TWEETS FROM TAHRIR
EGYPT’S REVOLUTION AS IT UNFOLDED, IN THE WORDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT
Edited by NADIA IDLE and ALEX NUNNS
Foreword by AHDAF SOUEIF
The Twitter accounts of the activists who brought heady days of revolution to Egypt in January and February this year paint an exhilarating picture of an uprising in real-time. Thousands of young people documented on cell phones every stage of their revolution, as it happened. This book brings…
TWEETS FROM TAHRIR
EGYPT’S REVOLUTION AS IT UNFOLDED, IN THE WORDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO MADE IT
Edited by NADIA IDLE and ALEX NUNNS
Foreword by AHDAF SOUEIF
The Twitter accounts of the activists who brought heady days of revolution to Egypt in January and February this year paint an exhilarating picture of an uprising in real-time. Thousands of young people documented on cell phones every stage of their revolution, as it happened. This book brings…
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THERE’S NOWHERE TO HIDE FROM THE RUDE PUNDIT
In the tradition of Abbie Hoffman, Bill Hicks, and Bill Maher, from the depths of the left side of the blogosphere, the Rude Pundit steps forth to defend the right to be liberal, to be sexually suspect, to be broke and pissed-off—and…
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Forty years ago, Walt Kelly’s comic strip character Pogo famously intoned: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” Now, as the evidence for climate change becomes overwhelming, we learn the hard reality behind that witticism. The possible destruction, and certain transformation, of the ecosphere has been brought about by our own activities.
What will our new world look like? How will we—can we—adapt? The clash of a rapidly…
OR Books celebrates the launch of Chris Lehmann's RICH PEOPLE THINGS at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City.
RICH PEOPLE THINGS is available at www.orbooks.com.
On the surface of things Nadia Orsini's life appears comfortable and unremarkable -- Ivy League educated, happily married to a doctor, a mother of three, and a moderately successful photographer. But not all is as it seems. Nadia has been telling lies. Nobody, not even her family, knows about her past, her dark dealings with a U.S. senator, or the scandal she was caught up in surrounding his young son. Then, Nadia receives a disturbing package in…
In a sensational appearance on Larry King Live last night, potential presidential hopeful Sarah Palin angrily denounced a controversial new book being published next week: At the Tea Party, edited by Laura Flanders.
Speaking forcefully to an evidently stunned King, Palin called on her supporters to buy the book and then burn it, in order to prevent it falling into the wrong hands.
Palin also railed against the book's publisher, OR Books, responsible…
OR Books is one year old this week. In the past twelve months we've turned the publishing world on its head with a new, more effective way of doing business: producing meticulously edited and beautifully designed books only as they are needed----in paper or e-book formats, promoting imaginatively on the internet, and selling direct to the customer. We've even eschewed doing business with the 3,000 lb. gorilla in the industry, the world's largest bookseller,…
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The debate over whether the Net is good or bad for us fills the airwaves and the blogosphere. But for all the heat of claim and counter-claim, the argument is essentially beside the point: it's here; it's everywhere. The real question is, do we direct technology, or do we let ourselves be directed by it and those who have mastered it? "Choose the former," writes Rushkoff, "and you gain access to the control panel of civilization.…
Just think about it… What if you were trapped under something heavy and the mouse was out of your reach? Scary, right? That's exactly why we have these keyboard shortcuts so you can still use Vimeo until the help arrives.
