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Mark Mathew Braunstein's writer rap sheet includes six books, one praised by the Washington Post as “remarkably intelligent.” The diverse topics of his books and more than ninety ephemeral articles in glossy magazines include art, literature, holistic health, vegan vegetarianism, wildlife conservation, mobility disability, indoor gardening, cannabis culture, and drug law reform. His reader rap sheet includes the nearly entire oeuvres of way too many dead white males such as Melville and Thoreau, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Rilke and Kafka, Blake and Beckett, Plato and Epictetus, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, and his guru and mentor and doctor Seuss, to name some whose rhymes and rants he somehow survived while neither going crazy nor growing wise ...more

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	Microgreen Garden: Indoor Grower's Guide to Gourmet Greens 4.09 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Girls On Bad Drugs: Addiction Nonfiction in a Revised Edition (1) 3.48 avg rating — 46 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sprout Garden: Indoor Grower's Guide to Gourmet Sprouts 3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radical Vegetarianism: A Dialectic of Diet and Ethic really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mindful Marijuana Smoking: Health Tips for Cannabis Smokers 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Final Thoughts: Beginner’s Guide to Death (1) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Germinados: Guía para cultivarlos en casa 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Mark Braunstein rated a book it was amazing The Fool's Progress by Edward Abbey	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I love Edward Abbey. The writings, not the man. I think everyone would like a Van Gogh painting hanging in their living room, but few would welcome the paint-spattered Vincent himself sitting in their living room. (Living room? As Abbey observes in “ ...more
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Human history is not the full record of the human past, but only of what has been written about the human past (and what has been written about what has been written about that past, and ad infinitum). Where there are no historians, there is no histo ...more
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Mark Braunstein rated a book it was amazing Madness: The Deep Driver of Our Climate Crisis Lessons From My Family Farm by Jim Mason	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Allured by its provocative title, “Madness,” and by its cover depicting Munch’s iconic “Scream,” I could not resist poking my nose into this book. Yet such a title and cover will likely repel as many readers as it might attract. That might be the aut ...more
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Mark Braunstein rated a book really liked it Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death by Susana Monsó	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Animals and Death both are fascinating subjects, so this book that explores how animals perceive and conceive of Death holds great promise. The author poses the question whether animals might grasp the abstruse notion of the inevitability of their ow ...more
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Mark Braunstein liked Laura Leaney's review of Madness: The Deep Driver of Our Climate Crisis Lessons From My Family Farm: "I see that I'm the only reviewer of this book here on GR, but I hope I'm not the only reader of it. I heard Jim Mason interviewed by Victoria Moran on the podcast Main Street Vegan, and I was impressed enough to buy an electronic copy of this particu" Read more of this review »
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“body falling from a high place eventually reaches a terminal velocity, after which it falls no faster and so hits rock bottom no harder. Renee’s fatal crash was well documented,”
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