The Call Of The Weird: Travels In American Subcultures
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The Beach
The Khao San Road, Bangkok - first stop on the backpacker trail. On Richard's first night there a fellow traveller slits his wrists, leaving Richard a map to "the Beach".The… Continue Reading Posted in: Beach Travel, Fiction, Sea Adventures Fiction, Thailand, Travelers
Them: Adventures with Extremists
From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry and So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed.A wide variety of extremist groups -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis --… Continue Reading Posted in: Islamic Fundamentalism, Political Leadership
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us – people who, say, made a joke… Continue Reading Posted in: Guilt, Interpersonal Relations
The Book of Salt
In a compelling novel that takes the reader on a strange journey from Indochina to Paris, the Vietnamese cook for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas reveals his own fascinating… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Historical, Lgbt
Bad Science
Full of spleen, this is a hilarious, invigorating and informative journey through the world of Bad Science. When Dr Ben Goldacre saw someone on daytime TV dipping her feet in… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Popular Works, Science
Down and Out in Paris and London
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great… Continue Reading Posted in: Biography, Fiction, French Travel, Narration ã La Premiã¨Re Personne, Travel
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