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The Tipping Point

Why do some styles become trendy, and others don't? What can cause a city's crime rate to suddenly decline? How can an idea when properly presented h...

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Feature: 06/17/10 | By: Pleiades Rising | 0 comments | Other Books/Comics | Tags: gladwell, malcolm, the tipping point

Lost at Sea

There may come a time in any young person's life when only questions have a sort of permanence. Everything else seems to be lost at sea, as it were....

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Essay: 04/25/10 | By: Pleiades Rising | 1 comment | Other Books/Comics | Tags: bryan lee o'malley, lost at sea

Alice's Adventures and The Looking Glass

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass Here's glory for you! And by that I mean, ...

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Feature: 08/29/09 | By: Pleiades Rising | 3 comments | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Tags: alice, lewis carroll, looking-glass, wonderland

Communion

"Assuming the correctness of my perceptions, this book then becomes a chronicle not only of my discovery of a visitor's presence in the world but als...

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Feature: 08/22/09 | By: Pleiades Rising | 3 comments | Other Books/Comics | Tags: alien, communion, ufo, visitors, whitley strieber

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

First published in 1921, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is a puzzling, mystifying, exhilarating, and eye-opening philosophical work. Wri...

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Feature: 07/26/09 | By: Pleiades Rising | 4 comments | Other Books/Comics | Tags: ludwig wittgenstein, philosophy, tractatus