CHRIS HEDGES

• War is a force that gives us meaning - argues that war seduces entire societies
• the world as it is: dispatches on the myth of human progress
• what every person should know about war
• losing Moses on the freeway: the 10 commandments in America
• American Facists: The Christian right and the war on America
• Collateral Damage: Americans war against Iraqi civilians
• Empire of illusion: the end of literacy and the triumph of spectacle
• Death of the liberal class

“...just as frustrated...with faux liberals...because they don’t discuss anything that is real; they discuss precisely what the corporate mandarins want to be discussed el beit from a purportedly progressive liberal view point. They are reactive in that sense and they are about entertainment.” – Chris Hedges

DUGLAS RUSKOFF

• Program or be programmed: ten commands for a digital age
• life, Inc: how the world became a corporation and how to take it back
• coercion: why we listen to what “they” say

JACK KEROUAC:

• Scattered poems
• the town and the city
• on the road
• visions of cody
• pic
• doctor sax
• book of dreams
• The subterraneans
• Maggie Cassidy
• San Francisco Blues
• poems all sizes
• book of blues
• tristessa
• visions of Gerard
• Desolation angels
• Mexico city blues
• old angel midnight
• thescripture of the golden eternity
• heaven and other poems
• the dharma bums
• Good blonde and others
• pull my daisy
• trip trap
• lonesome traveller
• big sur
• satori in Paris
• Vanity of Duluoz

Young people hungry for experience...in the hopes of discovering a new vision.

“The only people for me are the MAD ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a common place thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles”

WANG KEPING

• Chinese Philosophy of Life
• Sightseeing as an aesthetic activity
• The classic of the Dao: a new investigation
• Towards a trans-cultural aesthetics
• Plato’s poetics of the republic

PAULO COELHO

• The Pilgrimage
• By the River Riedra I Sat Down and Wept
• The Valkyries
• The Fifth Mountain
• Veronika Decides to Die