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Baudrillard

southernstar — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 03:50:32 +0000

Jean Baudrillard

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Nietzsche

southernstar — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 03:49:31 +0000

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Freud

southernstar — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 03:47:29 +0000

Sigmund Freud

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Marx

southernstar — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 03:09:06 +0000

Karl Marx.

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Dungeons and Dreamers

southernstar — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:56:24 +0000

The Rise of Computer Game Culture ‘Dungeons and Dreamers’ From Geek to Chic’ by Brad King and John Borland.

I found this book to be quite good, it talks about how the game culture started and basic backgorund of game development from Garage (one man game) to corparation’s with multimillion game development.

It also talks about Role playing games in the days when the interne was called ARPANET and how games were text only.

It also talks about Doom and Quake a little bit. It also follows Richard Garriots History and how he came to write such games as Ultima 7.

This book is for somebody who is intrested in Computer games and how they were developed. I think that this book would have a limited appeal to people.

Flatland

southernstar — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:46:30 +0000

Flatland a Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A Abbott

No this book does not say that this world is flat. But it is about Dimensions. It’s basically a fantasy story about a world that is flat or 2D. It is kind of a math’s book, it was written over one hundred years ago so it may seem dated in parts, but it is thought provoking to think there could be dimensions out there but we can’t see or understand. I like to think of a metaphor about a fish in a fish bowl. We are in the inside and we can’t grasp what is on the outside as we have no concept of what it would be like, we could guess thou.

It is a very thin book and has only 83 pages. I wouldn’t really recommend this book for a casual read, more for somebody who maybe mathematical minded and maybe interested in physics.

Books about – Mind magic , Stage magic , Disdirection

southernstar — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:17:25 +0000

Amazing Face Reading, An Illustrated encyclopedia for reading Faces – By Marc Fulfar

The Art of Memory.

Body Language

Demonic Mnemonic

Easily Led

Everybodys Guide to People Watching

The First Honest book about Lies

I know what you are Thinkning

The Drawings of a Boy With Autism

Lies, Lies , Lies

Little Giant Encyclopedia of Card and Magic Tricks

Magic and Showmanship

Maximise your Memory

Memory Buster Workout

Mind Magic

People Watching

The Psychology of the Psychic

Reading People

Secret of Mind Magic

Secrets of Stage Mindreading

Self working Mental Magic

Teach yourself NLP

Telling Lies

The life and many deaths of Harry Houdine.

Mysterious Stanger

The Sith Sense

History and Memory

Metaphos of Memory

Secret of Mind Power

Arts of Deception

The Skeptics Dictinary

Obediance to Authority

Absolute Magic

Note: (these books were taken from channel 4 web site wich was linked to Darren Brown web site)

The Basic Book Of Photography by Tom Grimm and Michele Grimm

southernstar — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 02:02:10 +0000

The Basic Book of Photography, The Classic Guide 2004 Edition,

This is a very good book and I would recommend this to anybody who is starting out in Photography it covers all the basics and teaches you how to make a good photo (untimely its up to you I believe) and covers digital cameras but not in depth as its main focus is the technical side and focusing on how to make a good shoot.

It covers lighting and choosing lens. This book I would highly recommend.

The Skeptic’s Dictionary

southernstar — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 01:49:36 +0000

This book is exactly what it says, it’s a Dictionary for the Skeptic, and it covers subjects from ESP to the Yeti. It is a very good book, each subject is covered well and tries to be scientific and is for the open minded.

It has a decent Bibliography which tells you that this book has been researched quite well.

This book I would recommend, you can start to read any section and as much or as little as you like, I think that it would appeal to a wide audience.

Godel, Escher, Bach an Eternal Golden Braid.

southernstar — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 06:17:16 +0000

This book is not to be read lightly it is very complicated and very hard to understand , if you like Escher and Gödel, this book tries to make there works seem it is symmetrical and ‘Recursive’.

It is a hard book to read and I don’t fully understand whole book, I think there maybe hidden messages in there for the real brainiacs.

It talks about A.I and maths and systems, and a whole lot of stuff I don’t understand. Very philosophical.