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My name is Dax and I am a cynic. I do not trust people, and I really do not trust corporations. I do not trust newspapers or TV, in fact I don’t trust most media. I guess if I think about it, I don’t trust people much too. Some people tell me I’m a cynic, [...]
I do honestly believe that corporations are one of the fundamental reasons that the world is in the trouble it is in. So when I’m browsing Kalahari.net and I see a book titled When Corporations Rule The World, I have to buy it and read it. I know that there are many books on this [...]
I’ve just finished reading Heat by George Monbiot and I love this book. I loved this book before I even read it. Why? Not because I had heard it was good (which I had), nor because I knew what it was about (I didn’t). I loved this book because they way that I acquired it [...]
Malcolm Gladwell’s first book, The Tipping Point is probably his most well known book (you can read my review here). Blink, his second book, is less well known but it’s also a very interesting read (review here). I enjoyed both books enormously so I was quite excited to hear that he had a new one out. Some [...]
Before I tell you about this book, I want to share one paragraph with you: The consequences of increases in medium and long term interest rates may be particularly serious, given the high level of indebtednes of individual households, many of whom took out large mortgages in response to the unusually low interest rates. What [...]
I recently acquired a copy of Rossouw’s Restaurants 2009. It has changed a lot from the 2008 version. Apart from the new look which is smaller and hardcover, it includes restaurants in Gauteng, although much less than Western Cape restaurants. There are in fact 4 sections: Cape Town, Winelands, Garden Route and Gauteng. All the [...]
When I used to hear the word ’activist’, it would conjure up in my mind, images of people hugging trees while someone is trying to cut them down. Or racing a rubber duck between harpoon and whale, or shouting and gesticulating at some protest march. But as time has passed, I’ve realised that an activist is just [...]
I bought this book at the Exclusive books sale, partly because it looked interesting and partly because it was really cheap. Now that I’ve read it, I would be happy to have paid full price for it. Some people have an amazing talent for writing, which makes anything they write engaging, Steven Poole is one of [...]
Climate change has (finally) become a global issue which demands the attention of every human living on this planet of ours. In order to take or support the required corrective actions, we need to familiarise ourselves with the concepts and the implications. It is our responsibility to educate ourselves. These days there are so many books out there on [...]
What makes Stuffed and Starved more than just an excellent read is that the author, Raj Patel, is South African. This means that some of the examples he uses to illustrate some of his points are from a South African context rather than the the list of countries generally cited. That’s not to say he [...]
It was interesting reading this book straight after reading Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. In Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein mentions the author of End of Poverty, Jeffrey Sachs, several times. The reason being that he was involved in developing economic policies in a lot of the countries which she used as case studies. The interesting [...]
I’ve been reading quite a lot of books lately, as you can probably tell from all the reviews which you can find in the book review category. As with the documentaries I choose to watch, they are mostly about globalisation, consumerism and the abuse of corporate power. These things underlie most of the problems we face [...]
I’ve just finished reading this book and I am pleased to have an opportunity to tell others about it. There are many books out there that will tell you all the bad things about globalisation. There are also books that will give you a more balanced view, illustrating both the good and the bad things [...]
I’ve heard a lot of people talking about this book and a good friend finally tipped the scales when she insisted I read it. I’m glad I did, it’s very interesting and I learnt a lot, but I have to say it was frustrating. When you read about all these things going on, blatant abuses [...]
Most people have heard of Malcolm Gladwell’s other book, The Tipping Point (my review here), but this one is less well known. Although it is less well known, it is no less interesting. Like The Tipping Point, it is not a long read. However, it provides much food for thought. The author shares a mixture of [...]
