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What is Love?… To Be or To Do?
Just what is Love? Often we think of Love as a force that defies definition. However that doesn’t stop us from trying to put it in a box. Philosophers, poets, parents and priests have contemplated this most mysterious of human motivations.
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So You Finished Harry Potter… What’s Next?
You followed Harry, Ron and Hermione through their epic adventures. As the stack of remaining pages in The Deathly Hallows grew thinner, you read slower, savoring the words (you can only read it for the first time once). Then you turned that bittersweet final page; with mixed feelings you were forced to the finality that [...]
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Book Reviews
The Windup Girl
By: Paolo Bacigalupi
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Revolution! I love books about revolutions. My favorite by far is the The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, however The Windup Girl has many great aspects that recommend it. The book proposes a post-contraction
period some hundred years in the future. Our globalized economy of relatively abundant food and energy has collapsed. Oil prices have made global shipping and industrial food production impossible. In this eerily plausible, post apocalyptic world the new energy technology is genetics.
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Libertarianism: A Primer
By: David Boaz
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A source of frustration for Classical Liberals is the hijacking of the term "Liberal" to the Progressive agenda. For an in depth discussion of the socialist ancestry of modern Liberalism check out Liberal Fascism. Libertarianism, a book by Libertarian David Boaz, is a concise statement of Libertarian beliefs and ideals.
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Ender’s Game
By: Orson Scott Card
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Ender’s Game is a book about a boy who has to save the world. In the hands of a lesser author, this story might have degraded into the stuff of comic books and after-school cartoons. Orson Scott Card however manages to deliver a fun novel, filled with action and ethical dilemma.
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The Road Less Traveled
By: M.Scott Peck M.D.
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The Road Less Traveled is possibly one of the best non-fiction books which examines the view of the world as being one where our psychology, spirituality, and physical health are closely tied together.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
By: Robert A. Heinlein
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If you ask my favorite book, I’m likely to say either Stranger in a Strange Land or The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, both by Robert A. Heinlein and both absolutely genius books. While both books deal with the same philosophical outlook, they approach it in different ways. Where The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is Heinlein’s political manifesto, Stranger in a Strange Land is a mind-blowing expedition into the taboo subject of religion.