December 5 - subTEXT

At the end of a busy week, a few additional pickups today:

• John Gray, Al Qaeda and What It Means to be Modern ($5)
  
• Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto ($12)
  
• Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade ($12 - the unreasonable length of the title made me think of Gloria Sawai's similarly titled short story "The Day I Sat With Jesus On The Sun Deck and a Wind Came Up and Blew My Kimono Open and He Saw My Breasts")