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The People vs Tech How the Internet is Killing Democracy by Jamie Bartlett
The People vs Tech: How the Internet is Killing Democracy (and how we save it), is a great book I recently finished reading from one of my fave tech authors, Jamie Bartlett, who is also the Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at U...

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Generation Me by Jean M. Twenge
Great book I finished reading recently Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans are more Confident, Assertive, Entitled - and more Miserable than ever before by Jean M. Twenge, who has a PhD in personality psychology. Here's a photo from one of my ...

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What I Found in a Thousand Towns A Traveling Musicians Guide to Rebuilding Americans Communities by Dar Williams
One of my fave singer/songwriters, Dar Williams, wrote a book I read last year called: What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician’s Guide to Rebuilding American’s Communities - One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, & Open-Mike Night at a Time...

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A Thoroughly Unhelpful History of Australian Sport by Titus OReily
My favourite AFL satirist (okay, there may only be one!), Titus O’Reily wrote this really funny book which I read over the xmas break: A Thoroughly Unhelpful History of Australian Sport. The book shows how sport in Australia has shaped industri...

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Friday Night Lights the book by HG Bissinger
I'm almost heading back home after my European Adventures and my Indonesian trip. I found a book at a second-hand book store in Ubud, which I knew the TV show was based on, however I had always thought it was a fictional story. I'm not too keen on fi...

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The 5 Choices The Path to Extraordinary Productivity from FranklinCovey organisation
I'm settling back into being back in Ubud, Indonesia after the stress of getting here (from my European Adventures). I really needed the time away to reassess a lot of things in my life. I am starting to feel as though I'm on the right track towards ...

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How to be a Heroine or what Ive Learned from Reading too much by Samantha Ellis
I'm safely back home at my beloved Ubud after my European Adventures and quite a bit of stress getting here... On my London, England -> Denpasar, Indonesia travels I read the book How to be a Heroine or what I've Learned from Reading too much by S...

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Parallel Lines or Journeys on the Railway of Dreams by Ian Marchant
I'm nearly at the end of my European Adventures. I read the book Parallel Lines or Journeys on the Railway of Dreams by Ian Marchant recently, he's a train obsessive like me. I was able to exchange my robots taking jobs book for this at a second-hand...

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No is not Enough Defeating the New Shock Politics by Naomi Klein
Spent a couple of days at Alicante, Spain beach this week (part of my European Adventures), working on my tan & reading Naomi Klein's new book No is not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics. It's a really comprehensive (as all her books a...

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Radicals Outsiders Changing the World
I'm in Alicante, Spain at present (on my European Adventures) staying with some friends (Ted is atrain tragic like me) who I met on a train from Butterworth, Malaysia to Bangkok, Thailand. I love reading when I travel.   The latest book I read is ...

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