Tag Archives: thoreau

101 in 1001: the August book giveaway!

By Julie Laurin | Published: August 11, 2010

It is non-fiction month and I’ve decided to give away one of my most favourite books of all. I’m giving away a copy of Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden; Or Life In The Woods”.  It was my pick for book of the year in 2009 – you can read my blog article about that here: http://julielaurin.com/?p=470 [...]

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Civil disobedience and ideas for revolution

By Julie Laurin | Published: June 27, 2010

A lot of the news and the buzz online is revolving around the G20 protests happening this weekend in Toronto.  I’ve being paying very little attention to it.  I don’t trust the media to accurately report anything that involves protests, gatherings or disobedience because I find that they’re not very keen on discovering the truth [...]

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…of the day: discovering Ralph Waldo Emerson

By Julie Laurin | Published: April 8, 2010

With my quit smoking fund, I decided to splurge on a few new books.  I ordered a gigantic textbook all about insects (as part of my 101 challenge on learning about and classifying insects I see!), the novel “Catch 22″, as well as Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos”.  I also bought “Self Reliance and other essays” by [...]

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