I found this book to be quite annoying, and only read the first 100 pages or so (I would have stopped sooner if I hadn't been stuck on an airplane with little else to do). However, it does have some good passages, and here is one ( Read more... )

From Sustainability: A Systems Approach by Clayton & Radcliffe, 1996 ( Read more... )

From The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin:
"The Darren language has a word for the attraction one feels to danger: esui. It is esui that makes warriors charge into hopeless battles and die laughing. Esui is also what draws women to lovers who are bad for them - men who make poor fathers, women of the enemy. The Senmite word that comes ( Read more... )

Mostly for lyght:

Have you read anything by David Abram, and if so what are your thoughts on his philosophy? I'm considering reading either Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology or The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World or both, but have little time for non-required reading and must choose books carefully.

Why I like Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed4. "Almost everyone else in the world, my archaeologist friends have an uphill struggle to convince governments that what archaeologists do has any conceivable practical value...When one of my archaeologist friends approached the Icelandic government and began to deliver ( Read more... )

Why I like Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed"In 1849, hungry gold miners crossing the Nevada desert noticed some glistening balls of a candy-like substance on a cliff, licked or ate the balls, and discovered them to be sweet-tasting, but then they developed nausea.....In effect, the hungry gold miners were eating ( Read more... )

Why I like Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed:"...here is how this book is organized. Its plan resembles a boa constrictor that has swallowed two very large sheep." (pg. 19)

Other reasons to follow, but only if I find any more.

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. (How the heck can you make a list like that? Line up all the phony intellectual douchebags and ask?) Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones ( Read more... )