Three days, three posts...as the kids say, OMG!
Today we continue Operation: Making Up For Lost Time with a sextet of Non-Fiction entries.
Crashing The Gate
by Jerome Armstrong - www.MyDD.com
and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga - www.dailykos.com
$12.95 (Chelsea Green) Buy it
Blooker category: Non-Fiction
"This book lays bare, with passion and precision, how ineffective, incompetent, and antiquated the Democratic Party establishment has become, and how it has failed to adapt and respond to new realities and challenges. The authors save their sharpest knives to go for the jugular in their critique of Republican ideologues who are now running—and ruining—our country.
Written by two of the most popular political bloggers in America, the book hails the new movement—of the netroots, the grassroots, the unorthodox labor unions, the maverick big donors—that is the antidote to old-school politics as usual. Fueled by advances in technology and a hunger for a more authentic and populist democracy, this broad-based movement is changing the way political campaigns are waged and managed.
A must-read book for anyone with an interest in the future of American democracy."
Bleeding Red: A Red Sox Fan's Diary of the 2004 Season
by Derek Catsam - www.ephblog.com
$16.00 (Vellum) Buy it
Blooker category: Non-Fiction
"On October 27, 2004 the Boston Red Sox won the World Series, capping an improbable postseason run that saw the team exorcise demons and send its fans into paroxysms of joy. Although Bleeding Red chronicles in great depth much of the 2004 season, it is truly a memoir about identity, unrequited love, and almost inexplicable loyalty to a team, to an idea. Even knowing the results, one cannot help but be caught in Catsam's emotions, a blend of humor and passion."
Missing Pieces of the Bible: Lost Books Fill-in the Blanks
by D.M. Wessel - sacred-texts.com
$10.13 (Lulu) Buy it
Blooker category: Non-Fiction
"There are a lot of unanswered questions in the Bible like: Why was Adam created 'on the earth' and God later moved him to a special garden? Who are the ‘sons of God’ in Genesis Chapter Six who cohabited with women and produced ‘giants’ who were on the earth at various times past and will be again in the end times? Whatever happened to Enoch and the prophecy he wrote which the book of Jude speaks of? Who is the man with the writer's inkhorn in Ezekiel Chapter Nine? Who were the wise men in the Book of Matthew in the N.T. who presented Jesus with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh? Is the number 666 really the correct interpretation of the mark of the beast of Revelation? The Bible mentions these things but doesn't seem to provide any real answers, however, there are other writings - books which were lost but which answer these questions and more..."
Catholic Analysis 2006
by Oswald Sobrino - catholicanalysis.blogspot.com
$7.94 (Lulu) Buy it
Blooker category: Non-Fiction
"This book contains selected 2006 essays from the Catholic Analysis blog (www.catholicanalysis.blogspot.com). The essays cover these timely topics: selected biblical insights from St. Paul's letters, authority and primacy in the Church, the Charismatic dimension of the Church, Catholic heroes for freedom in China and Cuba, Christian character traits, and rebuking various heresies. The author embraces the teaching authority of the Catholic Church as set forth in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and its Compendium. An E-book version is also available at Lulu.com. Author Oswald Sobrino, M.A. (Econ.), J.D., is a Catholic writer trained as an attorney and economist. He is a lay graduate student in Biblical Studies at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit. He writes the Catholic Analysis web column at www.CatholicAnalysis.blogspot.com and produces a podcast at www.CatholicAnalysis.libsyn.com. He is also the author of Unpopular Catholic Truths available at Amazon.com."
Far From The Madding Gerund and other dispatches from Language Log
by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K. Pullum - itre.cis.upennn.edu/~myl/languagelog
$22.00 (William, James & Co) Buy it
Blooker category: Non-Fiction
"What do linguistic professors do for fun? Savage the SAT, defend "Bushisms," trash Dan Brown, and show why we must split infinitives--all in witty little essays meant not for specialists, but for everyone interested in how English works. Like Language Log, the site that inspired it, Far From The Madding Gerund is exuberant, tart, and totally addictive."--Jan Freeman, language columnist, The Boston Globe
Surviving Paradise
by Michael C. Perkins - www.survivingparadisehawaii.com
$19.95 (Quidnunc Press/Lulu) Buy it
Blooker category: Non-Fiction
"Hawaii has rightly been called the most idyllic paradise in the world. But every paradise has its perils. The same natural wonders that make Hawaii beautiful--the lava, the ocean, the tropical environment--also make it more dangerous than most tourist destinations.
Many of Hawaii's dangers are hidden: the locals may know about them, but visitors almost never do. Every year, innocent tourists die in Hawaii because they didn't have the vital information that could have prevented a tragedy, or helped them survive one. Now they do."
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