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Boing Boing's Holiday Gift Guide part five: Nonfiction

Here's part five of the Boing Boing Holiday Gift Guide, a roundup of the bestselling items from this year's Boing Boing reviews. Today's installment is nonfiction books. Don't miss the rest of the posts: kids' stuff, fiction, gadgets and comics. Tomorrow I'll wrap it up with DVDs and CDs. Good Calories, Bad Calories (Gary Taubes) Gary Taubes, whose NYT article on Atkins rekindled the low-carb eating movement, sums up his reserarch on low-carb eating Original Boing Boing post Transit Maps of the World (Mark Ovenden) Sheer subway-porn Original Boing Boing post Magic and Showmanship: A Handbook for Conjurers (Henning Nelm) Classic book about conjuring has many lessons for writers Original Boing Boing post Laika (Nick Abadzis) Graphic novel tells the sweet and sad story of the first space-dog Original Boing Boing post Mutter Museum Historic Medical Photographs (Laura Lindgren) Haunting book of Victorian pathological curiosities Original Boing Boing post Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World (David Koenig) The secret history of Walt Disney World Original Boing Boing post In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Michael Pollan) Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Original Boing Boing post Clear and to the Point: 8 Psychological Principles for Compelling PowerPoint Presentations (Stephen M. Kosslyn) Cognitive science vs. crappy PowerPoint slides Original Boing Boing post Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Clay Shirky) Clay Shirky's masterpiece Original Boing Boing post The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism (Matt Mason) To get rich off pirates, copy them Original Boing Boing post Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Suketu Mehta) Exhausting and beautiful love-note to Mumbai Original Boing Boing post Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan (Lisa Katayama) Make Magazine meets Hints From Heloise by way of postwar Japan Original Boing Boing post China Shakes the World: A Titan's Rise and Troubled Future -- and the Challenge for America (James Kynge) Book captures the grand sweep of changes in the most populous nation on Earth Original Boing Boing post Punk House: Interiors in Anarchy (Abby Banks, Timothy Findlen, Thurston Moore) Communal homes of the anarcho-syndicalist lifestyle Original Boing Boing post The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need (Daniel H. Pink) Optimistic and iconoclastic career guide in manga form Original Boing Boing post Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (DJ Spooky) Essays on the future of music edited by DJ Spooky Original Boing Boing post Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights (Bill Ivey) How the DMCA, Clear Channel and copyright extension are killing culture Original Boing Boing post The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It (Jonathan Zittrain) How to save the Internet from the Internet Original Boing Boing post The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey (Emmanuel Goldstein) Best of 2600 Magazine anthology Original Boing Boing post A People's History of American Empire (Howard Zinn) Fantastic comic-book adaptation of Zinn's classic A People's History of the United States Original Boing Boing post Secrets of the Mouse: An Unofficial Behind-the-Scenes Guide to Disneyland Park (Alan Joyce) Insider Disneyland guide Original Boing Boing post Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School (John Medina) Oliver Sacks meets GETTING THINGS DONE Original Boing Boing post My Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us (Jessica Mills) Kick-ass punk-parenting book Original Boing Boing post True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society (Farhad Manjoo) The science, history and economics of self-deception Original Boing Boing post The Quirks & Quarks Guide to Space: 42 Questions (and Answers) About Life, the Universe, and Everything (Jim Lebans) Bite-sized answers to the massive questions of inquisitive astronomical ponderers Original Boing Boing post Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future (Cory Doctorow) Collection of my infamous articles, essays, and polemics. championing free speech and universal access to information Original Boing Boing post The Baby Sleep Solution: A Proven Program to Teach Your Baby to Sleep Twelve Hours a Night (Suzy Giordano) The best parenting book I've read Original Boing Boing post How Children Learn (John Holt) Cllassic of human, kid-centered learning Original Boing Boing post The Hungry Scientist Handbook: Electric Birthday Cakes, Edible Origami, and Other DIY Projects for Techies, Tinkerers, and Foodies (Patrick Buckley, Lily Binns) Nerdy cookbook for kitchen hackers Original Boing Boing post Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin (Kenny Shopsin, Carolynn Carreno) Memoir and cookbook from Shopsin's, the best, most eclectic eatery in Greenwich Village Original Boing Boing post How Children Fail (John Holt) Angry lessons from failures to teach Original Boing Boing post Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope (Emmanuel Guibert) Extraordinary graphic novel memoir of a US GI who arrived in Europe at the end of WWII and stayed Original Boing Boing post Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street (Michael Lewis) A timely moment to revisit 20-year-old memoir of the rise and fall of a financial bubble Original Boing Boing post The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation (Jonathan Hennessey) US Constitution in graphic novel form Original Boing Boing post Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan (Chip Kidd) The lost Japanese Batman comics of 1966 Original Boing Boing post Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Leslie T. Chang) Amazing memoir by American-born Chinese journalist Original Boing Boing post Bound by Law?: Tales from the Public Domain (Keith Aoki, James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins) The "Understanding Comics" of copyright, in a new edition Original Boing Boing post The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx (Stefan Kanfer) A book of fine grouchovian material that contains at least five guaranteed laughs on every page Original Boing Boing post Corrupted Science: Fraud, Ideology and Politics in Science (John Grant) The history, cause, effect and state of bad science Original Boing Boing post...

Boing Boing's Holiday Gift Guide part four: Comics, graphic novels and funnybooks

Here's part four of our week-long "Best of Boing Boing" holiday gift guide: basically, it's a list of the bestselling items from among the stuff we reviewed this year, reflecting your favorite items from among our picks. Today's list is comics, graphic novels, funnybooks and the like. Don't miss the previous installments: kids' stuff, fiction and gadgets! Tomorrow's nonfiction day, and Monday'll finish up the series with DVDs and CDs. Laika (Nick Abadzis) Graphic novel tells the sweet and sad story of the first space-dog Original Boing Boing post The Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories (Nicholas Gurewitch) Hilarious, surreal webcomic Original Boing Boing post Invention of Hugo Cabret (Brian Selznik) Award-winning steampunk graphic novel for kids Original Boing Boing post Good as Lily (Derek Kirk Kim) Ass-kicking girl-positive graphic novel for young readers Original Boing Boing post The Plain Janes (Cecil Castellucci, Jim Rugg) Funny, spirited little story about a gang of girls named Jane at a strait-laced high-school, rejected by the mainstream, and their art adventures. Original Boing Boing post 100 Days Of Monsters (Stefan G. Bucher) Book showcases blob-to-monster art Original Boing Boing post Army @ Love Vol. 1: The Hot Zone Club (Rick Veitch) Romance/war comic deals out the offensive yuks Original Boing Boing post Three Shadows (Cyril Pedrosa) Haunting and dreamlike graphic novel of love, bravery and sacrifice Original Boing Boing post St. Trinian's: The Entire Appalling Business (Ronald Searle) Ronald Searle's original dark, weird and hilarious St Trinian's comics Original Boing Boing post The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need (Daniel H. Pink) Optimistic and iconoclastic career guide in manga form Original Boing Boing post Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales Of The Here And Now (Cory Doctorow) A six-edition series of comics adapted from my short stories by an incredibly talented crew of writers, artists, inkers and letterers Original Boing Boing post Too Cool To Be Forgotten (Alex Robinson) Wish fulfillment graphic novel becomes something lovelier by far Original Boing Boing post A People's History of American Empire (Howard Zinn) Fantastic comic-book adaptation of Zinn's classic A People's History of the United States Original Boing Boing post TEKKONKINKREET: Black & White (Taiyo Matsumoto) Absolutely extraordinary comic fuses manga and French comics in a story of violence and lost boys in a surreal Japanese cityscape Original Boing Boing post The Mad War on Bush (The Usual Gang of Idiots) A truly superlative collection of parodical and satirical material from eight years' worth of Mad lampoon Original Boing Boing post Tekkon Kinkreet (Lauren McLaughlin) Absolutely extraordinary comic fuses manga and French comics in a story of violence and lost boys in a surreal Japanese cityscape Original Boing Boing post MAD About Star Wars (Jonathan Bresman) More than your average MAD anthology Original Boing Boing post Alan's War: The Memories of G.I. Alan Cope (Emmanuel Guibert) Extraordinary graphic novel memoir of a US GI who arrived in Europe at the end of WWII and stayed Original Boing Boing post The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation (Jonathan Hennessey) US Constitution in graphic novel form Original Boing Boing post Bat-Manga!: The Secret History of Batman in Japan (Chip Kidd) The lost Japanese Batman comics of 1966 Original Boing Boing post Bound by Law?: Tales from the Public Domain (Keith Aoki, James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins) The "Understanding Comics" of copyright, in a new edition Original Boing Boing post Al Jaffee's Tall Tales (Al Jaffee) Skinny comics with snappy humor Original Boing Boing post...

Voices of a People's History of the United States: Fantastic voice actors read the historic work of people who demanded justice from America

Howard Zinn's remarkable book, A People's History of the United States tells the underside of American history, the stories of everyday people who were on the losing side of America's prosperity and expansion, from the indigenous people and slaves to the conquered people, conscriptees and refugees. People who demanded, but did not receive, justice. A companion to this book is this CD, "Readings from Voices of a People's History of the United States" -- a collection of famous speeches from people who held America to the standard it set, and found it wanting. These are inspiring and infuriating, and are expertly read by a cast of talented voice-actors including Danny Glover ("The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro -- Frederick Douglass"); Paul Robeson, Jr. ("Ballad of Roosevelt -- Langston Hughes"); Wallace Shawn ("Why We Fight -- Vito Russo"); Marisa Tomei ("It's Time the Antiwar Choir Started Singing -- Cindy Sheehan"); John Sayles ("Comments on the Moro Massacre -- Mark Twain") and many others. These are the words of people who refused to accept injustice as inevitable, who demanded better. Someone once said, "All countries fail to live up to their ideals; the ideals that America fails to live up to are nobler than most." I agree with that sentiment. The liberty and justice guaranteed by America's foundational documents are a high standard to meet, and if the country is to live up to it, it must be held to account by those who suffer as a result of its failures. Readings from Voices of a People's History of the United States See also: Howard Zinn's "A People's History of American Empire" graphic novel...

Howard Zinn: From empire to democracy

Howard Zinn: Let's not waste $700bn on a bail-out, but use 'big government' for what it's best at ? shaping a society that is fair and peaceable

Howard Zinn: American Empire Is 'Crumbling'

"I think the American empire will go the way of other empires and I think it is on its way now."

Howard Zinn's "A People's History of American Empire" graphic novel

Howard Zinn's A People's History of American Empire is a fantastic comic-book adaptation of Zinn's classic A People's History of the United States (the best and most important critical history of the life of everyday people in America from 1492 onward), a new edition illustrated by Mike Konopacki and aided by historian Paul Buhle. American Empire focuses on the history of American foreign policy, starting with the policy of conquering America itself, with brutal massacres like Wounded Knee. Zinn is an uncompromising critic of the imperial history of America, the unilateral deeds of its leaders, the atrocities committed by its military and its contractors through Asia, Africa, Europe, and around the world. But the book is also part memoir, describing the emotional commitment to democracy and America that led him to join the military and fight in WWII in Europe -- a campaign that ended with the first-ever napalm drop on a village in France, roasting surrendered German soldiers waiting to be taken away to a POW camp. Zinn is a fierce lover of democracy, of justice, and of freedom, and he makes it clear that America is a land divided by dreams of affluence (no matter the global cost) and dreams of liberty for all. As a wise man once said, "All countries fail to live up to their ideals. America fails to live up to better ideals than most." We can't forgive or forget the atrocities of Iran-Contra, My Lai, Wounded Knee, or the many other shameful moments in American imperial history, because the price of forgetfulness is fresh horrors, in Abu Ghraib, in Guantanamo, in Afghanistan. Zinn shows us that loving American means taming her, controlling the plutocrats who assert the unilateral power to crush dissent, act in secret and go to war. The comic book form is a great way of delivering this message, the spreads mix text, cartoons, reproductions of historical documents and photos, making the whole thing visual, dynamic, and absolutely captivating. A People's History of American Empire...