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Lisa LISA
Lisa is a California girl who enjoys comics, cartoons, BBC Nature documentaries, and the company of hippie outlaw bikers. She's trying to figure out what makes people tick by reading lots of sociology and psychology books.

The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media (Hardcover)

By Brooke Gladstone, Josh Neufeld, Randy Jones
$23.95
ISBN-13: 9780393077797
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 5/2011
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The Influencing Machine is a broad, insightful overview of the media and its relationship with its audience, featuring informative and engaging writing by Brooke Gladstone and illustrated with Josh Neufeld's smart and entertaining artwork. The book is easy to follow for a layperson, while challenging the reader to rethink what he or she thinks what they know about the news—how reports are made, disseminated, and consumed. Gladstone points out that the problems of who to trust and what to think are as old as journalism itself, but goes on to empower the reader—providing tools to encourage participation in the news process rather than just passive observation and mindless pandering. The Influencing Machine also celebrates American freedom of the press that is so essential to democracy—a freedom that I appreciate more every day, perils and all.  —Lisa

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (Hardcover)

By Mary Roach
$25.95
ISBN-13: 9780393068474
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 8/2010
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In her 4th book, Packing For Mars, Mary Roach takes us on a hilarious journey through the human element of space travel. Here, we see why it is necessary to be so careful in choosing who will go into space. Everything we take for granted—such as sleeping and going to the toilet—must be relearned, and Roach walks us through the process as potential astronauts are tested for their ability to live in close quarters without privacy, work on little sleep, and put up with horrible food. As always, her research is impeccable, and leads her around the world in search of the stuff you don’t normally hear about—maintaining a sense of amazement about space travel while revealing the strangest quirks of life in a space capsule. Enjoy the hilarity, awkwardness and wonder of being an astronaut from the comfort of Earth.  —Lisa
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