Stefan Simanowitz Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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"Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit" (bell hooks) || journalist || campaigner || @amnesty || Easily distracte
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition
George OrwellStefan Simanowitz"If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak." (George Orwell, Animal Farm) H/T @BriceGarreau https://t.co/mpGUcd6Ft7
Paperback, Mass Market, 2004
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire: A Buddhist Proposal for Peace
Thich Nhat HanhStefan Simanowitz10/. Thich Nhat Hanh, a prolific author, poet, teacher & peace activist, exiled from Vietnam after opposing the war in the 1960s, died aged 95 Dubbed “the father of mindfulness" he was the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism” & was teaching ‘til the end https://t.co/6SMcC5tfkj https://t.co/dfCtfj0rGQ
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
Mike DavisStefan Simanowitz33/. Mike Davis, historian & activist died in 2022, aged 76 A fierce critic of the economic, political, & military apparatuses of the US state, his book, ‘Late Victorian Holocausts' - an analysis of the brutality underpinning the British Empire in India - is essential reading https://t.co/v19hZT0nEz https://t.co/ODSF48a7je
Paperback, 2017
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Animal Farm: (Annotated Edition)
George OrwellStefan Simanowitz"If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals set free from hunger and the whip, all equal, each working according to his capacity, the strong protecting the weak." (George Orwell, Animal Farm) H/T @BriceGarreau https://t.co/mpGUcd6Ft7
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The Cobra Effect
Christy EsmahanStefan SimanowitzWhy is it that so many organizations, seeking to do good in the world, miss opportunities to do so – & indeed sometimes exacerbate the very problems they seek to address? On his birthday check out my brother @antowitz’s book about “the Cobra Effect” You can read my review👇 https://t.co/JFc7knzjqK https://t.co/rw00v7nGEo
Paperback, 2016
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century
Jean-Luc GodardStefan Simanowitz“There was theater (Griffith), poetry (Murnau), painting (Rossellini), dance (Eisenstein), music (Renoir). Henceforth there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray.'' (Jean-Luc Godard) https://t.co/RNPCqwells
Hardcover, 2000
$150.00$125.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Sun Also Rises: The Authorized Edition
Ernest HemingwayStefan SimanowitzI’m reminded of that passage in an Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises in which a character is asked how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” he answers. “Gradually, then suddenly.” It’s the same with how our rights are taken from us. #Rwanda #ThisIsNotADrill https://t.co/6NeaFYp9x3 https://t.co/ffygsFOyuk
Paperback, 2006
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Silent Spring
Rachel CarsonStefan SimanowitzNobody expected a book on pesticides to become a bestseller, never mind inspire a generation of climate activists. But over half a century on from its publication, the influence of Rachel Carson’s beautiful polemic is still being felt @prospect_uk https://t.co/mXW7CN9T2B
Paperback, 2022
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In My Life
John LennonStefan Simanowitz“There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever, not for better Some have gone and some remain” John Lennon described In My Life as his "first real major piece of work" In 2000, MOJO named it the best song of all time https://t.co/rfYiM2WbOy
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Refugees
Brian BilstonStefan SimanowitzRead this👇from top to bottom Then read it from bottom to top A poem, ‘Refugees’, for #WorldRefugeeDay by @brian_bilston https://t.co/Y5oDOA9NUC https://t.co/8ZNfADGgiS
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