler.
4) Imperialism; The Highest Stage Of Capitalism,
by V.I. Lenin.
5) The Miner's Next Step.
(various)
6) House Of Bush - House Of Saud,
by Craig Unger.
7) Hegemony Or Survival,
by Naom Chomsky
8) How To Win Friends And Influence People,
by Dale Carnegie.
9) The Power Of Positive Thinking,
by N.V. Peale.
10) An Author's Guide To Publishing,
by M. Legat.
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THE NEW AMERICAN EMPIRE
Thanks for posting my book, which is available on
Amazon.co.uk:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0741418878/qid=1096062851/202-4477868-9971016
RODRIGUE TREMBLAY
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This Top Ten Books page includes Rodrigue Tremblay's book
because it is a necessary read for those
who wish to understand where we are today...
and what is to be done.
Image: Stupid Bush.
In his latest book, Doctor Tremblay writes of how
we entered this Century.... with an idiot - Bush - in "control".
You can read a short exposition by pasting this into your browser:
http://www.thenewamericanempire.com/tremblay=1043.htm
To read his latest articles on
the current "sub-prime" credit fiasco.....
PRESS THE LINKS BELOW.
Sub-prime lending revealed !!!
Bagehot's Law..... and Greenspan !!!
NOTICE.
We've decided to list in two categories:
NON FICTION and FICTION.
Watch this page for more TOP TEN BOOKS recommendations.
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Mother Jones.... ever heard of her?
Press the link below - and read her autobiography. You won't be disappointed !!!
She was called "The most dangerous woman in America"..... by her rich enemies !
Mother Jones autobiography (FREE !)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 18th.
One of the biggest winners at the ongoing
fifth Summit of the Americas turns out to be
a decades-old book about Latin America's colonial past.
"Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent"
by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano is rocketing
to the top on online bookstore Amazon.com
after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez approaches
U.S. President Barack Obama and hands him a copy.
The copy has a Chavez handwritten dedication:
"Para Obama con afecto" (To Obama with affection).
The publicity helps propel its English version
to Number ten on the Amazon.com list of bestsellers.
The book now tops Amazon's "Movers and Shakers,"
a list of the biggest gainers in book sales over 24 hours.
After receiving the gift, Obama jokingly says
he thought it was a book written by Chavez.
First published in 1971 and reissued several times,
the book is described by one reviewer as a
"passionate account of 500 years of Latin American history,
written with drama, humour, and compassion."
££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££
STEVEN LENDMAN - who writes a booming article in Pravda -
http://english.pravda.ru/business/finance/
29-05-2009/107646-Ending_economic_crisis-0
says, when asked to contribute his Top Ten Books to this page:
"I'll share one crucially important one -
Ellen Brown's Web of Debt
- absolutely required reading."
£££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££
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TRY THIS BOOK !!!
"Cultural Cleansing in Iraq"
Edited by Raymond W. Baker, Shereen T. Ismael,
and Tareq Y. Ismael. Pluto, 296 pp. $34.95
This book, written by top US leaders and eye-witnesses,
argues convincingly that the cultural cleansing
of Iraq was intentional, not random or haphazard.
The aim of US & UK policy was to
remake Iraq into a USUK-friendly state.
In the first chapter, the editors submit
that the Bush administration’s objectives
were to demonstrate US global dominance
& remake “the strategic Middle East” to suit the US.
"To that end, the invasion of Iraq would display
America’s crushing military power to a world
reduced to the status of spectators in a
spectacle of a state’s destruction,
marked by massive civilian casualties, cultural
devastation and the pauperisation of its people."
Other chapters show how Iraq was systematically destroyed.
It began with the looting. Though Iraqis carried
out most of it, the US was responsible for it.
Scholars warned the White House and Pentagon
it would happen if vulnerable sites weren't
protected, but nothing was done because,
according to Barbara Bodine, Washington’s first
post-war ambassador, orders were issued that
looting should be allowed to proceed unchecked.
In some cases, US troops broke open the doors
of institutions to aid looters.
The US also abused major archaeological sites,
including ancient Babylon and Ur, as military
bases, inflicting irreparable damage.
By attacking the country’s history, culture
and “collective memory”, Zainab Bahrani says
the US tried to undermine the uniquely precious
national identity of the Iraqi people.
The second half of the book focuses on the
killing of Iraqi intellectuals and professionals.
On April 11th, 2003, TWO DAYS after Baghdad's fall,
a group of university professors & scientists
sent an e-mail saying that the occupation forces
had drawn up lists of individuals for detention,
harassment & illegal "elimination".
Since that email, thousands of university professors,
doctors and scientists have been assassinated,
kidnapped, killed or driven into exile.
The murder of Dr Muhammad Rawi, a medical doctor
and chancellor of Baghdad University in July 2003,
shocked the country and served as a "warning".
Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency and the
Iranian-founded Iraqi Badr Corps militia
were initially blamed for the killings.
However, the book’s contributors provide solid
evidence that the US and Britain fostered the
mass killings of all those educated people,
because they were the most likely to effectively
resist USUK violence or domination.
The vehicle for the purge of intellectuals
was the de-Baathification campaign instituted
by Paul Bremer, the US pro-consul from 2003-2004,
and used by successive Shia-led sectarian governments
to target secular nationalist thinkers of every sect.
USUK stands accused of using the “Salvador option”
of deliberately using assassinations and terror.
The 13 authors of this work say the US & UK
set out to destroy Iraq’s national identity,
"remove" the educated, using terror & murder,
to leave a weak state dependent on the US.
This experiment in “state ending” leaves a
world looking at the US and UK as monsters.
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TO END ON A HAPPY NOTE:
I don't expect Poet to come up with much;
but I'm surprised that none of our contributors
have recommended this book: "The Power of Nothing"
In 1911, the miners' intellectuals came out with
"The Miners' Next Step", which saw the need to
redefine politics and saw the leadership issue as critical.
Now Raj Patel goes far beyond this - in an easy
simple yet profound way.... visit him here:
http://rajpatel.org/2009/10/27/the-value-of-nothing/
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