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Like you, we love books... and the next best thing to reading books is reading about books! Below you'll find an assortment of reviews for titles that we regularly stock. Also, be sure to check out our online catalog.

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April 16th, 2012 Economics

The Best Science Fiction Ideas in any Non-Fiction Ever: David Graeber’s Debt: The First Five Thousand Years

The thing that best sums up the experience of reading David Graeber’s Debt: The First Five Thousand Years is something that isn’t really in the book at all. I’ve mentioned here before that it’s my habit to read at night until I am asleep and then put the book down and take off my glasses and turn off the light. I did this one night while reading Debt, and the last...

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April 2nd, 2012 Food Politics

A Canadian's Take on "New American Vegan"

It's not a secret to anyone who's ever been inside my home that I am a little cookbook-obsessed -- just a little. I will often read them cover to cover and it's not uncommon for me to keep a few of them on my nightstand for bedtime reading. Reading through recipes from a new or trusted cookbook author is a great way to introduce yourself to different taste and texture...

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April 1st, 2012 Economics

A review of Deric Shannon, Anthony J. Nocella II, and John Asimakopoulos (eds.), The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics

Anarchist discussions revolve around abolishing the state, capitalism, and all forms of oppression, at the same time envisioning a better future for all of us in a just and free society. Interestingly enough, some very basic questions are rarely asked. For example: How do we get our bread? How do we get our cotton shirts? How do we get the smart phones we have become so accustomed to?...

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March 5th, 2012 History

Yeshua's story, humanized by local Bible scholar

Dr. Harold E. Littleton Jr., a leading divinity scholar who has taught at Western Carolina University, Mars Hill College, and now Gardner Webb University, has used Createspace to self-publish his humanized, deeply researched story of Jesus, the Rome-affiliated High Priests of Judea, and Jesus’ family. “Jesus: A Would Be King,” the first novel in a proposed trilogy...

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March 1st, 2012 Prisons & Policing

Taserized by Kyle Ann Ross: Law & Order in Asheville

Kyle Ann Ross writes from an experience she’d had when she’d first come to Asheville, aglow with the city’s tolerant and artful reputation.  She had needed to start a new life with her daughter after her husband had died suddenly with a stroke. “Taserized” is her account of being mistaken for a burglar and/or drug dealer in Oakley one morning,...

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